EVOLUTIONISTS

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

—I Tim. 6:20

1435 The Evolution Theory

As taught in our public schools today, the Organic Theory of Evolution accounts for the origin of mankind as follows:

“Life on this planet originated several billion years ago, when electrical disturbances caused reactions to occur in the chemicals of the primeval ocean, and these reactions produced amino acids, and these amino acids organized themselves into living cells. As time went on, more chemical reactions caused the descen dants of these one-celled organisms to mutate and develop into a variety of types of multi-celled plants and animals.

“The process continued, and as each new variety of organism appeared, natural selection would result in its being either better or less suited to the environment, and therefore it would either flourish or disappear. In the long run, then, species of plants and animals better and better suited to their respective environments appeared and developed.

“Man is the highest product of this development. He is immediately descended from the same ancestors as the apes; more remotely, from the same ancestors as all mammals. He is himself still developing; that process is stalled by our present lifestyle, but biologically it is inevitable.”

—The Bible Friend

1436 Three-Million-Year-Old Man

Tokyo (AFP)—A Japanese anthropologist said the fossil remains found in East Africa by Mrs. Mary Leakey must indeed be the earliest Hominid (man’s ancestors) fossils.

The ones discovered by the late Dr. Richard Leakey, son of Mrs. Leakey, in Northern Kenya in 1968 had previously been the earliest—2,900,000 years old—so that the radioisotope reading of Mrs. Leakey’s fossils as 3,350,000–3,750,000 years old date them as the earliest yet found.

Commenting on the new finds, Dr. Takashi Suzuki, head of the anthropological research department of the National Museum of Science, said that the Leakey family is world-famous for their research on man’s ancestors.

The late Dr. Louis Leakey, husband of Mrs. Mary Leakey, found hominid fossils for the first time in Olduval Valley, Tanzania.

1437 “Big Bang” Theory

London (UPI)—Scientists have listened with radio telescopes to the unimaginable explosion that gave birth 10 billion years ago to the planet earth and the rest of the universe, Sir Bernard Lovell said in an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

As far as he is concerned, he makes clear in his address in Guildord Cathedral, the “continuous creation” theory of the origin of the universe—that it has always existed as it is now—has been disproved in favor of the “big bang” theory that a condensate of infinite density shattered into what we now live on and see in the heavens.

Lovell said the shape of the universe and the fact there is life on earth and perhaps elsewhere in the cosmos were probably determined by events that took place in the first second of time.

1438 New Theory On Universe

San Francisco (UPI)—A new theory on the creation of the solar system that includes a tremendous explosion by a giant star, the core of which slammed backwards into our sun and reversed the direction of its rotation, was presented (in 1975).

Among other things this theory explains, said its originator, Judd Boynton of Geophysics Labs and Research in Berkeley, California, is “the origin of the chemical elements above hydrogen in the planets.”

Boynton theorized that the creative process started about four-and-a-half billion years ago when an iron-rich companion star, five to 10 times more massive than the sun, exploded as a consequence of “run-away” internally-generated nuclear fusion.

The blast blew more than 99.9 percent of the mass forever outwards into space. The residue eventually was pulled together to form the planets of the sun, their moons and the asteroids, he said.

Implosion of this event formed a dwarfed companion to our sun, which was blown backwards in relation to its original orbit and spiraled ever closer to the sun.

Finally this dwarf entered the sun, skimming the surface at orbital velocity and reversing the sun’s original rotation, Boynton said.

1439 Darwin’s Grandson: No Need For God

A brilliant array of scholars responded to beckonings of the University of Chicago for its Darwin Centennial Celebration, November 24–28, and the resulting galaxy was perhaps the most memorable feature of the gathering. Numbered among approximately 2,500 attendants from 27 countries was another Charles Darwin (grandson of evolution’s bright light), who dolefully predicted that overpopulation and resulting complications would cause a return to hard conditions of life and the diminishing of human intelligence.

