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       Evolution: 
      Fact or Fiction? 
  
      
      Copyright © 1997
      James L. Melton 
      Published by Bible Baptist Church, Sharon, TN 
      
      
        "For the invisible things of 
        him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by 
        the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that 
        they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they 
        glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in 
        their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing 
        themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the 
        uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to 
        birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things." (Romans 1:20-23)
         
       
      These inspired words of God should 
      be posted over the door to every science and biology lab in every state 
      university in America. Every person born into the world is born with 
      enough conscience to tell him that God created the Heaven and the Earth. 
      If you do not believe that God created the Heaven and the Earth, then it 
      is because you've allowed someone to educate you out of your faith in 
      God's word. You have been tricked into forsaking the Bible by placing your 
      faith in a man-made religion called "Evolution."  
      Someone says, "Evolution is not a 
      religion." Evolution IS a religion, because it lacks scientific evidence, 
      thus requiring it's adherents to follow Darwin's theory by FAITH. 
      Evolution is a RELIGIOUS CREED based upon blind faith. There is not in 
      existence one single piece of scientific evidence which proves that man 
      has evolved upward from animals. It is impossible to prove any theory of 
      origins "scientifically," because the very essence of the scientific 
      method is based upon OBSERVATION and EXPERIMENTATION, and no scientist has 
      ever observed or experimented with the origin of the universe.  
      All scientists know this, including 
      L. Harrison Matthews. In his forward to Darwin's 1971 edition of "Origin 
      of the Species", Matthews says, ". . .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." In other words, the theory of evolution is a theory 
      based on FAITH, rather than scientific fact. 
      
      ANYTHING BUT THE TRUTH 
      
      Evolutionists have their entire 
      lives and reputations resting upon Darwin's theory. They're committed to 
      their religion, just as any true Christian is committed to his. If an 
      evolutionist changes his views, then he denies and forsakes his fellow 
      scientists and former educators. He becomes a "black sheep," loses his 
      job, his reputation, and his social standing. Since he has studied and 
      worked his entire life to get where he is, he isn't about to throw it all 
      away. So the committed evolutionist chooses to strive harder and harder in 
      his effort to disprove the Genesis account. He will ignore all facts which 
      support Special Creation. He is not open to anything other than "evidence" 
      to prove his theory. All evidence which proves CONTRARY to his theory is 
      discarded and ignored. A fine example of this behavior can be found in the 
      work of Dr. George Wald, Novel Peace Prize winner for Science in 1967. Dr. 
      Wald says the following:  
      
        "When if comes to the origin of 
        life on this earth, there are only two possibilities: creation or 
        spontaneous generation (evolution). 
        There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was disproved 100 years 
        ago, but that leads us only to one other conclusion: That of 
        supernatural creation. We cannot accept that on philosophical grounds
        (personal reasons); therefore, we choose to believe the 
        impossible: that life arose spontaneously by chance." (Dennis 
        Lindsay, "The Dinosaur Dilemma," Christ for the Nations, Vol. 35, No. 8, 
        November, 1982, pp. 4-5, 14.)  
       
      So Darwin's theory is commonly 
      accepted as a scientific fact, NOT because it can be proven, but rather 
      because it is the ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO BELIEVING THE GENESIS ACCOUNT OF 
      CREATION. The evolutionist has gotten himself into a trap where he must 
      spend the rest of his life running from God. 
      
      NOT ALL SCIENTISTS BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION 
      
      The average evolutionist would have 
      us believe that all TRUE scientists accept Darwin's theory as fact. Sir 
      John Huxley, grandson of Thomas Huxley, wrote the following in 1959:
       
      
        "The point to make about 
        Darwin's theory of evolution is that it is no longer a theory, but a 
        fact. No serious scientist would deny the fact that evolution has 
        occurred, just as he would not deny the fact that the earth goes around 
        the sun." (Tax, Sol, Ed. "Evolution After 
        Darwin," Issues in Evolution, Chicago University Press, 1960, Vol. 3, p. 
        41.)  
       
      See how the system works? A 
      scientist cannot be recognized as a SERIOUS scientist unless he REJECTS 
      THE BIBLE and RECEIVES EVOLUTION. Well, there have been, and still are, 
      MANY serious scientists who do not believe in evolution. For example, Dr. 
      Albert Fleischman, Professor of Zoology at the University of Erlangen in 
      Germany, says, "The Darwinian theory of evolution has not a single fact 
      to confirm it in the realm of nature. It is not the result of scientific 
      research, but purely the product of the imagination."  
      Professor L.T. More, of the 
      University of Chicago, says, "Unfortunately for Darwin's future 
      reputation, everyone of his arguments is contradicted by fact." 
       
