The Fantasy of Evolution: God will lead you into all truth

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

God will lead you into all truth

Thought I'd get back to this blog sooner and posts would just start flowing, but it's not happening and I suppose that might be mostly because for me this topic is more fun than anything else, while the information on the Bible versions, and now the general area of feminism and liberalism, which includes the head covering, are more important and sometimes take a lot of hard work. What I just put together on the history of feminism and especially how it all relates to the Bible versions was extremely hard to get organized into a coherent statement, like pulling teeth as they say, took a lot of prayer for clarity.

But let me take the rest of this post and give a little orientation to my way of approaching the creation/evolution issues.

There are many ministries that do a very thorough job of taking on all the claims of the evolutionists and that can get very deep into scientific questions, but I don't have that kind of expertise, and it's not really necessary either for the basic objective of keeping yourself from being swallowed up in the mystification of evolutionism.

If you start from what the Bible says, pray frequently for God's leading and keep your eyes open, He'll lead you to some straightforward observations that show the foolishness of evolution without getting too far into the more complicated reaches of science (of course if you have the training and that kind of mind He'll happily lead you as far into the complicated science as you can handle). You do have to grasp some of the geological principles that are used against creationists in order to answer them, and you do have to grasp some basic genetics, but God can lead you there, as I know He has done with me.

You start with God's word, with the first few chapters of Genesis. You believe it. You pray for understanding. God will guide you from there.

Please use the KJV for this purpose. The revisers who gave us all the modern Bible versions didn't even believe in the first chapters of Genesis.

But I'm still thinking more about the other blogs I'm afraid, so this is going to have to wait some more.

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What I want to do here is try to do my best job of stating my own favorite arguments against evolution. There are a couple I think really, logically speaking, ought to bring the whole system crashing down but of course it isn't that easy, human stubbornness being what it is.

There's the geological argument which is basically that you can see with your naked eyes that this world once went through a global Flood, as the Bible reports. That takes care all by itself of the whole Old Earth theorizing that evolution depends on.

And there's the biological argument: It is known that genes DON'T increase although evolution depends on increase. The MORE evolved a species the LESS genetic capacity to evolve it actually has. Breeders certainly know this; and conservationists also know this because genetic depletion in highly specialized species (such as the cheetah) makes them vulnerable to extinction rather than candidates for further variation.

I hope to post on these and other arguments as time permits.

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Ah heck, Mr. Dawkins, we CAN TOO imagine macroevolution by natural selection, same as you can. We can follow out the same Rube-Goldberg sequence of improbable events, acting in a homologically graded series of imaginatively fleshed-out fossils, events that have never been observed in living reality, to the same preconceived conclusion you come to. Our problem is that we know it flies in the face of probability, reason, logic and any other law of rational inquiry and science that may exist, AND that there is no evidence for it, whereas design OBVIOUSLY implies a designer -- obviously, intuitively, rationally, logically, reasonably and probabilistically -- and I'd add "absolutely" if I could get away with it.

IT ISN'T FOR LACK OF EXPOSURE TO SCIENCE

A description of my own experience in answer to the usual denigrating assumption that creationism requires ignorance of science -- not that I claim any scientific sophistication of course, merely a basic understanding of some basic facts and principles.

Before I became a Christian I absorbed a lot of the thinking about evolution and tried my best to understand it. Even then I was often frustrated that evidence trails could just about never be found or followed out to any kind of certainty and I found that I always had to give up trying to follow them and just take the conclusions of the scientists pretty much on faith. I definitely had an interest in understanding evolution. I believed in it; I wanted also to understand it, but I found my desire thwarted by the lack of evidence. I read the Origin of Species, I read lots of stuff by Stephen Jay Gould, very entertaining stuff, I read Skeptical Inquiry regularly, and so on. I investigated the science claims for evolution about as far as the average intelligent non-scientist can be expected to.

It was only after I became a Christian that I got into studying the creationist answers and took seriously my earlier experience of frustration with the lack of evidence for evolution. I strongly wish that those who find it convincing would rethink it a lot more carefully because the evidence is really not there to the extent you think it is, I suspect you are accepting as evidence all sorts of clever speculations that are not evidence, and are taking most of it on faith in spite of yourself.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

God will lead you into all truth

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