Anyone who believes any of the statements made by this web page, needs to know that most of the statements are completely false.
Willl the author please provide a bibliography for their research, as none of the statements, or conclusions are based on any peer reviewed science, and are typical of this kind of DIY Pseudo science.
'fossil trilobites and footprints of a human in the same piece of rock': NO
'evolution starts with dead matter': are you thinking of abiogenesis?
'dinosaurs or lizards have evolved into chickens' : Dinosaurs were not lizards
'snails were 65 million years old. Back home in our ditch we have the same snails and they are living': not the same.
'However, when we examine the Evolutionary Tree we find that all of these species (or their counterparts) for the most part, are living today' : hmmmmm counterparts?? how would that happen?multi creations? trilobytes living today?dinosaurs living today? Neanderthals living today?
ETCETCETC do some research pls.
We do find missing links all the time, the main problem we have is deciding which examples are correct, as there are so many(which in itself is incredible, since fossils are so hard to form), this is where the debate comes from.
Saying things like one species looks like, or is similar to, or is the same, as a fossilised example(not that your examples are correct in most cases) actually supports evolution, it shows how old species are, and where they come from, and that different animals have evolved into the same evolutionary niches(or successfully occupied that niche for a long time), look at marsupials and how they inhabit similar niches to mammals. Animals that we see today are the end result of a chain of evolution, not as he claims part of current animals evolution.
All peer reviewed papers support evolution, none deny it.In our world this is weight of evidence, it is no longer a theory, it is accepted fact by anyone who respects research, proof, science and logic. This website is modern day brainwashing, by someone who does not use facts, does not use evidence, and has no respect for science.
Andy, where is the bibliography of your rebuttal? All you have done with this whole page is produce rhetoric. I did not read one single complete sentence that preformed a disagreement followed by a "scientifically" proven rebuttal along with your evidence and bibliographed argument. Be specific Andy, if you have a real argument then don't scwabble like a small child. Have a solid rebuttal along with your "proof" and have your bibliography ready, as you claim is necessary to have a true position. You have said nothing true to science yourself. Be a man Andy. Admit when you have no real evidence but your own opinions. I'm sure you are a liberal too because that's what they do. They talk, and have nothing of any substance to say. Just whatever pops in their head as a disagreement with their beliefs is a false statement. Well if you really believed that stuff you are peddling you would have backed it up with real evidence, not Talk! Your adversary here has proclaimed his sources. He quoted the Bible. You have not quoted one source other than your opine. Thanks but No. Listen Andy the truth is the more we learn about the science of our planet, the more we realize we do not know. So, let's wait until the whole story is told before we draw our conclusions ok? See if I showed you God and you saw him with your own eyes. He spoke to you and personally told you the truth about all things related, you would still deny the facts and him. I am sure of it. God Could forgive you. I pray he does. -Jim.
Adam, First of all, the Bible is very distinct when it says that God made all things in 6 literal days, and after that He rested the seventh day for everything that God had made was complete. This would exclude the billions of years that people believe is necessary for evolution to take place.
You make it sound like Christians are anti-science. All the founding fathers of almost every scientific principle were Bible Believing Christians. Today, athiests and all others are riding on their coat tails. Also today there are tens of thousands of Christian scientists who do not believe in evolution, in fact, they see that true science refutes evolution.
As for me, I love science. What I hate is lies like evolution that are said to be scientific and supported by science. Evolution is the worlds biggest hoax. It is also one of the worlds biggest faiths for there is not one shred of empiracle evidence that supports it, people believe it because they have been told that it is true. It is a belief system, a faith, a religion.
The fact of the matter is that if you would discard all the teachings of evolution out of the schools and universities, the world would not miss it, for no scientific principle relies on it. It is a useless theory and a big wate of taxpayers dollars. If a doctor or engineer never heard of evolution it would bring no disability to his profession. The doctor could still do heart surgury and the engineer could still design buildings.
You say the Bible can be disproven, well, give it your best shot. If you are serious about this, and would open your heart and mind, you will find out that it is the infallible Word of God. You can make all the claims you want, lets see the proof.
What you will find in the Bible is a loving God who is able to forgive all your sins through Jesus Christ and remove them from you as far as the east is from the west. It does not say from north to south for that is a measurable distance. If you head in a westerly direction however, you will be able to do so for infinity for there is no "west pole" or "east pole".
How do you know that your Christian "God" did not create evoloution?
