EVOLUTION - A HOUSE DI-VI-DED

"IF a house be divided against itself, that house cannot

stand" (Mark 3:25.

Evolutionists ardently defend their house against outsiders,

but squabble vigorously with each other inside the house. In

this article we present a collage of recent quotes

from evolutionists attacking different aspects of their own

basic theory.

Lest we be accused of our-of\context quoting,

we emphasize that each person quoted is a committed

evolutionist, even though his remarks remarks make him sound

like a creationist.

COSMIC EVOLUTION

The standard evolutionary concept for the origin of the

universe is the Big Bang theory, but many eminent

astronomers flatly reject it.

Both the 'Big Bang' model and theoretical side of

elementary particle physics rely on numerous highly

speculative assumptions (1).

But if there was no Big Bang, how and when did the

universe begin?.. (Hannes) Alfven replies: "It is

only a myth that attempts to say how the universe

came into being....."(2).

One argument for the Big Bang, is the "red shift," but

Halton Arp and other leading astronomers say "n."

(Arp) maintains that quasars, for example, whose

large red shifts suggest they are the most distant

objects in the universe, are actually no ore distant

than galaxies....(3)

EVOLUTION OF-LIFE FROM NON-LIFE

It is commonly asserted that life evolved from non-living

chemicals by purely naturalistic processes. However, a

leading scientist in this field says:

At present all discussions on principle theories and

experiments in the filed either end in stalemate or

in a confession of ignorance...The problem is that

the principal evolutionary processes from prebiotic

molecules to progenotes have NOT BEEN PROVEN by

experimentation and that the environmental

conditions under which these processes occurred are

not known (4).

EVOLUTION OF SPECIES

The standard DArwinian and neo-Darwinian theories of

evolution argues that new species are developed by a natural

selection of random variations to fit changing environments.

Many evolutionists today, however, are rejecting Darwinism,

even though they still cling to evolution. One such

scientist is Kenneth Hsu.

The law of natural selection is not, I will

maintain, science. It is a ideology, and a wicked

one, and it has as much interfered with our ability

to perceive the history of life with clarity as it

has interfered with out ability to see one another

with tolerance...The law of the survival of the

fittest may be, therefore, a tautology in which

fitness is defined by the fact of survival, not by

independent criteria that would form the basis for

prediction (5).

EVOLUTION OF HUMAN LIFE

Much ado has been made about the Laetoli fossil footprints

in Tanzania, dated at 3.5 million years ago, supposedly

proving that the australopithecine ancestors of man walked

erect.

But the first detailed study of the gaits and

footprints of modern people who walk barefooted

indicated the Laetoli prints are such like those of

Homo sapiens and were probably not produced by

Lucy's relatives, reports Russell H. Tuttle of the

University of Chicago (6).

It should be obvious that these footprints were made by true

human beings; the only reason for rejecting this fact is the

ASSUMED 3.5-million-year age, a time long before man is

supposed to have evolved.

THE FOSSIL EVIDENCE

The fossil record has traditionally been considered the best

evidence for evolution, but the utter absence of true

transitional forms continues to be an embarrassment.

If we were to expect to find ancestors to or

intermediates between higher taxa, it would be in

the rocks of late Precambrian to Ordovician times,

when the bulk of the world's higher animal and taxa

evolved. Yet transitional alliances are unknown or

unconfirmed for any of the phyla or classes

appearing then (7).

"We conclude that..neither of the contending theories of

evolutionary change at the species level, phyletic

gradualism or punctuated equilibrium, seem applicable to the

origin of new body plans (8).

EXTINCTION VERSUS SPECIATION

Evolutionists seem unable to realize the anomaly in the slow

rate of speciation versus the high rate of species

extinction.

Today's rate (of extinction) can be estimated

through various analytical techniques to be a

minimum of 1000, and possibly several thousand

species a year.....It normally takes tens of

thousands of years for a new terrestrial vertebrate

or a new plant species to emerge fully, and even

species with rapid turnover rates, notably insects,

usually require centuries, if not millennia, to

generate a new species (9).

So far as ever observed, NO NEW SPECIES are now being

formed. It seems that evolution, if there is such a thing,

is going in the WRONG DIRECTION!

UNFORMATARIANISM

Although the history of the earth and life have long been

interpreted by the uniformatarian maxim, "the present is the

key to the past," more and more geologists are returning to

catastrophism.

