Professing to be Wise they became Fools

Professing to be Wise they became Fools
Breakthroughs in Science continue to Refute Evolutionary Claims of an Old Earth
Doug S. Grauman © July 2002

There's a growing problem in our world today that has engulfed Christians across all denominational lines and in most cases without their awareness. The enemy is silent and has manipulated its way into our movies, magazine articles, evening news, and in some cases, even our weekly Bible teachings. The effects have produced offspring with a compromising theology that credits death as mans creator rather than God. It's a subject feared by many in the pastorate so they have ignored its challenges to the Bible hoping it would go away. Such fears have influenced many within the clergy to disregard the literalness of a recent creation story in an effort to accommodate those views promoted by evolution's spin-doctors. The effects of old earth, evolutionary theology, have been devastating because the church has remained silent, refusing to enter the battle for the precious souls of God's creation. These uncontested influences have consequences, and those consequences have opened the door to a new generation of Christians who are weak in their faith and ignorant to the Bibles truths. The cause is clear! Churches that have failed to equip their parishioners with answers to the many questions the soldiers of old earth dogma have shot at them. Those not protected by the full armor of God have compromised their faith by incorporating such a theology into their Christian faith, which has resulted in a newer, more liberal version of Christianity; theistic evolutionism.

"Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one."

Ephesians 6:11-17

We are so subliminally indoctrinated with old earth promotions that we have become immune to it. Our television commercials, movies, and historical documentaries are so full of 'old earth' theology that it is now misinterpreted as a scientific law. These influences have brought us to a point where many are unaware of the Biblical answers to these claims because their church has failed to answer their questions and teach sound creation science. Many in the church have perceived old earth claims to be innocent and factual in their nature and are unable to even recognize the bias secular doctrines fueling their promotion. They don't see how believing in an old earth can undermine their theology. What they don't see is that the sole purpose of old earth promotion was designed to support evolutions 'frog-to-prince' story. For you see, without the variable of time, evolution becomes impossible.

The crime has become so severe that many in the church today fail to even recognize such promotions are contradictory to the Biblical chronologies and the sacrifice Jesus Christ made on a cross at Calvary some 1,970 years ago. Furthermore, such indoctrinations have brought us to a point where many can no longer separate science fact from science fiction. Many Christians are unaware there is a Biblically based, scientific explanation that defends the Bible from its origins but because their church has failed to address this challenge, the parishioners walk away unable to defend their faith and all too willing to believe evolution can be harmonized with Christianity. These claims have taken shots at the very pillars of the Christian doctrine and so long as churches allow such claims to go absent from refutation, their parishioners will continue to be tempted by a liberal theology in an effort to accommodate secularisms status quos.

"Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator..."

Romans 1:22-25

We go to church, listen to the preacher, and spend the next six days being brainwashed by evolutionary portrayals of early man as an ignorant, language-developing, cave dweller who lived hundreds of thousands of years ago without recognizing such statements are contradictory to the archaeological evidence, the Biblical story of creation, the fall, and the curse.

Compromisers of the creation story have replaced God's written Testament with mans fallible assumptions and have labeled it scientific fact. To compound the problem, those fact promoted lies are read to their children because, once again, they don't know the difference. Their Christ-inserted immune system has decayed due to years of such dogma leaving them unable to defend their own faith. Yes, great is thy faithfulness, but inexcusable is thy ignorance.

Local towns everywhere foster these churches and their lazy approach to the creation model. Their pews are full of believers wanting to believe but unable to find the answers to believe. Some churchgoers are outright unbelievers to the creation model and many of their churches have been stripped of any knowledge of the power of God and are reduced to mere social clubs. There is no wonder in my mind what allowed our public schools, universities, and government agencies to remove God as if He does not exist.

Shortly after Charles Darwin's book, "The Origin of Species" in 1859, cracks in theological teaching began to appear. Theologians scrambled to produce a new interpretation of Genesis that either explained away this new-world view or accommodated it. However, these interpretations provided only a superficial fix as church members began to question the six-day creation model and began caving into new explanations as soon as biased scientists offered a contradictory view. As the foundation crumbled, Christian teaching became confused with a variety of doctrines and ideas.

With the foundation of Genesis undermined, the Christian message loses its meaning. Who then is to say the Christian message is right, unless there is solid evidence that the Bible is true from the beginning? If the Bible is filled with false teachings, then it no longer bears the impress of a book inspired by God, but bears the marks of human origin. If that were ever proven true, not only would it have happened by now, but it then would not be God's instruction guide for man, and therefore, the claims it holds upon us are not supreme.

