Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true
Isaac Asimov
Premise 1: Evolutionist default to non-natural explanations to fill in scientific gaps in their theory
Methodological naturalism asserts, that, to qualify as scientific, a theory must explain all phenomena by reference to purely physical or material causes or processes.
The National Association of Biology Teachers official position statement on the teaching of evolution states that :
Evolutionary biology rests on the same scientific methodologies the rest of science uses, appealing only to natural events and processes to describe and explain phenomena in the natural world. Science teachers must reject calls to account for the diversity of life or describe the mechanisms of evolution by invoking non-naturalistic or supernatural notions...Ideas such as these are outside the scope of science
It is mandated in this statement that Biology teachers “not allow or tolerate any theories of life’s origins that invoke non-naturalistic or supernatural notions” Ironically, due to fact that modern advances in molecular science, genetics, biophysics, and paleontology have uncovered substantial “scientific gaps” in the theory of evolution— Evolutionist have resorted to non-natural explanations.
Every major component of Evolutionary Theory is now supported by what many call “pseudo scientific explanations’ which means that they have the following corollaries:
They are not scientifically testable, repeatable or verifiable.
They defy at least one of the fixed laws of physics.
Evolution is the only major scientific theory, or axiom that has been allowed to circumnavigate or annul these strict conditions of the Scientific Method and the Laws of Nature.
Here are ways evolutionist use non-natural explanations to fill gaps in the theory
The Eternality of Matter and Energy
Historic Science: Law of Conservation and Mass: Matter can neither be created or destroyed
Georges Lamaitre, known as the “Father of the Big Bang Theory” first noted in 1927 that an expanding universe could be traced back into an original single point which he called the “primeval atom.”
In short, the Big Bang hypothesis states that all of the current and past matter was compacted into a very small ball with infinite density and intense heat called a Singularity. Suddenly, the Singularity began expanding, and the universe as we know it began.
This explanation attributes a non-scientific beginning or eternality to the primeval atom or energy that started the Big Bang.
Evolutionary Scientists believe that matter, energy, and/or the laws of physics are the entities from which everything else came and that those entities have existed from eternity past as the uncreated foundation of all that exists. Matter, energy, and physical laws are, therefore, viewed by materialists as self-existent.
Evolutionists jettison pure science and the Law of First Causes when they describe energy, matter, and the Laws of Physics as causeless and without beginning. By attributing eternal characteristics to matter, energy, and laws of physics is a departure from physics to metaphysics.
If matter is not eternal, its first emergence into being is a miracle beside which all other miracles dwindle into absolute insignificance
William Knight; Roman Philosopher
The inability to pin-point, define, and test a discernible cause is a license no other theory of science would have been allowed to obtain.
Every theory must have a First Cause that is observable to make all the other causes after it possible—Evolution has no First Cause to start the causation process. If you think I am wrong, then name that First Cause
Issac Bourne
2. Evolution defers to the miraculous when it attributes creative power to matter, time, chance, and energy.
Historic Science: The Law of Causality states that every effect must have a cause. There is no beginning or change of existence without a cause.
One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. yet here we are as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.
George Wald; Nobel Prize In Biology
Time is the hero of the plot…Given so much time, the impossible becomes possible, the possible becomes probable, the probable becomes virtually certain. One only has to wait; time itself performs miracles
George Wald; Noble Prize winning Physiologist on Evolution
It necessarily follows that chance alone is the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, at the very root of the stupendous edifice of evolution.
In explaining how spontaneous creation occurred Evolutionist attribute super-natural qualities to “Chance” by describing it as the force which has the “miraculous” ability to defy the Law of Biogenesis and bring life from non-living sources. It serves to note in no other major scientific theory, discovery, or experiment allows “Chance” to substitute for scientifically measurable, or observable forces that can actually be quantified or tested.
