PROLEGOMENA: I do not understand why we discuss creation/evolution within the field of Science. Creation/Evolution are opposite belief systems. The argument if necessary at all should be in church and religion classes. Neither Creation nor Evolution can be observed or reproduced and therefore it is not science. In a real sense, it is some who believe in God and those that don't; arguing about whether we are animals or are created in the image of God. For me the synergism of all the observable facts lead me to conclude the Creation model and a world-wide Noaic flood are the most scientific choice. But ultimately the choice is faith: this then is the stated conundrum.
In no particular order
1. Life cries out for a creator, both as a observer of the intricate details of nature and in our deepest part of who we are.
Virtually every tribe and people on the Earth has a religion. Everyone understands a clock has a creator, or maker. Yet, some miss the infinitely more complex macrocosm and microcosm seen through our telescopes and microscopes and say it was an accident.
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2. DNA by itself is too complex to believe it is an accident. Looking at our own bodies and the dozens of enzymes and other things
the body produces from food of a thousand cultures, as well as the awesome nature of the mystery of life itself demands a creator. The eye itself needs a creator.
3. If Yelm (the Big Bang) did occur, then as we observe everything in the universe they should be the same. Coming from the same
"pot" all the planets should be made of the same "stuff." Instead, we find each planet quite different and made of
different elements and colors. The planets have different number of satellites in different orbits. The
atmosphere of each planet is unique, as is it's topography.
4. I am aware of Kepler's Planetary Laws, but the fact that each planet has a different rotation period [day] tells this observer
that the Big Bang is
incorrect. If all matter was blown out of the core at a consistent speed, then all the planets should be
rotating at about the same speed day in and day out.
5. When we count all forms of life on earth, we find more than 900,000 different species. If we all
came from the same primordial pond, we should be lucky to find one type of life. The variety of animal and
plant life indicates a creator with a great sense of humor who created people as well as the platypus.
5a. If the platypus is on earth in the current era, then why can't the archaeopteryx be just as much a creature, and not a half-step?
Archaeopteryx, evolutionary point
Archaeopteryx, creation point
6. I seriously considered evolution for a time. For me, the point of disembarking was twofold:
a. Standing at the Grand Canyon, I wondered why there weren’t dozens or hundreds of other "Grand" canyons
if it really took millions of years for the Colorado River to make the canyon. Instead of a little bit of water and a long time, it seemed to me standing on the edge of the canyon, I remembembered making dams and rivers in the dirt as a kid, that it took a lot of water and a short time to create a mess. Whether we talk about a tsunami or flood, observable facts say what water does, it does quickly.
b. OK, so a man might evolve. Remote, but possible. But then I realized at every step along a very long chain, a female would have to be evolving in the same generation. From lady frogs to fish, to birds to woman; folks, the possibility of this evolution occurring in step with the boy frog, fish, bird, monkey and man in hours at the lower portion of the chain, to just a few years at the higher end of the food chain [and then the female saying "yes" ] is too large a step for my mind. This single fact makes evolution sounds more like fiction than science.
7. If the Earth were in a slightly different orbit, human life would not be possible. If it was even slightly
more elliptical in its orbit or even one million miles closer or distant from the Sun, life as we know it
would be strained, or impossible.
8. Kepler's law teaches that each planet is in an elliptical orbit. But, unlike the other planets, the Earth's orbit is almost
completely circular. The following is taken from my Stars Page. "Jan 02, 2002,
Earth at Perihelion (nearest the Sun) 0.98330 au. or 147,100,000 km from Sun on Jan 02, 2003. Earth at Aphelion (farthest from the
Sun) 1.0167 au. or 152,100, 000 km on July 2, 2003. In less scientific jargon, this means from deep space looking back on the Solar
system, the earth's orbit would appear absolutely circular. Most of our wedding rings are more lopsided than the Earth's orbit.
9. Evolutionists can't agree on the time line, while creation stands virtually unchanged over the millennia.
9. NASA sent up a probe, I believe it was called CORE, which measured the background temperature (or
noise) of the solar system. It was expected that the probe would find the background constant and unchanging,
instead it found there were pockets of more noise or warmer temperature. Science has no adequate explanation for this
ever changing background noise.
10. From the Peking man to today, evolutionary scientists have to create steps in the evolutionary chain. Links or steps between
species simply don’t exist in the fossil record. Around 1963 I was at UC Berkeley walking through the Anthropology building and saw a
board with all 28 skulls required for evolution. There were two bones out of 28 heads. My second thought was, Bet if you could peal
skin off of heads for a second you could find all 28 of these skulls alive on earth this afternoon.