Despite the attacks on the Bible, it is refreshing to know the literal accuracy of Gods inspired word has withstood 200 years of evolutions challenges and to this day, it still demonstrates its divine inspiration. That's good news! So to the churches of America, it's time to confront the lies by suiting up your church with the full armor of God and joining in the battle for these precious souls against the satan-led offensive that denies God His rightful credit.

In our corner are mountains of piling scientific evidence that contradicts evolutions lies while simultaneously confirming the Bibles truths. Below you will read a compilation of such evidences.

Geological Evidence

Varves

One common, yet outdated and fully refuted, argument worshippers of evolution use to support old earth theology is that of "varve layering." Varves are rock formations with alternating layers of fine dark, and coarse light sediment, which were once taught to be annual layers. Out-of-date evolutionary teaching promoted the idea annual changes deposited bands with light layers in summer and dark layers in winter. Many formations appeared to contain hundreds of thousands of layers each layer representing one-year. Thus, the worshippers of evolution used such examples to claim the earth was older than the Bible said.

One highly propagandized example of such layering is the Green River varves in Wyoming, USA. These bands have been widely promoted as evidence for old-earth theology but these bands cannot possibly be annual deposits because we find well-preserved fish and birds all through the varying layers of sediment. It is ludicrous to promote the idea these dead animals could have rested on the bottom of the lake for decades, being slowly covered by sediment. Another problem 'old-earthers' have with their varve explanation is that the number of bands is not consistent across the formation as it should be if they were truly annual deposits.(1) Their fossilization reveals catastrophic burial.

Recent catastrophes, such as the 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens in Washington State, demonstrated that these varve, sedimentary-deposits are formed very quickly. The sedimentary flows from the Mt St Helens eruption alone produced 25' of finely layered sediment in a single afternoon.(2) In addition, a rapidly pumped sand slurry was observed to deposit 3-4' of fine layers on a beach over an area the size of a football field.(3)

Several studies in varve layer have been conducted in laboratories and in one such case, it was discovered the fine bands formed as the moving water transported the different sized particles sideways into position.(4) The thickness of each band was influenced by the relative particle sizes rather than on the flow conditions.(5) A layered rock was separated into its particles and when it was redeposited into moving water, identical layers formed.(6)

Despite the many evidences refuting the argument of annual layering, evolutions spin-doctors continue to brainwash their students into believing these layers were laid down annually. Many of them all together avoid the many refutations disproving the old theory of annual layering.

"Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles... They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator..."

Romans 1:22-25

Bent Strata

All over the world mountainous regions of strata thousands of feet thick are bent and folded in half. The amazing feature in these strata is that the folding occurred without cracking the rock. Conventional geology claims these formations were deeply buried and solidified for hundreds of millions of years before they were bent. However, common sense tells us a rock formation cannot be bent in half without it crumbling into pieces. But, if these strata were still wet from the receding floodwaters of the Noahican flood then they easily could have been bent as God pulled the "& mountains from the valleys" (Psalm 104:5-9)

Fossil Radioactivity

In rock crystals we find tiny-microscopic pieces of colored radioactive minerals known as radio halos, which offer fossil evidence of radioactive decay.(7) Microscopic, Polonium-210 radio halos indicate that Jurassic, Triassic, and Eocene formations (Geological periods identified in the Geological Column) in the Colorado plateau were deposited within months of one another rather than hundreds of millions of years apart as promoted in evolutionary theology.(8) "Orphan" Polonium-218 radio halos, having no evidence of their mother elements, imply either instant creation or drastic changes in radioactivity decay rates.(9,10)

Romans 1:22-25

The Fossil Record

Evolutionary theologians once promoted the fossil record as evidence for evolution, but the fact is that the billions of known fossils have not yet yielded a single unequivocal transitional form with transitional structures in the process of evolving. What's frustrating is how evolutionists skirt around the evidence that slaps them in the face and in cases where the particular topic is unavoidable, rather than pointing out new discoveries and scientific fact that contradicts their preconceived biases, they refer to old theories in an attempt to maintain the promotion of a rotting theory springing new leaks every day.