Chance as defined be Merriam Webster is something that happens without a discernable or observable cause. To give it creative power (Chance + Nothing = Everything in the Universe) is a clear example of science violating their own mandate to Biology teachers to reject calls to account for the diversity of life or describe the mechanisms of evolution by invoking non-naturalistic or supernatural notions”
When scientist attribute instrumental power to chance—they have left the domain of reason, they have left the domain of science; they have turned to pulling rabbits out of hats, they have turned to fantasy.
3. Evolution relies on the miraculous when it claims life can emerge from non-living sources
Historic Science: Law of Biogenesis states that life can only come from a pre-existing life or other living thing and not from non life. (Modern science has not been able to create life using chemicals, matter, or energy in countless attempts)
Mary Shelley in 1816 wrote her classic Frankenstein novel about a doctor who assembled non-living human body parts and artificially energized them to make a living being horrific as he was. There are lots of fantasies or fables like Pinocchio, or Frosty the Snowman where wood or snow are projected to come to life. Everyone knows it could never really happen.
However, Evolutionist like Richard Dawkins firmly believe that inanimate cosmic dust, or rocks became life when energized during the Big Bang.
On one planet (Earth), and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, gather themselves together into chunks of rock-sized matter of such staggering complexity that they are capable of running, jumping, swimming, flying, seeing, hearing —
4. Evolution claims that complexity and information can miraculously arise randomly
Historic Science: Laws of information show that information is non-material and cannot be reduced to the interaction of matter and energy. All living organisms have molecular information called DNA which could not have arisen randomly through the interaction of matter and energy.
There is not a single example in the history of science in which information has ever come from anything other than intelligence.
Evolution claims that the information contained in DNA, the Laws of Physics, Quantum Physics arose from a directionless random process. Not only does this violate the laws of information, it defies all scientific probability even at the molecular level.
Premise 2: Evolutionists do not play by the very rules the dogmatically try to enforce
In the landmark case Edwards v. Aguillard which overturned established laws that allowed creation science to be taught in public schools alongside of evolution science—the National Academy of Sciences told the Supreme Court that the most basic characteristic of science is “reliance upon naturalistic explanations”. Yet even the most respected leaders in the field of evolution demonstrate an un-reluctant reliance on non-natural explanations in their speeches, books, and articles.
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can’t even measure them. Now, that sounds of course like counting angels on the head of a pin; if you can’t measure them, then it doesn’t sound like it’s science, but in fact you can’t measure them directly.
Because there is a law like gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing in the manner described in Chapter 6. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice
Richard Dawkins; Author of The Blind Watchmaker
The duplicity of Modern Evolutionist hypocrisy is not going noticed:
With the failure of these many efforts to explain the origin of life, science was left in the somewhat embarrassing position of having to postulate theories of living origins which it could not demonstrate. After having chided the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science has found itself in the unenviable position of having to create a mythology of its own
Loren Eisely, The Immense Journey (New York; Random House)
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory—is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation—both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof
Matthews L. Harrison; British biologist and Fellow of the Royal Society
Unfortunately many scientists and non-scientists have made Evolution into a religion, something to be defended against infidels. In my experience, many students of biology—professors and textbook writers included—have been so carried away with the arguments for Evolution that they neglect to question it. They preach it…
George Kocan; Evolution Isn’t Faith But theory, Chicago Tribune
Discussion Question: If it is impossible matter can neither be eternal or spontaneously create itself from nothing…how can evolution be explained while maintaining strict adherence to the natural laws of physics? How does life emerge from non-life with complexity and design randomly from inanimate chemicals and matter if not miraculously?
Premise 3: Has science actually uncovered the truth it is trying to suppress?
