Posted on 05/10/2009 1:43:12 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
This year evolutionists are celebrating Charles Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book The Origin of Species. In preparation for this celebration, last December ICR sent Dr. Steve Austin to the Santa Cruz River Valley in southern Argentina to follow up on Darwin's trip on the Beagle. On board, Darwin read Charles Lyell's new book on uniformitarianism, advocating that today's "uniform" processes had dramatically sculptured the earth over long ages, accomplishing much geologic work.
The Santa Cruz River was the Beagle's first major stop, and thus Darwin's first chance to apply Lyell's ideas. Dr. Austin discovered Darwin had made numerous errors in Argentina as he attempted to interpret the river valley according to uniformity, and mistook major Ice Age flooding for great ages of minor processes.
Darwin's voyage continued, sailing around to the west of South America where the ship encountered the Galapagos Islands, straddling the equator. Here Darwin applied uniformitarianism to living systems, and eventually proposed slow-acting evolution as the source of life's diversity. ICR was certain he was equally as wrong on Galapagos as he was in Argentina, and desired to demonstrate it.
This became a reality when Doug Phillips and Vision Forum asked me to accompany them to the Galapagos during the week of March 9-15. They were shooting a Christian family film about a Christian father teaching his son about creation and the dangers of evolution. The film featured interviews with several experts, including me. The project's leading question was: Is Galapagos a living laboratory for evolution or a showcase for creation?
As has been pointed out in these pages, the one thing that Darwin didn't mention in his book The Origin of Species was the origin of species. He discussed at length variety within a species (i.e., pigeons or finches), and merely assumed that these minor, observed changes (microevolution) add up to large changes (macroevolution). This is the unsupported "faith" of the evolutionist. ICR's previous investigations on the Galapagos Islands had convinced us that no evolution is going on there.
The islands abound with unusual life. Going there was a wonderful "animal experience" for all of us, for the animals show little fear of humans. The rather barren volcanic islands afford unencumbered visibility of giant Galapagos turtles, sea lions, land and marine iguanas, Darwin's finches, "booby" birds, flightless cormorants, flamingos, frigate birds, etc., along with sea creatures accessible by snorkeling.
Evolutionists make much of the adaptation of land-based iguanas to ocean life. But is this evolution? No! The two rather different "species" freely interbreed in the wild. Evolution is about the origin of new species from existing species, but here we see the amalgamation of species, the opposite of evolution.
Evolutionists trumpet the several Galapagos finch "species" as arising by adaptation from one species. Creationists agree, but this did not happen through evolution. Normally the finch types segregate by lifestyle according to their beak shape, but in times of stress they interbreed and combine. No evolution here. The flightless cormorants are recognizably related to other species of cormorant on other continents, but these have lost the use of their wings. Since when is the loss of a useful structure an evolutionary development? The real question is how animals acquire wings in the first place, not how they lose them.
No, there is no evolution happening on the Galapagos Islands. They really are a showcase for creation. On display is God's wise creative design in preparing robust gene pools in each created "kind" that enable all of God's creatures to adapt and survive varying conditions.
Darwin got it wrong at the Galapagos Islands. The Genesis account stands.
*Dr. Morris is President of the Institute for Creation Research.
Lemme get this striaght...we can't take the Bible as literal truth, otherwise if we do, we won't be good Christians....or good stewards of...
spreading the Gospel...found...
in...
the Bible?
Is it just me or anytime a person claims to be Christian and in the next breath states the Bible is not factual, THEN says exclaiming that the Bible IS factual harms...well, the Gospels....found...???????
IN the Bible....
is it me or does this shoot up a big fat red flag for others?
You have read the Bible in its original languages? If not, then many words have been added and subtracted.
If you have, I would be fascinated to see your treatise on the linguistic reconciliation. Of course, you can’t even get some source material. So how do you know what is or isn’t literal?
Sheesh, ‘dumb, you’ve been schooled six ways to Sunday on this subject!
No....no one has a “task to complete” because you don’t understand the Bible.