This ubiquitous absence of intermediate forms is true not only for "major morphologic transitions," but even for most species. Not only are there no true transitional forms in the fossils; there is not even any general evidence of evolutionary progression in the actual fossil sequences. The superficial appearance of an evolutionary pattern in the fossil record has actually been imposed on it by the fact that the rocks containing the fossils have themselves been "dated" by their fossils. This is circular reason in its most absurd form. Since we do not factually know the precise dates of either, we can't possibly use one to verify the other. Yet for years theologians of evolutionary dogma have been allowed to brainwash the scientific and biblical illiterate.

Let's take a look at some quotes from evolutions pastoral hierarchy:

"The known fossil record fails to document a single example of phyletic evolution accomplishing a major morphologic transition. . . ." (11)

"As is now well known, most fossil species appear instantaneously in the fossil record, persist for some millions of years virtually unchanged, only to disappear abruptly. . . ." (12)

"The fossil record of evolution is amenable to a wide variety of models ranging from completely deterministic to completely stochastic." (13)

"I regard the failure to find a clear "vector of progress" in life's history as the most puzzling fact of the fossil record. . . . we have sought to impose a pattern that we hoped to find on a world that does not really display it." (14)

"And this poses something of a problem: If we date the rocks by their fossils, how can we then turn around and talk about patterns of evolutionary change through time in the fossil record?" (15)

"A circular argument arises: Interpret the fossil record in the terms of a particular theory of evolution, inspect the interpretation, and note that it confirms the theory. Well, it would, wouldn't it?" (16)

"In any case, no real evolutionist . . . uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of the theory of evolution as opposed to special creation. . . ." (17)

"Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles… They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator..."

Romans 1:22-25

Mt. St. Helens and Geology

Once again, the eruption of Mt. St. Helens on May 18, 1980 revealed the true, natural processes of a geological event previously promoted by evolutionists to take millions of years. The giant, floating log mat on Spirit Lake has confirmed some creationist's theories on coal formations. The trees floating in the lake have lost their bark due to the abrasive action from the wind and waves. Scuba investigations of the lake bottom showed that water-saturated sheets of tree bark are especially abundant on the bottom of the lake, where, in areas removed from volcanic sediment added from the lake shore, a layer of peat several inches thick has accumulated. The Spirit Lake peat resembles, both compositionally and texturally, certain coal beds of the eastern United States, which also are dominated by tree bark and appear to have accumulated beneath floating log mats.(18)

Traditional evolutionary theories promoted the idea that coal formation was the process of organic material accumulating in swamps by growth in place of plants and burial. Because peat accumulation is traditionally a slow process, evolutionary geologists believed every inch of coal took better than one thousand years to form. However, the geological fallout from the Mt St Helen's eruption demonstrated, along with many other processes, that peat accumulated rapidly. Swamp peats, however, have only very rare bark sheet material because the intrusive action of tree roots disintegrates and homogenizes the peat. The Spirit Lake peat, in contrast, is texturally very similar to coal.

We now know the only processes needed to transform the peat at the bottom of Spirit Lake into coal is burial and slight heating. This would produce the first stage in the formation of coal and wouldn't need to take millions of years either.

Since the evidence is once again stacked against them, some evolutionists have tried to make the argument that the pre-Flood world could not possibly have produced enough vegetation to make all the coal we find all over the world. However, such an argument is based on misinformed assumptions. First, the pre-Flood land mass was most-certainly greater prior to the flood. Second, the climate was quite tropical and therefore much more productive before the flood.(19) We know this because of all the fossilized vegetation we find in the most remote parts of Antarctica are of plants only known to grow in mild, tropical climates.(20) Third, it has been discovered that much coal was derived from forests, which floated on water (21) Fourth, because of these previous facts listed above, we can now point out calculations based only on today’s area of land would be wrong. Fifth, and finally, the estimates of how much vegetation is needed are based on the wrong idea that coal forms slowly in swamps and that most of the vegetation rots. As previously explained, we now know this to be wrong and such a global catastrophe as the Noahican Flood would have buried the vegetation quickly, producing a hundred times more coal than from a swamp.(22)

Yellowstone’s Petrified Forest
Another out-of-date argument evolutionists once promoted for old-earth, evolutionary dogma prior to the Mt St Helens eruption was that of the petrified forests of Yellowstone National Park. The tree stumps were once interpreted as buried and petrified in place by up to 50 successive geological events. After each burial, a new forest sprouted out of the debris on top of the previous one. Because of this, evolutionists argued such a process would take hundreds of thousands of years, which, of course, is inconsistent with the Biblical time-scale.

