In a discussion with a woman priest some months ago, I had cause to mention Adam and Eve – and her mmediate response was 'There was no Adam and Eve!' Such is the state of unbelief even amongst Christian leaders that I am not surprised that so many of them are also evolutionists, with little regard for the scriptures.

Jesus himself, however, clearly believed the literal truth of the Genesis account of the creation of man and woman (Matthew 19:4), and assured his hearers on another occasion that 'the scriptures cannot be broken' (John 10:35).

Incidentally, Jesus' statement in Matthew's gospel about the creation of male and female presents evolution with a problem it just cannot solve. It is simply not possible that the action of natural selection on randomly generated DNA copying errors during reproduction could possibly have formed incredibly complex but complementary sex organs in independent organisms – such as womb, ovary, eggs and uterus, etc., in a woman, but penis, erectile mechanism, ejaculation and sperm, etc., in a man. I add the 'etc.' each time because simply listing names does not begin to convey the miraculous complexity involved. Dawkins admits he tries to avoid the subject of sex, preferring to claim that man and apes somehow evolved from common ancestors that already possessed the magical male and female organs. How does he get away with it?

Devout Creationists Disagree

Like Jesus, however, devout Creationists, as a group, also profess to believe the literal truth of the Genesis account of creation. But, sadly, they are sharply divided over the age of the earth, with both groups publishing supposedly rigorous scriptural proofs of their opposing positions. So, if the question cannot be solved by recourse to scripture, what can be done?

The Talking Bible

It is important to realize that the scriptures are not the only source of knowledge about God. For as we read in Psalm 19:1-3: 'The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament showeth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.' In other words, no matter what language a person speaks, they can all see the glory of God's creation, with no need for a translator – thanks to a big talking Bible in the sky!

Paul expands that message to point out that the whole creation, not just the heavens, impart knowledge of God (Romans 1:19-20). In other words, the whole universe is an incredible audio-visual environment designed to demonstrate God's creative power and genius. This is why it has been found that simply gazing at an object such as a flower is a great help in stimulating creative action, and why Solomon was able to draw important lessons from nature, such as observing the industrious working methods of the little ant.

Science and the Bible Must Agree

The study of that audio-visual environment is now called Science. So clearly, accurate science and the Bible should be in total agreement. If they are not, then we have got something wrong. How, then, can we use science to resolve the conflict between young-earth and old-earth creationism?

One sensible approach would be to compare the claims of each group with well-established findings of science and see which matches up best and leaves the fewest unresolved problems.

Some Questions and Answers

For the sake of brevity in dealing with the questions that follow, OE and YE are used to denote old-earth and young-earth answers.

1) Astronomers agree that some stars and galaxies are so far away in space that their light arriving on earth at this moment has taken millions of years to reach us. How, then, can the universe be only six thousand years old?

YE – The speed of light must have changed, or God must have created stars with streams of light already connecting to earth.

OE – No problem. When we see that light, we are looking into the past. The universe could be millions of years old.

2) Radiometric dating of rock strata suggest the earth is millions of years old.

YE – The decay constants of radioactive elements must have changed.

OE – No problem, although the techniques are complex and can be misapplied. Also the Carbon-14 method used to date remains of organic origin assumes that the amount of radio carbon in the atmosphere has always been the same as it is now.

3) Paleozoic and Mesozoic fossils depict at totally different and violent world, populated by hordes of bizarre and often gigantic but now-extinct organisms that Rev William Buckland called 'Satan's creatures'.

YE – The book of Job describes a creature that might be some kind of dinosaur!

OE – No problem, there was a prehistoric age, a previous creation. As marked by the recently discovered K-T boundary, that world seems to have been catastrophically destroyed, leaving the earth in the darkened, flooded and lifeless state described in the first two verses of Genesis.

4) At what time in the past six thousand years of human existence were the moon and all the planets NASA has explored devastated – or did God make them that way?

YE – We think it must have something to do with Noah's Flood!

OE – No problem, it all fits in with the catastrophic events already mentioned.

5) If all or most of the earth's fossil-bearing sedimentary rock strata were created by Noah's Flood, why is no evidence of human habitation in the lower strata – such as tools, shaped stone building blocks, etc.?

YE – Well . . .

OE – No problem – man did not exist in the prehistoric age, so no artefacts.