11. Corollary: The fossils record does not show evolution, as Darwin indicated it should. Bones don't lie. There simply are no half-steps between species. There is evolution with-in species. Finches, and humans are not all the same. Small fingers, are shorter on some people, ear lobes are hooked on some, and not on others. But in nearly 150 years of looking, we have yet to find a true proof-positive "step" between species. As a boy, I was taught that the small horses evolved into larger horses, but today, we have dimunitie horses and large horses. This "proof" I was taught as a boy, is no longer in science books, because they found so many of the fossels, they realized it was a species, and not an evolving step.
12. The amount of dust on the moon was many meters less than scientists anticipated. If you ever have the opportunity to listen to
the entire landing of, Apollo 11, the first two United States astronauts, you will hear them being encouraged several times to abort the
mission if the many feet of dust begin to choke their engine. Instead of meters of dust and billions of years, they found millimeters of
dust. However, once Armstrong walked on the surface this lack of meters of dust became a non-discussion issue.
13. Scientists can't reproduce life in a test tube from elements. We can't even reproduce one-celled amoebas. Speaking of protozoan, scientists continue to find the internal workings of one celled paramecium called "simple" in some textbooks, with its organelles to be infinitely complex, like the Creator.
13a. Soft tissue from a dinosaur have been found in Montana. They are dated at 68 million years, but if dinosaurs were created on day five or six of Creation week (Gen 1) and died in the flood, it would be easier to see how the soft tissue survived. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4379577.stm
13b. We are told in science class that strata took thousands to millions of years to develop. On May 18, 1980 at Mt. St. Helens, over 30 feet of different strata were laid in three hours. Further, Al Franklin a pastor in Redding, CA has uncoverd a dinosaur bone easily visible in in three different strata. This flies in the face of what I was taught in government schools.
The more we learn about science, from the amount of dust on the moon, to watching Mt. St. Helens and the aftermath to space exploration of comets a careful analysis nothing shows creation to be incorrect. Inversely, evolution is showed lacking and creation makes sense.
14. THE PLANETS AS A CLOCK (This is taken from my Stars page.)
Did you know the planets run like a clock? Years ago, just in passing someone mentioned this, and I put it in my ATARI 400
(Citra 1984) and came up with the following facts that seem to show the inner planets work like a clock. If you except this concept,
then it would be congruent thinking to believe the planets and a clock would either be created or evolved.
THE PLANETS AS A CLOCK
| Planet | Comparison Planet | Plus/Minus |
| 5 Mercury orbits = | 3 Venus orbits | 10 days |
| 10 Mercury orbits = | 4 Venus orbits | 19.1 days |
| 4 Mercury orbits = | 1 Earth orbit | 13.35 days |
| 13 Venus orbits = | 8 Earth orbits | 1 day |
| 25 Mercury orbits = | 6 Venus orbits | 7.7 days |
| 15 Earth orbits = | 8 Mars orbits | 17 days |
| 39 Mercury orbits = | 5 Earth orbits | 4.1 days |
15. Society and Western Civilization requires creation. If the strongest and most powerful survive, then the person with the largest atomic bomb will survive. This is against civilization as we know it.
James DeBolt's "Does it make any difference what you believe?"
| EVOLUTION | CREATION |
| Product of Time, Chance and matter | Intelligent design--made in the image and likeness of God. |
| You control your own destiny. | Created as an object of God's love with an eternal destiny. |
| You can do what comes naturally. | God loves ou too much to have you throw your life away.
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| Meaningless existence-without purpose-drugs. | To know Christ is to know God's abundant life |
| --Without meaningful relationships-guilt | Respect for yourself is transferred to others. |
| --without respect for God--amoral | Reverence for God produces respect for one's self
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| --on your own sexually--no conscience | Real Christian men and women affirm the dignity of others.
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| --without regard for the life of young or old--abortion/euthanasia | The Bible is God's handbook to relationships and
gender identity. |
| Life for yourself--smart, shrewd, tenacious | Live for Christ--fulfill the destiny for which you were created.
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| Anarchy and/or Totalitarianism natural result | belief in worth of man produced Democracy
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16. Why does it seem incongruous that God would use evolution?
a. Evolution is inconsistent with God's omnipotence.
b. Evolution is inconsistent with God's personality.
c. Evolution is inconsistent with God's omniscience.
d. Evolution is inconsistent with God's nature of love.
e. Evolution is inconsistent with God's purposiveness.
f. Evolution is inconsistent with God's grace.
g. God frequently does things quickly.
Genesis 1:5, "And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day."
John 6:21, “They were willing therefore to receive Him into the boat; and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were
going.”
John 13:32, “If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately.”
17. Observable science requires a young earth because of the following:
a. Efflux of gasses into the atmosphere
b. Influx of meteoric dust from space.
c. the lack of feet of dust on the moon.
d. Efflux of materials from the mantle into the crust.
e. Decay of the earth's magnetic field
f. Observable meteors are disappearing before our eyes, with no observable method of renewal.