Our science is too encumbered with uniformitarian

concepts that project the modern Earth?Life systems

as the primary model for interpretation of evolution

and extinction patterns in ancient ecosystems.

Detailed paleoenvironmental data tell us that the

past is the key to the present, not vice versa (10).

One of the key evidences for great age is the uniformatarian

interpretation of "evaporites," but this very term is

misleading.

In referring to "evaporite"...the term begs the

question as it implies desiccation. for clarity,

geology needs a new term; namely "precipitite," rock

created by precipitation. Hence rocks of the

evaporitic facies could be...precipitites, deposited

from a super-saturated solution (11).

Precipitation is, of course, a much more rapid process than

evaporation.

SOCIAL HARMFULNESS OF EVOLUTION

Evolutionists strongly complain when creationists point out

the historically evil influence of evolutionism. Many

evolutionists, however, do recognize this fact.

"...we were victims of a cruel social ideology that

assumes that competition among individuals, classes,

nations or races is the natural condition of life,

and that it is also natural for the superior to

dispossess the inferior. for the last century and

more this ideology has ben thought to be a natural

law of science, the mechanism of evolution which was

formulated most powerfully by Charles Darwin in

1859...(12).

(Robert Proctor) shows how the major German

societies of physical anthropologists collaborated

with the SS program of race hygiene, helping to make

a racial policy....Eugene Fischer, the most

distinguished of German physical anthropologists,

regarded by many as the founder of human genetics,

was particularly helpful in these efforts...But

surely American physical anthropologists spoke out

clearly against the Nazi perversion of their science?

They did not (13).

SCIENTIFIC BIGOTRY

Creationists are not the only ones who find it difficult to

get a hearing from the scientific establishment. Even

evolutionists who do not conform to the majority viewpoint

in evolutionary dogma at a given time encounter this same

bigotry, through the so-called "peer review" process.

One of the most distinguished modern astronomers is Nobel

prize-winner Hannes Alfven, who espouses an alternative

cosmology to the Big Bang. Here is his testimony (even Nobel

laureates must defer to the scientific establishment!).

"..it has given me a serous disadvantage. when I

describe the phenomena according to this formalism,

most referees do not understand what I say and turn

down my papers (14). But the argument "all

knowledgeable people agree that..." (with the tacit

addition that by not agreeing you demonstrate that

you are a crank) is not a valid argument in science.

If scientific issues always were decided by Gallup

polls and not by scientific arguments, science will

very son be petrified forever (15).

 

One day it will be said: "...the winds blew, and beat upon

that house (evolution); and it fell: and great was the fall

of it" (Matthew 7:27).

 

REFERENCES

1. R.L. Oldershaw, "The Continuing Case for a Hierarchical

Cosmology, "Astrophysics and Space (v 92, p354)

2. E.J. Lerner, "The Big Bang Never Happened, "Discover (v

9, p 78)

3. John Horgan, "Big Bang Bashers," Scientific American )v.

257 p. 22)

4. Dose, Prof. Dr. Klaus, "The Origin of Life; More

Questions Than Answers," "interdisciplinary Science Reviews

(v 13, no 4, p. 348) Dose is director, Institute for

Biochemistry, Gutenburg University

5. Kenneth J. Hsu, "Is Darwinism Science?" Earthwatch (3/89

p.17) Hsu is Earth Science Head at the Swiss Institute of

Earth Sciences.

6. Bruce Bower, "A Walk Back Through Evolution," Science

News (v. 135, 4/89 p. 259)

7. J.W. Valentine and D.H. erwin, "The Fossil record, in

Development As An Evolutionary Process, p. 84

8. Ibid, p. 96. Valentine is

9. Norman Myers, "Extinction Rates Past and Present",

Bioscience (v. 39, p.39)

10. Eric Kauffman, "The Uniformatarian Albatross," Palaios

(v. 2, no. 6)

11. Robert S. Dietz and Mitchell Woodhouse, "Mediterranean

Theory May Be All wet," ,Geotimes (v.33, p.4)

12. Kenneth J. Hsu, op cit, p. 15

13. Matt Cartmill, "Misdeeds in Anthropology, " Review of

Bones, Bodies, Behavior: Essays on Physical Anthropology,

(Science (v. 244, p. 858)

14. Hannes Alfven, "Memoirs of a Dissident Scientist,"

American Scientist (v. 76 p. 250)

15. Ibid, p 251