You don't.
Funny how easy it is for you to attack science, yet you are using science for your own gains. (Like the internet, driving and electricity etc.)
Next time a Christian needs science in their life, maybe it should be denied and we science minded people say, let their god cure their diseases etc.
There is nothing wrong with being a good person and putting faith in to something, but why do you have to condemn ideas that can be proven, yet you base all of your claims on something that has not even been remotely proven yet.
The bible says alot, it can be disproven as well. It is much like a horroscope where it can be so vague that it can be applied to anything. It is all in how you see it.
Look at the Christian churches centruires ago persecuting scientists who said the world was round, then now days you say no the bible was right all the time it mentions god can seperate you and your sins as far as east is from west, and how theres 4 round corners to the world...
I have not seen an army of scientists who destroyed people for their religious beleifs, but last I checked Christians went on the old war path in God's name several times...
Why not realize that most things like lightning and thunder were not understood at one time, because evoloutionary wise, people were much mentaly simplistic. So in place of saying I do not know, they said because a God made it.
The Christian religion has only proven that it is OK to harm others ways of thought that do not agree with them, keeping people ignorant is much easy to control them. A scientist can accept the ideas of being wrong and opening their minds up, where as a Christian is self perceived as "always right".
Be good to one another, if you can't prove something or don't understand it, it is better to shut up about it than saying "God made it that way and everyone else has the wrong idea.
God did create evolution and anything else your brain can think up. Because he created you. Science is what proves the existence of God because it provides us with a way to understand how he did these things we know of. See Andy, science shows us and proves to us the laws by which God made things work. It shows us how evolution works. Everything is evolving. You are confusing evolution with creationism. Evolution is not an explanation of where we came from. It simple shows that all things are changing. Everything you know of in this vast universe was created by God. With a word from his mouth. You have been given free will not to believe that if you choose. However, if you don't believe it, that will not make it untrue. If you go backwards in time from now you come to a Big Bang by our science. That is exactly how the Bible says God created this universe. If you go backwards in time from you, you do not come to a primordial soup in a salty ocean. You come to another Adam,who I bet you were named after and who was created by God from the dust of the Earth. You can read about it in the Bible if you want a bibliography. Even that word sounds familiar. Hmm, I wonder, does bibliography mean from science or from the Bible? Like it or not, there is a God in heaven and he created this whole universe we live in. -Jim.
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3. As for Archaeopteryx, it appears to have distinct and fully functioning feathers just like any other modern bird. That is light years away from scales. I am aware that there are recent claims that Archaeopteryx is not a bird at all, neither is it an ancestor to any modern bird groups, however, I am waiting to see how this all falls out. Nevertheless, the latest on dino to bird evolution is refuted by the evolutionists themselves. In an article entitled "Discovery Raises New Doubts About Dinosaur-Bird Links" (Science Daily, June 9, 2009) it states, "Researchers at Oregon State University have made a fundamental new discovery about how birds breathe and have a lung capacity that allows for flight - and the finding means it's unlikely that birds descended from any known theropod dinosaurs. The conclusions add to other evolving evidence that may finally force many paleontologists to reconsider their long-held belief that modern birds are the direct descendants of ancient, meat-eating dinosaurs, OSU researchers say." The discovery demonstrates that, in spite of popular BELIEF (re:faith), dinosaurs could not have evolved into birds. The research, however, is consistent with the Genesis record, which states that birds were created after their own kinds. And land creatures, including dinosaurs, were created on the following day-each with the ability to reproduce more of its own kind. (Genesis 1:20-25). Thus, the biblical order of origin is the opposite of evolutionary theory, which holds that dinosaurs came first. Interestingly, bird fossils are also in the opposite order, as Ruben pointed out: "For one thing, birds are found earlier in the fossil record than the dinosaurs they are supposed to have descended from."
Later in the article their admission is very telling: Paleontologist, John Ruben of Oregon State is quoted saying, "old theories die hard, especially when it comes to some of the most distinctive and romanticized animal species in world history. Frankly, there's a lot of museum politics involved in this, a lot of careers committed to a particular point of view even if new scientific evidence raises questions. In some museum displays, he said, the birds-descended-from-dinosaurs evolutionary theory has been portrayed as a largely accepted fact, with an asterisk pointing out in small type that "some scientists disagree". Our work at OSU used to be pretty much the only asterisk they were talking about, But now there are more asterisks all the time. That's part of the process of science."
