Concerning Evolution
Clifford Bean sent the following coments to me. My comments can be found on the next page. --Merle
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I would like to discuss with you your position as an atheist, which I consider as being indefensible and illogical as well. I will not go into supposed Bible errors, as many others have already covered most of them in your blogs. Bear in mind, I am not a scientist nor a deep thinker – I am just using common sense reasoning and generally known facts and quoted statements.
EVOLUTION
Atheists
love to stand behind evolution as one of the main planks to prove the
non-existence of God – let’s discuss that issue.
One of the main tenets of evolution is that all things proceed now as they have from millennia past – in other words, observation of what happens now is an indication of what has happened hundreds of thousands of years ago. If that is so, why do we not see evolution in process at this time? If evolution is to take many thousands of years to make minute changes, we should see that process in action today. Evolutionists love to line up many creatures to show the progression of evolution, but what they are showing is fully developed animals, with no existing examples of in-between creatures to prove evolution – either living or in fossil form. In other words, the lined-up animals on an evolution chart represents a stair-step pattern of supposed development, with no in-between examples, whereas evolution if it exists should show animals in a steady incline of progress upward, and being alive today. In other words, we should be able to observe every step of every minute change of evolution walking on the earth now, from the earliest protozoa to man, with no gaps in development. Since we still have protozoa in existence today, there still should be evidence of them beginning the process of evolving to higher beings today. May I quote Charles Darwin himself –?
Charles Darwin commented on this problem over a century ago. Geological research, he acknowledged in Origin of Species, “does not yield the infinitely many fine gradations between past and present species required on the theory.”
There are none, because evolution never happened. And by the way – since protozoa have existed and thrived very well in millennia past, for what reason do they need to evolve into something higher??!?
THE
EYE
Lets now discuss the eye. Any scientist knows that the eye is an incredibly complex organ. How many millennia did it take for creatures to run around blind, until ‘something’ figures out how to develop the clear lens through which light enters the eye? How many more millennia did it take for the eye to develop the millions of rod and cone cells, which have specific purposes and uses for sight? – And also placed in exactly the right places in the eyeball according to its purpose? How many millennia did it take to develop the muscles that move the eye up, down and sideways, not to mention focusing? Man in all his wisdom did not invent the lens until perhaps 400 years ago – mere seconds in evolutionary time.
THE
BODY
We could go on forever describing every organ of the body – the 4-chambered heart, the liver, kidneys, stomach lymph nodes, the brain, the central nervous system - all have very complex, specialized functtions that could not work or sustain life during the millennia it took for them to get their act together into a fully functional organ.
You
should read up on how very complex the body is – and see that there is just no
way it could have just evolved into its present form. What if someone told you
that the
THE
BIG BANG
Evolutionists love to point to the big bang to remove God from the creation process of bringing the universe into being. I see a lot of big bangs in the news lately, and there certainly is no order created from any of them! Since scientists agree that the universe is expanding at a very rapid pace, I see no problem believing that God could have used a big bang to create the universe if He so chose to, but He controlled it to create the planets, moons and stars that evolve around their suns or central point in their galaxies. That also explains where the materials came from, how they were collected, and what set off the big bang in the first place, (God did it all); whereas the evolutionist cannot explain how it came to pass. Certainly does not fit the theory of ‘all things proceed now as they have for millennia past’. As for the beginning of life itself, how ‘bout a quote from –
The late Sir Fred Hoyle, one of
THE
CROSSROADS
When
I was in college back in the early 60’s, I was bothered by the continual
friction between evolution as taught in the schools, and creation as taught in
the Bible and my church. I decided that
I was going to get to the bottom of this question, and go the way that I found
was right. I decided to write a term paper on the question of what is right –
the theory of evolution, or the Bible’s creation story. Although there was not
much material available at that time to support creation, there was more than
enough to convince me that evolution did not have a leg to stand on. And in the
40 + years since that time there is more and more scientific evidence out there
PROVING that evolution is a bankrupt theory that has no clothes. Think of DNA,
genes, and hundreds of other known factors that give evolution no basis for
support.
THE
GUIDING LIGHT
I can’t come up with a better heading, so this will have to suffice. If evolution is to work, what is the ‘guiding light’ that controls the direction for it to take? What decides what changes are an improvement? Where is the ‘think tank’ that decides how to come up with – for example – a cell that is transparent to create a lens? What decides how to come up with the formula that makes bone cells become bones? What developed DNA? DNA cannot work in intermediate forms progressing from, say, apes to man. DNA is far too complex to have formed by accident and chance. It is far more reasonable for me to believe that that ‘guiding light’ is a sovereign God who had the power and wisdom to create all things with His spoken voice.
The KORAN and the BIBLE
You spend a considerable amount of time trying to destroy the Bible, because you say it is not true. If it is not true, and God does not exist, why do you spend any much time on it – it’s as if you are afraid of its power and influence? I believe the Bible and everything that is in it. I don’t believe the Koran, I’m not afraid of it, and I will not waste any time bothering with the Koran – I have far more important things to do with my time than to waste it on a book that espouses a false religious system.
THE
BIBLE’S INFLUENCE
If
you study history, you will find that wherever the Bible has a prominent place
in a country or society, invariably the entire culture is lifted up into a
higher plane of existence – education is much more widespread, and science
moves forward with many great inventions and discoveries, medical advances
occur on a regular basis. Look at
THE
REAL ISSUE AT HAND
Now, why does man continue to believe in an evolutionary system that has no clothes? That has no scientific basis at all to support it? That has no evidence to show it ever happened? Academics have been known to admit that evolution has no supporting scientific fact behind it, but they flatly refuse to submit to the truth that a divine Creator did it all; for then they would have to recognize that if they were created, then they are accountable to that Creator – and that they will never do! Sir Julian Huxley states this position with unusual honesty –
…A public television interviewer had
just asked Sir Julian Huxley, a leading defender of evolution until his death
in 1975, why he thought
Belief
in evolution is not a scientific issue – it is a heart issue – the heart that
refuses to believe that man is accountable to the God of the universe, and he
must pay for his actions and sins unless he is forgiven and cleansed by the
shed blood of Jesus Christ.
TURNING
AWAY
According to this passage in 2 Peter, in God’s economy you would have been far better off to have never embraced the truth and then turn away…to wit:
2
Peter 2:20-22 (KJV)
“For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. [21] For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.”
My friend, the Bible says that God is VERY ANGRY with anyone who believes in the glorious truth of God’s precious gift in Christ Jesus, and then to reject it later in life.
Hebrews
Think how much more terrible the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God and have treated the blood of the covenant as if it were common and unholy. Such people have insulted and enraged the Holy Spirit who brings God's mercy to his people.
It is NOT too late! As long as you live and breathe you still have the opportunity to be saved – even after years of rejecting the truth!
THE
GOSPEL
Romans
Romans
Romans 10:9 – “That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.”
Romans
PLEASE
reconsider your position in light of the gospel. I would love to hear from you,
if you care to discuss any of this.
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The above comments were written by Clifford Bean.
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