Silvio Famularo: Evolution, the Theories and The Facts

Evolution, The Theories and The Facts

Silvio Famularo

Copyright 2011 by Silvio Famularo

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THEORY:The Universe began with the Big Bang.

FACT: This could not be so. Bangs never begin anything. However, they do follow explosions. But to have an explosion, there must first be something to explode and then there would need to be something to cause the explosion. Explosions have never been known to cause anything but destruction.

CHALLENGE: Identify an example of anything consisting of order and design that was created by an explosion.

THEORY:Human beings evolved from ape-like creatures, and all living things arose by natural processes from a single original cell.

FACT:Although the Theory of Evolution is accepted as fact by most learning institutions, it has never been observed to take place. Neither has one fact been recorded which can prove it. This is why it is still called “The Theory of Evolution”.

THEORY: Nearly all scientists believe in evolution.

FACT: Since over 150 years of study has not produced any facts to support the theory, many scientists have now abandoned their faith in it. The late Sir Fred Hoyle, one of Britain’s most eminent scientists, stated that the chances of life coming about through evolution were about as equal to the chances that a storm in a rubbish dump could create a Jumbo Jet plane.

THEORY: Most people believe in the theory.

FACT: Most people have never given it much critical thought. Adherents generally accept the theories only because they have been taught to believe them.

THEORY: Evolution is evident by the fact that everything is changing.

FACT: Changes do in fact take place in all species. No two people, even twins, look exactly alike, have the same voice, or even have the same fingerprints. No two eggs are the same shape and no two snowflakes have the same pattern. But changes are confined to limitations set by the Creator. The people remain people; the eggs remain eggs and the snowflakes, snowflakes. There are said to be over 700,000 known species of insects, yet no matter how much they differ they still remain insects.

THEORY: All life started from a single cell by chance.

FACT: A simple living cell is more complicated than any computer ever built. Yet, though smaller than a speck of dust, it can reproduce itself. The probability of this extremely complex mechanism arising by chance is about as possible as an explosion in a printing factory producing Webster’s dictionary.

CHALLENGE: Try to think of any very basic useful designed object such as, say, a pin, a block of wood or a glass marble that you think could possibly have evolved as a result of a series of chance happenings.

THEORY: Life was formed as a result of an accidental association of atoms during electrical activity.

QUESTION: Where did the hugely complex atoms and the electrical activity come from?

FACT: Both noise and uncontrolled electrical discharges are always destructive: they never create order. Even if, through a miracle, a living cell had once come about by chance it would not have been possible to survive without anything to sustain it.

THEORY: The complete balance of nature, the motions of billions of galaxies evolved by natural processes.

FACT:Not even an object as basic as a matchstick or a pin can be formed by chance. Objects cannot be kept in motion without a controlling power. Life can only proceed from life.

THEORY: Billions of fossils found buried in the earth's crust support the theory of evolution.

FACT: No trace of evolution has been discovered in fossils. None have been found to have traces of gradations from one species to another. As Charles Darwin stated:

"Why is all nature not in confusion instead of being as we see them well defined species? Geological research does not yield the infinitely many fine gradations between past and present species required by the (evolutionary) theory; and this is the most obvious of the many objections which may be argued against." (Origin of Species, page 178).

THEORY: Darwin established the Theory of Evolution as fact.

FACT: Darwin presumed that animals and plants evolved but could not prove it. This is why a century and a quarter after his death it is still called ‘The theory of Evolution’. He had many reservations about the theories including the following statement from his book ‘The Origin Of Species’:

“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 been formed by natural selection seems, I freely confess, absurd to the highest degree.” This and some other reservations Darwin had about evolution, which are mentioned elsewhere in this paper, can be found among several others in chapter 6 of ‘The Origin of Species’ entitled ‘Difficulties on Theory’.

THEORY: Transitions are observable in nature.

FACT: There are no creatures with part fin and part wing, or part scale and part feather, or part toe and part hoof, or part of any functional organ. To be functional all organs must be complete. To have a part ear, or a part eye, or a part nose is of no more use than being without the organ entirely. As Darwin said:

"Why if the species have descended from other species by fine gradations, do we not see everywhere innumerable transitional forms?” (Origin of Species, page 179).

Consider how even a tiny imperfection such as a speck of dirt in the eye, or a speck of pepper up one’s nose can temporarily dysfunction these highly complex organs. To substitute the scaly covering of a fish to a fur covering would require a vast number of miraculous biological changes, not just exterior changes, but internal ones as well.

THEORY:Evolution occurs as a result of mutations.

FACT: Mutations are errors in the regeneration of organisms and are almost always a handicap, if not lethal. To believe that organisms can be improved by mutations is to believe that printing errors will enhance Shakespeare's plays.

THEORY: The process is one of micro-mutations; mutations that develop in minute series so slow that it cannot be detected.

FACT: The question inevitably arises, "If it cannot be detected, how do we know it takes place? To the realist this concept is hard to accept when one considers that it is impossible to grow hair on a baldhead where hair once flourished, even though the conditions for growth are absolutely ideal. Neither can lost second teeth be re-grown when the conditions for re-growth would seem un-improvable. With this obvious knowledge it’s difficult to conceive how hair and teeth could have evolved from an imperfect foundation.

THEORY:Evolution can take place by acquired characteristics.

FACT: There is no evidence to support such odd theories like that of Darwin who suggested that giraffes acquired their long legs and necks by needing to stretch for higher leaves to avoid starvation. If so, why are female giraffes shorter than male giraffes? And how did baby giraffes survive? If giraffes could elongate their necks, how come they couldn’t change their diet? The fact is that giraffes can be kept in zoos all over the world because they are so easy to feed.

CHALLENGE: Explain how and why any creature, in an effort to survive, could possible bring about incredibly complex physical changes and programme its descendants to inherit these same characteristics and pass them on to future generations yet not be able do such a simple thing as change its diet?