What does the evidence truly show? Well, the fact that the tree trunks and stumps have been broken off at their base and do not have proper root systems gives overwhelming evidence the trees did not grow where they now rest but were rather uprooted from elsewhere and carried to their present location by a catastrophic debris-flow.(23) Furthermore, trees from different layers have the same 'signature' ring pattern, demonstrating they all grew at the same time.(24)

The evidence against evolutions, old-earth dogma is mounting at an alarming rate of speed and as we continue to witness, truth regarding Biblical history defends itself. Mount St. Helens provided a rare opportunity to study transient geologic processes, which produced, within a few months, changes geologists might otherwise assume required many thousands of years. These revelations challenge the traditional way of thinking promoted in school textbooks. But better yet, these processes and their effects allow events such as the Mt St Helens eruption to serve as mini-laboratories for catastrophism.

The Sea

Sodium Accumulation

The oceans provide ample evidence to support Biblical chronology in both, sodium/salt accumulations and sea floor sedimentation, which evolutionists still struggle to logically answer.

One of the oldest dating methods in use involves the measurement of the accumulation of sodium's in the ocean. We can calculate a relative or maximum age of the oceans by calculating the rate in which sodium accumulations takes place, the rate at which they are removed, and their current quantities.

It has been proven and accepted that sodium levels accumulate at a rate of 73% faster then they leave(25,26) and when we consider sodium levels in today's oceans and calculate backwards using the accumulation rates to subtract, of course we're assuming the oceans had no sodium to start with, we come up with a maximum age of 42 million years.(27) This is a far cry younger than the 3 billion evolutionists promote. But you may say, "Well, this age is still older than the 6,000 - 8,500 years the Bible refers to." Yes, but no evolutionist in the world would attempt to defend evolution if the earth were proven to be absolutely no more than the 42 millions years old as their only friend is time.

Salt Accumulation
Using the same formula but this time with salt accumulation levels leaves us with a figure of less than 62 million years in age and again, this is assuming there would be no salt in the ocean to start with. However, recent studies in subterranean groundwater discharge has proven the rate influx to be greater than previously supposed.(28) It had long been assumed that subterranean groundwater discharge occurs at a rate only from 0.01% to 10% the rate of surface runoff (the latter, of course, mainly from rivers). Using radioactive tracers, T.M. Church reports in 'Nature' magazine that this rate of underground flow can amount to as much as 40% that of all the world's rivers. Church remarks that this find can radically alter our understanding of oceanic chemical mass balance.(29) It also means that salt enters the ocean at much greater rates than previously suspected, and the oceans are all the more decisively constrained to be young in age.

If we add to this evidence the runoff effects from the Noahican Flood the numbers would be significantly impacted as such a catastrophic runoff would have carried enormous amount of minerals across the earth thus increasing the ocean's salt level which would significantly reduce the age easily down to the 6,000 - 8,500 year old window the Bible proclaims.

Continental Erosion
Each year, water and winds erode about 25 billion tons of dirt and rock from the continents and deposit it in the ocean.(30) This material accumulates as loose sediment (i.e., mud) on the hard basaltic (lava-formed) rock of the ocean floor. The average depth of the mud is less than 400 meters.(31)

Plate tectonic subduction is the only known way to remove the mud from the ocean floor. This is a process where the sea floor slides slowly, a few centimeters annually, beneath the continents, which takes some of the sediment with it. One particular scientific journal claims this process removes only about one billion tons per year.(32) As far as anyone is aware, the other 24 billion tons per year simply accumulate on the sea floor. At that rate, erosion would deposit the present amount of sediment in less than 12 million years. Again, this age is inconsistent with the Bible's chronology simply because of logical variables we haven't added in yet, but most importantly, this figure is generous to evolutionists and it is in no way friendly to their theology.

According to evolutionary theory, erosion and plate subduction have been going on as long as the oceans have existed, an alleged 3 billion years. If that were so, the rates above imply that the oceans would be massively choked with mud dozens of kilometers deep. Creationist believe that erosion from the waters of the Genesis flood running off the continents deposited the present amount of mud within a short time about 4,500 years ago.

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The Universe

Earth's Magnetic Field
Once again we find can find much evidence in the cosmos to support Biblical chronology. From the magazines we read to the movies we watch, one would never believe evidence for creation could be found in such an evolutionary corner but it most certainly is there.

