Michael Roberts wrote
> Can anyone explain to me why creationists are not willing to listen to the
> clear arguments?
They believe the Bible is the infallible word of God (so do I). They
believe in
inerrancy, at least in the original texts (so do I). They believe that,
except in obvious
instances, the Bible including Genesis is to be taken literally (so do
I). They
labor under a flawed translation and poor interpretation which they do not
question.
(I don't).
And, for the most part they are not capable of evaluating pseudoscientific
arguments.
Here is one I received from a well-meaning friend just
yesterday. Apparently, this
was on BreakPoint:
"I find it ironic that those who have not met Christ and who maintain they
focus upon "tenable, empirical" evidence to support their belief that life
"just happened", actually do not have tenable, empirical, logical,
scientific fact that supports such a belief. Guess that's why after all
this time evolution remains what is -- a theory. Even Darwin, though
today the "god" of evolutionists, at the end of his life, came to
recognize and
admit that even the human eye itself, standing alone from the remainder of
the body within which it works in tandem yet with its own specialized
function, was the product of DESIGN. He recognized that the innumerable
"specialized" functions of the body with thousands/millions of formulaic
processes which then interact with numerous other specialized
functions/parts of the body could not possible occur by "chance". An
intelligent designer is at work. And consider this, what creation, to
your knowledge, has no purpose? Not one. A designer designs with precise
purpose in mind. Since that is so, who designed you? For what purpose?
There is one, for certain.
The Cambrian Explosion
Unraveling a Mystery
A recent article in the Boston Globe reported on a
meeting in China where the origin of body plans was
discussed at length. The paleontologists at the event
reported that fossil representatives of nearly all body
plans -- or phyla -- appear suddenly, without obvious
predecessors in the geological record.
This is the so-called "Cambrian Explosion" of animal
life --biology's "Big Bang." Paleontologists define the
Cambrian Explosion as the geologically sudden appearance
of the major groups of animals, about 530 million years
ago. While fossils earlier than the Cambrian Explosion
have been found, none is clearly an ancestor of the body
plans that appear in the Cambrian era.
Darwin knew about the Cambrian Explosion, even if he
didn't call it that. In his book, Origin of Species,
Darwin said he could "give no satisfactory answer" as to
why so many different groups appear without ancestors in
the geological record. Cambrian fossils are complex
creatures, with eyes, limbs, digestive and circulatory
systems, and other complicated features that evolution
would have to build in a step-by-step manner. But the
steps are missing.
A Chinese biologist at the meeting said that no theory
of evolution "can explain these kinds of phenomena." And
the Chinese Communist newspaper, Guang Ming Daily,
observed, "evolution is facing an extremely harsh
challenge."
Well, if evolution can't do it, what sort of system
would be capable of building incredibly complex systems?
Certainly not natural selection. As a process, natural
selection preserves only those variations of immediate
value to a species. The many stages leading to creatures
like trilobites have no selective value and are invisible
to natural selection.
The process of development by which snails and starfish
-- and you and I, too, for that matter -- were created
during reproduction passes through many stages that could
not survive on their own. These stages are essential to
construct our complex features. Sensory organs and limbs
are made up of millions of scecialized cells, and natural
selection can only act after they've been formed.
And for evolution to build complex animals with
millions of specialized cells it would need a complete set
of directions, but that's something natural selection
cannot do. As a blind process, it can't look into the
future and see where to go.
Only our Intelligent Designer knows where he's going.
And that's why the experts in China and elsewhere have
been stumped. Well, we can pray that one day Darwin's
legions will see the truth and honor the Creator who
designed it all. And in the meantime, you can use this
information to set your neighbors and your kids' biology
teachers straight."
Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
"The answer we should have known about 150 years ago."
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