THERE'S SOMEONE OUT
THERE
CREATIONISM
AND EVOLUTIONISM
Marcelo Augusto de Carvalho
PSALM 19.1-6
- David was a young
sheepherder when he wrote this psalm. I wasn't more than 15. He walked with his
flock up and down the hills and valleys of Judea looking for pasture and
streams to quench his hunger and his place. During the day he had the
opportunity to contemplate the sunrise with its glowing rays. I also saw the
formation of the rains and felt the strength of the terrible eastern winds.
When the day was over, he would take his flock to a very safe place to guard
it, and there he took his harp and sat to gaze at the sky in its breadth. What
could David see? Nothing less than the wonderful stars and constellations above
Bethlehem. The city of Bethlehem is at 32 degrees north latitude, and so David
could see: The PLEIAS- the seven star, the constellation of ORION, the URSA
MINOR, the URSA MAJOR, and the POLARIS STAR. During the day to get around not
losing precise direction, he studied the march of the Sun, and the night amazed
himself with the march of the Stars.
- In the face of such great beauty and perfection
David was perplexed, and often exclaimed: WHO CREATED ALL THIS?
- There
is no doubt that this is the most disturbing question that every human being
asks himself when he is in front of the spectacles of nature. And notice that
David asked this question not in adulthood but as a teenager; he was no more
than 15 years old.
- This
is the human feeling in the face of such great wonders. But what interests us
today is to answer the question: WHO DID ALL THIS?
- This question is so interesting that for your answer appear two theories tremendously disseminated and defended with nails and teeth since man came into existence.
One, i'm sorry. EVOLUTIONISM- this theory states that our planet is about 4.5 billion years old. In its early days, it was too hot and dangerous to harbor life. It was bombarded by meteors and divided by volcanoes. As it cooled, its surface became calmer. The water that evaporated from the constant eruptions formed clouds - and rain. Water was the cradle of life 3.5 billion years ago. It is believed that life may have arisen from a series of chemical reactions that occurred by chance. Over millions of years, these reactions slowly built living beings from simple chemicals. The natural elements, inanimate, for example, already existed. It is believed that everything that came about was by simple chance, and that life and the elements of the rest of the Universe originated in the same way as they were on our planet.
2. CREATIONISM- he preaches that in the beginning of all
things there was nothing but God
the Creator
Being. Suddenly God decides to create everything and
so does it by the simple power of His Word. He created everything, already
perfect and from this moment on there was life and history on our planet as it
was throughout the universe.
Which of these two theories can I trust? Which one presents me with facts as evidence that they are true? I'm not here to fight Evolutionism or humiliate an evolutionist. I just want to base my and your faith in Chapter 1 of Genesis. I want to know the truth about our origin. So let's go to what evolutionism says in relation to the Bible, and then analyze creationism in relation to scientific evidence.
FALLACY OF EVOLUTIONISM
- In 1831,
Charles Darwin began a long journey around the world.
- He had
been taught by theologians that all creatures and plants were now precisely the
same as when, in the beginning, they were created by God.
- But on
this journey, unable to correlate his observations with this teaching, he
gradually discarded the genesis account and put in its place the concept of the gradual development of living beings, from the
simple to the complex over large expanses of time.
- It was
precisely by observing the Galapagos Islands that Darwin
finally came to their conclusions so long ago.
- Observing the tremendous variety of living beings on those islands, he asked: if all species were created as they are now and placed where they currently live, because the animals and plants of the Galapagos Islands are very similar to those of South America? This thought was increasingly reinforced by the variations he observed from island to island.
Darwin's mistakes
Instead
of taking into account variation or change occurring within basic species,
Darwin completely overstepped barriers and proposed unlimited
change. He made a common mistake, the error of "one or the
other/or". One or the other species was fixed or unlimited change occurred.
The
variations he observed in his travels showed no change from
one basic species to another. The finches showed interesting variation in
physical characteristics and behavior, but were still strictly related and were
all finches.