When we examine the total energy stored in the earth's magnetic field we find an increase by a factor of 2.7 over the past 1,000 years.(33) The inadequacy of evolutionary theories presented over the past 15 years have clearly revealed the desperate nature evolutions dogs find themselves in in trying to counter such overwhelming evidence for a young earth. The creationist explanation soundly adheres to the laws of physics while logically explaining many features of the field; its creation, rapid reversals during the Genesis flood, surface intensity decreases and increases until the time of Christ, and a steady decay since then.(34) This theory matches paleomagnetic, historic, and present data(35) The main result is that the field's total energy (not surface intensity) has always decayed at least as fast as now. At that rate the field could not be more than 10,000 years old.(36)

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Galaxy Rotations
The stars comprising the Milky Way rotate about the galactic center with individual speeds. The inner ones rotate faster than the outer ones. The rotation speeds are so incredibly fast they reveal a relatively young age for the universe, in contrast to evolutionary brainwashing. The older the galaxy, the slower the speeds as their rotations would be winding down from the point of creation. These speeds demonstrate a limit of a few hundred million years in age at the most, otherwise it would it would be a featureless disc of stars instead of its present spiral shape.(37)

Evolutionary theologians teach the galaxy is 10 billion years old. Evolutionists are well aware of this fact, so much so they have named it, "the winding-up dilemma." Their camp has proposed many theories in an effort to explain it, but each one has failed miserably after brief moments of excited-popularity. This same problem of our galaxy also applies to other galaxies.

New theories have recently been proposed but each have a variety of conceptual problems and recent discoveries of a very detailed spiral structure in the central hub of the Whirlpool galaxy made by the Hubble Space Telescope have called these theories into serious question.(38)

Comets are short-lived
Evolutionists promote the age of comets to be the same as the solar system, which they say is 5 billion years old. There's a problem with this theory however. We today can observe the disintegration of much of the material that comprises a comet each time it orbits close to the sun. Based on the rate it loses its mass, we can easily conclude that comets are no way older than 100,000 years. In fact, many comets have typical ages of 5,000 - 10,000 years.(39)

Evolutionists attempt to defend this fact by slinging three illogical improbabilities:

1) Comets come from an unobserved spherical "Oort cloud" well beyond the orbit of Pluto.
2) Improbable gravitational interactions with infrequently passing stars often knock comets into the solar system.
3) Other improbable interactions with planets slow down the incoming comets often enough to account for the hundreds of comets observed.(40)

These ideas are so absurd yet it's all the evolutionists have for a defense and defend it they do. And none of these assumptions have been substantiated either by observations or realistic calculations. If creationists made such assumptions they would throw back in our face comments like, "That just proves creationists aren't scientists."

Helium Escape
Radioactive elements produce helium as they decay. A small, calculable level escapes into space but even taking this loss into consideration, and using the evolutionary assumption of a 3.5 billion year old Earth, how is it then the earth's atmosphere only contains .05% of what should be present.(41) The calculations of loss/decay are not wrong but rather the age of 3.5 billion years is what makes the calculation not work.

As it turns out, the levels of helium present in the atmosphere would have accumulated at their present rates in less than 2 million years. Again, the Genesis Flood would have released more of the helium from the crust thus reducing the age of the atmosphere considerably.

A study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research shows that helium produced by radioactive decay in deep, hot rocks has not had time to escape. Though the rocks are supposed to be over one billion years old, their large helium retention suggests an age of only thousands of years.(42)

The Technology of Ancient Man

Any time we hear reference to "early man," he is spoken of as an ignorant, language-developing, cave dweller. Yet what is not promoted is what the evidence truly reveals; highly skilled craftsman who demonstrated a high degree of science and technology and built monumental structures, painted intricate works of art, and organized complex cultures.

Evolution teaches the further back in history we go, the more primitive man was. If this were true, then also the further back we go, evidence should show a gradual decline in man's intelligence as we move closer to the ape's. This concept has been brainwashed into our children who have since grown up believing such dogma to be true. Even our churches believe this despite the Bible teaching man, created in God's image, has always been intelligent.

Over the years man has made discoveries and invented things, but this is knowledge passed on and built upon. It's not retained and stored by an individual. If it's not written down we forget about it. If it's not on the map we forget it was there. In this way, technology can increase within a society, but this is not because people become more intelligent.

Genesis 4:21-22 tells us just a short time after creation people were already inventing things such as musical instruments, and metalworking. By the time of the flood, man had a high-level of technical know-how that enabled him to build an Ark. We don't know exactly how high but we do have some clues to work from.