6) According to the official statement of the 'Affiliation of Christian Geologists', professionals in the field, the scientific evidence favours an old earth.

YE – We know we are right, so they must be wrong!

OE – No problem – they are committed Christians with professional expertise in geology.

7) If Noah's Flood was such a violent event that it created massive rock strata, as in the Grand Canyon, how come the dove sent out from the ark soon after the deluge returned with a fresh olive twig?

YE – An olive plant can spring up quite quickly.

OE – The purpose of the Flood was to destroy the wicked, not massively restructure the earth's surface and create oil and coal reserves – and apparently left trees standing. Notice also that the Euphrates and Tigris rivers that existed before the Flood still existed afterwards.

8) The heavens and earth already exist in the first two verses of Genesis, before the creation week had even begun. How come?

YE – Hmmm. That is a bit tricky.

OE – No problem. That is where the 'gap' concept comes from. Genesis speaks of two 'earths', the flooded earth or globe itself that already existed in verse one, and the present habitable dry land or earth that was created in verse 10 when the flood waters were drained off to form the sea.

The Antiquity of the Globe

Prior to the development of the science of geology, the young-earth belief probably seemed obvious to the casual reader of Genesis, just as the belief that the earth was the centre of the solar system seemed obvious to the theologians of Galileo's day. Common sense also suggested the earth was flat and that the sun moved around the earth as it rose and set – until science proved otherwise.

Faced with their own fossil discoveries, decades before Darwin, devout Christian geologists such as Rev. William Buckland were forced to study Genesis anew and more carefully. They came to realize, although the scriptures specify the age of man on earth as some six thousand years, they do not fix the antiquity of the globe itself, which may well be millions of years old.

This increase in knowledge should not surprise us. It was Peter who urged Christians to grow in grace and knowledge (2Peter 3:18), and it was Peter to whom God revealed that the Gentiles could be saved (Acts 10) – a fact that even Peter himself found hard to accept, but one which Paul later realized had been clearly supported by scriptures in the Old Testament all along (Isaiah 11:10).

Mankind is currently experiencing the end-time explosion of knowledge foretold by the ancient prophet Daniel (Daniel 12:1-5). The science of geology is part of that knowledge, and when properly understood and applied, can aid our understanding of the Bible.

A Killer Text?

The key young-earth belief, or 'killer text', seems to be the wording of the fourth commandment as given to Moses (Exodus 20:11), which says very clearly that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is. Nobody is disputing that fact. However, a literal reading of the full Genesis account being referred to is actually describing how God repaired the devastated, darkened, lifeless, flooded earth that already existed in verses one and two, before the six days of creation week had even begun.

The words earth and heaven occur in two different contexts in Genesis. Careful reading shows that during creatrion week the term earth was applied to the habitable land mass that was formed when the flood waters were drained off into what God then called the sea. The account also describes how a new atmosphere or heaven was created. It is that earth, heaven and sea, and flora and fauna that populated them that the verses in Exodus are referring to. This simple literal 'gap theory' interpretation fits well with both science and the Bible.

A Bubbling Brook

Young-earth creationists have to resort to all manner of elaborate technical arguments to refute the clear claims of science, as can be checked by visiting their websites. However, according to the famous 'Occam's razor' principle, the simplest explanation is usually the right one. And Solomon tells us that wisdom should be crystal clear like a “bubbling brook”, not obscure like “deep waters” (Proverbs 18:4)

Nevertheless young-earth believers continue to bring the Bible and Christianity into scientific disrepute in the eyes of school boards, the law courts and the media – and are actually helping keep evolution alive, by providing it with easy targets that they attack with relish.

More seriously, perhaps, they are also perpetuating a crisis for young Christian believers who go to college and become disillusioned with their faith when they find themselves ill-equipped to cope with the evolutionary ethos of the education system and the onslaught on their beliefs.

Losing the Battle Against Evolution?

As already mentioned, Christians do not need to fear evolution – which is a hollow atheistic sham, a mixture of unwarranted assumption, vague verbosity, exaggeration, self-deception and wishful thinking. The more science discovers of the incredible complexity-within-complexity of God's creation, the more Darwin's theory is exposed for the infantile rubbish it really is. How much longer can such nonsense carry on posing as serious science and hoodwinking the intellectual elite of the western world?