Progressive
evolution requires gradual change from one basic species to another - fish to
salamander, salamander to reptile, etc.
This doesn't happen.
It is
true that in the early stages of development in the egg or
mother, the embryos of very different animals bear a great similarity. It
seems that developing animals follow the same growth patterns as far as they
can. However, in a short time the characteristics that make
one animal different from the other begin to stand out. (Since the pig,
cow, rabbit and man are all mammals with bilateral symmetry, four legs and a
spine and since they all start life like a fertilized egg, would it be
surprising that the early stages of their embryonic development resembled?).
Ernest Haeckel thought that man's embryo actually passed through the stages of his previous evolutionary history. At first, the embryo resembled a jellyfish, after some time to a fish on the evolutionary scale, and finally had all the parts that made it a human baby. This strange idea has caught on. But science itself has shown that a human embryo is always a human embryo, agreeing precisely with the laws of heredity.
Other misconceptions of evolution
1- Evolution aims to explain
the "creation" of all things in terms of current processes, but the
first law of thermodynamics establishes that nothing is being
"created" in the present.
2- Evolution
presupposes in the universe the presence of an innate tendency towards
progress, for increasing order and complexity, but the Second Law of
Thermodynamics proves that in the universe there is an innate tendency towards
disorder and decay.
3- Evolution
is assumed to be produced by genetic mutations, but almost 100% of all known
mutations are harmful or even fatal to the creatures that experience them.
4- There is
no example of any true evolution from one basic species to another, recorded in
the present or in the fossils of the past.
5- The
evolutionary kinship of all creatures would require a constant gradation
between all life forms, but both current life and the records of life in the
past show great leaps between all different species of plants and animals.
6- Natural
selection supposedly explains the development of new species, but actually
tends to preserve existing species, so an incipient organ
or a new trait in any species would have no value for
"survival", unless it was fully functional from the very beginning.
7- Evolution
contradicts the scientific law that no effect can be greater than its cause,
since it presumes that intelligence developed from
non-intelligent matter, that morality developed from amoral processes,
that love and other emotional qualities arose from insensitive chemical
elements, that infinitely complex structures came from simple beginnings, and
that spiritual consciousness has sprouted from inherent molecules.
8- As for
the origin of man, there is no real evidence to disapprove of the biblical
revelation that Adam was the first human being, and that he was taken by God
with the use of soil chemical matter, having also been created spiritually in
the image of God.
9- All men,
including the "primitives" are descendants of Adam. Even though in
some cases, due to sin, inbreeding, disease and other factors, men have
degenerated to the point of becoming monkey-like, in certain respects, they
show all the evidence of an adamic affiliation.
10- Does the similarity of bat bones, birds, dogs, humans etc. prove
that all these creatures originally came from the same ancestor? Should the
giraffe's long neck, the rat's neck and the pig's neck and the intermediate
neck of other mammals come from the same ancestor because they all have 7 bones
in their necks? Would this be to claim that all cars with 8-cylinder engines
were manufactured by the same company?
11- One
cannot elaborate an uninterrupted series of fossil men up to the man itself.
12- I would
like to have a different pet - something like a guaco (cat with rabbit). But
this is impossible. There are controls established within
each species of animal or plant that prevents it from changing beyond certain
limits. In fact, genetic regulators keep trying to get organisms back to typical form.
13- About
complexity, we would still say:
-
Mutations are almost always harmful and represent the
results of damaged genes or chromosomes.
-
Isolation prevents the addition of anything new to the heredity of organisms.
- Survival
of the fittest contains no mechanism for increasing complexity.
- The
offspring or offspring cannot manifest new characteristics that are not
represented in the 2 parents.
14- Natural selection needs to be reviewed. It is claimed that
stingers, poison, thorns, etc. help organisms survive. To some extent that's
true. But can you remember: insects without stingers? Plants
without thorns? Reptiles devoid
of colmichos
or prey? Creeping
plants, vines or shrubs that have no poison?
