Revelation
4:11 “You
are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all
things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”
In the home stretch of Focus on the Family’s “Truth Project”
study on the long-standing conflict between conflicting worldview over Science
in the classic war against God by atheistic materialism and naturalism, host Dr.
Del Tackett points out that Charles Darwin wrote: “The number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed on
the earth must be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation
and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not
reveal any such finely graded organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most
obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory. The
geological record is extremely imperfect and this fact will, to a large extent,
explain why we do not find intermediate varieties, connecting together all the
extinct and existing forms of life by the finest graduated steps. He who
rejects these views on the nature of geological record, will rightly reject my
whole theory.” We have been taught that the fossil record “proves” evolution,
yet Darwin British
Museum
Genesis
1:20-25 Then
God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let
birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” So God created great
sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters
abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind.
And God saw that it
was good. And God
blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the
seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” So
the evening and the morning were the fifth day. Then God said, “Let the
earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and
creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. And God made the beast
of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and
everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
American philosopher, educator, and author
David Berlinski (1942-present)
states: “The question is raised, and it should be raised, whenever an
evolutionary sequence is mentioned, what are exactly the predicted properties
one would expect to find as one passes from a land dwelling creature to a sea
dwelling creature? Specifically, how many changes are required to go from a creature
living on land from a creature that spends its entire life in the ocean?
Curiously enough, this is not a question that evolutionary biologists ask a
whole lot. The most modest estimate is that an organism requests roughly 50,000
changes morphological changes to adapt itself. And as soon as we introduce a
quantitative estimate, however weak, then a deal of puzzlement starts to
intrude into an otherwise sunny picture, because 50,000 changes required and
we’ve got just two members in the sequence. Where are the 49,999 members of the
sequence if Darwinian changes are incremental and are small? We are not talking
about changes that are arbitrary. A creature must have these changes if it is
going to survive in the open ocean and on land. And any attempt to put a
quantitative number of changes should induce a profound sense of perplexity
because of the number of changes are so much more than anything we see in the
transitional records. Now, what is the proper explanation for this? Please
understand, I don’t have it, but neither do the other guys. They refuse to
recognize the legitimacy of fundamental questions in paleontology: How many
changes are required? Can those changes be compared to the fossil record? And if they are compared to the fossil record,
why do we see such deficiencies in the record as compared to necessary changes?
A very important issue. There ought to be some evidence of that in the fossil
record.”
Let’s finish this in depth study up on the next post.
In Christ, Brian
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