18. Observation of highly complex life and bio/eco system requires a creator.
a. The size of the sun and moon, while the ratio to earth is hundreds of times distant from earth they are exactly the same size
during most eclipses.
b. Animals that clean other animals like cleaner fish that clean other fish and birds that clean hippopotamus.
19. Lightening kills observable life, why would it create life in the primordial swamp?
20. Io, one of Jupiter's four moons Galileo discovered, leaves a trail of volcanic gas in its orbit. If the solar system was billions
of years old, observations would suggest Io would have disappeared.
21. We know the moon is falling toward earth at 2 to 3 inches a year. If the earth and the moon were billions of years old, the
moon have fallen back to earth.
22. We can observe the earth eroding. If the earth were billions or even just a couple of million years old the mountains would be
eroded back to flatlands. If the earth were one billion of years old using observable measurements, the mountains would have eroded back to plains. However, science indicates the world is at least 4.3 billion years old, which could and should have eroded the continents back to the ocean.
23. We can observe meteor showers, which we believe are comets that have broken into many pieces. They are being destroyed as
they enter our atmosphere. We have observed comets like Comet West that before 1975 were one, then we watched as it broke into
several pieces and in 1994, we watched it crash into Jupiter. These are observable phenomenon. We are not aware of any observable
method of replacing comets. A young earth can absorb this loss; a old earth needs to find a much better explanation than the Oort cloud.
24. If everything came from the big bang, everything should be the same, at least in the solar system. All the planets should be made of approximately the same "ingredients." They should all travel the same direction according to Kepler's laws and they should all travel according to Mathematical law at predictable year and days. The years are predictable, but not the revolutions. Venus day is longer than it's year and therefore if one was sunning ones-self on the 900 degree surface, sunrise would come in the west and set in the east some 220 days later.
25. If Darwin was right and the greatest species survives, then why aren't we like superheroes? Why can't I fly over my enemy and drop in on him and with one surprise knock on the head and I would be the greatest species. Why not eyes in the back of my head. To me the fact both eyes are on one side of the head, Picasso accepted, shows evolution via greatest species is has a problem.
26. We take so much for granted, that we shouldn't. We frequently show Kepler's laws by swinging a ball around our heads on a rope or string. This makes the ball travel in a circular pattern. But our planets, every last one, is on an elliptical pattern around the Sun with two foci. It travels around one Sun with two foci or "centers" this is pretty heavy Math to accidentally happen.
27. According to theory, "when" the big bang occurred, our atmosphere was much like Mars, with water. Algae grew by the trillions
until the water ways were choked with green algae. This algae breathed the carbon dioxide and turned our atmosphere into an
Oxygen/Nitrogen atmosphere we now have. Once we had a dead planet. Then lightening (from where) struck the water, algae was
accidentally created, it reproduced until it changed our atmosphere and killed itself off, except the few that evolved into oxygen
breathing ... There are few facts to support this theory. To me Creation is easier to believe.
28. What do we do with the flat-billed platypus? To me it shows a creator with humor. It certainly doesn't show the strongest
wins, as Darwin proposed.
29. The term dinosaur, means terrible lizard, so I have been told. We were told dinosaurs died millions of years before man. But
they catch an Icthysaurus off the coast of Africa about once a decade. If you read about dragons, which certainly lived, we have
stories of them in all parts of the world being hunted to extinction, such as King Arthur’s Knights. The pictures of Dragons on the walls
of China look very close indeed to dinosaurs. The descriptions in Job 40 of the Behemoth and 41 of the Leviathan, and don't they sound
like dinosaurs? How do we know that 70 foot long whales, aren't what is left of the dinosaur era?
29a. conscience
29b. rock life being diffferent than human life. Rocks may be billions of years old, humans not (cf. Gen 1:2)
30. Unknown source, The chapter title is "A 'Just Right' Universe" and it begins on page 111, But the rest of the bibliographical information is not available to this author at this time. Please let me know and I will be pleased to give credit where credit is due.
Evidence for the Fine Tuning of the Universe
1, strong nuclear force constant
if larger: no hydrogen; nuclei essential for life would be unstable
if smaller: no elements other than hydrogen
2. weak nuclear force constant
if larger: too much hydrogen converted to helium in big bang, hence too much heavy element material made by star burning;
no expulsion of heavy elements from stars
if smaller: too little helium produced from big bang, hence too little heavy elements material made by star burning; no expulsion of heavy elements from stars
3. gravitational force constant
if larger: stars would be too hot and would burn up too quickly and too unevenly
if smaller: stars would remain so cool that nuclear fusion would never ignite, hence no heavy element production
4. electromagnetic force constant
if larger: insufficient chemical bonding; elements more massive than boron would be too unstable for fission
if smaller: insufficient chemical bonding
5. ratio of electromagnetic force constant to gravitational force constant
if larger: no stars less than 1.4 solar masses, hence short stellar life spans and uneven stellar luminosities
if smaller: no stars more than 0.8 solar masses, hence no heavy element production
6. ratio of electron to proton mass
if larger: insufficient chemical bonding
if smaller: insufficient chemical bonding
7. ratio of protons to electrons
if larger: electromagnetism would dominate gravity, preventing galaxy, star, and planet formation
if smaller: electromagnetism would dominate gravity, preventing galaxy, star, and planet formation.