4. As far as crocodiles go, we agree that there is the ability within the genome of any species to produce variety within defined limits, this is what the Scriptures teach. However, we do not see one species migrate into a totally different species. This is genetically impossible no matter how many billions of years you want to believe in. Tell me, if we see crocodiles in the "evolutionary past" and in the present, what did they evolve from. Perhaps the "Effigia"? On January 26th, CNN.com reported "A toothless, two-legged crocodile ancestor that walked upright and had a beak instead of teeth was discovered in the basement of New York's American Museum of Natural History". They state, "Effigia is closely related to an ancient group of reptiles called crocodilians". The article even says "[Effigia's] skull and skeleton were very similar to those of ostrich dinosaurs". Does this sort of �evidence� convince you that evolution is true? Evolutionist Mark Norell states that "this is a case of convergence" (CNN.com 2006). The word convergence is commonly used when secular scientists don't know anything about the alleged evolution of an animal. Norell goes on to state that this creature "evolved more than once" (CNN.com 2006). This is certainly not a scientific explanation. Again, the question must be asked how the secular scientists know what they purport to be true. From our very limited exposure, creationists would view this bizarre creature as having similar structures designed by the Creator to meet similar needs as other animals like it. Many see this as just one more paleontological flash in the pan. Some artist will use his imagination to flesh out what he thinks Effigia looked like. People will be enthralled and then Effigia will pass into the annals of evolutionary history without a satisfactory evolutionary explanation.
Dear walk-in, We have replied to many of the evolutionists arguments as you can see if you read through the comments section. We will attempt to do so for you also. An open mind and a sincere search for the truth is required by anyone on any side of the creation/evolution conflict, and I do my best to maintain this in searching out the ever increasing amount of data in our age of information. I have been a Roman Catholic like the previous commenter, but through searching the Scriptures after the admonition of several “Protestants”, if they could so be called, I found their claims to be true to the Bible and the religion in which I grew up I found to be a total perversion when dealing with almost every major doctrine in the Bible. I was left with the decision to believe what the popes and priests said was the truth or the Scriptures which they claimed to follow but did not. As with the creation/evolution conflict, we can believe man (scientists) or do our own research and come to our own conclusions. It might lead to conflict in our own lives and ostracization from the elite, but if the truth really matters to us, do not let the fear of ridicule rule in your heart, for it is the highest virtue one can follow after.
1. The image of the bat comes from Science Magazine, Dec 9, 1966. Although the article states, The bones “show a few "primitive" characteristics such as a clawed index finger”, they still call this creature a bat and its main features look identical to many of the bat species alive today. In a more recent issue they report, “Bats make up more than 20% of extant mammals, yet their evolutionary history is largely unknown because of a limited fossil record and conflicting or incomplete phylogenies.” (Science Jan 28, 2005) Their “evolutionary history” like all other creatures, “is largely unknown” and their "phylogenies incomplete" (re: links are missing) simply because they do not exist. Bats have always been bats, dogs have always been dogs, and cats have always been cats with variety in each species. An article from the University of Bristol states, “Due to fossilised ear bones, it is believed that extinct bat forms had the same developed hearing and as with modern bats used echolocation in predation.” Wow, “50 million years ago” and the amazing design of their echolocation was fully developed and functional. This is what we would expect to see from a Creationist worldview, an amazing complexity of all creatures from the very beginning.
2. You may call those creatures “sea lice” if you will, but I have yet to find any images of “sea lice” that look like these creatures. They look to me like the fossil trilobites that are adjacent to them. What I find most amazing about the complexity and diversity of Trilobites, (not to mention, brachiopods, sponges, corals, jellyfish, in fact every one of the major invertebrate forms of life) is that they are found in the Cambrian and no evolutionary predecessors of the Cambrian fauna have ever been found in pre-Cambrian strata. This is a great mystery that perplexes even the most ardent student of evolution.
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such a overused arguement it sickens me....
this is nothing more then a misunderstanding of the fossil record mixed in with pictures that has nothing to do with each other, the only ones to fall for this is a child or a creationist, not to mention the fact you talk of evolution as a religion.....do you see evolution churchs around? no.
there is a statment to put out in play. "creation is religion, evolution is science"
oh by the way, i'm sure people already said the things i said and pointed out the flaws so.....
