How do you explain Darwin and Evolution?

How do you explain Darwin and Evolution?

Evolution is a hot topic, and it seems to be getting hotter as time goes on. There seems to be an emerging group of atheists who are rising up to not only support the idea of God-less humanism, but promote it through billboards and radio programs. Additionally the common market of "higher education" in this country nearly completely subscribe to a God-less world view.

So just what is meant by the term evolution, and why is it such a huge issue?

First, the term "evolution" is actually a catch-all term that commonly implies these fundamental concepts:

• Belief that the world is billions of years old
• Life has existed many millions of years
• All life somehow came out of one creature
• Species as we know them, all have one common ancestor
• Time, Chance and Environment are major factors in how life progresses

Darwin is so important because he was the first one to come up with a theory on how organisms could have come from one life form. His idea was simple. Using ideas from others, Darwin assumed that the world was millions of years old. He then discovered the concept of natural selection (in which animals inherit different traits from generation to generation), and he tied that concept globally to all life. Darwin came up with the idea that since you have a family tree that goes back in time, and since (he believed) there were millions of years to work with, that all life could go back to a single organism.

Since the progress of science 150 years ago was still limited, Darwin saw no problem with cells coming together in a primordial goo. So he focused mainly on tying natural selection to the one originating organism, and thus macro-evolution was born.

Taking this model, the science community has tried to piece the puzzle together, with Darwin's evolution being the framework. As a recent National Geographic article has shown, their work is speculation at most.

One problem you have with the idea of Darwinism is the fact that you can not go back in time to literally see or record what happened, therefore the concept can never be proven.

But what about fossils?

Fossils are bone bones and fragments of bodies that have been hardened over time through a fossilization process. This process requires several things to be true. 1) Quick burial 2) No oxygen in the area of the body 3) It should also contain hard parts like bone.

The assumption made by scientists is that fossils must be millions of year old, however fossils can form quickly. In fact, scientists can create fossils in a laboratory, which disproves the necessity that fossils must form over millions of years.

So fossils are evidence that animals were quickly buried (usually in a river or flood plane) with no oxygen, and then very quickly fossilized. From there they exist as stones that can be preserved for long periods of time. Therefore the time frame for fossils existing could be anywhere from 100 years ago to 5000 years ago.

Then how are fossils dated?

There are two different ways fossils can be dated. The first way is through relative positioning. This means that depending on where a fossil is found in the sedimentary layers, the date is determined based on how close it is to other fossils scientists have found. Similarly, the dating of sedimentary layers is determined by what fossils are found in them. Relative dating is simply an advanced guessing game.

The second way of dating is called absolute dating. This method determines half-life of radioactive materials in the rocks surrounding a fossil and dates it accordingly. However often times this method of dating is often inaccurate.

What about the Galapagos finches?

You can find more information about the Galapagos finches here. Darwin simply observed different beak structures in finches where he came up with the idea of natural selection. Natural selection is the idea that over generations, features that hindered an animal from eating was evolved to a feature that helped them survive. This lead the the concept of survival of the fittest.

However the Galapagos finches merely proves that there is a different array of physical features within a single species, but the his idea of macro-evolution (one species evolving into another) has yet to be proven throughout the past 150 years of scientific progress.

So what does this show?

This shows that despite thousands upon thousands of people believing an idea, it may not necessarily be true. The true atheist must make a leap of intellectual faith in order to believe this theory, and often times it is done because of spiritual reasons.

Plugging your ears to other logical explanations of existence is usually an attempt to suppress your own conscience because you hate the idea of there being a first cause, a being higher than you, and someone you are accountable to. Atheism and Darwin are beloved by so many because it gives them a sense of freedom to do what they want however they want, without the fear of consequences.

The bible is certainly true:

Romans 1:24-25 - Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

For more information about biblical and scientific understanding of evolution, natural selection and creation, see:

• http://answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/is-natural-selection-evolution
• Answers in Genesis