8. expansion rate of the universe
if larger: no galaxy formation
if smaller: universe would collapse prior to star formation
9. entropy level of the universe
if larger: no proto-galaxy formation
if smaller: no star condensation within the proto-galaxies
10. mass density of the universe
if larger: too much deuterium from big bang, hence stars burn rapidly
if smaller: insufficient helium from big bang, hence too few heavy elements forming
11. velocity of light
if faster: stars would be too luminous
if slower: stars would not be luminous enough
12. age of the universe
if older: no solar-type stars in a stable burning phase in the right aprt fo the galaxy
if younger: stars would not be luminous enough
13. initial uniformity of radiation
if smoother: stars, star clusters, and galaxies would not have formed
if courser: universe by now would be mostly black holes and empty space
14. fine structure constant (a number used to describe the fine structure splitting or spectral lines)
if larger: no stars more than 0.7 solar masses
if smaller: no stars less than 1.8 solar masses
15. average distance between stars
if larger: heavy elements density too thin for rocky planets to form
if smaller: planetary orbits would become destabilized
16. decay rate of the proton
if greater: life would be exterminated by the release of radiation
if smaller: insufficient matter in the universe for life
17. 12^Carbon (12^C) to 16^Oxygen (16^O) energy level ratio
if larger: insufficient oxygen
if smaller: insufficient carbon
18. ground state energy level for 4^Helium (4^H)
if larger: insufficient carbon and oxygen
if smaller: insufficient carbon and oxygen
19. decay rate of 8Beryllium) (8Be)
if slower: heavy element fusion would generate catastrophic explosions in all the stars
if faster: no element production beyond beryllium and hence, no life chemistry possible
20. mass excess of the neutron over the proton
if greater: neutron decay would leave too few neutrons to form the heavy elements essential for life
if smaller: proton decay would cause all stars to collapse rapidly into neutron stars or black holes
21. initial excess of nucleons over anti-nucleons
if greater: too much radiation for planets to form
if smaller: not enough matter for galaxies or stars to form
22. polarity of the water molecule
if greater: heat of fusion and vaporization would be too great for life to exist
if smaller: heat of fusion and vaporization would be too small for life's existence; liquid water would become to inferior a
solvent for life chemistry to proceed; ice would not float, leading to a runaway freeze-up
23. supernovae eruptions
if too close: radiation would exterminate life on the planet
if too far: not enough heavy element ashes for the formation of rocky planets
if too frequent: life on teh planet would be exterminated
if too infrequent: not enough heavy element ashes for the formation of rocky planets
if too late: life on the planet would be exterminated by radiation
if too soon: not enough heavy element ashes for the formation of rocky planets
24. white dwarf binaries
if too fewer: insufficient fluorine produced for life chemistry to proceed
if many: disruption of planetary orbits from stellar density; life on the planet would be exterminated
if too soon: not enough heavy elements made for efficient fluorine production
if late: fluorine made too late for incorporation in protoplanet
25. ratio of exotic to ordinary matter
if smaller: galaxies would not form
if larger:
31. VERSES on the topic.
Romans 12:16 Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation.
1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
1 Corinthians 1:27 but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,
1CO 3:18-19 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become foolish that he may become wise. 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, "He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness";
1 Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
universe would collapse before solar type stars could form
BIBLIOGRAPHY of books I have read on the topic in 2005
Ross, Hugh, A MATTER OF DAYS, Navpress, Colorado Springs, CO, 2004.
Sarfati, Johnathan, REFUTING COMPROMISE, Master Books, Green Forest, AZ, 2004.
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Bio: You can view most of my credentials at Don's Bio. It might be worth mentioning, I have traveled across North America and Asia for years. I have been in diosaur bone fields in Arizona, several in Wyoming and Khon Kaen, Thailand. I spent some time in my BA and MA days, before the LaBrea Tar Pits were covered by a building watching the tar and watching college kids put bones together like a puzzle. Maybe they were right, maybe they weren't.
Want to add a line about conscience and a comment about rock life being diffferent than human life. Rocks may be billions of years old, humans not (cf. Gen 1:2) may continue a thread on complexity of life, add a line about the eye and down to outside and inside "skin." Why and how does lips differ from skin?