1. that bat fossil is of Icaronycteris a bat with many primitive traits not seen in bats today, like a long tail and a claw on the second finger...not to mention many more smaller details not seen at first that are different then present day bats
2. those are not trilobites, there sea lice......different species and body plans. the fact you did this ethier shows your not very good in researching or this is a very poor attempt at showing false evidence to prove your religion is superior......foolish
3. Archaeopteryx wasn't a true bird as you claim. I'm sure if you look closely at the fossil then you carely didn't before, you'll see that it still has features "reptilian" such as a long tail, teeth, and claws. not to mention that they recently found dinosaurs with feather imprints most of which were Therapods known as Raptors. and if you compare the two closely and if you have a understanding of Avian bone stuctures (thats birds if you don't know) they would in turn look identicle.
4. your arguement for crocodiles are childish as well, you need to look up more crocodiles they changed alot but still keeps that body plan we all know and love...why you may ask? well watch animal planet the crocodile is a highly dangerous preadator that has the perfect body plan for hunting, in reality the reason why they haven't changed is because they didn't need to. and they were other species with different body plans, one from the top of my head would be simosuchus, a plant eating crocodile with leave-shaped teeth, another is nickname "BoarCroc" because of its large tusk like teeth, and evidence shows it was a more of a land hunter. so this is a invalied arguement
so to put everything in contrast, this webpage is a sloppy piece of work with no referance other then the Bible which may i remind you is writen by many different people and different times, as well as can be interapted in many ways.
and to end this, there are many different believe religions and evolution isn't one, there are many church going people i know wbleepedbelieve in this theory and there belife is that god make small changes to see which survives better, evolution isn't a over night change it happens over many years we in fact changed a lot, there was a time where 6 feet was tall but now its normal. feet grown a lot as well.
and you speak as if christians are right everyone else is wrong. well how do you know? how do you know that when you die you won't end up in a buddist heaven? or a heaven of your own mind to meet your needs, a costom heaven so to speak? you can't be sure until its your time. your most likely going to say "cause the bible said so" well thats over done so try a new one, your not changing the world with this arguement and i see evidence of your zealotic play and may i say, its sickening
Where to begin.
I suggest you look up dating methods, first of all. C-14 dating is the most well-known, but bears little pertinence to dating the fossil record, since a fossil is by definition something whose organic material has been replaced by minerals - pyrite, silica, calcium carbonate, and so on. Ar-Ar dating has a low bounding range of around a million years and can be used to date basaltic rocks of any age greater than that. It works by the same principal, but uses an element with a longer half-life.
Also, just because a modern animal looks a little like a trilobite doesn't mean that it is. Most mammal skeletons look quite similar, yet minute differences in the bones telegraph enormous differences in the animal itself.
Furthermore, the mechanism that drives evolution is selective pressure. If a species has a stable, healthy population that is under no pressure whatsoever (such as humans are now) it will not evolve. If a species has adapted so well to some environment that it is no longer under any significant selective pressure, and that environment remains stable, then that animal will not evolve, or will evolve very little. Thus, the shark, the sponge, the crocodile....
These are simply the first points that came to mind. I could write essays worth of comments on this, but I won't, since I know you are set in your ways and will not consider anything that I say except to hastily scramble to debunk it. I am a geologist by trade, a devout Christian by faith (although, as I am a Roman Catholic, I'm sure that you wouldn't regard me as such), and I believe that the Earth is more than 3.8 billion years old, that humans and chimpanzees share a common ancestor, and that God can make something as elegant as evolution just as easily as He could have formed everything to be static and unchanging, if that had been His will. He's GOD. Nothing is beyond His power, and wbleepedare you to look at the clues He's given us, this magnificent tapestry of science, and reject it because you insist on taking a 6000-year-old creation myth literally? The story of creation is meant as something more than that.
D-i-c-k, You mention "proof", "proven" and "prove" a total of eight times, but forgot to give any. So when you do, give what you think to be the most clear and solid evidence that evolution is indeed true.
This article is extremely disingenuous. At best. I would even go as far as to say dishonest. You've shown several species next to their fossils, and made the assumption that the theory of evolution would call them all 'millions of years old'. Not to mention several of the fossil photographs were blatantly manipulated. You've shown an evolution tree that looks like it was made for a grade 3 science class, yet not once mention carbon dating. It seems to me like you are somebody who plays checkers in a town full of chess masters.
There is a difference between evolution and the theory of evolution. Evolution is the process. The theory of evolution is the observations and controlled tests made and recorded to prove the process.
