Earth Harvest

God As An Artist

     The Bible teaches that God created the universe and everything in it. The theory of evolution teaches that man is the product of the development of simple life forms into more complex ones by random chance, very much like a machine building on itself. The theory of evolution disposes of the need for an intelligent Creator or Master Designer.

That simpler life forms can become more complex life forms may be an appealing theory but it does not have a leg to stand on. The following are some major flaws in the theory of evolution:

1. Belief in evolution violates the First Law of Thermodynamics, the law of energy conservation, which states that energy can be converted from one form into another, but it can neither be created or destroyed. Nothing in the present economy of natural law can account for its own origin. The energy required for innovative evolution, a fish developing legs and crawling out of a primordial swamp, violates this inviolate law of physics. The present structure of the universe is one of conservation. The creationist model agrees with the Biblical world view that God created the universe. Since God has ceased from his creative works (Gen.2:3), energy is no longer created. The release of energy in an atomic fission reaction is not a creation of energy but a change of form from matter to energy.

2. Belief in evolution violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the law of energy decay. The energy available for useful work in a functioning system tends to decrease, even though the total energy remains constant. Structured systems progress from a more orderly, more complex, state to a less orderly, disorganized, and random state. This process is known as "entropy". Theoretically in a rare, limited, and temporary situation a more orderly state might result. But all systems move toward decay, according to this law.   Evolution is in direct violation of the second law of thermodynamics. Evolutionists are aware of this and therefore require billions of years of constant violations of the second law of thermodynamics. Not only is evolution statistically highly improbable but virtually impossible.

3. Evolution violates the Law of Biogenesis that life comes only from preexisting life and will only perpetuate its own kind. Belief in evolution is essentially a belief in "spontaneous generation" where in one scenario life appeared when lightning struck a primordial soup and somehow a living cell formed. Pasteur (1860), Spallanzani (1780), and Redi (1688) disproved that maggots can come from rotten meat, flies from banana peels, bees from dead calves (etc...). When the decaying matter was sealed off and presterilized no life arose as there was no biological contamination.

4. There is no evidence in the fossil record to substantiate evolution. According to the general theory of evolution the basic progression of life culminating in man was nonliving matter, to protozoans, to metazoan invertebrates, to vertebrate fishes, to amphibians, reptiles,birds, fur-bearing quadrupeds, apes and man. If the theory of evolution were accurate we would expect to find vast numbers of transitional forms objectively preserved in the fossil record. Transitional forms are totally absent from the fossil record. Archaeopteryx was once believed to be a transitional form but has since been acknowledged by paleontologists to have been a true bird. Evolutionists, cognizant of this glaring flaw in their belief system, now argue that fossils are not present because there were brief "evolutionary bursts" over billions of years which, because of their rapidity and brevity, did not leave their footprint in time. Nevertheless, a belief in "evolutionary bursts" is still unsupported by the First and Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Law of Biogenesis.

5. The fossil record has failed to document a single, verifiable "missing link" between ape and man. Compilations on skimpy and inaccurate evidence, highly speculative constructs, and artists renderings abound but there is no scientific evidence documenting a missing link. "Positive finds" of a missing link are periodically announced only to be subsequently embroiled in controversy, revised, or disavowed. Nebraska man was constructed based on the discovery in 1922 of a single tooth which was that of an extinct species of pig.

In 1891 the Java ape man or Pithecanthropus erectus (erect ape man) was reconstructed based on a small piece of the top of a skull, a fragment of a left thighbone, and three molar teeth. The remnants were collected over a range of seventy feet and in an old riverbed mixed with the bones of extinct animals. On scanty if no evidence with no proof that all the pieces found were of the same animal a supposed missing link was found. Dr. Eugene Dubois, a fervent evolutionist, later came to the conclusion the bones were the remains of some type of gibbon, an ape.

In 1912 Charles Dawson, an amateur fossilologist produced some bones, teeth and primitive instruments which he supposedly found in a gravel pit at Piltdown, Sussex, England. In October of 1956 Reader’s Digest published an article, summarized from Popular Science Monthly , titled "The Great Piltdown Hoax." A new fluoride absorption method to date bones revealed the Piltdown bones were fraudulent. The teeth had been filed and both teeth and bones had been discolored with bichromate of potash to conceal their true identity. All the "experts" had been deceived for over forty years.

For many years Neanderthal Man was considered a missing link. He was portrayed as a semierect, barrel-chested, hairy creature, most often with a club in hand. Other Neanderthal skeletons revealed that Neanderthal Man was fully erect, fully human, with a brain capacity exceeding that of modern man by 13 percent. It was concluded the initial specimen had been crippled with osteoarthritis and rickets. Today Neanderthal Man is considered Homosapiens.

Henry Morris in his well written book Creation And The Modern Christian (Master Book Publishers, El Cajon, California, 1985) points out:

"If evolution were true, then the various stages of human evolution ought to be the best documented of all, since man is supposedly the most recent evolutionary arrival and since more people are searching for fossil evidence in this field than in any other. Nevertheless, as noted above, the actual evidence is still extremely fragmentary and very doubtful. Exactly which hominid fossils might be ancestors of man, as well as when and in what order, are still matters of heated dispute even among evolutionary anthropologists."

He points out that the long-sought common ancestor of man and the apes, especially of the "australopithecines" including the famous "Lucy", now seems to have turned up still living in the form of the pygmy chimpanzee known as the "bonobo." The "bonobo" is an inhabitant of the Zaire jungles and is "almost identical in body size, in stature and in brain size" to Lucy, supposedly the oldest fossil hominid ( Science News , February 5, 1983, p.89).

