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Darwin’s TheoryDarwin’s Theory

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Rev. Christian C. Tiews

Associate Pastor, Grace Lutheran Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma

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DefinitionsDefinitions

• Microevolution= Adaptation

• Macroevolution= One species “evolving” into a new and

different one

Driven by natural selection


In what respect has the Darwinian In what respect has the Darwinian theory taken fatal hits since theory taken fatal hits since

Darwin’s day?Darwin’s day?– Darwin realized he had a number of fatal

flaws to his theory. If only one of them were ever proven to be true, they would sink his theory…

– Scientific research has confirmed many of the fatal flaws Darwin so feared. While the global scientific community is largely ignoring these facts (“The Emperors’ New Clothes” Syndrome), an ever-growing number of scientists in the U.S. is challenging the monolithic Darwinian theory.


1) Where Did the Matter Come From?1) Where Did the Matter Come From?

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• “Big Bang” supposedly occurred 14 billion years ago

• Term “Big Bang”coined by Sir Fred Hoyle

• But where did the matter that exploded come from?

• This is evolution’s weakest link and is usually ignored

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2) Lack of Transitional Fossils = 2) Lack of Transitional Fossils = “Missing Links”“Missing Links”• ““Why is not every geological formation Why is not every geological formation

charged with such links? Why does not every charged with such links? Why does not every collection of fossil remains afford plain collection of fossil remains afford plain evidence of the gradation and mutation of the evidence of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life? We meet with no such evidence forms of life? We meet with no such evidence and and this is the most obvious and forcible of this is the most obvious and forcible of the many objections which may be urged the many objections which may be urged against my theoryagainst my theory.”.”

Darwin, Darwin, Origin of SpeciesOrigin of Species, p. 379 (Bantam, , p. 379 (Bantam, 1999)1999)


Lack of Transitional Fossils Lack of Transitional Fossils

Darwin’s theory predicted that scientists would find many transitional forms in the

fossil record.


Lack of Transitional Fossils Lack of Transitional Fossils

In reality, only very few transitional forms have been discovered.

And all are debatable.


The So-Called “Missing Links”The So-Called “Missing Links”

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• All “missing links” between ape and man are either human, ape, or hoaxes:

• Piltdown Man: hoax• Nebraska Man: hoax• Ramapithecus: ape• Australopithecus (“Lucy”): ape• Cro-Magnon: human• Neanderthal Man: human• Java Man: human• Peking Man: human


““From the marrow cavity of a fossilized From the marrow cavity of a fossilized Tyrannosaurus rexTyrannosaurus rex thighbone, scientists thighbone, scientists have extracted what appears to be the have extracted what appears to be the only known preserved soft tissue from a only known preserved soft tissue from a dinosaur. The flexible tissue can be dinosaur. The flexible tissue can be stretched (see arrow) and returns to its stretched (see arrow) and returns to its original form.”original form.”

3) Soft Tissue in Dino Bones3) Soft Tissue in Dino Bones

Geologists claim that fossilization requires millions of years to occur. However, many fossils have been found with fully articulated skeletons, hair, scales, feathers, and soft fleshy parts such as skin, cartilage, unborn fetuses and stomachs containing the animals' last meal.

Science 25 March 2005:Vol. 307. no. 5717, pp. 1952 - 1955DOI: 10.1126/science.1108397

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4) Haeckel’s “Embryos” Are Frauds4) Haeckel’s “Embryos” Are Frauds


Haeckel’s “Embryos”Haeckel’s “Embryos”

Top row:Top row: Haeckel’s drawings of several different embryos, Haeckel’s drawings of several different embryos, seeming to show incredible similarity in their early ‘tailbud’ stage.seeming to show incredible similarity in their early ‘tailbud’ stage.Bottom Row:Bottom Row: Richardson’s photographs of how the embryos Richardson’s photographs of how the embryos reallyreally look at the same stage. look at the same stage.

From:http://www.answersingenesis.org/images/embryo4.jpgFrom:http://www.answersingenesis.org/images/embryo4.jpg


5) 5) Darwin’s Finches Explain Darwin’s Finches Explain

MicroMicroevolution, evolution,

Not Not MacroMacroevolutionevolution

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• Finches with different beaks are simply variations of finches, not products of evolution (that is, new species of birds)

• All of these finches interbred


6) Stanley Miller’s Experiment a Fraud6) Stanley Miller’s Experiment a Fraud

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• Wrong starting materials (methane, ammonia, hydrogen but no O2)

• Wrong conditions (electric spark)• Wrong results (deadly amino acids)• One of the weakest links of the theory of

evolution is the origin of life from non-living chemicals.

• “There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor on any other. If the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence,” Sir Fred Hoyle, Nature, Nov. 12, 1981.


7) Circular Reasoning of “Dating Game”7) Circular Reasoning of “Dating Game”

• How are the stratigraphic layers dated? Index How are the stratigraphic layers dated? Index

fossils are used to determine the age of the fossils are used to determine the age of the

layers—and the layers are used to determine layers—and the layers are used to determine

the age of the fossils. the age of the fossils.

• This is circular reasoning.This is circular reasoning.


88)“Out of Place” Fossils)“Out of Place” Fossils

Assumption: Assumption:

The last appearance of a The last appearance of a fossil is the time when it fossil is the time when it went extinct. went extinct.

The Coelacanth was thought The Coelacanth was thought to have gone extinct with to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs 65-75 million the dinosaurs 65-75 million years ago…until living years ago…until living specimens were discovered specimens were discovered off the coast of Madagascar off the coast of Madagascar in 1938 and 1998.in 1938 and 1998.

