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(By "Fate", I mean Life happened at random, or was ultimately caused by some force in the universe, or anything else -- thus, this has a non-technical meaning.
And by "Faith", I mean the God of the Bible -- thus also non-technical.)
Over time, the domino's continue to fall on the evolutionary model -- as anything that sets itself up against the Word of God is destined to fail. By looking at the genealogies from Adam until Jesus Christ, we can see that God created the earth about 6,000 years ago, which is in stark contrast to an evolutionists claim that says the earth has been here for BILLIONS of years. Here are some inconvenient truths concerning the theory of evolution and an old earth:
LACK OF TRANSITIONAL FOSSILS:
The late Stephen J. Gould, the prominent American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist from Harvard, said "the extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontologists." "We view our data as so bad that we never see the very process we profess to study."
Since there are many different life forms today (humans, dogs, birds, ants, fish, etc.) that all supposedly came from the same natural source (some sort of life form coming up out of a lake or swamp), and now with many millions of fossils that have been found all across our planet--why haven't any fossils been produced that show one life form transitioning into another (i.e., a dinosaur transitioning into a bird, a reptile to a mammal, or an ape into a man, etc.). What are the odds of that if evolutionary theory is true?
Thus, the evolutionary community is desperate to find this (transitional forms), as can be seen from the many claims they have made, that later on have proven false or even fraudulent:
1. “Neanderthal man”, supposedly the missing link between apes and men, turned out to be an old man that suffered from arthritis.
2. “Java Man”, another Neanderthal supposed to be the missing link, was found out later to have a human legbone and teeth, and the skullcap was from a monkey. Another skull cap was found about the same time -- then the following year, the Smithsonian Institute published a retraction that it was actually the kneecap of an elephant.
3. “Piltdown man” was a jawbone, teeth and part skull found in 1912, but in 1953 it was found to be a fraud. The skull fossil was human and the jawbone from an ape. The teeth were filed down and treated chemically by evolutionists in an effort to support their theory.
4. “Nebraska Man”, In 1922, evolutionists drew two transitional Neanderthals, based on a single tooth that was later found to be from a wild pig.
5. “Orce man” was a partial skull found in Spain in the 1980’s. This one turned out to be from a donkey.
See the following link for additional examples, such as Rhodesian man, Heidelberg man, Flipper man, Handy man, Peking man and Cro-Magnon man: https://apologeticspress.org/video/sve-session-vi-do-fossils-prove-evolution-video-5586/
Lord Solly Zuckerman, Zoologist, Anatomist and British Scientific advisor and professor at Oxford University, after 15 years of study, said “If man did descend from an apelike ancestor, he did so without leaving any fossil traces of the steps of the transformation”.
To say the very least -- the lack of transitional fossils and missing links in any and every life form, renders the entire evolutionary theory as highly suspect.
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WHERE DID LIFE ORIGINATE?
Evolutionists themselves, commenting on the origins of life, from 100 years ago up until the 21st Century:
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CARBON 14 DATING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWxgSGE3rWU
.....is based on assumptions and can be very inaccurate -- if living or newly dead specimens are so wildly inaccurate, how can we believe supposed results from millions and billions of years ago?
1. A freshly killed seal was carbon dated as having died 1300 years ago (Antarctic Journal, Vol. 6; Sept-Oct 1971, p. 211)
2. Shells from living snails dated as 27,000 years old (Science, Vol. 224, 1984; Pg. 58-61)
3. Living penguins dated 8,000 years old
4. "One part of Dima [a baby frozen mammoth] was 40,000, another part was 26,000 and the 'wood immediately around the carcass' was 9-10,000."
Carbon dating is similar to a situation where someone walks into a room with a burning candle, and the question is asked: "when was the candle lit?" And since that person wasn't there at the time, all they can do is guess.
--if the height of the candle while burning is measured, would this tell when it was lit?
--if the rate at which it burned was measured, would this tell when it was lit?
No, neither can give an answer, because the original length of the candle is the necessary and missing component.
This is similar to finding a dead animal that contains carbon-- the amount of carbon 14 in the body at the time it is tested and the rate of decay can both be measured, but to determine when the animal died is the same situation as trying to determine the original length of the candle -- it is based on guesswork and assumptions.
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A FEW COMMENTS ABOUT AN OLD EARTH
Mount St. Helens:
This volcano erupted in 1980, with 33,000 times the strength of the atom bomb that destroyed Hiroshima -- which would be equivalent to dropping one of these bombs every second for 9 hours. Consider some of the findings from this event:
1. As the bark from the uprooted trees was covered by sediment and settled below a lake at the base of the mountain – five years later, a three foot thick layer of peat was found that was compositionally the same as coal in the Eastern US. https://answersingenesis.org/geology/four-lessons-mount-st-helens-eruption/
--This coal took less than 40 years to form, yet, most of “science” claims that coal takes millions of years to form: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/Elem_Coal_Studyguide.pdf
--As a subpoint concerning the formation of coal, the Argonne National Laboratory used wood heated to 300 degrees Fahrenheit for 9 months and it formed black coal. Coal does not take millions of years to form.
2. Sedimentary rock layer formed in hours, when we’ve been told it takes millions of years (consider concrete we use countless times every day -- showing rock can form rapidly when the conditions are right.)
3. The Tapeats Sandstone in the Grand Canyon, has many of the sedimentary features found at Mount St. Helens (Dr. Steve Austin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4vK6NaSLBg)
--When looking at an aerial view of the Grand Canyon, is seems obvious that a global flood is its cause -- the Flood at the time of Noah.
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RAPID ROCK OR FOSSIL FORMATION:
https://answersingenesis.org/fossils/how-are-fossils-formed/do-fossils-show-signs-of-rapid-burial/
How quickly does a rock form, and how long does it take for some form of life to turn into a fossil? The evolutionary community dismisses the idea of a global flood (Noah’s flood, as spelled out in the Bible), and works on a hypothesis that the earth has been here for billions of years, saying the rock layers and fossils bear that out. Here are a few things to consider: