What’s The Big Bang? August 25, 2008
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There is no need to disprove the Big Bang. It first has to be proved. How can you disprove something which has not been proved? http://suddenlyatheist.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/disproving-the-big-bang-is-not-enough/
Evolution Is A Faith August 19, 2008
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SATAN HAS MADE YOU BELIEVE A LIE
Schools teach children as young as 9 and 10 years old that humans evolved from apes, and not necessarily created in the image of God. The theory was first suggested by Charles Darwin in the 1800s. At the time there were less available scientific methods than we have available today. They would use huge test tubes of chemicals just to make a battery, let alone a calculator or computer. As we have developed scientifically over the past 125 years since Charles Darwin, we have discovered that his theories were inaccurate, and yet his inaccuracies are not communicated in schools.
Schools continue to teach the theory of Evolution in science to young children, even though Evolution has been scientifically proved to be false, which we will expose below. Schools continue to do this because they cannot explain how this world came into existence without God. So they try to confuse our children with complex theories, which distract them from the real question. Evolution does not answer the question, How This World Exists.
Evolution is a belief just as much as any other religion, and so schools are teaching children yet another religion. Evolution teaches children to believe that they have no soul, by being purely materialistic. It teaches that humans are just a piece of rock turned into an intelligence. The result is, moral values become insignificant or just relative to the community they live in.
EVOLUTION IS A FAITH
Evolution assumes more than just Evolution of humans from apes. There are many assumptions made in order for Evolution to be true, and these are believed without evidence just as much as belief in any other religion. The six basic concepts or assumptions required for Evolution to be true are
1. Cosmic Evolution – Big Bang makes hydrogen
2. Chemical Evolution – Higher elements evolve
3. Evolution of Stars and Planets from gas
4. Organic Evolution – Life from rocks
5. Macro-Evolution – Changes between kinds of plants and animals
6. Micro-Evolution – Changes within kinds
The evidence only supports the last concept of Evolution, namely changes within kinds, such as chimp to human. The rest are subjects of belief or hypothesis without evidence. For instance the Big Bang has not been observed. The formation of hydrogen or any other element has not been observed. The transformation of a gas into a planet has not been observed. Indeed, the formation of any life form has never been observed, and certainly not from a rock. And no-one has been around for millions of years to see the first life forms develop into the first species.
Only the last concept, called Micro-Evolution, has been observed in for instance, changes from chimp to man. Plainly put, evolution from amoeba to human has not been observed. Or, transformation of mineral ore into an intelligence. Or, formation of gravitational force from a big bang has not been observed in a laboratory, although it has been theorised. I could make similar statements about the theories of Cosmic or Chemical Evolution.
THE EVIDENCE OF THE APE FAMILY
If we examine evolution from chimp to man, we could rightfully ask how male and female, whose reproductive anatomy is fundamentally different, evolved in every other manner at the same pace? How is it that every single species has male and female almost identical, except for the obviously perfect reproductive systems? This alone is enough evidence to deflate evolution. But let us look at the other evidence presented to support evolution. The evidence I speak of to support this ascent from chimp to man ranges from the tooth of an extinct pig (Nebraska Man) to an old man who suffered from arthritis (Neanderthal Man).
THERE IS NO LINK BETWEEN APE AND MAN:
Australopithecus (Lucy) means “Southern Ape”
Homo Habilis
was found to be a missing link scandal
Homo Erectus
is not a different species from Homo Sapiens but rather a race within Homo Sapiens
DINOSAURS
In my quest to find the truth about Dinosaurs, I discovered some interesting facts. Let me ask you a few questions:
Why do you believe in dinosaurs?
Have complete skeletons been found?
Were all the bones linked together?
Or were the bones just found in one area, and then joined up later?
It is possible that the skeletons were constructed out of different animals.
It is possible that the bones got bent into different shapes by the great weight of the dirt and rock above.
Some scientists have made complete pictures of dinosaurs based on just a single bone or tooth or leg.
Half of all ‘dinosaurs’ found are under 15 feet in length.
If crocodiles grew large, skeletons could have been mistaken for dinosaurs.
They could have easily used a whale bone to construct a larger dinosaur.
Remember, where the bones were found in one area, they were not linked together.
700 different species of dinosaurs have been named. But 50% of those dinosaurs are known from only a single specimen. There were only 5 specimens found of ‘complete skeletons’, and these skeletons were only joined up after they were found. So how could they name 700 different species of dinosaurs where in most cases the dinosaurs consisted of single bone ’specimens’? Some scientists have made complete pictures of dinosaurs based on just a single bone or tooth or leg. The scientists’ ideas often turn out to be wrong when more facts are discovered. The skeletons are usually very incomplete. Many dinosaur fossils are discovered badly damaged. Bones are often found crushed or bent by the great weight of the dirt and rock above. Sometimes parts from different creatures are mixed together. This just adds to the confusion.
In 1870 The rivalry between fossil collectors O.C. Marsh and E.D. Cope turns ugly when Marsh publicly points out Cope’s error in reconstructing a fossil marine reptile (putting its head on the tip of its tail). In their rivalry, they try to outdo each other in identifying new dinosaur species — over 130.
The truth is there are not as many dinosaurs as we are led to believe. There was no so-called “Age of Dinosaurs”. “Dinosaur” actually means “Terrible Lizard”. There was a lot of hype in the 1870’s over this new idea of a dinosaur or a Terrible Lizard. THIS WAS WHEN MOST OF THE SPECIES OF DINOSAUR WERE INVENTED. The age of dinosaurs has now been further inflated by school books and Hollywood.
Let me quote a school text book “Stegosaurus became extinct about 70 million years before Tyrannosaurus Rex appeared. Not all dinosaurs lived at the same time; they were spread out over 180 million years!”
The educators of today somehow have a detailed picture of how dinosaurs lived, I quote a textbook “Fossil nests found with eggs, juveniles in nests with worn teeth, and adults found nearby all imply some dinosaurs brought food to babies or at least guarded them.” The above quote suggests that the scene was somehow frozen in time in order for the educator to make his observations.
Dinosaurs are supposed to have lived from about 240 to 65 million years ago. You will be shocked to know that they did not get these dates from carbon-14 dating nor potassium-argon, nor by uranium-lead dating nor by any scientific dating method. These dating methods only work for thousands of years, not millions. They date the fossil by when they think it evolved. They suppose that it takes a certain number of years for an amoeba to evolve into a dinosaur, and then they use this reckoning to date the bone. It is very unscientific The question is, how do bones last that long? Dinosaur fossils are mostly bone, not rock. Not all dinosaur remains are fully mineralized (petrified). Some are mostly bone. HOW WERE THEY ABLE TO DETECT A COMPLETE SKELETON AFTER A HUNDRED MILLION YEARS?
They were able to find complete skeletons because the skeletons are not quite as old as a hundred million years. In fact, for a skeleton to be fossilized, it takes a short period of time rather than a long period of time. Anyone who says that fossilization takes millions of years does not know what they are talking about. An animal is fossilized when it is buried rapidly in mud, but not in a sedimentary process of millions of years. Left to itself, a dead animal decays to dust almost immediately. And after a hundred million years would certainly not be a complete skeleton. So, a sudden landslide created fossils, not sedimentation. Fossilization takes between 5 to 100 years.
So what exactly did they find? They found complete skeletons of creatures mostly less than 15 feet long. About the size of a large crocodile. They did not find a Brontosaurus.
An article by Cecil Adams from the Internet reveals that the rivalry between O.C. Marsh and E.D. Cope in the 1800s mixed up the heads of two creatures, but museums only began to change the heads around again to fix the problem as late as 1970. But Yale’s museum still has the wrong feet. The article further reveals that Marsh was not too honest and was caught using a different head to make a species. This further reveals that skeletons found in museums worldwide are constructions based on the bones discovered by Marsh and Cope, bones which might not be completely honest.
QUOTE “In the late 1800s, O.C. Marsh was feverishly scouring the American West looking for new dinosaur species, lest he be beaten by his archrival, Edward Drinker Cope. Between the two of them, Cope and Marsh discovered half the vertebrate fossils known as of 1900. Unfortunately, what was popularly known as the “Dinosaur Wars” occasionally resulted in slipshod work.
“In 1879 Marsh dug up the skeleton of a jumbo-sized critter that was complete, except it didn’t have a head. Never one to get hung up on details, Marsh rummaged around in the veld until he found a couple skulls that looked like they might fill the bill. Voila, the brontosaurus.
“There was just one problem: one head was found four miles away from the main skeleton, the other one 400 miles away. Moreover, the skulls were found near the skeletons of another type of dinosaur called the camarasaurus, and in fact looked an awful lot like camarasaurus skulls. Marsh kept quiet about this in his scientific paper on the subject.
“In 1909 researchers for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History began digging up what turned out to be a pair of apatosauruses (Brontosaurus) in Utah. Near the neck of one, but detached from it, was a skull. It was not, however, a skull like the one Marsh had put on the creature, a camarasaurus-type skull, but rather looked like that of another big lizard, the diplodocus. In a 1915 paper, Carnegie Museum director William Holland hinted that perhaps O.C. Marsh had messed up and given the creature the wrong skull. But nobody believed him, since Marsh was still held in high esteem. In 1936 another paleontologist named Charles Gilmore reviewed Holland’s claim. Unfortunately, by this time the original diplodocus-type had gotten mixed up with a smaller skull that probably belonged to an actual diplodocus.
“It wasn’t until the 1970s that two researchers, Wesleyan University physicist John McIntosh and Carnegie Museum associate curator David Berman, were finally able to get all the heads straightened out. They assembled enough evidence to convince the scientific community to accept the real story. Museums around the country subsequently began modifying their skeletons accordingly–although I’m told that the apatosaurus at Yale’s museum still has camarasaurus feet. ” –CECIL ADAMS
DATING METHODS
There are other evidences to show that the Earth’s rocks are not millions of years old, besides the obvious fact that newer complete skeletons are found in the layers of rock.
Sir Isaac Newton (1643–1727), actually wrote more on biblical history than science. He vigorously defended a creation date of about 4,000 BC. This would mean the earth is approximately 6000 years old.
MODERN SO-CALLED SCIENTISTS HAVE USED UNSCIENTIFIC METHODS TO DETERMINE THAT THE EARTH IS 5 BILLION YEARS OLD.
The old ages for the Earth come primarily from the ages of rocks, which evolutionists date by the presumed ages of the fossils in them. Radioactive measurements of rocks are based on assumptions that were chosen to make the radioactive measurements agree with the presumed ages of the fossils.
• Naturalists choose an “index fossil,” one that is in a certain layer and date it by when they think it evolved – not by Carbon-14 dating, nor potassium-argon, nor by uranium-lead dating. They date the fossil by when they think it evolved. Then they date the rock by the fossil, and then they prove evolution by the date on the rock. This is circular reasoning.
A YOUNG EARTH
1. HUMAN POPULATION CAN BE EXTRAPOLATED BACKWARDS to see how long it would have taken to achieve present-day numbers. Using conservative growth figures of one-half percent per year, Earth’s population would have been eight people about 5,000 years ago, comparing very well with the number of people on Noah’s Ark. Based on evolution’s claim for the origin of man, the same ½ percent growth calculation for the human race results in a huge present day population that can not be justified by the fossil record or current statistics.
Quoting from a School text book “Dinosaurs lived from about 240 to 65 million years ago. Woolly mammoths and large sabertoothed cats lived about 3 million years ago. The first humans began 5 million years ago and modern humans began about 2 million years ago. No human ever saw a dinosaur, but humans did see wooly mammoths and saber-toothed cats.” It is complete nonsense that modern humans began about 2 million years ago assuming a reasonable ½ percent growth rate. THIS WOULD MEAN THAT AFTER 2 MILLION YEARS THE WORLD’S POPULATION WOULD STILL BE ONLY 8 PEOPLE!
2. RIVERS POUR TONS OF MATERIAL EVERY YEAR INTO THE EARTH’S OCEANS. Scientists know with a fair degree of accuracy the quantity of each element’s influx as well as the current concentration of these elements in the oceans compared with amounts which were originally there. By simple division, they can calculate the time it took to reach present levels, even accounting for sedimentation and dissipation. None of these elements give an age of the Earth even coming close to billions of years.
3. POLYSTRATIC FOSSILS. Polystratic trees are fossil trees that extend through several “strata” of rock, sometimes penetrating 20 feet deep. According to evolutionists, a 20 foot deposit of rock would take place slowly and uniformly, over a great many years. However, THE TOPS OF SUCH TREE TRUNKS WOULD HAVE DECAYED LONG BEFORE THE NEW ROCK LAYERS HAD A CHANCE TO SURROUND THEM. The same can be said about complete skeletons of dinosaurs found in layers of rock. At Katherine Hill Bay, Australia, a fossilized tree can be seen extending over twelve feet, through several sedimentary layers. This tree is testimony to the catastrophic and rapid burial that must have taken place.
4. COAL AND OIL DATED BY CARBON-14 TEST ONLY SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS OLD. Evolutionary theory predicts it to be millions of years old. When the carbon-14 test was first created, scientists used the process to date many different things including oil and coal. Tests of these two substances by this method revealed them to be only several thousand years old instead of millions of years old, as predicted by evolutionary theory. Once this method was shown to predict recent dates for oil and coal, scientists stopped dating oil and coal using this method.
5. THE COMPOSITION OF OIL REVEALS IT IS ONLY A FEW THOUSAND YEARS OLD. Laboratory and field research has demonstrated that coal is formed rapidly and in vast quantities. Modern laboratories can duplicate the formation of coal formation in a matter of days – or even hours. Furthermore, massive seams of coal in the Earth remain undiluted by influxes of clay and other impurities before they thicken.
6. EARTH’S OIL FIELDS LOSE PRESSURE. The pressure in modern day oil fields is too high for them to be very old. Current estimates indicate that the longest a rock layer could keep oil under pressure would be 100,000 years. Oil is simply not as old as evolutionists’ claim.