In Genesis 11 the Bible records that man built a huge city full of towers in what is believed to be the fertile valley of Mesopotamia near present-day Iraq. In fact, evolutionists have been unable to ignore this fact so much so that they too acknowledge this area as the cradle of civilization.

These towers were most likely ziggurats and some perhaps pyramids, and most likely resembled those still standing in the area today know as present-day Babylon. These structures are highly impressive and feature huge stones, which we can't even today explain how they were built.

Similar types of pyramids are found in ancient civilizations all over the world confirming the Bible's story of the Tower of Babel. Evolutionists teach that each culture devised, by chance, the same style of building independently. Creationists say these structures were built by descendants of the Tower of Babel who took with them their science and technology and continued to build these great monuments long after God had confused the language. This is why archaeologists today continue to find pyramids and ziggurats on nearly every continent.

As with any group of people in society today, those that existed at the time of the Tower of Babel would have had a diverse range of skills. However, when God divided the groups by language, the broad pool of knowledge would have been divided as well. The original groups that became, for example, the civilizations of the Egyptians and Mayans obviously included people skilled in civil engineering, building, and so on, as evidenced by the rapid establishment of their cultures. Other groups would have lacked such knowledge.

Since the post-Flood world was much harsher, those scattering to harsher regions would have chose shelter in caves due to their providing a better quality of protection. However, despite what evolutionists promote on T.V. commercials and movies today, this did not mean they were primitive or unintelligent. Over the past 50 years, scientists have made numerous findings ranging from beautiful cave paintings of enormous detail to 'stone-age' musical instruments revealing a high level of understanding and musical ability.(43)

The pyramids of Egypt themselves were built by the descendants of Babel, which would date their construction somewhere around 2,100 BC. There seems to be no evidence showing how the knowledge to build pyramids was developed. Let's read a quote from a known evolutionist:

"There is no evidence whatever of any technological breakthrough in the methods of quarrying or cutting stone which might account for the onset of pyramid building. All the tools and techniques used by the pyramid builders were in existence well before their time."(44)

The archaeological evidence suggests that rather than developing slowly and painfully, as is normal with human societies, the civilization of Ancient Egypt, like that of the Olmecs, emerged all at once and fully formed. Indeed, the period of transition from primitive to advanced society appears to have been so short that it makes no kind of historical sense. This fact does not help the theologian of evolution! And despite this being the case, anthropologists and archaeologists alike continue to ignore the evidence, which confirms man has always been naturally intelligent.

"Technological skills that should have taken hundreds or even thousands of years to evolve were brought into use almost overnight - and with no apparent antecedents whatever."(45)

We also find evidence of intellectual decay. That is, the early pyramids display a high level of science and technology where as the quality of the younger ones declines to a point where they were no-longer built. And today we stand in awe without an explanation for their construction.

One evolutionist reports:

"The pyramid age had come to an end, having lasted for a little more than a century. Pyramids were still being erected for about a thousand years, but they rapidly became smaller and shoddier, and it is quite clear that with the third Giza pyramid the zest had gone out of pyramid building forever."(46)

And it is important to note the length of time these buildings have stood. What's the possibility, without reconditioning, any of our modern day buildings withstanding such punishment from mother nature? Keep in mind their exposure to earthquakes, tornadoes, and high winds.

Building a pyramid would require an absolutely level base for its foundation. To do this Egyptians would have first cut channels into the underlying rock and filled those channels with water. They then would have inserted rods into the channels and marked off the water line - thus establishing a true level. These are not the actions of cave dwellers trying to understand what a 'fire' is but rather the actions of highly skilled men with a natural and instinctive understanding of what we today refer to as the physical sciences.

Other evidences of early mans high level of intelligence can be found 13,000 feet up near the Bolivian shore of Lake Titicaca in South America. There lies the ancient city of Tiahuanaco. Spanish treasure hunters in the sixteenth century scoffed at the local Indian lore that spoke of Tiahuanaco springing up very rapidly by unknown giants shortly after a great Flood. Today all that is left of this majestic ruin are stones and statues scattering the landscape on this windswept plateau.

One writer commented:

"... the best engineers of today still ask themselves whether they could cut and move huge masses of rock such as those used to build the city. The giant blocks look almost as though a die were used to cut them - a task achieved with none of the resources of modern technology"(47) and "... the architects who designed and built them were men of genius."(48)

Archaeologists studying ancient civilizations often report being 'amazed' or 'surprised' at the level of man's skill in the distant past. Actually they're surprised only because their evolutionary beliefs have brainwashed them into the expectations of finding evidence of 'primitive' men, not intelligent ones.

