Creationism vs. Evolution

Key Terms

Macro vs. Micro Evolution

Macro- teaches genetic change to cause animals to turn to different species, like from fish to people. never been observed.

Micro- teaches changes within a species, also known as natural selection. Observed.

Old earth creation- attempts to combine Genesis 1 with modern evolutionary theory. First observed in the Scofield reference Bible.

Young earth creation- believes in six literal days. earth roughly 6,000 years old

Problems with Macro-Evolutionary Theory

Faulty-Dating Method

For evolution to work their needs to be billions of years. Evolutionist hold to the earth being 4 billion + years old. The dating methods they use are full of faults.

Radioisotope dating is based on three assumptions.

Conditions at Time Zero (Refer to printout for example on how Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Ngauruhoe prove the assumptions are wrong).

In other words they assumed to know the amount in the hourglass before it started to pour.

No Contamination

They assume weather and natural disasters had no affect on the radioisotopes

The Noahic flood could have caused great contamination

Constant Decay Rate

Recently experiments have happened that point to the possibility of variety in decay rates.

The Big Bang Theory also has some problems to overcome. Some of those issues are the first and second Laws of Thermodynamics

First Law of Thermodynamic- energy can be converted from one form to another with the interaction of heat, work and internal energy, but it cannot be created nor destroyed, under any circumstances.

Intelligent design has to have happened or the mass in the universe has to have always existed somehow

Second Law of thermodynamics- the state of entropy of the entire universe, as an isolated system, will always increase over time

In other words energy becomes less useful over time. Energy steadily becomes more chaotic. If the universe is eternal, should it not be in a state of complete entropy?

They navigate around the breaking of these laws with the big bounce theory.

Cambrian Explosion holds problems for evolution.

It is an abrupt appearance in the fossil record. Most major animal body plans appear at this time in a short time period. Their is no gradual appearance, their is no transitional figures.

Evolution needs a slow steady appearance of animals with lots of transitional forms.

Mathematically evolution does not work. Scientist began to realize this in the 60s and even had a conference to talk about this issue.

10 to the 150th power is considered a standard for impossible.

Evolving a small protein common in animals and plants has a 1 in 2.3 billion vigintillion chance of happening (Vigi is a number followed by 75 zeros). So going off of that for this protein to evolve into something else and assuming the world was 4 billion plus years old this molecule would only be 43% evolved if a mutation happened every second since the formation of the earth. If mutations happened this often we could still observe helpful mutations today.

The mathematical chances of the first cell forming is 1 in 10 to the 4,478,146th power.

I’m curious how many mutations we need for everything to exist today, it would be mind blowing. But just on this basic level we see their is no where close to enough time for evolution to have occured how modern day scientist propose.

Richard Dawkins

One of the most devout atheist of our time, even slips up and gives credit to intelligent design:

Well, it could come about in the following way. It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved, probably by some kind of Darwinian means, probably to a very high level of technology, and designed a form of life that they seeded onto perhaps this planet. Now that is a possibility, and an intriguing possibility. And I suppose it’s possible that you might find evidence for that if you look at the details of biochemistry, molecular biology, you might find a signature of some sort of designer.

Old Earth Creationism

Can you logically and reasonable combine evolutionary beliefs with the Bible? No. One we have already seen the science just does not work. now as we are going to see scripturally it does not work.

Yom

This is the Hebrew word for day. Like within our language day can mean different things (this day, in my day, in the day of the dinosaurs). That is why context is important. When we see day mentioned in Genesis 1 we see it accompanied with morning and evening and also the days were numbered.

Exodus 20:11

Exodus 20:11 ESV

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Moses uses literal days here, and Moses wrote both books.

Evolutionary Order

Refer to chart (web link: https://answersingenesis.org/why-does-creation-matter/evolution-vs-creation-the-order-of-events-matters/)

Dinosaurs, Dragons, and Unicorns

Dinosaurs. A subject we have many questions on when we learn evolution and big bang theory are weak. It is reasonable to ask how they fit into the Bible.

Dinosaur DNA is being found in some bones. Science has shown DNA in ideal circumstances can last 6.8 million years old. Science theorizes Dinos went extinct 65 million years ago.

When did Dinosaurs exist? Primarily between creation week and the Noahic flood. The world did not exist before creation week and we know fossils prove dinosaurs. So how does this all come together?

Originally all dinosaurs would have been plant eaters (Genesis 1:30). Now post curse some would become meat eaters, death entered the world. Dinosaurs like T-Rex could be the mutated cousins of the first dinosaurs

So why are there fossils? The flood (Pangaea, lava flows, and extreme movements of the tectonic plates) would have made prime conditions for the fossils we find. Explains the Cambrian explosion. We have fossils of mammals and people and plants also.

Why do dinosaurs not exist today? I believe several reasons. Genesis 2:6 suggest that instead of rain a mist came up to water the ground. So their is speculation that the pre-flood world had different atmospheric conditions. I believe these conditions may would have been more dinosaur friendly then what exist today. After the flood though the atmospheric dynamics changed and this could have played a role in dinosaurs capabilities to survive. Keep in mind 99% of all animal species are estimated to be extinct. 100s go extinct every year.

Genesis 2:6 ESV

and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—

Also post flood we see the fear of man enter animals. Genesis 9:2. Up to this point nothing seems to imply their was a fear or tension between man and animals (further evidence a second curse occured). Dinosaurs would have been intimadating, but also man is now allowed to eat animals (9:3). So some breeds of dinosaurs would have been sen as good sources of meat. So many may have been hunted to extinction for food and out of fear.

Genesis 9:2 ESV

The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.

Also their is some Biblical and non-Biblical references that show dinosaurs existed for some time post flood.

Job 40:15–24 ESV

“Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox. Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly. He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron. “He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword! For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play. Under the lotus plants he lies, in the shelter of the reeds and in the marsh. For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him. Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened; he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth. Can one take him by his eyes, or pierce his nose with a snare?

This is very much a description of a Brachiosaurus.

Isaiah 27:1 ESV

In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Job 41 ESV

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words? Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever? Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls? Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants? Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? Lay your hands on him; remember the battle—you will not do it again! Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him. No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me? Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine. “I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame. Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle? Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror. His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal. One is so near to another that no air can come between them. They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated. His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn. Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth. Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth. In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him. The folds of his flesh stick together, firmly cast on him and immovable. His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone. When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves. Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail, nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin. He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee; for him, sling stones are turned to stubble. Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins. His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire. He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment. Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be white-haired. On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear. He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride.”

Leviathan has a dinosaur like description, really a dragon like description. Which I think dragon tales originate from post flood dragon sightings.

Look at history, China, Mesopotamia, all over Europe, the Indians, Mayans, Aztecs, Eskimos, Aboriginals, and Egypt ancient cultures have tales of dragons. they vary in description but have many similarities. Dinosaur encounters could have occured more recently in history than we thought.

Dragons are just post-flood sightings of dinosaurs (term didn't exist until 1842).

Look up: Dracorex Hogwartsia, Stygimoloch, Pterodactyl, and Plesiosaurus

So Unicorns is always an interesting thing to talk about. They are mentioned more than four times in the Bible (read from list). So what exactly is a unicorn? Their are several possibilities. I tend to believe they are the extinct auroch or rhino.