How much longer, too, can the majority of creationists in general go on fighting (and losing) the war against evolution by using an antiquated and incomplete understanding of Genesis (i.e. the young-earth concept), which might be compared to a bow and arrow, when a fuller interpretation (i.e. the old-earth or gap theory concept) has been made available, and might be compared to a machine gun?

Choose your weapons!

All the world is a stage, says William Shakespeare, in As You Like It, and all the men and women merely players – a vision of a truly Global Theatre, with a cast of billions, actors and extras, plus a vast range of props and backdrops.

Shakespeare evidently perceived, as Jesus and Paul point out, that the earth and universe constitute a cinemascopic, wrap-around, 3-D audio-visual environment, a truly interactive learning experience of pain and pleasure, awe and wonder, joy and sorrow, hope and despair. A scenario that reveals the glory of God and blasts evolution to bits.

Shakespeare was clearly at one with nature – a key principle of creative genius as taught in Solomon's Song of Songs. Perhaps this is why, in As you Like It, he also has a character saying that he “finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.” Having quoted from 42 book of the Bible in his plays, Shakespeare must have read Psalm 19, which says that: “The heavens declare the glory of God . . . and day unto day utters speech, and night unto night shows knowledge” – matters above and beyond the realm of evolution and biology.

Meta Level Magic

The word meta means beyond or higher – and in his letter to the Romans (chapter 1:19-20), the Apostle Paul also reveals a meta level of creative design in the world, a dimension that Darwin apparently knew nothing about, or was not willing to admit even if he did. Paul informs us that: “The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead” – so that the things God has created, the very flora and fauna that Charles Darwin was so desperate to attribute to the action of natural selection, are actually designed to do far more than merely exist and search for food and reproduce.

They are designed to impart understanding – to communicate, to speak and act out messages and lessons programmed into them by their Maker. Manifesting in particular, the glorious plan of the Kingdom of God and redemption through Jesus Christ.

For example, although Darwin was deeply troubled by the violence he saw in nature, he failed to realize that the evils he saw were manifestations of the human nature that Adam and Eve took on in the Garden of Eden when they rejected God's direct warnings and ate of the forbidden fruit.

Again, despite his theological training, Darwin apparently also forgot that the original ecology of the creation week account was benign and non-violent – a condition that will be restored at Christ's return, as described by the prophets (Isaiah chapter 2).

When Adam and Eve chose to reject God's guidance, however, that ecology was changed – in order to demonstrate the dangers and end results of the selfish and competitive path that has led mankind to violence, war, misery, disease and the verge of self-destruction.

I suspect that every organism demonstrates some kind of key lesson, good or bad – such as the greedy pig, the sloth, the loan shark, the dog that returns to its vomit, the lizard whose low profile gains him entrance to the king's palace, the proud lion, the industrious ant, the poisonous snake, the protective mother hen, the spider that tries and tries to reach its goal, the overly anxious snail that retreats into its shell at the least provocation, and the silly ostrich that buries its head to deny reality – and the butterfly whose amazing metamorphosis must depict death and resurrection to spirit life, as does a wrinkled potato or bulb that is buried in the ground only to emerge later in a new and glorious form. And so it goes.

Metaphorical Messaging

Darwinism has been described as the most seductive idea in science – and so it is, one that warps the mind and induces momentary insanity. A similar metaphor would be the nibbling of a magic mushroom that induces hallucinations of unreality. Paul speaks, also, of false religious ideas that can spread around the world like a cancer in the body. Germs, also, clearly depict invisible spirit forces that can infect our thinking and even make us sick.

The metaphorical nature of the world, the ingrained intellectual messaging, is simply too amazing to have come about as an accident of mindless evolution. It is on a different level to the biology of cells and DNA, beyond intelligent design, and has been programmed into organisms by a higher power, expressing spiritual principles and purposes that no system of Natural Selection could know anything about. As a result, it is no accident that some key metaphors occur over and over in the Bible.

Major Metaphors

Note that the messaging goes beyond the level of living organisms. In the very physical structure of the cosmos, for example, it is evident that each day depicts our lives – the youth of the morning, to the tired old age of evening. Likewise the pattern of the seasons – from the youth of spring to the old age of winter.

