Posts Tagged ‘evolution’
Do the Fittest Survive?
by Jeffrey W. Hamilton A tenant of evolution is that creatures improve by the principle of the survival of the fittest. Creatures best able to survive and adapt to an environment live to produce offspring while the less fit tend to die off. Hence, as mutations occur, the belief is that the changes which enhance…
Read MoreScience’s Rejection of Evolution
by Dennis Marks To say that evolution is the easiest thing to prove is a statement beyond reason and a product of blind faith. Many will say that “all major scientists support evolution.” The fact is there are many scientists who believe in the biblical account. Here is just a small sample: Joseph Lister, antiseptic surgery;…
Read More“Incredible” Beginning
by Andy Diestelkamp via Gospel Power, Vol. 15, No. 30, July 27, 2008. The beginnings of things always intrigue us. We often mark them with great ceremony at the time if we anticipate their importance (weddings, ribbon-cutting grand openings, signings, etc.). We frequently research beginnings if only later do we realize someone’s or something’s importance…
Read MoreEvolution Is Just a Fairy Tale
by Terry W. Benton Modern crime labs have a hard time reconstructing a murder that happened just last week, but doing so depends on a variety of pieces of evidence. A body and a weapon are not enough to tell who, why, where, and how this crime developed. So, they pursue fingerprints and hair that…
Read MoreHow the Universe Began – No One Knows
by Dudley Ross Spears I am no sort or kind of a scientist, but my son is. One of his university textbooks for a physics class was “Conceptual Physics.” It was written by Paul G. Hewitt, a professor at City College of San Francisco. I lift a few sentences from the book to begin this…
Read MoreDo historians and the Bible disagree?
Question: Do you think there is a conflict between the Bible and historians regarding when man first existed on this earth? An article in our paper stated aboriginal people were in Australia at least 60,000 years ago. Could this statement be in line with the Bible in regards to time? Answer: Of course, the commonly stated…
Read MoreScience as Shifting Sand
by Ethan R. Longhenry The modern world stands torn between competing understandings of the origins of the universe and of life on Earth: the spiritual understanding of the creation by God as described in Genesis 1-2, and the naturalistic explanations of modern scientific theory. The conflict between these understandings represents a significant stumbling block to…
Read MoreIt isn’t hard to coincide the Bible with evolution if we understand that days could have meant some long period of time
Question: The Bible calls each of the six events in time that God wished to create a “Day”. These “Days” could have been spaced minutes, hours, days or millions of years apart as we understand time. It could be that once Adam and Eve were created, time as we human beings understand it (the 24-hour…
Read MoreDid God Create the Earth in One Literal Week?
by David Dann via The Gospel Anchor, May 17, 2000 On the first page of the Bible, we read, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face…
Read MoreA Great Scientific Find Turns Out to be an Old Stomach Ache for Scientists
by Edward O. Bragwell, Sr. via Gospel Guide, Vol. 27, No. 10, Nov. 1995. I never cease to be amazed at the amount of foolishness that can be wrapped up in a single bit of wisdom from the wise of this world. That large segment of the scientific community, wed to the theory of evolution, often…
Read MoreThe Evolutionist’s Creation Story, Inspired by Naturalism
by Abraham Smith Naturalism: A theory denying that an event or object has a supernatural significance. Once upon a time billions of years ago, everything that has ever been came from a little ball called the cosmic egg. At that time it was heated to trillions of degrees. It was so hot that not even elements…
Read MoreDon’t Blame the Monkeys!
by Jerry Blount Don’t blame the apes when men act like animals! For several generations now, our society has gone to great lengths to teach our children that they were born in the image of an ape, i.e. descended from an ape. After indoctrinating folks carefully that they are animals, why are we surprised when those…
Read MoreThe Fruits and Tendencies of Evolution
by Jon Gary Williams Typical of many evolutionists is this statement from The Meaning of Evolution, by G. G. Simpson: “Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind.” A more recent statement by the famed evolutionist, Julian Huxley, expresses the same sentiment: “Darwinism removed the whole idea…
Read MoreThe Bias Toward Evolution
by Jeffrey W. Hamilton An article appeared in the January 14, 2005, edition of the Omaha World-Herald announcing that a judge in Georgia has ordered the removal of a sticker from a school’s biology textbooks. The sticker reads: “This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of…
Read MoreHow old is the world?
Question: How old is the world? Is the scientific way correct? In science, the world is around 40 billion years old. How old is the world in the Bible? Answer: Dating in the Bible is a bit difficult because, for the span of time that the Bible covers, a universal calendar was not in use.…
Read MoreCould there have been a gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2?
Question: Are you familiar with the “Gap Theory?” Since the Bible isn’t exhaustive, could something have taken place between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2? Answer: Ever since evolution was espoused in the late 1800s, people have struggled with making the Bible conform to the current popular scientific theories. Of course, it is a never-ending struggle because science derives from…
Read MoreWas there a world before Genesis?
Question: Was there a world before Genesis? Answer: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). Approximately 4,000 years after this event, Jesus stated, “And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ ” (Matthew 19:4). The…
Read MoreWhy Believe in the God of the Bible?
Billy B. Norris via Gospel Guide, Nov. 1995 One may be a believer in the One God; an atheist, a disbeliever in any god; or a heathen, a believer in many gods. Let’s examine each of these positions: Heathenism In its plural number of gods, heathenism is confusing and divisive. As a young man, Solomon…
Read MoreDid dinosaurs really exist?
Question: Did dinosaurs really exist? Answer: The term “dinosaur” was ascribed in the 1800s to the fossilized remains of animals that no longer appear to roam the earth. While one term is used, it actually refers to a wide variety of animals. Hence, some difficulty is introduced in trying to determine if the name of…
Read MoreTeaching Unpopular Doctrine
by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Some questions are difficult to answer, not because the Bible is unclear on a matter, but because there is a strong bias against the correct answer within the culture. Today, we have no difficulty speaking against idolatry. Even non-Christians understand that worshiping an idol is a worthless effort, just as God…
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