Genesis 1
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Psalm 19
1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
Job 38
4 "Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
Isaiah 40
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Romans 1
20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
I believe that nothing or written in human history is more controversial than Genesis 1:1. Are we shallow for believing in God? Is evolution more scientific and more solid a belief than the Biblical explaination? This morning we will examine some sound Arguments against evolutionism.
Chair Illustration:
If I were to ask an evolutionist if this chair were made he would probably answer affirmatively. All of you would answer affirmatively, but why? Did you see the chair made? Probably not. Why do you believe the chair was made? Because it has design and function.
Yet this chair that everyone would insist was made is infinitesimally less complex than the simplest cell or blade of grass. The simplest cell and the blade of grass can grow and reproduce where the chair cannot! In a few minutes we will discuss even more about the complexity of cells, but let us look now at the evolutionary belief that matter has always existed.
Evolutionists have claimed for a long time that matter is eternal, but we now know from science that it isn’t because the sun and the stars are burning up and radioactive materials are transforming into their daughter elements. Our sun and the stars have not yet burned out, and their radioactive materials are still with us. Evolutionists believe that sometime “billions of years ago” some proteins just happened to get together to form life.
Those proteins became an amoeba. The amoeba after a while decided to become a jellyfish. The jellyfish decided to grow a backbone and became a fish. The fish crawled out of the water to become an amphibian. The amphibian became a lizard. The lizard became a dinosaur. Some reptile then thought it would be cool to become a mouse. The mouse decided to become a monkey. The monkey then jumps out of the tree to become a professor with a PhD. The problem with all of this, however, is that evidence seems to point to the fact the universe has not always been there.
Signs in the Heavens
Consider the Sun and the Moon. On rare instances they will form a phenomenon known as an eclipse. This can only happen because the Sun is 400 times larger than the Moon and the Moon is 400 times nearer to Earth than is the Sun. The odds of this happening by accident are 160,000 to 1!
Ockham’s Razor is often used as a yardstick to determine the validity of two different scientific theories. Ockham’s Razor states that if one has two theories with the same predictions and one cannot distinguish between them, then one should assume the simplest of the theories. What is more likely a universe and a world created by a Divine Architect or a complex universe happening by mere accident? What is more logical?
Many scientists even believe in creation, for example, the June 21, 1998, Parade Magazine ran an article by David Levy, "Miracle Of Life," stating: "Nobel Prize-winner George Wald believed that the Universe is designed for life." Even in Einstein believed in Creation, even though he didn’t believe in a Personal God.
Consider the finely tuned physical forces in the universe. Consider what it takes to keep electrons moving around the nucleus of an atom. What would happen if their magnetic force were diminished? There would be a universe where no chemical reactions would be possible! For example, consider what it takes to form water. Two atoms of hydrogen must combine with one atom of oxygen in order to produce this vital element for our existence.
Spontaneous Generation is Impossible
Through out the Middle Ages people believed in spontaneous generation. They believed that flies came from dead animals and that sort of nonsense. Louis Pasteur with his experiments buried this fable and proved scientifically that life must come from life. Evolutionists believe that billions of years ago spontaneous generation did once. My question is if did occur once, why don’t we still see it happening? Again we consider Ockham’s Razor. Scientific law states that life must come from life! Between creationism and evolution what is therefore the simplest and most logical of the two theories?
Consider the complexity of Hemoglobin
Hemoglobin is the most vital protein in the human body. It is necessary for the oxygen transfer chemistry system that enables us to breathe. Hemoglobin is a protein composed of 539 amino acids of twenty different types and all of these are placed in a specific order.
What are the possible combinations to a hemoglobin molecule having 539 amino acids with 20 possible amino acids at each position? The answer comes by multiplying 20 by itself 539 times. The total number of possibilities would be 1.8 x 10 to the 701st power or 18 followed by 700 zeroes.
Even under the most favorable conditions during a period of six billion years, the chances of just one hemoglobin molecule evolving would be roughly one in 1.5 x 10 to the 618th power or one chance in 15 followed by 617 zeroes.
Even Bible skeptic Isaac Asimov stated in a 1984 article:
..."There has not been enough matter or time since the beginning of the Universe for the critical hemoglobin molecule to have been formed by random chance."
Would anyone in their right mind spend one dollar for a lottery ticket with the odds of one chance in 15 followed by 617 zeroes? I think not. I especially think an educated professor of evolution or philosophy would not. Nevertheless, what they would never gamble one dollar on, they are gambling their eternal souls on. This I find incomprehensible.
Consider the Complexity of DNA
If you were to transcribe the amount of information for the proteins of the invisible colon bacillus—a closely typed book of 3,000 pages would be needed. If the coded DNA instructions for the human cell were typed out they would fill a 1,000 volume encyclopedia!
What are the mathematical odds of just one DNA cell evolving?
In 1969, Dr. Frank Salisbury of Utah State University calculated the chances of just one DNA molecule coming into being over four billion years under the most ideal conditions. If one were to assume that there were 10 to the 20th power planets in the universe that could support life then the chances of just one DNA coming together on just one of these worlds would be 10 to 415th power—a number with 415 zeroes following it. Would any sane person gamble even a dollar at these odds? But there are highly educated people out there gambling their souls!
Charles Darwin and the Human Eye
Consider what John Stevens wrote in an article in the April 1985 issue of Byte magazine:
"While today’s digital hardware is extremely impressive, it is clear that the human retina’s real-time performance goes unchallenged. Actually, to simulate 10 milliseconds (one hundredth of a second) of the complete processing of even a single nerve cell from the retina would require the solution of about 500 simultaneous nonlinear differential equations 100 times and would take at least several minutes of processing time on a Cray supercomputer.
"Keeping in mind that there are 10 million or more such cells interacting with each other in complex ways, it would take a minimum of 100 years of Cray time to simulate what takes place in your eye many times every second."
Even Darwin saw the human eye as a stumbling block to evolution.
“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have formed by natural selection, seems I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.—Charles Darwin, The Origin of the Species.
Sir Isaac Newton and the Model
Sir Isaac Newton had created an intricate model of the solar system. An atheistic friend was quite taken by it. He began to question Sir Isaac about it.
“Who made it?
“Nobody.”
“Who made it?”
“Nobody,” Newton answered.
“You must think I am a fool!” The visitor responded. “Of course somebody made it, and he is a genius, and I would like to know who he is!”
Newton then replied:
“This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer and maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from the design is taken has come into being without either design or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you come to such an incongruous conclusion?”
A good question indeed. Between evolution and creation what is the simplest and most logical theory?
In conclusion, I would like to close with the following poem:
Trees
by
Joyce Kilmer
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
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