For example, there is gravity, and then there is the theory of gravity.
In your article, I notice even the bible says 'prove all things'. Well, the theory is the proof. People who work towards this theory are not 'evolutionists', they are scientists. Calling them evolutionists would imply evolution is a religious belief. It is not. It is a scientific fact. Darwin couldn't prove it then, but he can be proven correct today.
It is proven.
It has been proven.
there is proof.
One more time for emphasis; THERE IS PROOF.
The argument to me seems to be;
Creationist; Do you have any evidence that evolution is a thing?
Scientist; Yes. We have loads. We have piles of evidence, actually.
Creationist; But do you have mountains of evidence?
Scientist; ...No. But we do have a lot of evi-
Creationist; THEN YOU MIGHT BE WRONG! HOW DO YOU KNOW THE BIBLE ISN'T CORRECT!?
Scientist; ... I'm gonna go over here now.
out of all those thousands of scientists wbleepeddispute evolution, how many are christian?
So a percentage of scientists dispute the theory, it automatically changes it from fact to debate?
Show me a "scether" or a "feale"? Honestly? Really? Noel, why you gotta be so dumb, giiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl.
I don't believe in evolution, because I know it exists. It is fact.
I believe in god because I don't know it exists. It is faith.
This article is asinine.
Why would a god, an omnipotent being beyond any cosmic power and mortal comprehension, a being beyond even the concept of existence and time, limit itself to one religion? To one book? An omnipotent being having limits.
Huh.
The myth of Darwinian evolution is far older than 2000 years. Even before the evolutionary teachings of Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle. The ancient religions of Buddhism, Confusionism, Taoism, Jainism, and Zoroasterism, which arose around the same time as the founding fathers of Greek evolutionary philosophy, were also thoroughly evolutionist in their cosmology.
Before this period the older systems were based primarily on mythologies and were largely animistic and polythiestic, however they did retain a dim view of a high god. These new religious philosophies that arose around the 6th century BC, however, tried to totally eradicate any concept of a high God altogether in exchange for an evolutionary view of cosmology.
Evolution, therefore, is not a modern scientific theory at all, but only the ancient rebellion of men against their Creator. It has been updated a bit and is more sophisticated in its pseudo-scientific modern garb, but underneath is the same old pagan warfare that unbelievers have waged against God in every age. “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” (Colossians 2:8)
Cold hard facts vs. 2000 yr old fairy tale
Furthermore, I ask all what is the more reasonable faith, the faith of the creationist wbleepedbelieves that an intelligent designer and Creator made all things in the beginning, or the evolutionists faith, wbleepedbelieves in ordered complexity from disorder, without any ordering mechanism or outside intelligence? Think about it.
Ok Hollins, but as you continue your search, remember this, although evolution is accepted as fact by the majority of scientists, one should understand that scientific principles are not established by majority vote. There is a significant number of scientists today (undoubtedly numbering in the thousands) wbleepedeither reject the theory of evolution altogether or wbleepedregard it as a still unsettled issue. Even those wbleepeddo accept it, in many cases, do so not because of the actual scientific evidence (with which even most scientists are only superficially familiar), but because they have been intimidated by the myth that all scientists accept evolution!
As a matter of fact, no theory of origins—evolution or special creation or anything else—can possibly be scientific. “Science” means “knowledge” and by definition means that which we actually know concerning the facts of nature and their interrelationships. The very heart of the “scientific method” is the reproducibility of experiments. That is, if a certain process is observed and measured today, and then the experiment is conducted again in the same way tomorrow, the same results should be obtained. In this way, by experimental repetition and verification, a scientific description of the process is eventually developed. The “scientific method” so often mentioned in the scientific engineering literature stresses the necessity of actual study and measurement of observable systems and processes, with further replication and confirmation.Thus, true science is supposed to be observable, measurable, and repeatable.
Since it is impossible for us to repeat the supposed evolutionary history of the world and its inhabitants, and since no human observers were present to observe and record the supposed evolutionary changes of the past, it is clear that evolution in the broad sense is beyond the reach of the scientific method. The theory of evolution is, therefore, not science at all.
Both evolution and creation are outside the realm of empirical science, inaccessible to the scientific method. Neither is observable or repeatable. Any view of origins must be held ultimately by faith. So, when those you cross paths with call creation religion and evolution science, please correct them, and tell them evolution is actually a religion also, the religion of the athiest.