Evolution Part 1

"Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking in their own lusts and saying, 'Where is the promise of His coming?' for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. For this, they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgement and perdition of ungodly men." 
2 Peter 3:3-7

It's Driving Force—Willful Ignorance!

"Christianity has fought, still fights and will fight 'science' to the desperate end over evolution, because evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus' earthly ministry was supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve and the original sin, and in the sorry remains of the son of god. Take away the meaning of his death. If Jesus was not the redeemer who died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing.
Christianity, if it is to survive, must have Adam and the original sin and the fall from grace, or it cannot have Jesus the redeemer who restores to those who believe what Adam's disobedience took away. What all this means is that Christianity cannot lose the Genesis account of creation…and get along. The battle must be waged, for Christianity is fighting for its very life."

Published by an American atheist periodical -AmericanAtheist (Feb 1978)

Does Theistic Evolution (the idea that God uses evolution to create the world) sound like something that God would use for creation? Does it sound like a lifestyle that can be accepted as truth and still be a believer?

The Roots of Evolutionary Faith

*Until the mid 1800s, science was largely rooted in Biblical Creation. What happened in the 19th Century?

A. Uniformitarianism- Charles Lyell (1830-33) 
 "Principles of Geology"- proposed that all our Earth's features can be explained in terms of present observable processes, which supposedly have always gone on in the past at the same rates as today. 

"The present is the key to the past." - summary of the book

 *Lyell once wrote that his goal was to "free the science from Moses." Is this objective science or a prejudice against the Bible?

B. Charles Darwin-at 22 yrs, he sailed on the British ship "Beagle" in 1831.
The voyage lasted five years. He began developing his concepts based on Lyell's work. Darwinian Evolution was laid out based on the "millions of years" Lyell's work used.
 Darwin published the book "The Origin of Species" in 1859.

 "To have the unthinking masses accept all that I say would be calamity…" Charles Darwin

C. Gradualism- In Biology, the slow processes of genetic change, gradually going on generation after generation through immense spanses of time. ASSUMED to be the ultimate cause for every living thing in nature.

SO, The Working Definition of Evolution: A directional and irreversible process occurring in time, which in its course gives rise to an increase of variety and an INCREASINGLY high level of organization in its products. Our present knowledge indeed forces us to the view that the whole of reality is evolution, a single process of self- transformation.
Julian Huxley, atheist (20th Century)

What are the mysteries of Evolution?

1. IT ALL STARTED WITH THE Big Bang.

It is felt that nothing existed (not even space!) except for this tiny ball of matter. After 1000s of years, it just blew up with an unbelievable release of energy & heat. They think this mega blast happened about 12 to 15 BILLION YEARS AGO. They argue things have been spinning off that explosion ever since.

*From then to now random processes have caused everything in the universe to become increasingly complex. The sun and all the other stars eventually condensed out of swirling gas. The planets, including our Earth, also condensed out of the dust particles hurling through space.

SIMPLE QUESTION: Do explosions ever INCREASE order?
*Hmmm…If I place a stick of dynamite under lumber, do I get a framed house or do I get toothpicks? Disorder to Order?

2 Time, the MAGIC FACTOR

All evolutionary ideas require lots of time. Without the inconceivable "eons" of time, evolution has not got a chance! They say if given enough time, anything can happen! BUT, does evidence demand evolutionary time existed? The probability of an event happening does not become greater by allowing MORE time. Events with extremely low probability fall into the category of “improbable”. 

*When a series of improbable events must occur in a sequence at very specific times, the improbable becomes "impossible!

So, what really happens as time marches on?
 a) Orderly things become disorderly.
 b) New things get old and break down.
 c) Living things age and wear out.

This is called the Second Law of Thermodynamics (a.k.a.= the Law of Entropy). 

 *Evolution and Entropy are polar opposites! Every energy system in the universe wears out! 
Stars burn out. Galaxies fly apart. Energy is becoming less and less useful through time. The ONLY consistent observation is that everything in our physical universe is running down!



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