      Professor A.C. Steward, from the 
      Cambridge University, says, "A student who takes an impartial 
      retrospect soon discovers that the fossil record raises more problems than 
      it solves."  
      Dr. Austin Clark, F.R.G.S., of the 
      American Geophysical Union, opposes evolution by saying, "The great 
      groups of animal life do not merge into one another. They are and have 
      been fixed from the beginning."  
      So the Bible believer must 
      understand that he is not alone in his stand against Darwin's foolish 
      theory. There have always been a few scientists around who were honest and 
      open-minded enough to consider all the facts and take an unpopular stand 
      for the TRUTH, rather than IGNORE the facts and take a POPULAR stand for 
      evolution. We should thank God for them. 
      
      WHAT ABOUT THEISTIC EVOLUTION? 
      
      Some have begun to compromise by 
      professing to believe in the Biblical account of creation AND in Darwin's 
      theory. These people call themselves "Theistic Evolutionists." They belong 
      in the same category as "sober alcoholics" and "liberal conservatives." In 
      the Bible, God is the Creator of all things (Gen. 1). In evolution, 
      natural chance can account for the existence of all things. In the Bible, 
      all life forms are created in six literal days (Gen. 1). In evolution, 
      life forms evolve over millions of years. In the Bible, creation has been 
      completed (Gen. 2:3). In evolution, a natural creative process continues. 
      In the Bible, oceans appear before land (Gen. 1:9). In evolution, land 
      appears first. In the Bible, life begins on land (Gen. 1:11). In 
      evolution, life began in water. In the Bible, the earth is made before the 
      sun, moon, and stars (Gen. 1:14-19). In evolution, the earth comes later. 
      In the Bible, all stars are made on the fourth day (Gen. 1:16). In 
      evolution, the stars evolve at various times. In the Bible, birds and 
      fishes are created on the fifth day (Gen. 1:20, 21). In evolution, fishes 
      evolve hundreds of millions of years before birds. In the Bible, man 
      appears before rain (Gen. 2:5). In evolution, rain appears before man. In 
      the Bible, man is created before woman (Gen. 2:21-22). In evolution, woman 
      genetically appears before man. In the Bible, light appears before the sun 
      (Gen. 1:3-19; Psa. 74:16). In evolution, the sun appears before any light. 
      In the Bible, plants appear before the sun (Gen. 1:11-19). In evolution, 
      the sun appears first. In the Bible, the human body comes from dirt (Gen. 
      2:7). In evolution, the human body evolves from monkeys. In the Bible, man 
      exercises dominion over all organisms (Gen. 1:28). In evolution, most 
      organisms become extinct before man evolves. In the Bible, man is 
      originally a vegetarian (Gen. 1:29). In evolution, man is originally a 
      meat eater. In the Bible, life comes in fixed and distinct "kinds" (Gen. 
      1:11, 12, 21, 24, 25; I Cor. 15:38-39). In evolution, life forms are in a 
      continual state of flux. In the Bible, man's sin is the cause of death 
      (Rom. 5:12). In evolution, struggle and death exist long before man 
      evolves.  
      Evolution is the intellectual basis 
      for two of the biggest devils of the 20th century: Hitler's Naziism and 
      Mark's communism. Secular humanism, atheism, and liberalism are all the 
      evil fruits of Darwin's hellish theory. The Lord Jesus said, "by their 
      fruits ye shall know them" (Matt. 7:20), and the fruit of evolution 
      clearly assures us that Darwin's theory is as far away from Biblical truth 
      as Hell is from Heaven. "Theistic evolution" is too funny for words. 
      
      HAS EVOLUTION BEEN PROVEN? 
      
