A WORD ABOUT SCIENCE AND RELIGION
True science seeks to (or, ought to) take into account all of the evidence available in order to draw only warranted conclusions. That’s what real science does. Christians are not at war with real science… Christians are at war with bad science. They fight against accepting unproven theories taught as absolute truth.
Many times people of faith are viewed as weak and intellectually lazy. They are said to have invented God in order to feel better about themselves. They supposedly don’t know the scientific answers, so they are accused of just filling in the gap with God. They don’t know the scientific answer so they say, “God did that.” This is what many atheists call “the God of the Gaps.”
But it seems pretty ironic that atheists would use the word “gaps,” since there are so many gaps within the unsustainable theory of evolution. Sometimes people tend to accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of.
There is gap after gap after gap in the fossil record concerning intermediate states showing how one species evolved into another. Of course, if there is such a thing, why is the fossil record so profoundly distinct concerning specific species? It takes a lot of “faith” to believe that no intermediate states survived. If this slow process of evolution was true it would be preserved in an incredible fossil record showing a slow blending from one life into another. But strangely, the best we have is very artistic renditions of how it supposedly occurred!
While we are talking about the supposed transitioning of one kind into another, we should recognize that there is another insurmountable problem here. It is simply scientifically impossible for one kind to evolve into another. How would this incredibly slow evolution occur over periods of millions of years and not kill the organism in the process? How do body systems evolve and sustain life during the evolution? How did we obtain the functioning of the heart that we have today? How was life sustained when it was one fourth developed? How did it work together with other developing body systems and sustain life at the same time?
There are huge, insurmountable gaps that exist in the theory of evolution. We’ve only mentioned a couple.
THE EVOLUTIONARY MODEL:
The evolutionary model, in simple terms, states basically that around 13.8 billion years ago, there was a tiny, microscopic singularity that exploded and eventually gave rise to everything we now know, as well as everything we don’t know. Life itself began with the amoeba, and over millions of years slowly evolved into other more complex life-forms including human-beings that came on the seen about six million years ago.
Now, let’s ask just a couple very simple questions about this theory:
- Where did the tiny, microscopic singularity come from? Evolutionists go back millions and billions of years because they think that makes a very unscientific theory seem more plausible. But if nothing existed 14 billion years ago, real science would tell us that nothing would exist today. Where did that singularity come from? They go back billions of years but when they get there, they have the very same problem they have now. Where did it come from?
- Is this tiny singularity an adequate cause for what we see and know of this world today?
Think about what would come forth from this microscopic speck that supposedly existed in the beginning. Everything we see and all of which we have not yet discovered would have come from this speck. The sun, the moon, the stars, the planets, the trees, the grass, the water, the animals, and mankind. All of these, and so much more, from a speck smaller than a grain of dust! That takes a lot of faith to believe!
Next time we will briefly plan to consider the biblical model of creationism as well as finish our thoughts on evolution.
Daren Schroeder