See that would be YOU that has a task to complete.
Because you don’t understand that not every single detail is or need be explaned in some great detail, does not negate what IS explained in detail.
Evos argue that their religion is incomplete and people should just shut up and wait and be patient with them, oh some trillions of more years, then these same geniuses pretend to be scholars on the Bible as well!?
Oh, and there are quite a few of us who believe in science and the Bible, and have zero problems with the two - you have MANY FRiends here!
The vast MINORITY of liberals here and more acurately those that believe science AND the Bible is on our side. It’s yours that chooses science OVER the Bible!
Your incredulity is a perfect example just how indifferent science is to YEC ravings.
Nope, your boy Dawkins really does believe in little green men, that they’re responsible for life on earth.
You need to see ‘No Intelligence Allowed’!
No...the issue is YOUR ego is setting your biological facts. More to the point, your godless ideology.
150 years after presenting Origins, the principles laid out in it continue to represent the foundation of modern biological sciences.
ONLY to the hardcore cultists.
>>Sheesh, ‘dumb, you’ve been schooled six ways to Sunday on this subject!
Thank you once again for making my point for me.
I do ask that Christ opens your mind to Truth and turns you away from the Prince of Lies and how he laughs at how easily the feeble minded are turned to his purposes.
Please pray to God tonight for understanding of science so that you may actually participate in discussions of science fact and not fancy.
I will certainly pray for that.
“Real scientist” is a failed liberal argument that’s been debunked too many times to give the time of day.
www.dissentfromdarwin.org
G’night, sir-project-alot.
BTW, a God strong enough to pray to, ought to be a God strong enough to get His message out...ya think? ;)
And he has -- and that message is deployed via science. And God cries when His children throw his message back into His face. He asks us who understand science to help those who do not to understand the basic principles He gave us to fathom His wonderful Universe.
Sleep well with God and Christ to keep you well and gentle your night.
Hence my comment, “So long as the Bible can be dismissed as allegory, metaphor (how or what it is a metaphor of is left unsaid), and a sort of pious fraud like Luke's genealogy of Jesus, then Darwinism can be called “compatible” but if the Bible is recognized as factual, Darwinism won't be compatible.”
The reason that such a dichotomy as having Darwin play the role of a scientific Moses might not throw up a red flag is that many who want to be accepted as Christian also want to accepted by the world that James said a friendship with constituted enmity toward God.
The modern observations are what is supporting biblical creation! Why do you think darwood is being falsified on everything from “junk” DNA to homology to darwood’s defunct “tree of life”? It’s based on modern observations of course!
You’re getting pretty far out there. Now you are suggesting you are a messenger of G-d, but there is not one of his words in your message, instead you replace it with ‘science’
Right now ‘evolutionary science’ says that we are ‘goo to you via the zoo’ and Man is a descendant of a hypothetical ape-creature. Are these the concepts you desire to advance.
Darwin talked about "junk" DNA?
Are you saying his account of "junk" DNA is less accurate than the Biblical account of "junk" DNA?
The evos seem very particular about which science they accept and reject. If true (Creation-based) science had done the same thing, we’d no doubt be still stuck in the Middle Ages.
That just goes to show how the word of man is flawed. The truth is, the Second Law of Thermodynamics is, alone, an airtight argument against evolution. That's why the evos have fought so hard to discredit it, and why some men have chosen to cower to the "embarrassment" that evos have tried to make them feel on the topic.
Order can never arise from chaos without an intelligent agent. Period. The 2nd Law is universal and better-understood by Creation Scientists than most physicists.
Real scientists understand that the Holy Bible, written by the Finger of the Lord, is the origin of all applicable science.
Really? Heat flows spontaneously from a hot to a cold body, heat cannot be completely converted into other forms of energy, systems become more disorganized over time.
I don't see any argument against evolution there. Maybe you could expand on your feelings?
That's why the evos have fought so hard to discredit it
Who fought so hard to discredit the Second Law of Thermodynamics? Where?
Order can never arise from chaos without an intelligent agent.
That's hilarious.
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