Had you realized that each night, when you go to bed, you metaphorically die – which is why death is described in the Bible as sleep. And that next morning, you are metaphorically resurrected to new life. These things are no accident of nature, but are the deliberate design of God, showing how His plan of redemption is being worked out. If we seek the Truth about life, then, let us not go to the inane ideas of the desperate Charles Darwin, but to the inspired and scientifically accurate word of God and the Genesis account of creation.

The Spirit of God at Work

It is no accident that the miraculous substance we call water, with which we wash away dirt and microbes, is a direct type of the Holy Spirit of God that wipes away sin. No wonder repentant believers were baptised by immersion in water. And no wonder Moses required vessels to be washed in running water, a key principle of hygeine that was neglected for thousands of years, but when restored did more to elimnate disease than any other measure. Incidentally, even going to the toilet has a metaphorical significance that I leave the reader to consider.

Light is also a powerful metaphor for the Holy Spirit of God – as it removes darkness, just as knowledge dispells ignorance, and illuminates our path, and imparts joy.

It seems significant that Darwin was greatly troubled by the utter complexity of the human eye, the very device that enables us to see light and receive information – and metaphorically understand Truth in general. Each day, the earth emerges from darkness into the light of the sun – just as one day soon, the world will emerge from this dark age of Darwinism, false religion and ignorance into the true Light.

Energy itself, in all its forms, is a mighty metaphor for the power of God. Indeed it is energy that has transformed the lot of mankind, freeing them from the slavery of manual labour. That mysterious entity, which defies the understanding of science, is eternal and cannot be created or destroyed – although it can be changed from one form to another– such as chemical, electrical, mechanical and thermal. Astonishingly, as Einstein discovered and quantified, the whole earth, including our bodies, is composed of packets of energy in the form of particles of matter – electrons, neutrons and protons. And, incredibly, every object and organism on earth is composed from those three tiny building blocks, which of themselves are actually invisible until light bounces off them, or until heated to a high enough temperature.

The Gap Theory

As warmth, energy typifies love – and without that heat our lives would be miserable and our bodies would die. It is interesting that the fossil record shows a break between a prehistoric world dominated by cold-blooded reptilian monsters, and the present age of mammals, warm-blooded and potentially cuddly creatures. As revered evolutionist , George Gaylord Simpson, described it, the most puzzling event in the history of life on earth is the change from the Mesozoic Age of Reptiles to the age of Mammals. He likened it to a curtain coming down on that violent pre-historic age, and then rising again to show an entirely different cast on the stage, the leading parts now being taken by mammals.

Simpson's observation is supported by the ancient but oddly-neglected Gap Theory which teaches, as geology suggests and a literal reading of Genesis allows, that there was prehistoric age before this one – a world that was destroyed in one or a series of mass extinctions, leaving the earth in the darkened, formless and empty state described in the very first few verses of the Bible. That world was one of competition and violence – but the present one, originally at least, one of peace and love.

Continuing Shakespeare's metaphor, the Gap Theory suggests we are now in Act 2 of God's cosmic drama – with Act 1 being the previous prehistoric age, and Act 3 to follow, the Kingdom of God on earth, a new world of peace and joy for all mankind. A happy ending!

Parables

It was no accident of evolution that Jesus, the one who actually created the universe (Ephesians 3:9), was able to draw so many important spiritual lessons from nature – such as the parable of the sower and the seed. The simple fact is that the world is an audio-visual environment carefully designed to teach important principles – proof absolute that all organisms are the creative handiwork of God, not mindless evolution.

Jesus instructed his disciples to consider aspects of the natural world, such as the way lilies do not toil or spin, yet their beauty exceeds that of any man-made garments. So, like Solomon, why not take time to stop and stoop down to consider the industrious little ant and the way he works in cooperation with others to store up food for the winter?

Gardening teaches many lessons. Trees bear fruit, for example – good things that give benefits to mankind, just as a people are intended to produce good works, and that we do not worship God by rituals, but by the way we live and treat other people. Even the soil itself teaches us lessons – the fact that we “reap what we sow”, hopefully good plants, not weeds that need to be uprooted before they become too big and established.

Brainstorming

Even man and woman and sex and reproduction illustrate the purposes of God and the Church, as typified by father and mother in a family and the fact that we are literally to be children of God (1 John 3:2), as Jesus tells us in the Lord's Prayer. The Bible even makes a distinction between begettal or conception and birth. Despite the claims of many preachers to the contrary, Christians are not yet born of the Spirit, but are begotten, and being metaphorically in the womb for the moment.