But it was another grandson of a famous British scientist who ran off with the headline, and he did it with an old, old story. Sir Julian Huxley, scion of Thomas Huxley, predicted the disappearance of religion—a product of evolution like everything else—from earth, through “competition with other, truer, and more embracing thought organizations.” He saw no “need or room … in the evolutionary pattern of thought … for supernatural beings capable of affecting the course of events.”

REFUTATIONS OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION

1440 Darwin Converted?

Shortly before his death, Charles Darwin, with whom began the theory of organic evolution, said, “I was a young man with unformed ideas. I threw out queries and suggestions. To my astonishment, they took like wildfire!” Later, he suggested to a Christian friend that she speak to the servants, tenants and neighbors. “What shall I speak about?” “Christ Jesus,” replied Darwin.

—The Watchman-Examiner

1441 Darwin’s Last Hours

From reliable testimony, it may be assumed that Charles Darwin returned to the faith of his early manhood.

Lady Hope visited him one afternoon in England. He was almost bedridden for some months before he died. And sitting up in bed, he held an open Bible. “What are you reading?” asked Lady Hope. “The Royal Book, I call it. Isn’t it grand?” Darwin answered. Lady Hope mentioned about creation and the early chapters of Genesis. Darwin seemed greatly distressed and a look of agony came over his face as he said: “I was a young man with unformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything, and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion out of them.”

Then he added: “I have a summerhouse in the garden. I want you to speak to the people there tomorrow afternoon.” “What shall I speak about?” Lady Hope asked. “Christ Jesus,” he replied in a clear emphatic voice, adding in a lower tone, “and His salvation. Is not that the best theme? And then I want you to sing some hymns with them.” Then he added in farewell: “If you take the meeting at three o’clock, this window will be open and you will know that I am joining in with the singing.”

—C. W. Hale Amos in The Bible Friend

1442 “It Appears That,” Etc.

The theory of the evolution of man is based on suppositions and inferences. As an example, the first chapter of Charles Darwin’s book The Descent of Man contains within a few pages, 20 expressions of uncertainty, such as “seemed,” “it appears,” “take for granted,” “may,” and “implies.” The concluding chapter of 14 pages has more than 50 such expressions. Within 30 years after publication the book was changed in 87 places.

—Elizabeth A. Schroeter

1443 Darwin’s Reversed Significance

In 1859 appeared Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. It has been called the most significant book of the nineteenth century. If so, it was not because it set forth the theory of organic evolution—this had been done before. Its importance was in Darwin’s explanation of the “how” of organic evolution—natural selection. Evolution has survived into the middle of the twentieth century, but Darwin’s explanation of it has been largely rejected by modern evolutionists. In other words, the feature of the Origin of Species most significant in 1859 (natural selection) seems to be least significant in 1980s while the feature least significant in 1800s (organic evolution) seems to be most significant in the present.

1444 Piltdown Man: Greatest Hoax

For more than forty years the Piltdown man was an honored member of the society of “earliest humans.” Then a startling discovery proved him to be an enormous fraud.

In early 1912 fossil hunter Charles Dawson brought the first finds of the Piltdown man to the British Museum. Immediately the finder became famous, and soon other fragments of the “Missing link” began coming in from Dawson. The find was even named “Eoanthropus dawsone—Dawson’s Dawn Man.”

However, forty years later scientists found that Dawson had deceived them. The jaw had come from a modern ape, with the faker “fossilizing” it by staining it mahogany with iron salt and bichro mate. An oil paint, probably red sienna, had stained the chewing surfaces of the teeth. Further tests revealed every fragment of the Piltdown a forgery. It was probably the greatest hoax perpetrated on the scientific community in history.

—C. R. Hembree

1445 Minnesota Ice Man: Hoax

A news release from the Bible-Science Association informs us that the “Minnesota Ice Man,” hailed as the missing link, has turned out to be a hoax. Personnel of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D. C., received a call from the operator of a wax museum in California who admitted this Ice Man was the creation of five of his technicians who had fashioned the figure from the combination of rubber and hair.

