Evolution Microevolution Special Evolution Change within a large

Evolution Microevolution (Special Evolution) Change within a large defined group or kind Macroevolutio n (General Evolution) Transforming change of one kind into new and different kind

Evolution Microevolution (Special Evolution) Macroevolution (General Evolution) Much physical evidence NO physical evidence

What kind of evolution is this? ?

Darwin’s Finches Microevolution! Not General Evolution! 14 different species of finches collected on the Galapagos Islands during the voyage of the Beagle in the 1830’s

Charles Darwin wrote in a letter to Asa Gray, a Harvard professor of biology: "I am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the bounds of true science. “ Charles Darwin, quoted in N. C. Gillespie, Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation (1979), p. 2, University of Chicago book.

Charles Darwin wrote of his theory… "As by this theory, innumerable transitional forms must have Darwin attributed this lack to existed. Why do we not find them the imperfect geological record embedded in the crust of the earth? and fully expected that Why is not all nature in confusion scientists to follow would “dig [of up” halfway species] instead of the evidence. being, as we see them, well-defined species? "

Dr. W. R. Thompson, entomologist, writes in the introduction to the 1967 edition of Charles Darwin's, Origin of the Species: “This situation, where men rally to the defense of a doctrine they are unable to define scientifically, much less demonstrate with scientific rigor, attempting to maintain its credit with the public by the suppression of 1 of 2

abnormal and undesirable in science I am not satisfied that Darwin proved his point or that his influence in scientific and public thinking has been beneficial. . the success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity. “ Dr. W. R. Thompson, entomologist, writes in the introduction to the 1967 edition of Charles Darwin's, Origin of the Species:

The assumptions that evolutionists make are actually things they should be proving to us!

Seven basic assumptio ns of Gerald A. Kerkut (19272004) was a distinguished British zoologist and physiologist. He attended the University of Cambridge earning a doctorate in zoology. He became Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry at the University of Southampton and went on to become the Dean of Science, Chairman of the School of

Bird Reptil e Evolutionists must ASSUME this happened because there Mammal is absolutely NO evidence that Amphib it did or can happen. ia Fish

"There are seven basic assumptions not mentioned during discussions of evolution. . The first point I should like to make is that the seven assumptions by their nature are not capable of experimental verification. . The evidence that supports [the general theory of evolution] is not sufficiently strong to allow us to consider it as anything more than a working hypothesis. "

In an article by Pigliucci, professor of Is Massimo this a reasonable Botany and the University of Tennessee, for a the origin discussing theassumption theories held today about scientist to make? ? ? of life… “No serious scientific discussion of any topic should include supernatural explanations, since the basic (and very reasonable) assumption of science is that the world can be explained entirely in physical terms, without recourse to divine entities. ” Massimo Pigliucci is an associate professor in the Departments of Botany and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Kenneth Miller, professor of biology at Brown University, believes firmly in evolution. He also believes in

This book provides an original, exhilarating look at how a quite radical version of neo-Darwinian theory, usually understood as excluding and belief in God, can in fact aid Christians in developing a more Biblical faith by replacing the God of static design and controlling power… with the God of vulnerable, self-giving love. "

Percentage of Americans that believe in Evolution OR Creation. . Evolutio n Creati on 50% Gallup polls PEW Research

Evolutio n/ 13% Atheism 87% Godcaused Univers e

Evolutio n 13% Godcaused Evolutio n 37% Creati on 50% Gallup polls PEW Research

Evolutionary Geologists teach… Earth’s waters came out of interior of earth during a very long epic REASO N 1 Genesis 1 teaches… Earth was covered with water right from the beginning Gen. 1: 2

Evolutionary Geologists teach… First life began accidentally in a very ancient primeval ocean and it was marine life. REASO N 2 Genesis 1 teaches… First life began intentionally, on earth, and it was plant life Gen. 1: 10 -11

Evolutionary Geologists teach… Fish and other marine forms evolved long before there were any fruit trees. REASO N 3 Genesis 1 teaches… Fruit trees were created before the fish and other living creatures. Gen. 1: 11, 2021

Evolutionary Geologists teach… Fishes evolved 100’s of millions of years before the birds. REASO N 4 Genesis 1 teaches… Birds and fishes were created at the same time. Gen. 1: 21

Evolutionary Geologists teach… Life began with small simple life forms, such as trilobytes, then on to larger marine organisms, amphibians, REASO N 5 Genesis 1 teaches… The first animals God created were the great whales. Gen. 1: 21

Evolutionary Geologists teach… REASO N Organisms brought into existence very gradually through slow evolutionary processes from a common ancestor. 6 Genesis 1 teaches… Genesis 1, stresses 10 times that God created entities, fully formed, that were to reproduce after their own kind.

Evolutionary Geologists teach… Man was formed gradually over millions of years through various animal stages. REASO N 7 Genesis 1 teaches… Man formed on the 6 th day by God. Gen. 1

Evolutionary Geologists teach… REASO N 8 Genesis 1 teaches… Non-seed Bible says plants rd bearing plants created on 3 Question: If the days in evolved, perhaps day and insects Genesis were “ages”, th day. 450 mil years on the 6 millions of years, how did ago, plants then seed. Gen. 1 survive these ages bearing plants; without insects engaged in then insects. the pollination process?

Evolutionary Geologists teach… REASO N 9 Each epic of time (“day”) was characterized by death, disease, devastation and destruction, which is represented in the fossil record. Genesis 1 teaches… Bible says at the conclusion of each day God said, “it is good. ”

Evolutionary Geologists teach… REASO N 10 Evolution requires billions of years to accomplish and theistic evolutionists say each Genesis “day” means an epic of time. Genesis 1 teaches… Bible teaches that each “day” in Genesis, from the Hebrew “yom”, was a solar day, a 24 hour period. ”

Could be rendered “became” or “had become” Gen 1: 2 The Gen 1: 1 In the earth was beginning God without form, created the and void; and heavens and darkness was on the earth. the face of the deep…. Eons of time….

Gen 1: 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day (i. e. millions of years!)

"[In Darwin's writings] possibilities were assumed to add up to probability, and probabilities then were promoted to certitudes. “ —*Agassiz, op. cit. , p. 335.