      Over the years, being hard-pressed 
      for real evidence, the evolutionists have managed to conjure up a number 
      of "proofs" that Darwin's theory is a scientific fact. This so-called 
      "evidence" is worshipped by all evolutionists, while all contrary evidence 
      is ignored. Let's consider some of their evidence.  
      VESTIGIAL ORGANS are believed by 
      evolutionists to be parts of the human body that are no longer needed. 
      Therefore these useless body parts must be "left-overs" from our 
      ancestors, the monkeys. These "useless" body parts include the appendix, 
      the coccyx (tail bone), the pineal gland, the plica semilunaris, the 
      tonsils, and the ear lobes.  
      Naturally, the facts are ignored. 
      Many medical doctors agree that all of these organs have important 
      functions in the human body, and aren't "vestigial organs" in any sense. 
      The appendix contains a rich blood supply which serves as some defense 
      against cancer. The tail bone isn't where your monkey tail used to be, as 
      Darwinians believe, but it instead provides support for the muscles which 
      control elimination. The pineal gland contains important hormones which 
      the body needs. The plica semilunaris helps to keep foreign particles out 
      of the eye, and the tonsils help to keep foreign particles out of your 
      child's throat. The tonsils also help to keep infection from spreading. 
      Yes, even the ear lobe has a purpose, for it helps to keep our ears warm 
      during cold weather.  
      Another "proof" for evolution is 
      found in the field of BIOCHEMISTRY. This is where scientists mix genes and 
      chromosomes in their effort to prove relation between man and animal.
       