Ivan T. Sanderson, science editor of the Argosy Magazine, viewed this creature in a remote mountain home and was convinced that it was genuine. It was inside a 6,000-pound chunk of ice and supposed it had been discovered in this condition in Hongkong and sold to several Americans who for two years exhibited the creature in carnivals. Only later was it thought to have scientific value, and a study began.

Bernard Heuvelmans of the University of Brussels, specialist on the so-called abominable snowmen, claimed it as genuine. Agreeing with this opinion were Dr. Carlton S. Coon of Harvard, Dr. John R. Napier of the Smithsonian Institute, Prof. W. C. Osman-Hill of Emory University in Atlanta, and Prof. George A. Agogino of the Paleo-Indian Institute at Eastern New Mexico University at Portales.

1446 Dilemma Among Scientists

Dallas, Texas (UPI)—Three scientists have reported hard-to-refute geologic evidence suggesting man lived in North America 250,000 years ago—a finding they agreed seems archaeologically unreasonable.

“We’re confronted with a dilemma in which we have apparently found geological data that lead to a head-on confrontation with apparently sound archaeological data,” said Dr. Ronald Fryxwell, of Washington State University.

Decades of archaeological study have shown that man first migrated to the Western hemisphere about 12,000 years ago over a then-existent land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. No generally accepted evidence of a significantly earlier existence of man in the new world has been found.

Fryxwell, Dr. Harold E. Malde and Virginia Steen-McIntyre, both of the U. S. geological survey in Denver, Colorado, told the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America they have found relatively sophisticated stone tools in an ancient Mexican stream bed which they dated by several techniques as about 250,000 years old.

The main problem with that finding, the geologists said, was that the tools are considerably more advanced than the tools used in Europe and Asia 250,000 years ago. Malde said in an interview that the least sophisticated of the tools found at the Mexican site are of a type that were used in the old world 35,000–40,000 years ago. The artifacts were found in hard consolidated deposits at a site called Hueyatlaco, few miles south of Puebla, Mexico.

“We are painfully aware that these results deepen the dilemma already recognized that so great an age for man in the new world is archaeologically unreasonable, especially for artifacts of such sophisticated workmanship,” Malde said.

“At present, an impasse exists. We think the geologic evidence is better and better and the archaeologists say no.”

1447 World Population Count

Half a century ago, Professor Williams of Franklin College, Ohio, published a book demonstrating The Evolution of Man Mathematically Disproved. He showed by the most careful calculation that if the first human pair had lived 100,000 years ago—some evolutionist say 2,000,000 years ago, or longer—the present population of the world (at only one-tenth the rate of present net increase) would now be 4,660, 210,253, 138,204,000; or two-and-one- half billion times as many people as at present!

1448 Mathematical Impossibility

There have been a number of serious mathematical computations which have to do with evolution, and improbable to the vanishing point. Probably the best known case is the symposium on the Mathematical Challenge to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution, held at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia in 1966. It was there that a French mathematician told that when a computer was programmed to give the probability of an evolutionary advance, it jammed.

The interpretation of this was that the probability was less than one chance in ten to the one thousandth power! In his closing remarks this man said, “Thus, to conclude, we believe that there is a considerable gap in the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution, and we believe this gap to be of such a nature that it cannot be bridged within the current biology.”

Probability is expressed as a fraction and hence certainty is 1 and impossibility is 0. On this basis to be helpful to the evolutionists, the author assumed that the probability of evolution being true (if there were no gaps in the fossil record) as .999, which then makes the probability of creation the difference between this and 1, or .001. But there are at least 13 well-documented gaps in the fossil record, and actually there are very many more. But again favoring the evolutionists by using this very conservative figure of 13, and putting these numbers in the formula, the result is that the probability of evolution being true is about one chance in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Thus, even if assumptions are made favoring the position of the evolutionists, they cannot complain if it still comes out in favor of creation, which it does.