The ancient Mayans were meticulous timekeepers. They knew the absolute length of the solar year to be 365.2420 days long. Astronomers did not know this until very recently (astronomers today calculate the year to be 365.2422 days). Moreover, they also calculated that 405 full moons occurred in a period of 11,960 days where as modern research has confirmed it to be 11,959.888 days.

These minute margins of error, confirmed only with the use of modern technology, reveal an amazing degree of accuracy on the part of these ancient cultures.

Interestingly, considering the Mayans' obsession with accurate timekeeping, the Mayan calendar apparently began from a creation date about 3114 BC. The Mayans also excelled at mathematics, using a positional system, similar to today's, that was less clumsy than that used by the Romans in Europe.

And finally, in 1900 off the coast of Antikythera, Greek divers discovered the wreck of an ancient ship, which sunk around 65 BC. Divers recovered a device comprised of an extremely complex system of precision mechanical metal gears and engraved scale calibrations. It is theorized to be some type of navigational computational device, which reveals the intelligence of its inventors.

Time after time discoveries prove man has always been intelligent and creative and never do the finds confirm evolutions idea of man existing as hunter-gatherers during the stone age for 100,000 years while slowly and continually evolving into today's intelligent human. Furthermore, evolution says that during this time the world's population would have been between one and 10 million. And since we find them during this time to be burying their dead with artifacts, the numbers say they would have buried at least 4 billion people during this time. Thus, we should be stumbling over graves weekly but we don't. They're not there. Instead we have only found a few thousand, which offers more evidence of a short earth history.(49,50) Moreover, we should in addition find hundred's of thousands of year's worth of evolved writings but we don't find those either. Instead we find writings that factually date back about 4,500 years, which would be in harmony with the Bible's story of a global flood wiping out all records prior to this time. If man were evolving for 100,000 years, why would man wait a thousand centuries before using the same skills to record history?

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The Complex Chemistry of Life

The Biological sciences are of no friend to the evolutionary pastorate. There is a complexing problem that is overlooked by the worshippers of evolution and that is the idea of life evolving from non-life out of some primordial goo. Evolutions entire existence rests upon this required, initial process. The sad fact is evolutions theologians always speak of evolution with the assumption this initial requirement has already been satisfactorily answered. The truth is however, it hasn't, but the television documentaries rarely point this out.

The chemistry that makes up life is a complex information system that produces building materials, energy, locomotion, and reproduction. Today it is recognized that evidence for this notion is lacking (yet should have been found), and that any such organic molecules would break down as fast as they formed before life began, preventing a concentration of organic molecules from ever developing.

The closest evolutionists have come to producing life in a lab from off-the-shelf chemicals is to make some of the building blocks of life under carefully controlled laboratory conditions where the amino acids were removed from the reaction with a trap as soon as they were formed. Life is a continual reproductive process not a once, short-lived chemical reaction.

Louis Pasteur, a famous French scientist and Bible believing Christian, proved life comes only from life. Life has never been observed to come from non-life, not even mind-bogglingly rich concentrations of organic molecules such as a sealed can of food. Belief in the origin of life in the past from non-life is thus a violation of one of the fundamental laws of biology, the Law of Biogenesis.

Even the simplest of life forms are composed of hundreds of thousands of different types of proteins with each protein specified by hundreds of amino acids, each of which is composed of a number of atoms. The simple organic molecules formed in these experiments are of trivial complexity by comparison. Moreover, rarely mentioned are the low concentrations of simple organic molecules formed by these experiments, the tendency of these molecules to break right back down, and the much, much greater amounts of toxic chemicals that formed which would have completely blocked the formation of life.

To say that this heavily, man-influenced attempt proves evolution is like comparing some ink that dropped on the cement which took the shape of the letter "O" in comparison to producing words, sentences, books, encyclopedias, maps, and libraries.

Evolution requires the introduction of new information in the forms of new genes. Mutations occur when the cell replaces damaged genes as a result of a repair process and a mistake occurs in the repair, or when genes are swapped into new sequences. These scenarios result in useless proteins and less efficient organisms. There is no mechanism proposed for new, improved genes producing new species.

