Evolution - Useful In Education?
EDUCATION
The science classroom is another area where we continue to see the
uselessness of the evolutionary model. There is no area in the study of
biology where this concept is necessary or the least bit helpful. One can
learn all we know about the aforementioned fields of bacteriology,
immunology, and embryology, as well as cytology, botany, physiology,,
genetics, and any others, without a mention of evolution.
Take the area of genetics, for example. All the well-established laws of
inheritance, as well as all the careful observations of science, are
perfectly compatible with the creation hypothesis.
Kinds of organism
have always been observed to produce like kinds, without exception.
Any unexpected genetic changes in the inheritance pattern of an
organism, which cannot be explained by normal laws of inheritance, are
usually negative or harmful, never beneficial to the organism. Evolution
demands millions of these beneficial changes which have never been
observed.
Even the natural selection theory (survival of the fittest),
which is much heralded by evolutionists, fits the creation model better.
Natural selection works to eliminate weaker organisms which have
accumulated too many negative changes, thus preventing significant
change in the identity of the kind of organism. So the more we learn
about inheritance, the more we see that all the observations and laws of
genetics are working to keep a frog a frog and a chicken a chicken, and
not to turn a frog or a chicken into some other organism, as evolution
claims.
It is not wonder that Colin Patterson, senior paleontologist for
the British Museum, spoke of evolutionary ideas as "anti-knowledge" (5).
Evolution, at best, may have been though of as a benign assumption in
the scientific world, but in recent years we have come to realize that
frequently the basic presuppositions of evolutionary thinking have
actually been a malignancy retarding true scientific discovery and
preventing biological research from efficiently meeting the needs of
mankind in many areas.
Creation with plan and purpose, on the other
hand, provides an excellent basis for solving problems in the real world
of scientific research. So it seems that one of the best things
scientists could do for their research, and for the needy world would be
to develop a foundational attitude like that of the great 17th-century
physical astronomer, John Kepler, who said that he was merely "thinking
God's thoughts after Him."
References:
1. Denton, Michael, "Puzzle of the Ancient Wing, Man Alive Series"
2. Vartanian, Aram, Dictionary of History of Ideas. Vol.IV p. 307
3. Easton, Thomas A. and Rischer, Carl E., Bioscope, p. 13, 14
4. Vartanian, Aram, op cit, pp. 311
5. Patterson, Colin, as quoted by Sunderland, L. and G. Parker,
"Evolution?
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