Any suppression which undermines and destroys that very foundation on which scientific methodology and research was erected, evolutionist or otherwise, cannot and must not be allowed to flourish … It is a confrontation between scientific objectivity and ingrained prejudice – between logic and emotion – between fact and fiction … In the final analysis, objective scientific logic has to prevail – no matter what the final result is – no matter how many time-honoured idols have to be discarded in the process … After all, it is not the duty of science to defend the theory of evolution and stick by it to the bitter end -no matter what illogical and unsupported conclusions it offers … If in the process of impartial scientific logic, they find that creation by outside intelligence is the solution to our quandary, then Let’s cut the umbilical cord that ties us down to Darwin for such a long time. It is choking us and holding us back … Every single concept advanced by the theory of evolution (and amended thereafter) is imaginary as it is not supported by the scientifically established probability concepts. Darwin was wrong… The theory of evolution may be the worst mistake made in science.”
I L Cohen; New York Academy of Sciences and Officer of the Archaeological Institute of America
Now the question is “Can these things be explained naturally?”
Spontaneous Universe-Out of nothing the universe burst into existence on it’s own without cause or reason
Life only exists on earth- Even though other celestial bodies were created out of the same energy and matter of the Big Bang
Precision without a Precisionist-The universe shows fine tuning and obeys fixed laws which do not orginate through random processes
Information organizing itself randomly without design while appearing superiorly designed such as DNA which geneticist refer to as programmed
First Living Cell assembled itself randomly from a prebiotic soup
The sudden appearance of complex life in the fossil record
How did the fixed Laws of Physics just occur randomly?
It is obvious that the reason Science continuously defaults to “Chance” and the creative power of energy is because their is no scientific answer available to explain super-natural creation.
While it is not widely published, there are many respected scientists and philosophers— that after reviewing the evidence are ready to consider God as an intellectually viable explanation as the first cause for the origin of life, information, and complexity.
Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about…I consider that life only starts at the level of a functional cell. The most primitive cells may require at least several hundred different specific biological macro-molecules. How such already quite complex structures may have come together, remains a mystery to me. The possibility of the existence of a creator, of God represents to me a satisfactory solution to this problem
Werner Arber Ph.D; Microbiologist and Geneticist; Shared 1978 Nobel Prize Physiology
Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design. If physics is the product of design, the universe must have a purpose, and the evidence of modern physics suggests strongly to me that the purpose includes us
Paul Davies; English physicist, Director of Beyond: Center for Fundamental Concepts In Science
I now believe there is a God…I now think the evidence does point to a creative intelligence almost entirely because of the DNA investigations. What I think the DNA material has done is that it has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements to work together
Anthony Flew; Renowned Atheist and English Philosopher
Discussion Question: 1. If The Theory of Evolution cannot be proven using the laws and methods of natural science. 2. If the major precepts of the theory cannot be tested, observed, or repeated naturally after millions and millions of dollars, hours, and failed attempts to do so… could it be that the origin of life and the universe can only be explained super-naturally?
Premise 6: The Bible says the created order is the most obvious proof of God’s Existence, His Power and Intelligence
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. 3 They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. 4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.
The Bible says that just by looking at Universal Laws and Constants, the sudden appearance of animal and plant life in the fossil record without any in between transitions, the beauty and design of millions upon millions living species, DNA, and the complexity and design of whole species, organs, that everyone on the globe see the creative evidence of a super intelligent, super powerful, super creative God.
“There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard.” In other words, creation itself is silent revelation, but it’s a revelation that’s unmistakable.
The Bible and Science indicate that the universe is almost as infinite as he is. The more science learns about space, the biosphere, and life at the cellular level the more they realize they have just scratched the surface.
Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, could produce no variety of things. All the diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being
Sir Isaac Newton; Widely regarded as the greatest scientist of all time; in Principia which is regarded to be the most important scientific work of all time
Creation is God’s emphatic appeal to sinful man to recognize His Deity
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.
“The heavens are telling of the glory of God; and their expanse is declaring the work of His hands. Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.” In other words, day and night, everything in the universe speaks of a Creator God.