The probing question of origins is where did the information come from that exists in the genetic code? A majority of scientists have excused random chance evolution as the author because blind chance has no ability for intricate design. As the Law of Biogenesis proves, life comes only from life, so does the laws of information science prove that information comes only from intelligent sources.

Languages, regardless of their nature, human, genetic, or binary, are extremely complex with their rules and semantic relationships that allow information to be recognized and interpreted. Information requires an author, and languages presuppose an even more advanced source.

The Laws of Thermodynamics

Heavily in creationists favor are the Laws of Thermodynamics. It's always amusing to me to watch the theologians of evolution squirm around as they pick and choose what these laws do and do not apply to.

Let's first define these laws before I offer their application:

First Law: The total amount of mass-energy in the universe is constant. That is, matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed but rather just change forms.

Second Law: The amount of energy available for work is running out, or entropy is increasing to a maximum. Thus, all systems go from a state of order to disorder.

As scientific laws, there are no known exceptions to these two laws that have ever been observed. Evolution appears to be in direct violation with the second law of thermodynamics, since it requires change from simple to complex. An evolution model would have to explain a mechanism that converts energy from an outside source into information and complexity. According to this law, it can't be done.

This is Evolutions biggest enemy! The second law demonstrates that all systems in the real world tend to go "downhill" toward disorganization and decreased complexity. This law is, by any measure, one of the most universally, best-proved laws of nature. It applies not only in physical and chemical systems, but also in biological and geological systems - in fact, in all systems, without exception (the sun is losing mass, the earth's magnetic field is decaying, the stars are burning down, the continents are eroding into the ocean, the sea is gaining in salt content).

Evolutionists argue that the earth is an "open system," with the incoming energy from the sun able to sustain evolution throughout the geological ages in spite of the evidence that all systems deteriorate toward disorganization. While it is true that local order can increase in an open system if certain conditions are met, the fact is that evolution does not meet those conditions. Simply saying that the earth is open to the energy from the sun says nothing about how that raw solar heat is converted into increased complexity in any system, open or closed.

The fact is that the best-known and most fundamental equation of thermodynamics says that the influx of heat into an open system will increase the entropy of that system, not decrease it. All known cases of decreased entropy (or increased organization) in open systems involve a guiding program of some sort and one or more energy conversion mechanisms.

Evolution has neither of these. Mutations are not "organizing" mechanisms, but disorganizing (in accord with the second law). They are commonly harmful, sometimes neutral, but never beneficial (at least as far as observed mutations are concerned). Natural selection cannot generate order, but can only "sieve out" the disorganizing mutations presented to it, thereby conserving the existing order, but never generating new order. In principle, it may be barely conceivable that evolution could occur in open systems, in spite of the tendency of all systems to disintegrate sooner or later. But no one yet has been able to show that it actually has the ability to overcome this universal tendency, and that is the basic reason why there is still no bona fide proof of evolution, past or present.

Evolutionists have been scrambling for an explanation that makes sense. The addition of more energy compounds the problem, since it usually speeds the breakdown of order. This totally contradicts evolution, and the problem gets worse as time passes. Time is an enemy to order, yet a requirement for evolution. If the earth were billions of years old, as evolutionists claim, we would expect it to be in a total state of disorder.

Romans 1:22-25

Conclusion

The Bible continues to withstand the tests of science and its scoffers, and because it continually does so without contradiction or error, only serves as further evidence of its divine inspiration. 40 men, over a period of 1,700 years, living on three different continents, speaking three different languages, who, in most cases, never knew each other, were not capable of pulling off such a harmonic feat.

We still don't have all the answers to all the questions, but this does not mean that the answers don't exist, but rather we just haven't discovered them yet. There may be new arguments in the future alleging to 'prove' the Bible, or one of the evidences in this article, wrong. And when these are answered, there might be new ones again. That is the nature of science. All its conclusions are tentative, and new discoveries mean that old ideas must be changed - that is why creationist research is so important. The good news is that the results continue to confirm the Biblical account while simultaneously pushing old earth evolution ever so closer to bankruptcy.

Many of the evidences for a young earth weren't initially available to creationists but as time goes and new discoveries are made, the evidence continues to pile up in support of a literal recent six-day creation.

Science ultimately can't prove or disprove the Bible. Faith - not a blind faith - is needed. It is not the facts that contradict the Bible, but the interpretations applied to them. Since we never will know everything, we must start with the sure Word of God in order to make sense of the world around us. Its time churches everywhere begin a creation revolution that takes back our government, schools and yes, even our churches.