      Is there any conclusive evidence? No 
      there isn't. Any learned scientist should be familiar with the rather 
      embarrassing test conclusions of Dr. Nutall back in 1904. Nutall's tests 
      concluded that baboons and hoofed animals are related to whales, that pigs 
      are related to tigers, and that black people are related to monkeys! There 
      isn't one ounce of real evidence anywhere in the entire field of 
      biochemistry which proves that men and animals are kin--just theories and 
      wishful thinking.  
      EMBRYOLOGY is another field of 
      study. This is where unborn embryos are studied in order to detect the 
      preformed shape of humans and animals. This is the field where we find 
      Haeckel talking about "ONTOGENY RECAPITULATES PHYLOGENY" This is the 
      belief that every individual passes through the many evolutionary stages 
      while still in the mother's womb. That is, you body took on the shape of 
      an amoeba, then a paramecium, then a jelly fish, then a fish, then a bunch 
      of other creatures during the nine months prior to your birth. Of course, 
      this theory ignores the fact that respiratory systems develop LATE in the 
      human embryo. So how did early mammal life exist without breathing? 
      They've also ignored the fact that the head of an unborn baby is larger 
      than the body, which is NOT the case with fish.  
      Professor Waldo Sumway, of Stephens 
      Institute of Technology, says that "There is never a time in the 
      development of a mammal when it could have been mistaken for a fish or 
      reptile."  
      Now we come to the wonderful world 
      of TAXONOMY, where cartoon charts are used to artificially classify bones 
      in order to "prove" evolution. This is where evolutionists develop a "disneyland" 
      mentally and construct a chart which shows the earth to be about 4.5 
      billion years old. Then they proceed to divide this chart up into various 
      time frames containing hundreds of millions of years each. As new 
      discoveries are found, the scientists conveniently place them at selected 
      places on the chart.  
      This would be a dandy little system, 
      except for one minor problem: THEY'VE NEVER PROVEN THE ORIGINAL CHART! 
      It's nothing more than blind guesswork. No one has ever proven that the 
      earth is 4.5 billion years old. The chart is NOT scientific. In fact, many 
      scientists believe that the earth isn't over 6,000 to 10,000 years old! Of 
      course, all opposing views are ignored by evolutionary scientists, for 
      they need a nice big time period in which to place their new findings. 
      You've heard of people "buying time?" Well, evolutionists just DREAM IT 
      UP.  
      Another "proof" for evolution is 
      COMPARATIVE ANATOMY, the belief that similar bone structures prove animal 
      kin through evolution. That is, if two different animals have similar bone 
      structures, then they must have evolved from the same original ancestors. 
      Of course, this is more nonsense. Any scientist knows perfectly well that 
      many such bone structures are produced by entirely DIFFERENT GENES, thus 
      proving that they are in NO WAY RELATED! In fact, if similar bone 
      structure proves anything, it proves that these animals were created by 
      the same God!  
      The sixth argument used to support 
      evolution is the so-called FOSSIL EVIDENCE. The evolutionist believes that 
      the fossil record proves a progressive evolution of the species over 
      millions of years, beginning with non-living matter. This non-living 
      matter supposedly evolves into protozoans, and the protozoans evolve into 
      metazoan invertebrates, which evolve into vertebrate fishes. The fishes 
      evolve into amphibians, which evolve into reptiles, which evolve into 
      birds. The birds then evolve into fur-bearing quadrupeds (animals with 4 
      legs), and these quadrupeds evolve into apes, and the apes evolve into 
      man.  
      Now for those who actually believe 
      such a fable, we have a question: WHERE ARE THE TRANSITIONAL FORMS? 
      If all of those life forms survived by changing into higher life forms, 
      then would someone please show us one living example of this today? Where 
      can we observe a reptile who is slowly changing into a bird? How about a 
      bird who is turning into a four-legged animal? This is one of the 
      strongest arguments against evolution: NO TRANSITIONAL FORMS. Even Darwin 
      realized this in his "Origin of the Species" when he said that 
      "this is the most obvious of the many objections which may be argued 
      against it." (Vol. 2, 6th Ed. p. 49)  
      Yes, it certainly is. The more the 
      fossil record builds, the weaker the theory of evolution becomes, because 
      the needed transitional forms are NOT BEING FOUND to link the species! 
      They never will be found, because the species are NOT LINKED (I Cor. 
      15:38-39).  
      The evolutionist also runs into 
      another problem when he considers WHERE and HOW many fossils are found. 
      The devout evolutionist subscribes to the belief that things are pretty 
      much the same as always. He believes that there have been no major world 
      catastrophes to wipe out animal life, but that various species have become 
      extinct as a result of failing to adapt to their environment. The problem 
      with this is the stubborn fact that there are many burial sites around the 
      world which are literally paved with fossils! Often times such fossils are 
      found in a totally different climate from that in which they once lived. 
      Mammoths have been found frozen, preserved perfectly in ice in Northern 
      Siberia and Alaska. Many of these are very large and strong animals, which 
      evolutionists claim should have survived and overcame any obstacles. BUT 
      THEY DIDN'T! What happened? Why did they die out? How can evolution 
      explain this? Evolution CAN'T explain it. Evolution IGNORES it. It is 
      explained in Genesis chapters 6, 7 and 8--the Flood.  
      Before moving on to our next 
      section, a few words should be said about the various "ape men" that have 
      been found and placed neatly on the fictional cartoon chart in standard 
      text books. A few simple cases will be more than enough to show the reader 
      that Anthropology is not without it's humor.  
      In 1922, a bunch of bones were found 
      in Nebraska by a man named Harold Cook. After studying the upper and lower 
      jaws and the teeth of some thirty animals, a complete ape known as 
      Ramapithecus was constructed on the basis of ONE TOOTH! Years later, the 
      entire skeleton from which the tooth came was found. It turned out to be 
      an extinct species of pig.  
      Dr. Eugene Dubois discovered the 
      famous Java Man (Pithecanthropus erectus) in 1891. This "great discovery" 
      consisted of a small piece of the top of a skull, a fragment of a left 
      thigh bone, and three molar teeth. But, instead of being found all 
      together, these remains were found in an area of about seventy feet, and 
      they were found over about a year's time. They were also found in an old 
      river bed with other assorted extinct animal bones. This, of course, 
      presents a number of problems for Java Man. How can the "experts" be so 
      sure that these remains all came from the same being? Better yet, how do 
      such bones survive for 750,000 years without decaying? Where's the 
      EVIDENCE to PROVE these theories? We know what the scientists want to 
      believe about these findings, but WHERE'S THE PROOF?  
      Piltdown man was discovered by 
      Charles Dawson in 1912. Dawson claimed to have found some bones, some 
      teeth, and even some primitive implements in a gravel pit in Piltdown, 
      Sussex, England. He took them to a British museum where anthropologists 
      claimed that they were 500,000 years old. Textbooks throughout the world 
      then proclaimed Piltdown Man as the greatest find to date. Then in October 
      of 1956, Reader's Digest EXPOSED this finding as "The Great Piltdown 
      Hoax." The bones where found to be fraudulent. The jaw bone was proven to 
      have belonged to an ape which had died only FIFTY YEARS before (not 
      500,000). The teeth had been filed down, and both, teeth and bones, had 
      been discovered with bichromate of potash to cover up their true identity! 
      So much for Piltdown Man.  
      The so-called Neanderthal Man was 
      discovered around 1900 in a cave in the Neanderthal Valley near Dusseldorf, 
      Germany. Naturally, he was hailed as another great "missing link." Since 
      that time, it has been proven that Neanderthal wasn't an ape-man at all. 
      He turned out to be a fully erect human being with a cranial capacity of 
      over 13% more than that of normal man. Today, he is classified as "Homo 
      Sapiens" (completely human). The "missing link" is still missing. 
       
