Genesis 1:1
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
This is where faith and science clash, instantly in verse 1. This is the foundational verse of the whole Bible because if you question it than you must question the rest. Hence why there has always been such an attack on the idea that we just came to being. The universe exists because of only two reasons, God created it OR it spontaneously created itself.There are no other explanations than these. The only choices are God created the universe or it just became of nothing, there are no other explanations.
The time line for the actual universe is so far out that I will not attempt to prove anything there, but I will go for the “creation” of mankind and live as we know it today. That can be proven as having a start through the fossil record. There is definitely a start to life here on this planet; it hasn’t always been as some could argue with the universe. So I want to tackle evolution verse creation.
Before we start please understand my background. I am an engineer with over 30 years of experience. I have not been exploring science, but rather putting science into application. As you may gather, my understand of science from school is much more in depth that that that of most college students. And for full disclosure, the only D I got in college was in organic chemistry, granted I talked the professor into changing it to a C, I earned the D.
I understand that a theory is an accepted fact based on proven hypotheses. Now this brings us to the theory of evolution and its foundation. First I argue it’s not fact for many reason. First being the proven hypotheses that it is based in are so loose they provide a weak foundation to the theory. The basic foundation of Darwin’s theory was formed by observing species evolve to fit their environment. I am not arguing this is wrong, what I am arguing is the connection between changes in color or a characteristic proves a change is species. There has been no evidence provided that prove a species has changed or evolved into a new species even within major groups like mammals, much less a change from reptile to mammal.
Second, the fundamental belief that life happened spontaneously without outside influence has never been proven. We have never been able to prove the second pillar of evolution that there was “spontaneous creation” without influence from a higher power. The main argument here is the amino acids, which can be created by combining basic elements. Amino acids are the fundamental building block of living tissue and therefore if we can create them life is only soon to follow. The problem here is we have never spontaneously created life from these amino acids.
Right now the only proof the science community has to support a change in species is on the germ level. Problem here is the germ morphs into another germ. Although this is a good argument, it does not prove a reptile evolving into a mammal; it just proves a germ can change its “configuration” much like a baby. Here you have a sperm penetrating a mass of cells to start the creation of a life. The random mass of cells spontaneously changes into something that can be very disrespectful when growing up, but it comes from the same fundamental “critter” and never changes into something else.
Natural selection is the morphing of a species to produce a better species. We have observed this through our natural, recorded history. But it doesn’t explain some species like the woodpecker. For the woodpecker to do their “job”, it must have the cushioning for the brain and the reflexes to close their eyes on impact to survive that impact. Natural selection would have never allowed this bird to evolve since the first attempt to slam their head against a tree would result in a loss of the eyes or brain damage.
In the instance of the woodpecker, they would not have “evolved” into a head banging grub muncher it is today. Natural selection refines the species to do what they were designed to do and not do something different. With the woodpecker, I contend that it was designed that way so to save trees. The woodpecker helps keep the trees clean of bugs that could destroy it.
Now the immediate argument would be why did God design insects that would destroy HIS creation? Simple, nature has limits and everything eventually dies. The only way the planet would not be strewn with rotting corpses of organic matter would be for something to help speed the decay. That is the intended purpose of these life forms, by design.
Back to Darwin and his writings and beliefs. One must take a snippet from chapter 6 of his book, The Origin of Species to see there is doubt even in his writings.
Organs of extreme perfection and complication. 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 in the highest possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may be rendered sensitive to light, and likewise to those coarser vibrations of the air which produce sound.
In his own words the eye cannot be explained by his theory, yet it is considered fact in the scientific community today. The complexity of the eye cannot be explained through natural selection, it is a miracle of science. How can it evolve through natural selection without existing in some form or another? A nerve has never just started doing something it was not already designed to do. How can a sensor to touch suddenly become sensitive to light and create an image that gets transmitted to the brain for processing?
Darwin saw this in his theory and spent a bunch of time expanding on this idea. The problem comes because one can only point to this to “evolutionists” to get a sudden outburst of insults. The arguments never are based on facts on lack of knowledge and ignorance. If you question this scientific doctrine you are a “flat earther” and uneducated. The “overwhelming” evidence proved that evolution is a fact according to the scientific community.
This has led to what many coin as the “Science Dictatorship” where their knowledge is the only true knowledge. I was raised on science “evolving” and not being fixed. If it was the “flat earthers” would have won and knowledge is over. I contend that until truth can be proven, we can only live on what we know. With evolution what we know is science has proven micro-evolution where a species is improved through natural selection. We have not proven a species can or has ever changed from say a horse to a cat or a lizard to a rat. We have never proven that living matter has ever spontaneously been created from non-living elements.
Not saying that this may or may not be discovered in the future but with our current technology and brain trust we have no proof or evidence on anything past “natural selection” of a species. The main argument is we have not taken the time to study the whole theory to truly see the facts. No normal person has the time and the ones who do and question it are ridiculed to obscurity. Funding for their projects are pulled from this dictatorship and they stop being noticed.
Now this is where I start to sound like a nut job, but we need to look at the facts. Charles Darwin’s theory was actually first purposed by his grandfather and further developed by him. We look at grandpa and find he was a high order freemason. This is where I will lose many, but follow my logic for a bit because you will see the underlying premises are accepted in society today. I even said it’s partially true with accepting “natural selection” and micro-evolution.
One underlying belief of higher order freemason is they can “evolve” into gods. This has been proposed in a “documentary” (and I am very loose on this definition to the movie) exposing the “belief” called “The Secret”. This gets into quantum theory and how we directly influence our existence through the cosmic energy. Once we learn to “tap into” it we can become gods by creating our existence. We evolve into higher beings. This is the foundational belief of Charles Darwin and allowed him to throw together observations that do not prove macro-evolution but only point to the possibility.
With all the vast scientific knowledge we have today, the only logical explanation to life as we know it is God. We cannot explain our existence in this world without all the evidence pointing to God. I know many argue just because it “is” and we cannot prove it doesn’t mean there is any higher power. But as an engineer I look at the world today and the intricate interaction between it and can see nothing be a grand designer. Even hurricanes are by design, since if they did not exist the swamps which create much of our oxygen would become toxic and die. Without earthquakes we would not have the purple mountains majesty.
No this world we live in is a well-planned and designed living organic world. We just have to remember not to make God in our image or what we have defined Him as. No the image of God is not our “meat suit” but rather the energy that for example takes the optic nerves input and creates an image of a beautiful sunrise in our brain. We are not God, but like him. The key is we need to know His is the one and only uncreated on and not try to usurp his power by attempting to evolve into Him. Remember this was the fruit that Adam and Eve ate that caused the fall.
Stephen Hawkins, a known atheist, said it best when talking about knowledge: “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” Occam’s Razor proves God exists because He is the simplest explanation when you really think about it.