6. Evolution fails to explain the existence of even a "simple cell." The simplest single cell organisms have in their genes and chromosomes as much data as there are letters in the world’s largest libraries - a trillion letters. There are hundred of thousands of genes in each cell. Most life forms have billions of such complex cells in perfect order. There is no way that random processes can organize such massive data. The mathematical possibility of a human body being formed accidentally is the same as that of an explosion in a print shop forming a dictionary.

Sir Fred Hoyle, the originator of the "steady-state" theory of the origin of the universe and an atheist, feels that the odds against the chance formation of life on earth are so small that it can be compared to the chance that "a tornado sweeping through a junkyard would assembly a Boeing 747 from the materials therein" ("Hoyle on Evolution," Nature , Vol. 294, Nov. 12, 1981, p.105). Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, a mathematical astronomer, calculated the probability that life would arise spontaneously anywhere in a universe of 15 billion light-years radius and at least 10 billion years old. They found this probability less than one chance out of 1 with thirty zeroes attached after it. Sir Fred Hoyle and Dr.Wickramasinghe have been reluctantly driven to the conclusion that life must have been created by a Higher Intelligence (a sort of pantheistic intelligence which created spores somehow in other parts of the universe which were caused to drift to earth) since it is far too complex to have risen from natural processes.

Sir Fred Hoyle makes another colorful comparison using a furry creature close to the hearts of evolutionists: "No matter how large the environment one considers, life cannot have had a random beginning. Troops of monkeys thundering away at random on typewriter keys could not produce the works of Shakespeare, for the practical reason that the whole observable universe is not large enough to contain the necessary monkey hordes, the necessary typewriters, and certainly not the waste paper baskets required for the deposition of wrong attempts. The same is true for living materials (p.148).

Men will go to great lengths to rationalize there isn’t a personal Designer of the Universe who intelligently crafted all life. Just from the general and cursory data provided on this web site on the topic, it takes infinitely more faith to believe in evolution than it does in an intelligent Creator. Evolution is a theory with no scientific evidence to back it up. It is an empty faith for those who don’t want to believe in God and should be taught as religion, a religion which inspired Karl Marx to develop his theory of class struggle and influenced Adolf Hitler with his superior, evolved Aryan superman. Many were sacrificed to their ruthless utopian, amoral visions. Evolution is a belief system which looks at an unborn fetus as an animal embryo without a right to life rather than the creation of God. As David wrote in Psalms 139:13:

"For you created my inmost being;
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
You were there while I was being formed in utter seclusion!"

Earth Uniquely Designed For Supporting Life:

The earth was created by an intelligent Master Designer to support life.

1. The earth is positioned at just the right distance from the sun so that we receive exactly the proper amount of heat to support life. The other planets of our solar system are either too close to the sun (too hot) or else too far (too cold) to sustain life.

2. Any appreciable change in the rate of rotation of the earth would make life impossible. For example, if the earth were to rotate at one tenth its present rate, all plant life would either be burned to a crisp during the day or frozen at night.

3. Temperature variations are kept within reasonable limits due to the nearly circular orbit of the earth around the sun.

4. Temperature extremes are further moderated by the water vapor and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that produce a greenhouse effect.

5. The moon revolves around the earth at a distance of about 240,000 miles causing harmless tides on the earth. If the moon were located one fifth of this distance away, the continents would be completely submerged twice a day.

6. The thickness of the earth’s crust and the depth of the oceans appear to be carefully designed. Increases in thickness or depth of only a few feet would so drastically alter the absorption of free oxygen and carbon dioxide that plant and animal life would not exist.

7. The earth’s axis is titled 23.5 degrees from the perpendicular to the plane of its orbit. This tilting, combined with the earth’s revolution around the sun, causes our seasons, which are absolutely essential for the raising of food supplies.

8. The earth’s atmosphere (ozone layer) serves as a protective shield from lethal solar ultraviolet radiation, which would otherwise destroy all life.

9. The earth’s atmosphere also serves to protect the earth from approximately 20 million meteors that enter it each day at speeds of about 30 miles per second! Without this crucial protection the danger to life would be immense.

10. The earth is the perfect physical size and mass to support life, affording a careful balance between gravitation forces (essential for holding water and an atmosphere) and atmospheric pressure.

11. The two primary constituents of the earth’s atmosphere are nitrogen (78 percent) and oxygen (20 percent). This delicate and critical ratio is essential to all life-forms.

12. The earth’s magnetic field provides important protection from harmful cosmic radiation.

13. The earth is uniquely blessed with a bountiful supply of water, which is the key substance of life due to its remarkable and essential physical properties.

"Such numerous perfect and complex combinations of interrelated conditions and factors essential to delicate life-forms unequivocally point to intelligent purposeful design. To believe that such an intricately planned and carefully balanced life support system is the result of mere change is absolutely senseless. Surely, the honest and objective observer has no other recourse than to conclude that the earth-sun system has been carefully and intelligently designed by God for man."(Huse, Scott M., The Collapse of Evolution )

"Since earliest times men have seen the earth and sky and all God made, and have known of his existence and great eternal power," (Living Bible. Romans 1:20).

Riegle, D.D., Creation or Evolution , Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1971, pp.18-20.

Huse, Scott M. The Collapse of Evolution. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1997, third edition.