“There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard.” In other words, it’s a silent revelation, but it’s a revelation that’s unmistakable. Just look at the creation, look at the universe, look at the heavens and their expanse and everything that He’s created in the day and in the night, and it’s clear. He says, “Their line has gone out through all the earth, their utterances to the end of the world.” Everyone on the globe can look out and see the creative evidence of a Creator God.
What Creation testifies about God
God is eternal before and outside of time: Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. Psalm 90:2
God is infinitely powerful: For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded and it stood firm. Psalm 336-9
God is infinitely intelligent: It is He who made the earth by His power, who established the world by His wisdom, and by His understanding stretched out heavens. Jeremiah 10:12
He is a God of infinite order and beauty: Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them. Psalm 111:2-3
He is a law maker and law upholder: Have I not made my covenant with day and night and established the laws of heaven and earth. Jeremiah 33:25-36
Final Premise: To deny God as Creator is a suppression of revealed truth
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For 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 people are without excuse.
The Bible says that God’s eternal power and divine nature are plainly exhibited in creation. The word plainly means (manifest). This is not a secret, obscure revelation and you don’t have to be an intellectual. Creation plainly reveals the existence of a God who is majestic, transcendent, and powerful. Creation plainly reveals the infinite distance between creatures and him.
Johannes Kepler the founder of modern astronomy, and discoverer of the “Three Planetary Laws of Motion” when noting the order and design of the universe said “the undevout astronomer is mad”.
God has universally made Himself evident to men through creation. No person can plead ignorance of God. God has always revealed Himself and continues to reveal Himself to man.
John MacArthur; Romans New Testament Commentary
The evidence of at least some kind of creator God is so universal and profound that almost every known civilization on earth has at least one deity focused religion and places to worship. Even countries where atheism is the law of the land include people who publicly or non-publicly acknowledge the existence of God.
The evidence of a creator God is also what some of the most educated men on earth want to openly suppress
One is forced to conclude that many scientists and technologists pay lip-service to Darwinian theory only because it supposedly excludes a creator
Dr. Michael Walker, Senior Lecturer Anthropology; Sydney University
Richard Dawkins, the word’s most renowned atheist said in his 2014 interview with fellow atheist Peter Boghossian—on what evidence would convince him that God exist:
“Well, I’m starting to think nothing would, which, in a way, goes against the grain, because I’ve always paid lip service to the view that a scientist should change his mind when evidence is forthcoming”
There are only two possibilities as to how life arose. One is spontaneous generation arising to evolution; the other is a supernatural creative act of God. There is no third possibility. Spontaneous generation, that life arose from non-living matter was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasture and others. That leaves us with the only possible conclusion that life arose as a supernatural creative act of God. I will not accept that philosophically because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore, I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible; spontaneous generation arising to evolution.
Dr. George Wald; Professor emeritus of Biology Harvard University; Nobel Prize in Biology
In this last quote a Nobel Prize winner in biology openly admits “that spontaneous generation that life arose from non-living matter was scientifically disproved” but because he doesn’t want to believe in God…”I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible; spontaneous generation arising to evolution.”
Since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood by what has been made
Nature’s complexity, order, design, atomic energy in the atom, laws of physics, mysteries that cannot be explained naturally are all plain indicators that God uses to reveal two things:
His existence
Man’s finiteness—the great gulf between himself and God
“Who suppress the truth in ungodliness…” carries the idea of a constant holding or pressing down. No matter what evidence science or nature is continuously revealing about the power, intellect, and perfection of God some people will not recognize God at all. Ungodliness is behavior that attempts to un God God—and that is the cosmic sin behind every other subsidiary sin…behaviors that say:
Man is God, Nature is God, Chance is God, nothing is God…anything is God but God. This suppression if continued leads to the “wrath” or the greek word “orge” which is not a capricious, or uncontrolled anger but a controlled settled response to anyone who continuously stares into a miraculous world and creates false narratives while they openly reject God.
