Did Darwin Murder God?
Did Darwin murder God? Charles Darwin claimed he had murdered God. Now over 100 years after his death discoveries in science are killing his theory. Macro-evolution, as the result of natural selection, fails to explain life on Earth and is solidly blocked at five separate points:
1) Evolutionary theory is blocked at its beginning, the big bang. Some will claim that the Big Bang is not linked to macro-evolution. However, it is the accepted explanation of how the universe as we know it could have supposedly come into existence without God. It is commonly believed in the scientific community that prior to this supposed event that there was nothing. No time, or space, or matter. Then from this nothingness, for a reason we can’t explain, there was an explosion, and billions of years later, and here we are.
This does not meet the test of scientific method. It is not testable or observable…or is it? What if we were to do an experiment? What if we took absolutely nothing (what supposedly existed before the supposed Big Bang) and put it into a cardboard box. How long would we have to wait for it to explode and become everything – all the time, matter, and energy in a universe? If we wait billions of years, it is possible isn’t it? Not hardly. Wait for eternity. It won’t happen. Either the Big Bang theory isn’t testable and observable as true science must be, or it is testable and the test proves it wrong. The Big Bang cannot explain how Earth came to exist because something cannot come from nothing, unless there is a God and He brought something out of nothing.
2) Evolution is blocked at the inception of life and the existence of a first living cell. Life cannot form from non-life. Scientists are continuing to fail at intentionally producing this in laboratories. They are doing their best because, if it could be done, the first to do it would be wealthy and famous.
It has been hypothesized that Oxygen was not in Earth’s early atmosphere because it is one of the most highly reactive elements and would have prevented the spontaneous generation of a first living cell. Stanley Miller, in his famous 1953 experiments, excluded Oxygen from his “primitive” atmosphere. Did he have any evidence that Earth’s atmosphere was really that way? No. There is much to suggest otherwise. He just excluded it because his project didn’t work with oxygen included.
However, when Apollo 16 photographed the Earth’s upper atmosphere some 200 times, the initial reports suggested that the sun’s radiation on water vapor that ascends to Earth’s upper atmosphere may be our primary supply of Oxygen on Earth and not photosynthesis as was originally believed. You have to have sunlight and water for life to exist and/or form. When you have sunlight and water you have water vapor, which the sun’s radiation turns into Oxygen in the upper atmosphere.
Consider Venus, our closest neighbor in space, only 120 day journey by modern space ships. It has a high percentage of Oxygen in its atmosphere with absolutely no oxygen producing plant life. The origin of Earth’s oxygen, admittedly by evolutionists in the know, causes a serious problem for evolutionary theory. That has led to speculation that life was brought to this planet from outer space on an asteroid. What will they come up with next?
Even if by chance you could get all the necessary amino acids and poly peptides together at once, you have no assembly or reproductive instructions. The complexity of life hinges upon information. Without information life could not exist. The information is beyond what can be created in a laboratory. The assumption of information at the beginning blocks evolution.
Even the most basic life forms are more complex than my outboard boat motor. I have all the pieces for it but I can’t get them put together good enough to get it to run. It certainly could not assemble itself and neither could a “first cell” on Earth.
3) Organized living systems block evolutionary theory. Darwin admitted that if any organ existed that could not have been formed by numerous, slight modifications that his theory would absolutely break down.
Irreducibly complex systems such as blood clotting, the heart, the eye, the bacterial flagellum, etc. prove natural selection to be an inadequate explanation and it is safe to say Darwin’s theory has broken down. God has created in nature living systems that only can work once completely assembled and whole.
What part of the bacterial flagellum can you remove and it remain functional. Without all pieces and parts assembled it won’t work. Natural selection cannot adequately explain non-functional parts just hanging around until something functional forms, because non-functioning parts supply no functional advantage.
4) The lack of transitional fossil forms blocks evolution. The missing links are still missing. Leading evolutionists and paleontologists (such as the late Stephen Jay Gould) admit that there is precious little in the way of transitional forms and that they, in many cases, cannot even imagine functional intermediates.
5) Natural Selection cannot adequately account for human intelligence. Hunting and gathering do not require the mental capacity to comprehend math and science. Alfred Russell Wallace, the co-founded of natural selection gave up the theory because what he viewed as primitive people proved intelligent beyond their needs. Natural Selection cannot explain ability far in excess of need, because it produces no functional advantage.
Did Darwin Murder God? Not hardly…At best he could only be charged with attempted murder.
H.S. Rester
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