15- Nothing
in evolution explains why an
increase in complexity should make an organism more fit for its environment. It
cannot be ensured that the organisms that survive are more complex. They may be
fitter, but who can prove they're more complex? Is a seaweed less complex than
a zucchini? Is an animal with a hoof or nail more complex than an animal that
has five nails? Is the octopus less complex than the shark? Is the bat more
complex than a bird?
16- In the
past, doctors could not see any useful function in certain organs of the human
body, such as tonsils, appendix and thymus. Evolutionists called them the
remains or traces of evolution. (In the past, in the
first evolutions, they were useful.) But now it has been discovered that almost
all of them are useful.
17- What can
we say about a theory that has been telling us that evolution operates too
slowly to be seen in a human existence, but that is now saying that
evolutionary changes are too fast to leave behind any evid6encia?
18- Even true science can only deal with the present; nothing can speak of origins. Evolution is not science; it is faith - and what a naïve and gullible faith!
THE ANCESTORS PROPOSED TO MAN AND HIS REALITIES
Neanderthal- 1856. Abandoned
as an ancestral species by many anthropologists in the 1960s and 1970s.
Homo erectus- 1891. Highly questioned by the
discovery of the 1470 skull in 1972.
Piltdown man- 1912. Unmasked
as a hoax in 1953.
Hesperopithecus- 1922. In 1927
it was discovered that it was an extinct pig.
Australopithecus africanus- 1924.
Disqualified by the discovery of the skull 1470 in 1972.
Australopitecos robustus- 1938. Disqualified by the discovery of Homo habilis in the
1960s.
Gigantopithecus- 1946.
Abandoned in 1950 by most anthropologists as very unlikely.
Zinjanthopus- 1959. Replaced by the discovery of Homo habilis
in the 1960s.
Homo habilis- 1960. Ancestral condition still
undetermined.
Ramapithecus- 1964.
Discovered to be the ancestor of the Orangutan in 1979.
Lothagam man- 1967.
Disqualified in 1977.
Australopithecus afarensis "Lucy" - 1979. Mistrust since 1980.
EVIDENCE CONFIRMING CREATIONISM
1. THE WORLD HAS ARISEN FROM SOMEONE'S WILL.
He created all that is, and all according to His will and with a specific purpose for each created element. Everything was perfectly calculated and designed by the source of all wisdom and life, GOD. Is this really what we see in our world and in the universe? Just look at the perfection of things.
The SUN -
the sun that is beginning to touch us with its rays is in the right distance
from earth. If there was little more distant, life would become impossible
because of the intense cold that would come. If it were a few miles closer, the
summer heat would be unbearable. Everything would burn and turn to dust. The
same problems would arise if the sun were a little warmer or colder.
TERRA- is
also precisely adjusted to receive the heat of the sun. If it rotated slower or
faster on its axis, living things would not be able to survive. Imagine a hot
summer day 10x longer or shorter than ours of 24 h. Even the 23 degree
inclination of the earth is an essential aspect for pleasant life on the
planet. The lack of inclination would bring continuous heat to the temperate
and equatorial regions and permanent winter to the poles.
ANOTHER
EXAMPLE IS AIR- air is composed of oxygen and other
substances, but we would have to breathe less deeply if oxygen equivalent to
21% of air were increased to 5O%. But with this also the Earth would become a
lighter for having too much 02. Lightning would burn the forests quickly. With
less oxygen it would be very difficult to light a fire.
And WHAT
ABOUT OUR DNA? - the cells of the human body produce
detailed codes that guide the development of the whole organism from conception
to death. It is these codes that command all the activities of our body
calculated millimetrically. And the interesting thing is that this code does
not even your possessor know it, but it works anyway.
It is
estimated that each cell contains enough information to fill
2,000 large books!
Many
insist on claiming that our life as that of the whole universe arose by chance.
But I want to tell you this: everything on this planet, even if it doesn't
seem, has a purpose and purpose.