CoelacanthLiving Fossil

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Other Living FossilsOther Living Fossils Crocodiles - date back 230 million yearsCrocodiles - date back 230 million years Army Ants - date back 100 million years Army Ants - date back 100 million years Cockroaches - date back 350 million years Cockroaches - date back 350 million years Coelacanth - dates back 400 million yearsCoelacanth - dates back 400 million years Crinoid or Sea Lilly dates back 150 million Crinoid or Sea Lilly dates back 150 million

years years Cycads date back 240 million yearsCycads date back 240 million years Dragonfly dates back 230 million years Dragonfly dates back 230 million years Ginkgo dates back 270 million yearsGinkgo dates back 270 million years Horseshoe Crab - dates back 300 million Horseshoe Crab - dates back 300 million

yearsyears Nautilus - dates back 500 million yearsNautilus - dates back 500 million years Neopilina mollusks - dates back 400 million Neopilina mollusks - dates back 400 million

yearsyears Salamanders date back 150 million yearsSalamanders date back 150 million years Sturgeon dates back 250 million yearsSturgeon dates back 250 million years Tuatara dates back 200 million years. Tuatara dates back 200 million years. Velvet Worm dates back 500 million years Velvet Worm dates back 500 million years Wollemi Pine - dates back 150 million yearsWollemi Pine - dates back 150 million years


Catastrophism vs Catastrophism vs UniformitarianismUniformitarianism

• Catastrophism - Catastrophes such as the Biblical flood were responsible for the majority of the earth’s fossiliferous rock.

• Uniformitarianism - Around 1850 the non-catastrophic view of earth’s geology began to develop, which suggested that gradual processes and uniform intensities were instead responsible.

Is the Grand Canyon evidence of a catastrophe or millions of years of erosion?


Catastrophism vs Catastrophism vs UniformitarianismUniformitarianism

• ““Uniformitarianism” is challenged by Uniformitarianism” is challenged by catastrophism and “God’s gift to creationists,” catastrophism and “God’s gift to creationists,” Mt. St. Helens erupting in May 1980.Mt. St. Helens erupting in May 1980.

• A new model for formation of coal: Instead of A new model for formation of coal: Instead of “Lots of time and a little bit of pressure,“ the new “Lots of time and a little bit of pressure,“ the new model suggests, “Lots of pressure and heat – and model suggests, “Lots of pressure and heat – and a little bit of time”. a little bit of time”.

• A new model for formation of Grand Canyon: A new model for formation of Grand Canyon: “Lots of water and a little bit of time.” “Lots of water and a little bit of time.”


In Noah’s flood, fountains of water would have jetted supersonically into and far above the atmosphere. Much of the water would have fragmented into an “ocean” of droplets that fell as rain great distances away. This would have produced torrential rains such as the earth has never experienced—before or after.



9) Carbon-14 throughout the Geologic 9) Carbon-14 throughout the Geologic RecordRecord

Carbon-14 has been shown to exist in fossils Carbon-14 has been shown to exist in fossils

throughout the geologic record. This means throughout the geologic record. This means

that all these fossils are that all these fossils are youngyoung (i.e., (i.e.,

thousands of years old).thousands of years old).

Dr. J. Baumgartner, RATE GroupDr. J. Baumgartner, RATE Group

And there are many more “evolution And there are many more “evolution

killing” facts…killing” facts…

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A Matter of InterpretationA Matter of Interpretation

• Modern historical geology is built on a foundation of assumption, speculation, singular interpretation and dogmatic authoritarianism.

• The quarrel isn’t with the data of historical geologists, but with the interpretations of those data.

• The data of Earth’s current geology can be explained in light of a Biblical flood model.

• While the biblical model cannot be PROVEN in the true scientific sense using the scientific method, its explanations work just as well or better than uniformitarian explanations.


The Cr / Ev Issue and Our FaithThe Cr / Ev Issue and Our Faith


SalvationSalvation

• “Jesus Christ, our God and Lord, died for our sins and was raised again for our justification (Rom 4:24-25).

• He alone is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (Jn 1:29), and God has laid upon Him the iniquities of us all (Isa 53:6)…”

• All have sinned and are justified freely, without their own works or merits, by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, in His blood (Rom 3:23-25)…” (See SA, II, Art. I)


The Cr / Ev Issue and Our FaithThe Cr / Ev Issue and Our FaithIf you believe in theistic evolution (that is,that the earth is billions of years old and that God somehow used evolution), you must deal with these uncomfortable questions:

Did God actually use death to create? Evolution not only requires death, it requires a lot of death and suffering.



• What is the relationship between sin and death? The Bible clearly links sin and death together.

• Rom 5:12: “death spread to all men because all sinned.”

• Rom 6:23: “The wages of sin is death…”



• If God used evolution to create, how did human beings acquire a soul or the image of God?

• Gen 2:7: “…and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life…”



• What does all this mean for us 21st Century What does all this mean for us 21st Century Lutherans?Lutherans?

We need not fear the Darwinian theory. We need not fear the Darwinian theory.

Not only does it contradict the Word of God, Not only does it contradict the Word of God,

but in recent decades the rug has also been but in recent decades the rug has also been

pulled out from under the Darwinian theory pulled out from under the Darwinian theory

scientificallyscientifically..


LCMS and CreationLCMS and Creation

• ““Resolved, That all educational agencies and Resolved, That all educational agencies and institutions of Today's LCMS including early institutions of Today's LCMS including early childhood programs, elementary schools, high childhood programs, elementary schools, high schools, colleges, universities, and seminaries schools, colleges, universities, and seminaries continue to teach continue to teach creation from the biblical creation from the biblical perspective…”perspective…”

2004 LCMS Convention Proceedings, Res. 2-08A, p. 1252004 LCMS Convention Proceedings, Res. 2-08A, p. 125


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