—Christianity Victory

1449 Getting Up To 4 Billion

Some feel that great antiquity of men is necessary to produce the present population of over 4 billion. This apparently is not the case.

If the flood did occur 4,300 years ago (and it was probably much earlier), and if only the people in the ark survived on the whole earth, there would still be sufficient time to produce the present population. Even if each two people produced, on the average, only 2.6 children in their lifetime the population of the earth would then double each one hundred years.

Doubling the population each one hundred years for 4,300 years would produce a population of 10,000,000,000,000. This is 3,000 times our present population. No, the population of the earth alone does not require a great antiquity of men.

1450 “Invincible Proof”?

In the year 1798 Bonaparte, with his army, entered the Town of Denderah, in Central Egypt. There he found two interesting and seemingly ancient temples. From one of them the roof, carved with certain figures, was carefully taken down and carried to Paris.

When examined there by learned men, it was found to be what is technically termed a zodiac, and from certain marks they inferred that it was at least seventeen thousand years old. Soon after this discovery, and under its influence, a professor in the University of Breslau wrote a book with the title, An Invincible Proof that the world is at least Ten Times Older than Moses supposed when he wrote the book of Genesis. Many believers in the Bible were very much startled by this discovery, and for a time they were in much fear of mind.

But some time later Champollion discovered the method of reading such inscriptions as were found on this zodiac; when he carefully examined it he discovered, among other things, the name of Augustus Caesar inscribed upon it, proving that it was no older than the Christian era.

—Walter Baxendale

1451 A Mis-Step In Glen Rose?

Human footprints had been found associated with dinosaur tracks along Paluxy River near Glen Rose, Texas. This was reported in the book, The Genesis Flood by Whitcomb and Morris. It was reported photographically in the National Geographic Magazine of May 1954, but nothing was said about the human footprints. The footprints of both man and dinosaurs give evidence that they lived contemporaneously.

In the evolutionary geological time scale man is supposed to have appeared in the Pliocene period one million years ago, while dinosaurs are supposed to have become extinct with the end of the Cretaceous period a supposed 125 million years before man. But the footprints of both man and dinosaur are in the Cretaceous period along Paluxy River.

Actually, human footprints keep showing up in the various strata, and a human skull has been found in the coal measures of the Carboniferous period, which is guessed to be 250 million years before man was supposed to have appeared.

1452 “Give Us Time”

In the last letter Charles Darwin is known to have written, three weeks before he died, he predicted that the time would come when scientists would postulate that all life on earth came originally from non-living matter through natural processes. This prediction has been fulfilled, for scientists now do postulate this and they are working to find an explanation of how it could have happened. This also is in accord with another prediction and boast of the scientists: “Give us time and we will explain everything.”

1453 Only Partial Support From Fossils

Darwin realized that the fossil record did not support his evolutionary speculations, but he had faith that subsequent finds would fill the gaps. However, more than a century has passed and the hoped-for evidence has not turned up.

In the book Darwin’s Biological Work, first published in 1959 and again in 1970, geologist John Challinor, an evolutionist, admits that the fossil record only “partially supports evolution,” and significantly adds that it also supports “separate and independent creation.”

1454 Amazing Changes In South Seas

In 1833 Charles Darwin went to the South Sea Islands looking for the so-called “missing link.” As he studied the cannibals who lived there, he concluded that no creatures anywhere were more primitive, and he was convinced that nothing on earth could possibly lift them to a higher level. He thought he had indeed found a lower stratum of humanity that would fit his theory of evolution.

Thirty-four years later he returned to the same islands. To his amazement he discovered churches, schools, and homes occupied by some of those former cannibals. In fact, many of them wore clothes and frequently gathered to sing hymns. The reason was soon learned: Missionary John G. Paton had been there proclaiming the truths of salvation! Darwin was so moved by their transformation that he made a generous contribution to the London Missionary Society. Darwin’s “missing link” thus remained missing.