The WIND- when hitting the leaves of the trees disorderly it
seem to live without direction, but it is not what happens. Snowflakes need l5
minutes plus a temperature of 10 to 15 degrees negative to form. But its shape
and structure depend tremendously on the wind, and depending on this, the
snowflake may have a very different structure from what it would have. Based on
this, scientists begin to claim that even the wind follows tremendously strict
laws put wherever it goes which we do not yet know.
NOTHING APPEARS TO CHANCE. On the way out of here, I'm going to find a white steed over there. It's a very old, finished car. I think, who's going to end up with this? The days go by and the car won't get out of there. The police are called to find out whose car it is, but no one knows, no one saw who put it there. At this point I ask you; THAT CAR SHOWED UP THERE TO CHANCE? YOU CAME OUT OF NOWHERE? DID IT COME UP WITHOUT ANYONE PUTTING YOU THERE? The answer is obvious. But the interesting thing is that there are a lot of people who claim that life, man and everything on this planet came up here by chance. You can't think like that.
2. WE WERE CREATED PERFECT. WE HAVE ALREADY COME OUT OF THE HAND OF THE CREATOR FULLY EVOLVED. WHAT WE SEE TODAY IS THE REGRESSION OF THE ORIGINAL CAPACITY WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM THE CREATOR. Genesis 1.26.
There is
nothing on Earth that defied both evolutionary logic and the EYE. Even Charles
Darwin had a huge problem trying to explain how the eye would have evolved. In
a letter of April 3, 1860, Darwin wrote: "To assume that the eye - with
all its unparalleled adjustment devices to focus different distances, admit
different amounts of light, and correct spherical and chromatic aberrations -
has arisen by natural selection, seems to be, i confess sincerely, an absurdity
of the highest degree."
One of
the biggest problems evolutionists have with the eye is that at all stages of development in what they call the evolutionary tree,
there are creatures with perfectly developed eyes. There
are no partially developed and intermedaily eyes to explain how they evolved.
The eyes are there, in hundreds of thousands of different creatures, and all
eyes are perfect. In the human eye alone, there are more than 1 million
light-sensitive cells forming the retina, where we receive light that is
transformed into nerve impulses and the brain turns into colored,
three-dimensional figures.
It is
also interesting to note that, at the beginning of the
world, man lived on average 900 years. After the flood, Noah's
son, Sem, lived only 600 years, and seven
generations later the maximum was 200 years of life. 450 years after the age of
Abraham, Moses wrote that living 80 years was to achieve only boredom and
weariness.
We
see, therefore, that man has not evolved and is not evolving.
Even in knowledge, because today we know more than the ancients knew, but this
we use for our advantage, because our physical and mental capacity is much
lower than that of our ancestors. They didn't have the technology we have today
because by physical and mental strength they could meet their needs. Today we
increasingly need more sophisticated devices to compensate for our decay!
Finally, Ellen White tells us that today we are 20 times weaker than Adam. Can you imagine?
3. ALL HUMANS CAME FROM THE SAME COUPLE. FROM THIS BEGAN HUMAN HISTORY. SIMILARLY IT OCCURRED WITH ALL LIVING BEINGS. Genesis 1.27-28.
The genealogies of Genesis 5, 11, Matthew 1 point to this. And any personal genealogy around the earth goes in this direction. Once a man mathematically calculated how intimately we are related to each other in the world. Based on your calculations, we can't be more than any person's 30th cousins on Earth. Our kinship is no less than this. If you're Brazilian, you can't be more than the 30th cousin of an African little girl who was born yesterday in an isolated tribe in the middle of the Sahara desert.
4. TODAY GENETIC MUTATIONS HAPPEN IN LIVING BEINGS. HOW TO EXPLAIN THEM? DOESN'T THIS CONFIRM EVOLUTION?
There
really are many mutations between living beings, but they never change species.