      Finally, we come to Lucy, a 40% 
      skeleton found in Ethiopia by D.C. Johanson in the 70's. Johanson claimed 
      that "Lucy" had walked on two legs, because of the "angle of the thigh 
      bone and the flattened surface at it's knee joint" (National Geographic, 
      December, 1976). However, the knee joint was badly crushed; so Johanson's 
      conclusion is mere speculation. Anatomist Charles Oxnard said the "Lucy" 
      did NOT walk upright, at least not in the same manner as humans. The 
      chimpanzee DOES spend some time walking upright, so this was probably just 
      another ape.  
      Now this is the kind of "evidence" 
      which supports evolution. This is what a child is taught in the public 
      school system and in the state universities as "scientific fact." This is 
      what the Bible labels as "science falsely so called" (I Tim. 6:20). 
      
      HOW OLD IS THE UNIVERSE? 
      
      Evolutionists generally use five 
      different methods in determining the age of matter: salt content in the 
      oceans, deposition of sediments, rate of soil erosion, disintegration of 
      radioactive materials, and Libby's Carbon 14 experiment. Problems can be 
      found with all of these methods, but the biggest problem of all is the 
      method that they've chosen to ignore--the study of Half Lives.  
      This is where one figures the 
      current rate of decay or deterioration of something and then figures 
      backwards to see how long this process has been going. For example, if one 
      fills his gas tank up with gas and drives for 100 miles, you can figure 
      that he's driven 100 miles if you know how may miles his car will travel 
      per gallon.  
      The dating of matter works the same 
      way, except in science this is called the study of Half Lives. 
      Evolutionists tend to steer away from this field of study, for it is very 
      capable of demolishing their religious conviction that the universe and 
      the earth is billions of years old. Let's look at a few examples: 
       
      The sun is continuously burning out 
      at a rate of 5 feet per hour. This means that the sun would have been 
      TWICE the size that it is now only 100,000 years ago! Only 20,000,000 
      years ago, the sun would have been so large that it would be touching the 
      earth! Yet evolutionists insist that the universe, including the sun, is 
      billions of years old.  
      Because of meteors and meteorites, 
      interplanetary dust falls upon the earth at a rate of at least 14 million 
      tons per year. The evolutionists claim that the earth, the moon, and the 
      various planets are at least 4.5 billion years old. This means that there 
      should be a layer of space dust on the moon over 500 feet thick. However, 
      when the astronauts landed on the moon, LESS THAN THREE INCHES of dust 
      were found. Three inches could have accumulated in less than 8000 years.
       
      Radioactive helium is generated by 
      decaying uranium atoms. Dr. Melvin Cook, a former Nobel-prize nominee, 
      says that this helium is constantly being released into our atmosphere, 
      and that there are currently about a million-billion grams of this helium 
      in our atmosphere. Yet, this is a very small number compared to what it 
      would be if the earth were over 4.5 billion years old. According to Cook's 
      measurements, the earth can't be over 10,000 to 15,000 years old. 
       
      The half life of the earth's 
      magnetic field is believed to be less than 1400 years. That is, 1400 years 
      ago, the earth's magnetic field would have been twice as strong as it is 
      today. Only 10,000 years ago, the earth would have had a magnetic field as 
      strong as the sun! WHO KNOWS what it would have been like 4.5 billion 
      years ago!?  
      You see, these are the things that 
      are commonly ignored by "serious scientists." The theory of evolution is 
      an UNSCIENTIFIC theory, which is made up of blind guesswork and outright 
      lying. It cannot be proven by the scientific laws of observation and 
      experimentation. Darwin's theory is nothing more than a religious faith 
      for high-minded people who think they're too smart for God. The Lord Jesus 
      Christ was a Creationist (Matt. 19:4; Mark 13:19), and when we compare His 
      life work to the life work of Darwin and his followers, we find a much 
      better Way in Jesus Christ and in the written word of God.  
      Friend, if you've never received the 
      Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, please read through
      God's Plan of Salvation, it will be the 
      most important thing you do here on earth. 
       
Overview of 
Evolution 
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