For as Jesus explained in another powerful metaphor (John 3:6), a person born of the Spirit would not be a physical being, but would be invisible, like the wind that blows and can exert force and move things, but is intangible. Paul makes the same point in 1 Corinthians 15. This is why, when God breathed the breath of life into Adam at this creation, the phrase has both a literal and spiritual meaning.

Nature actually teaches the principles of creativity, which is why God put Adam and Eve in a garden. The principles of Brainstorming, for example, can be summarised in the word SCAMPER? – a mnemonic for asking what elements of a problem situation can be Substituted, Combined, Adapted, Magnified/minimised, Put to other uses, Eliminated, Rearranged/reversed?

These principles of variation are demonstrated ad infinitum in any garden by the way plants have – stems that thinner/thicker , smooth/textured – petals and leaves and other parts that are more/fewer, bigger/smaller, and different colours – patterns and fragrances, creeping, climbing, entwining habits, deep or shallowed roots, etc. , etc..

The Sexual Chemistry of Creativity

The pollination of flowering plants also demonstrates one of the most powerful creative principle, already alluded to, namely that of Combination – in which grains of pollen are transferred from stamen to stigma, either by the action of the wind, as in cereal crops, or in fruit trees by the bustling bee who is rewarded by a droplet of nectar. On their own, pollen and stigma are of no value, but by fusing together, fruit is produced. Endless inventions have come about by this process, such as Gutenberg combining the power of the grape press he watched at work in a field one day with the printing plate, enabling the mass creation of printed books, one page at a time.

As many creative individuals have perceived over the centuries, and as Solomon realized and built into the Song of Songs, the human process of begettal is a powerful, but not complete, metaphor for the conception of new works of art – books, paintings, songs, music and business projects. Like an embryo in the mother's womb, those projects slowly grow and develop and are then brought to reality by a laborious final effort of birth. These matters are discussed in detail in The Principles of Excellence (Kindle version: King Solomon's Wisdom Trilogy – part 2: Genius 101).

Blindness

The list goes on and on, but perhaps a good place to stop is with the affliction of blindness. Although we can all choose to close our physical and metaphorical eyes, some people sadly are literally blind. Sadly too there are those who are spiritually blind, who despite their erudite and seemingly scientific books, cannot actually perceive the glory of God's creation and wish instead, like Charles Darwin, to attribute all to the mindless action of Natural Selection and DNA copying errors.

Realizing also, as he has Hamlet telling Horatio that: “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in your philosophy . . . “, I have little doubt that Shakespeare must have read Genesis with great care, realizing there is more to man and animals than mere atoms and molecules. And that there is a spirit in man that impart intellect, imagination, creativity and instinct (Job 32:8).

If confronted by Darwin's inane and infantile theory, I think Shakespeare would have seen it for the flimsy and infantile deception that it is. After all, Darwin himself admitted that his theory was "a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaws and holes as sound parts”. I leave the reader to explain how it was able to seduce the intellectual elite of the western world.

In conclusion, I think it is curtains for Darwinism, as evolution is now being exposed for the hollow atheistic and preposterous sham it really is. What remains now is for young-earth and old-earth creationists to get together and agree on the literal reading of Genesis that harmonizes with the real facts of science. Or . . . they could just read my book Evolution: R.I.P.!

Media commentators are fond of the phrase “There is an elephant in the

room” – by which they mean that a big, important and obvious issue is being

ignored, and attention is focused instead on less important matters.

The obvious implication is that the occupants of the room are deliberately

ignoring the massive beast – because they want to ignore it, do not want to

talk about it, and desperately hope that it will go away.

Such is the situation with evolution. This time the gigantic elephant in the

room that will not go away is the simple and embarrassing fact that even after

over a century of desperate searching, the zillions of fossils of the numberless

unfit intermediate forms required by Darwin's theory have simply not been

found. The simple fact is that they have not been found because they never

existed.

As Darwin admitted, such fossils should make up the overwhelming majority of

all fossils found, but they do not. He, of course, hoped and assumed that the

elephant would go away – suggesting that, given enough time, and the

exploration of more fossils beds, the elusive evidence would be found. But it

never was, and giant beast still squats in the corner waiting to be de-

materialized.