—Henry G. Bosch

1455 Story Of Three Monkeys

Have you read the humorous story of the three monkeys discussing the theory of evolution? Sitting in a tree, one says to the others, “Listen, you two. There’s rumor going around that can’t be true—that man descended from our noble race. Why, the very idea is a dire disgrace!” Then, listing things monkeys don’t do, he continued, “You’ll never see a monkey build a fence around a coconut tree and then let all the coconuts go to waste, forbidding all others a taste. Here’s another thing a monkey won’t do: go out at night and get on a stew, or use a gun or a knife to take another monkey’s life. Yes, man descended—that ornery cuss. But brothers, he didn’t descend from us!”

—Ray O. Jones

1456 It’s Also A Fact

It’s a fact … that the unearthed remains of plants and animals, called fossils, are often found in a graduating scale of complexity, with the simpler organisms being deepest in the rock strata. This fact has been used by evolutionists as evidence of the slow development and great changes in life over long ages of time.

It’s also a fact … that fossils of all major branches of the animal kingdom have been found in the Cambrian system of rocks, reputedly the second-oldest. This shouldn’t have happened, if organic evolution is true, and the evolutionists admit it is a problem.

—Power

1457 Creation: The Easier View

The British Broadcasting Company once carried a symposium on the Origin of Life. All the speakers took the view that life had in some way arisen spontaneously from non-living matter at a remote epoch in time. But in his summation, Dr. J. D. Bernal, who was in the chair, and who is well-known for his materialistic views, made a striking statement. “It would be much easier,” he said, “to discuss how life didn’t originate than how it did.”

—Robert E. D. Clark

1458 Miracles Also In Evolution

Harry Emerson Fosdick wrote that the biologists tell us that if a man has eyes, it is because the light waves beat on the skin and the eyes came out in answer; that if he has ears, it is because the sound waves were there first, and the ears came out to hear. He says that evolutionists assert that all the powers of man have come in response to an environment; that if there had been no water, there would have been no fins; if there had been no air, there would have been no wings; if there had been no land, there would have been no legs.

Dr. Fosdick can believe this, but he cannot believe the miracles!

—William Jennings Bryan

1459 Teacher Fired For Adam

A row flared up in England in 1977 over the firing of a religious education teacher who believed in Adam and Eve. David Watson, 56, told his pupils so, was subsequently dismissed, and had his appeal rejected by Hertfordshire County Council. Watson, said the verdict, “had refused the reasonable request of headmaster and governors to conform to the requirements of the agreed syllabus.”

The syllabus, which dated back to 1954, said: “The Genesis stories of creation, read as their writers intended them to be and not as literalist interpreters have read them, do not conflict with evolutionary theories. They are, of course, only part of the collection of the myths and legends—Hebrew religious folklore—which make up the first 11 chapters of Genesis and they should be seen in that setting.”

—J. D. Douglas

1460 Evolution As A Religion

A non-Christian biologist who himself accepts the concept of evolution, G. A. Kerkut, observed that candidates he examined for the Ph.D. in biological science did not even know there are scientific arguments against evolution, and were equally unaware that in accepting naturalistic basis, with no divine Mind guiding it one also accepts a number of far-reaching implications that cannot be proved but are of philosophical or religious nature.

—Christianity Today

1461 Textbook Changes

The state of Idaho has adopted a series of creation science books for the eight elementary grades of their public schools. A high school biology textbook has been adopted.

Numerous states are considering the adoption of the creation science textbooks, but Idaho and Georgia are the only states that are using them thus far.

1462 Mississippi Law Overturned

Mississippi’s law against the teaching of evolution—the last such state law in the nation—was overturned by state’s supreme court in 1970 as being in violation of the first and fourth amendments to the Constitution.

BELIEF IN CREATION BY GOD

1463 In The Beginning, God

The ancient Egyptians believed that a flat world rested on four pillars of stone and the ancient Hindus believed that a flat world rested on the back of a huge elephant, the elephant stood on the back of an enormous turtle, and the turtle stood on an immense coiled snake!