In 1916 a couple of Australian kangaroos escaped from a
zoo in Hawaii. Since then its descendants have generated a population of
several hundred kangaroos. But in less than 60 generations these small
marsupials have managed to reproduce a type of kangaroo that is smaller,
lighter in colour and- most notably - has a different biochemical constitution
that allows it to eat Hawaiian plants that would have been poisonous to their
Australian ancestors. There was a lot of variation, but these animals did not
change species; remain Australian kangaroos.
These
mutations that occur are nothing more than adaptations of animals to their new
habitat and living conditions.
NOTE- when many variations occur the animals can not stand and so many species cease to exist. There is a very fixed limit to these mutations.
5. WE WERE CREATED IN THE LIKENESS OF GOD IN ALL PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS. BUT HOW TO EXPLAIN THEN THE TREMENDOUS PHYSICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANIMALS AND MAN?
In 1818
two French chemists discovered chlorophyll, a substance
that makes the leaves green. Further experiments have shown that this substance
is linked to glucose production, which is the combination of water and carbon
dioxide that plants produce as a basic source of food for all animals on Earth.
In 1912
the chlorophyll code was broken and it was revealed that a molecule of this
substance is composed of exactly one magnesium atom bound to 136 atoms of
nitrogen, carbon and oxygen. If you then remove that single magnesium atom and
replace it with a single iron atom, you essentially produce a red blood
molecule.
This
shows us that God began with a basic formula of living beings, and then varied
them exactly enough to create all varieties of animals, birds, fish, flowers,
trees, butterflies, anyway.
Evolutionists
still seek their lost bond between themselves and animals. Here's ours.
Remember: it's not because a Mercedes 350 has the flashlight plastic equal to the flashlight of my Steed II 79 that both cars were manufactured by the same company. We always have to look at the whole of a set of parts.
6. THE BEAUTY AND PERFECTION OF THE WORKS CREATED, ESPECIALLY MAN, ATTEST STOES IN FAVOR OF CREATIONISM THAT POINTS TO GOD AS THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS.
The beauty of a rose or a butterfly shows that there was
someone, very wise, who created so many complex and perfect beings.
The average human heart moves a total of 10 tons of blood per
day. This is equal to the weight of 140 average weight people. The energy
consumed is equivalent to 4,082 kilos or 81.64 bags of potato of 50 kilos.
In one
existence, approximately 415 million liters of blood pass
through the middle heart. This is enough to fill a pool of 100,000 liters more
than 3,000 times.
The human
ability to reach the Moon thrilled the world, but the three-man
capillary systems in one space capsule if combined and placed from one end
to the other would almost reach the distance from Earth to the Moon.
The human ear has 27,000 filaments. Not all are used,
especially when the individual reaches an advanced age. The eye can detect
energy equivalent to 1/10,000,000,000,000 of a gram falling one millimeter or
1/25 of an inch.
What about the great human capacities of movement, execution of musical instruments, memory and learning?
7- EVEN INSTINCTIVE BEHAVIORS SHOW THAT SOMEONE HAS INSTITUTED THEM IN THE SOUL OF CREATED BEINGS. THEY MUST NOT HAVE BEEN PRODUCTS OF A LONG-TERM EVOLUTION.
The animal mother cuts the umbilical cord, removes the embryonic sac and stimulates the cubs by licking them. There would be no probability that the mother's behavior was developed by slow evolutionary processes or by the survival of the fittest. That had to be right the first time or the dogs would never have come into existence. It is much easier to accept that dogs were raised with this instinct.
8- THE GREATEST HUMAN CAPABILITIES SHOW THAT THEY COULD NEVER BE EVOLVED CREATURES, WITHOUT ANYONE HAVING CREATED US IN A SPECIAL WAY.
Why do we enjoy the glory of a sunset or the
beauty of a rainbow?
Color influences our life, our enjoyment of food, soothes us,
stimulates us and adds charm to life.
All natural beauty contributes to our happiness.
According
to evolution, beings only struggle to continue existing. But reality shows that
we are not like that.