What confused Darwin was the existence of the bizarre fossils of now-extinct

organisms – trilobites, dinosaurs, pterodactyls, and the like. Those creatures,

he suggested, must have been the ancestors of today's organisms – and had

apparently died out because they were “unfit” to survive.

As proponents of the Genesis “gap theory” point out, however, such organisms

were simply the flora and fauna of a previous pre-historic age – which explains

why every fossil ever found has been that of a fully functioning, “fit” creature,

although now extinct.

According to G-Theory, an updated version of the Gap Theory, it was the

mass destruction of that previous age and its inhabitants that left the earth

“without form and void” with darkness on the face of the deep, as described in

Genesis 1:1. Such was the condition of the already-existing earth before the

famous “creation week” had even begun.

Evolution's latest attempt to expel the elephant from the room, before it makes

any more mess and intellectual embarrassment, is the technique of cladistics,

as explained below. To get the full picture, it will help to examine the fundamental claims of

evolution as stated by its supporters on Wikipedia. For example:

CLAIM 1: “Life on Earth originated and then evolved from a universal

common ancestor approximately approximately 3.7 billion years ago.

Comment: This statement neatly sums up the essence of evolution – what the

deluded Darwin came to accept as being a self-evident Truth, an axiom, a

reality that actually required no proof. You just have to believe it.

Note that evolution does not claim to explain the origin of life – that tricky

little problem is assigned instead to the theory of Abiogenesis. Last time I

checked, they were still working assiduously on it, and feeling that the rainbow

had come a little closer.

In fact, it is now seriously suggested, by the likes of James Crick, of DNA

double helix fame, that life somehow originated elsewhere in the universe and

was then carried here on a comet. Problem solved!

Supposedly, that original common ancestor, then magically evolved over

billions of years to create the mind-boggling complexity of life on earth that

science is now struggling to understand the workings of.

Incidentally, the only truth in the statement quoted, is the fact that the earth is

very old – as confirmed by the professionally qualified members of the

Affiliation of Christian Geologists. Sadly, young-earth creationists continue

to bring the Bible into scientific disrepute by insisting the earth is just six

thousand years old, thereby encouraging evolutionists in their infantile error.

CLAIM 2: 'The process of evolution can be inferred from shared sets of

biochemical and morphological traits, or by shared DNA sequences.

Comment: Having skipped over the origin of DNA, cells and the incredible

complexity of organisms in general, evolutionists next claim that any similarity

between two organisms, infers or proves they evolved from a common

ancestor, and ultimately from the one original universal common ancestor.

The inference is based on physical parallels only, and take no account of

matters such as mind, emotion, intelligence and instinct.

However, on the basis of this assumption, computer programs have now been

developed in order to shuffle and sort all manner of micro- and macroscopic

traits, and even similarities in DNA patterns, to create supposed lines of

descent from common ancestors. This technique is known as cladistics.

However, as a top Cambridge University evolutionist I heard lecture recently

commented: “It does not work!”

CLAIM 3: These traits and sequences are more similar among species that

share a more recent common ancestor, and can be used to reconstruct

evolutionary histories.

Comment: Darwin admitted that the real proof of his theory would be the

discovery of the fossils of zillions of failed and unfit “intermediate” forms, and

that they should dominate every fossil bed. Although those forms have still

not been found after over a century of searching, cladistics now generates

supposed “evolutionary histories” and lines of descent at the press of a

computer key. Leading the esteemed New Scientist magazine to claim that

we now have more intermediate forms than we can cope with.

Unfortunately, for the True Believer, no matter how interesting those imaginary

lines of descent may appear, computer programmes still cannot create reality –

i.e. the zillions of physical fossils of unfit intermediate forms that should

dominate every fossil bed on the face of the earth. The physical evidence is not

there. So, back to square one. Time to do some more digging.

CLAIM 4: Genetic variation is important because it provides the raw material

for Natural Selection. Genetic variation is brought about by mutation, a

change in a chemical structure of a gene.

Comment: Now comes the crucial question of a mechanism. How could one

species actually evolve into another one? Darwin never did explain it, and as

thoughtful evolutionists are having to admit, the mind-boggling variety of life

on earth and every sophisticated detail of their physiology, that he knew

nothing about, cannot possibly start to begin to commence to be explained by

the sifting and accumulation of random DNA copying errors.

