Evolution vs creation

Reasons To Believe
Atheists can usually draw on a mental library of reasons why they do not believe in God, whereas I would suggest the believers’ mental library is often limited and, in responding to the atheist, not very affective. Nevertheless, believers will remain content in their faith and not be swayed by their failures to convert non-believers. Generally, there is a problem if one tries to address every objection the non-believer might have in that it is very time consuming and often not very successful. It would be better to consider the probability that God does exist then, if successful, objections would be viewed in a new light and most of them would gradually fade away. If we limit the discussion to evolution vs creation, then a pathway is opened to recognising the existence of God. It is a common belief that both the origin of the universe and the origin (evolution) of mankind has an insurmountable pile of evidence supporting them; it is also a general belief that you cannot prove the existence of God. When considering the origin of the universe, let’s first clear up a common misunderstanding. The Big Bang, as it is known, does not claim to theorise about the point of creation of the universe, but rather the expansion of it from that point. The discovery that the universe is expanding led to the theory that if you extrapolate back in time, in other words, reversing the expansion, then we must eventually get back to the time when the expansion began. Extrapolating back is considered by scientists to be a reasonable approach, based on uniformitarianism: the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in our present-day scientific observations have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in it. Perhaps a bold assumption, but it is the only theory currently available, and the only one that the majority of the science community is focusing on. From this extrapolation, scientists are able to calculate the age of the Universe as being 13.7 billion years. I find this the most difficult subject to investigate, as the much of the terminology used by cosmologists, astrophysicists, theoretical physicists et el, is beyond my understanding. This doesn’t help when researching opposition to the currently held theory, opposition that does exist, but we only know about it if we actively look for it. However, since the James Webb telescope has been operational and produced many new images, questions have arisen, and discussed, concerning the validity of the Big Bang model. An Internet search for James Webb will highlight some of these concerns. Here are two examples of interest: ‘James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe.’ Click here . ‘New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed.’ Click here . Putting aside theory detail and terminology, there is obviously a vast difference between 13.7 billion years and In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth [Genesis 1:1]. Some suggest there is a time gap between verses one and two of Genesis chapter one, known as the The Gap Theory ’. However, it is proven in the section ‘Fingerprints of God’ that the origin of Genesis 1:1 (and John 1:1) is God. Considering ‘On the Origin Of Species’ Charles Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and considered a fundamental scientific concept. “Darwin published his theory of evolution with compelling evidence in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. By the 1870’s, the scientific community and a majority of the educated public had accepted evolution as a fact. “However, many initially favoured competing explanations that gave only a minor role to natural selection, and it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930’s to the 1950’s that a broad consensus developed in which natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.” If there is a general acceptance that life is descended from a common ancestor, then where did this common ancestor come from? Also accepted is the law of biogenesis. “Biogenesis refers to the theory that living matter arises only from other living matter. It is the synthesis of substances by living organisms, historically contrasting the now-disproved concept of spontaneous generation, which posited the emergence of life from non-living matter.” Couple common ancestor with biogenesis, then the logical conclusion is that life has always existed, but we all know it hasn’t. Then how did life begin? National Geographic addresses this question and suggests there are three possibilities: 1. Sparked by lightning 2. Brought to Earth by outer space 3. Hiding in Earth’s oceans Click here to view. The idea that life began with a common ancestor and evolved from there, a minute step at a time by accident (or good fortune), was, in my view, killed by the concept of ‘irreducible complexity.’ Despite the unavoidable logic of this concept, it has its opponents - see Irreducible complexity here . As knowledge of just how complex a human cell is increases, not just in structure, but also its internal workings, then the conclusion that there must be an intelligent designer involved becomes all the more apparent. The idea that life was created by God will soon be irrefutable. This article might be a good start to understanding this view. It shows just how complex the human cell is and the now obvious impossibility that molecular machines could have evolved a bit at a time. Whatever your views on all this, within the following pages under the heading ‘Fingerprints Of God’, there is irrefutable evidence for the existence of God encoded within Biblical text.