Many
animals can also respond to sound stimuli, but enjoying the
music is only human. We appreciate the rubbing of a cat on our leg. We
appreciate the fragrance of flowers. We could survive
without the taste. But someone wished it wasn't.
Where, in the cold and cruel world of evolution and survival of the fittest, would there be room for humor?
9. WHOEVER ORIGINATED THE UNIVERSE IS TREMENDOUSLY POWERFUL, CONTINUES TO KEEP IT TO THIS DAY, FOR IF I DID NOT DO EVERYTHING IT WOULD BE OVER BY NOW. THIS SOMEONE IS GOD. Job 38
Many ask: How much energy did the world need to be created?
Dr. Haroldcoffin calculated
that it would be the energy radiated by the sun for 44
million years.
To
get an idea, for the sun to illuminate and heat its entire vast reach of 12
billion km, it produces energy by consuming its mass. It consumes 4 million and
200,000 tons of its mass per minute, but it is so large its mass that it will
take 150 billion years to consume l% of it.
The most
interesting thing is when we see how big the universe is
and how it can be maintained.
We
all know that the Earth revolves around the sun along with other planets. We also
know that there are many other suns - millions and millions of them, each with
their planets and perhaps with moons as well, thus composing more solar
systems. The stars we see at night are these other suns, which all together
form part of a galaxy. Maybe there are millions of other galaxies in space,
each with billions of stars or suns.
Only our heliosphere
has a diameter of l5 to 30
billion km. It has the shape of a drop having the sun as the center in the
bulkiest part. All this is kept running in perfect order without deororization.
According
to ancient theories, the Universe due to so much complexity should have
disintegrated billions of years ago, but scientists say, there is something
that is keeping it whole.
Evolutionists
say that everything is maintained by the physical laws that direct nature, but
we already know that these are not enough for such great work.
Recently
astronomers have discovered a place in the universe that has been called "IMMENSE VOID", where apparently there is nothing - nor
sun, moon or stars- nothing. It has an extension of 300 million light years, or
rather 260 billion billion kilometers, or 260 plus 18 zeros, all without a
single piece of something.
The
discovery of this immense emptiness means that theories of the Universe will
have to be reviewed. The big bang theory states that the Universe emerged as a
result of a large explosion, with billions and billions of particles and pieces
that flew away to ornate up stars and other celestial bodies that we see. The
immense emptiness caused a huge hole in this theory, because if there was a
great explosion, all the stars would be more or less distributed equally
throughout the Universe, and there could not be such an immensely empty place.
But we know who did this- Job 26:7.
Many
continue to insist that our world and this entire vast Universe was the work of
chance, it came out of nowhere. But let's imagine this: you and I are NASA
astronauts, and we're sent on a special mission to a new
discovered planet. After many days of travel there, we arrived and found a
very interesting picture there. There are beautiful houses built on the edge of
wonderful streams, space aircraft, and very evolved appliances. What we call
food is so weird that we can't even decipher what it can be, and the possible
very strange life forms. The interesting thing is that we can't find anyone
there or all over the planet. We go back to Earth, tell and show everything we
saw and when analyzing what they heard and saw, scientists tell us: We have
come to the conclusion that this planet has always been devoid of life. You and
I don't believe it. There is such strong evidence, because if there was no life
there in some time how would everything we saw emerge?
In this fanciful story, the conclusions that no evidence of life existed there are simply ridiculous. Unfortunately, these conclusions do not occur on Mars, or Jupiter, or on the Moon, but here on Earth.
APPEAL: everything we see created was conceived by someone wonderful. But most important of all, it was all a gift for you and me. We are the reason everything is created. Accept this gift. Love this Creator. Amen.
SOURCE
Adventures of Creation. Dr. Haroldo
G, Coffin. Casa
Publicadora Brasileira, Tatuí-SP, Brazil. 1993 edition.
Youth Inspiration. Casa Publicadora Brasileira, Tatuí-SP, Brazil. Editions from 1977 to 2005.
Pr. Marcelo Augusto De Carvalho - April 1997 São Paulo SP Brazil