CLAIM 5: Charles Darwin was the first to formulate a scientific argument for

the theory of evolution by means of natural selection.

Comment 5: As stated in the Genesis account of creation, organisms were

created to reproduce after their kind – a kind apparently somewhat similar

to species, which are basically defined as being organisms that cannot

reproduce with each other. God has designed into organisms the ability to

mutate and adapt to their environment and vary and produce all manner of

breeds and varieties, but within their kind – as plant and animal breeders knew

long before Darwin came on the scene.

Darwin's famous sparrows simply demonstrated this fact. However, the

desperate Darwin took this observation as visible proof of evolution in action –

making the schoolboy maths error of extrapolating the limit-ed variation seen

in farm animals, to imagined limit-less infinity in order to create brand new

organisms. Having thus deceived himself, Darwin later accused God of

“entrapment” for having created similarities.

CLAIM 6: Evolution by natural selection is a process that . . . creates and

preserves traits that are seemingly fitted for the functional roles they perform.

Natural selection is the only known cause of adaptation but not the only

known cause of evolution.

Comment: Darwin actually got things backwards – organisms are in fact

designed to vary and adapt to their environment, not vice versa. A fact that

Lamarck observed in nature but could not explain. Hence his theory was

rejected. It is interesting that Lamarck's theory did not require the existence of

zillions of unfit intermediate forms to have existed – and was therefore a more

accurate description of nature than Darwin's.

More recently, having rejected Darwin's evolutionary mechanism as being

preposterous nonsense, a British evolutionist of evangelical zeal, Derek

Hough, now speculates that organisms contain a self-developing genome, a

magical creative mechanism that allows them, a la Lamarck, to respond and

adapt to changing environments. Sadly, he believes that this micro-

evolutionary mechanism was invented by evolution, not by God. And arrived

here from another universe, probably on a comet. (For more information, see

The G-Man Interviews)

Darwin's Key Error

Darwin's childish mathematical mistake was to think that the limited variations

in a species (or “Kind”), such as he observed by breeding pigeons, could be

extrapolated ad infinitum to create new species. So although variation,

mutations in the DNA of organisms, is a fact of life, Darwin's concept of

limitless “evolution” is atheistic nonsense. Nevertheless, sadly, scientists are

still losing their jobs for failing to swear allegiance to Darwin's big lie.

The simple truth is that Micro-evolution, better called Variation, is a fact –

but Macro-evolution is a myth.

The Demise of Modern Medicine?

The reality of Micro-evolution, and its threat to modern medicine, is

demonstrated by the way many disease organisms have been mutating in

response to changed environments, and making themselves immune to

modern antibiotics

The discovery of antibiotics was a leap in modern medicine. They have been

able to stop the growth or kill many different kinds of micro-organisms.

However, bacteria have proven to be much more innovative and adaptive than

we imagined and have developed resistance to antibiotics at an ever increasing

pace. Bad practices and mismanagement have only exacerbated the situation.

We could soon return to a state of medical health as dire as that prior to the

antibiotic era.

Penicillin, for example, was discovered in 1929 by Sir Alexander Fleming, who

famously observed that the growth of staphylococci bacteria on an agar plate

contaminated by a Penicillium mould as prevented. It is interesting that the

ancient Egyptians actually used such moulds to heal wounds.

The new drug came into clinical usage in 1946 and made a huge impact on

public health. Fleming, and his co-workers were awarded the Nobel prize in

1945. Their discovery and development revolutionized modern medicine.

However, evidence soon began to accumulate that bacteria had genes for drug

resistance that could be passed on to other strains of bacteria, such as MRSA,

by exchanging chunks of DNA called transposons. As a result, more people in

the U.S. now die from MRSA infection than from AIDS.

Such is the incredible complexity that science just beginning to discover, but

whose origins they cannot explain.

With a degree of foolish overconfidence like that exhibited by Adam and Eve in

eating the forbidden fruit, agricultural drug companies have doled out

antibiotics indiscriminately and routinely to farm animals in the hope of

preventing rather than curing disease. The result has been the development of

drug resistance in bacteria in the animals and also in the people who eat the

animals.