7. EARTH IS LOSING ITS HEAT. It is well known that the interior of the Earth is very hot. For each mile you descend, the temperature increases by 118 degrees Fahrenheit. The Earth is a thousand miles in diameter; the core is so hot that the rocks are molten. Yet as Earth passes through the extreme cold of outer space, it’s losing its heat. Even with the heat it receives from the sun, Earth’s net heat loss is 1027 calories per second. This means that if it started at 190 degrees Fahrenheit on the surface, Earth would have been frozen stone cold to the centre in the first 40 million years. If it were four billion years old, it should have been a huge sphere of ice over 100 times by now.
8. EARTH’S SPIN IS SLOWING DOWN at a rate of one third of a second every year. Extrapolating this back billions of years, we obtain an unreasonable spinning speed for the Earth.
9. EARTH’S MAGNETIC FIELD IS WEAKENING. Earth’s magnetic field has been measured since 1835. It is growing weaker and the rate at which it is growing weaker has been calculated. If we extrapolate backwards, even to 20,000 BC, the magnetic field would have been so strong Earth would have been like a star and nothing could have lived here. Extrapolating further back, it would have been so strong it would have crushed the surface of the Earth in on itself. This is still the case even if the magnetic field of the Earth has been oscillating between positive and negative over long periods of time, as some Evolutionists claim. Observations of the sun’s magnetic field’s changing from positive to negative show it loses more energy each time instead of gaining energy. Applying the same criteria to the magnetic field of the Earth, we see is that it drops the age of our planet to about six to eight thousand years.
10. DUST PARTICLES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM. Like a giant vacuum cleaner, the sun sweeps up almost 100,000 tons of inflow per day. The sun’s radiation pressure also pushes small, dust particles outward into space. This phenomenon is known as the Poynting-Robertson effect. If the solar system is really billions of years old, then the solar system should have been swept clean by now. But tons of space dust still remains in our solar system.
11. SPIRAL GALAXIES – THE EARTH IS NOT 5 BILLION YEARS OLD. When spiral galaxies make one full turn they leave behind distinctive pairs of arms because the interior stars move around faster than the outer stars. These galaxies are supposed to make one full turn every hundred million years meaning they should have a pair of arms for every 100 million years. If the Earth is five billion years old, galaxies should have so many arms they couldn’t be counted. But astronomers haven’t been able to find a galaxy with more than three pairs of arms, meaning they haven’t been able to find one that’s even half a billion years old.
12. STAR CLUSTERS. A star cluster contains hundreds or thousands of stars moving, as one author put it, “like a swarm of bees,” held together by gravity. But in some clusters, the stars are moving so fast that they could not have held together for millions or billions of years. Star clusters tell us that the age of the universe should be measured in thousands of years.
13. SUPER NOVA REMNANTS. When big stars run out of fuel, they explode. Some of these “super nova remnants” are visible from the Earth. According to astronomical theory, in galaxies of our size, approximately 7,250 super nova remnants should be visible. Using the creationist age of the galaxy, we should expect to find between 125 and 200 super nova remnants. The actual number of super nova remnants visible from the Earth is 205, which is very close to the creationist numbers.
EVOLUTION OPINION POLLS show well below 50% of Americans support Darwin’s theory according to an opinion poll carried out by Gallup.
Just in your opinion, do you think that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is a scientific theory that has been well-supported by evidence:
AMERICA Unchanged since they started asking this question 22 years ago:
35% believe it is supported by evidence, (Only a third!)
35% believe it is not supported, and
29% don’t know.
AMERICA: Did God create man in his present form less than 10 000 years ago and is the bible the literal word of God
35% yes
35% man developed over time, but God was guiding it
15% don’t know
12-15% God had nothing to do with it, and the Bible is a book of fables, legends, history, and moral precepts recorded by man
Only about 1/3 of Americans support Evolution. But in Britain, over 70% of British still do support Evolution, and believe that they descended from apes. Correspondingly, Britain is much less of a Bible-believing nation than America. The figures below suggest that where there is a strong belief in Evolution, there is a weak belief in the Bible. In other words, Evolution is a direct competitor against a literal belief in the Bible.
The countries with a stronger belief in Evolution are Britain, Germany and Italy, whereas countries with less than half the population who believe in Evolution are USA, Poland and Russia.
Bible Inerrancy vs. Evolution
Britain 7 : 77
Germany 13 : 73
Italy 27 : 66
USA 34 : 34
Poland 37 : 35
Russia 10 : 41
So, following the opinion polls, it is clear that Evolution wins very much depending on which country you are in. Former Communist countries have given up on evolution, such as Russia and Poland.
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT EVOLUTION AND MODERN THOUGHT
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