Instead of promulgating such puerile theories, Moses, who was educated in Egyptian schools, but who was inspired by God to write the creation account in Genesis, gave us the true, God-breathed account, in words of grand simplicity, matchless beauty and exquisite accuracy: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

—Fred J. Meldan

1464 A Machine’s Final Reply

Sometime ago I came across a fictitious story about a group of men who set out to find an answer to the question, “Where did the earth come from?” They compiled much data covering many areas of investigation and then fed it into the mammoth computer. When they had completed their work and had given the machine all the information, they pushed the “answer” button and waited expectantly for the results. Lights flashed! Bells rang! Buzzers sounded! When the great moment arrived, this printed message emerged: “See Genesis 1:1.”

—Our Daily Bread

1465 Literal Interpretation of Gen. 1

The “recent creation” view of Genesis 1, we think, has the strongest merits. It has the following foundational observations:

(1) Heaven and earth were created in six literal days. There is no interval between Gen. 1:1 and 1:2.

(2) The earth was created “empty and void” in the sense that no life and no outstanding features, such as hills, valleys, were visible.

(3) Satan’s fall occurred after the creation of Adam and Eve. Gen. 1:31; Rom. 5:12.

(4) Fossils came into existence at the time of Noah’s Flood. Gen. 6–9 recorded an universal catastrophe.

(5) Earth is probably not older than 10,000 years. Rocks and earth-materials were created “of age.” Man and animals were not millions of years in origin but of relatively similar years.

1466 Deathbed Comfort

When Mr. Charles Simeon of Cambridge, that great evangelical scholar, was on his deathbed, his biographer relates that, “after a short pause, he looked round with one of his bright smiles and asked, ’What do you think especially gives me comfort at this time? The creation! Did Jehovah create the world, or did I? I think He did; now if He made the world, He can sufficiently take care of me!”

1467 “Nobody Made It”

Sir Isaac Newton had a replica of our solar system made in miniature. In the center was the sun with its retinue of planets revolving around it. A scientist entered Newton’s study one day, and exclaimed, “My! what an exquisite thing this is! Who made it?” “Nobody!” replied Newton to the questioner who was an unbeliever. “You must think I am a fool. Of course somebody made it, and he is a genius.”

Laying his book aside, Newton arose and laid a hand on his friend’s shoulder and said: “This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you and I know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer and maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker. Now tell me, by what sort of reasoning do you reach such incongruous conclusions?”

—W. G. Polack

1468 Creation Out Of Nothing

Frederick the Great needed a new court chaplain. He decided to base his selection on the way in which applicants would deliver an extemporaneous sermon. The text, in a sealed envelope, was to be handed to each applicant as he entered the pulpit.

In church, on the appointed day, a courtier handed one of the ministers a sealed envelope. Opening it, the minister found a blank sheet of paper. He held up one side and exclaimed: “My brethren, here is nothing.”

Then he held up the other side, and added: “And here is nothing. It was out of nothing God created all things.”

He then proceeded to deliver a dynamic discourse on the power and wonders of creation. He received the appointment.

1469 Astronauts Read Genesis 1

THE MOON (EP)—On Christmas Eve, somewhere above the forbidding landscape of the moon, the voices of Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders carried to earth dwellers the story of creation as found in Genesis 1:1–10.

“In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth,” intoned Anders in Apollo 8’s unannounced litany broadcast as the astronauts’ TV camera flashed back a remarkable picture of the deeply-shadowed lunar landscape.

Borman closed the lunar telecast with these words: “Good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you upon the good earth.”

The trio then closed the moonship’s fourth telecast and began preparations for the successful blast out of lunar orbit to return to the “grand oasis in the vastness of space, earth.”

1470 Complete Bible On The Moon

And then on February 5, 1970, a microfilm packet containing Genesis 1:1 in sixteen languages and a complete RSV Bible were deposited on the Moon by Apollo 14 LEM Commander Edgar Mitchell.

1471 “Let There Be Light”

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See also: Atheists ; II Pet. 3:3, 4 Rev. 14:7.