Antibiotic resistance is an illustration of Micro-evolution at work. Micro-

evolution, as discussed above, is often presented as proof that evolution is a

fact, not just a theory. At best evolution is a half-truth – the true part being

that there is limited variation engineered into organisms – and the false part

being the claim that all organisms are the result of Macro-evolution from

some mythical common ancestor, by the action of Natural Selection on DNA

copying errors.

Unfortunately, it was noted in a recent news item that the major drug

companies have little interest in developing the new antibiotics the world

needs because they will have a short and unprofitable life – unlike drugs for

many other conditions that patients will need to swallow every day for the rest

of their lives.

The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle famously said “The metaphor – that's the thing!” However, King Solomon of Israel also recognized the power of the metaphor as a creative tool, but several centuries before Aristotle was even born, making it a key teaching in his famous “Song of Songs”, which research suggests was actually a master class in creativity and genius – an educational tool that could have brought modern technology to the world several thousand years earlier.

The metaphor, which depends on the perception of similarities between apparently unrelated situations, is a key instrument of invention. The screw propellor, for example, was invented by a man who watched the way a screw pulled itself into a piece of wood – instantly realizing that a screw immersed in water, perhaps similar to that used by Archimedes two thousand years ago in irrigation projects, might be able to pull itself through the sea, and with it the boat to which it was attached. Although the novel idea was instantly rejected by the British Admiralty at the time, it is now a vital element in nautical design.

Misleading Metaphors

Metaphors can, however, be misleading. For example, in the days of Harvey it was thought that the blood flowed to and from the heart along arteries – just like the tide coming and the going out. A nice natural metaphor, but not a very hepful one. Finding that explanation inadequate to explain the observed facts, Harvey hit on a different metaphor – that of the moon circulating around the earth, or the earth around the sun.

As a result of his work, we now know that blood circulates – flowing away from the heart along arteries, then through a network of capillaries and back again via the veins – an incredible 60,000 miles of tubing. Incidentally, we now also know that the heart pumps some of the blood through itself. How any intelligent person can accept Charles Darwin's insane idea that all that complexity-within-complexity and astonishing design somehow created itself by a accumulation of small differences (or DNA copying errors in modern parlance) is totally beyond me. Nevertheless, sadly, I read in the news this week of a scientist who has lost his job for refusing to believe Darwin's satanic deception.

Apparently the paper on which Harvey recorded his discovery, which is preserved in the British Museum, shows that he was so excited and impatient to record it, that although he started writing it down in scientific Latin, he completed it in English.

Deliberate Action

Solomon himself provides some simple but powerful metaphors in the book of Ecclesiastes. For example,”If a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie” (chapter 11:3). This and other seemingly simplistic observation are discussed in our e-book “Reality 101”.

Obviously, the fallen tree will lie there until it rots away or until somebody sees the value of the timber it contains and decides to take creative action and make something happen that would not otherwise happen. The tree seems to be a metaphor for the issues of life – and Solomon's intention is for us to start examining our lives, start asking questions, taking deliberate action and making changes that would not otherwise happen. How much of your life is the result of careful planning and how much by random circumstance?

For example, what bad habits do you need to eliminate? When did you last think seriusly in a casue-and-effect manner about your diet, your fitness, your alcohol consumption? What about your basic attitudes and reactions, as expressed in the tone of voice with which you address other people, perhaps those under your management? How efficiently do you spend your income and your time?

Unexploited Assets

Clearly, the fallen tree may have lain there for some years, a neglected asset. Do you have neglected potential – educational and creative abilities? What plans do you have for further education? What about your children? Do you ever discuss their school reports, their aspirations, and fallen “trees” that might be blocking their progress and shutting off career paths?

The older you are, the greater the chance that your life is littered with quite a number of fallen trees that need attention. What career paths have they blocked, what opportunities do you need to think about? Do you need help to move some of the trees? Is simple complacency one of your trees? There are many more lessons to be drawn out – what kind of fallen trees do you have, and what specific purposes does their timber fit them for? How do you move a tree? Does it need cutting up into smaller pieces? Keep thinking!

Solomon wants us to ask questions, identify options, and take deliberate creative action to make things happen that would otherwise not happen. As Anthony Robbins points out, that is still the key habit that separates the successful person from life's also-rans and spectators. Nothing new under the sun!