Dear friends, this evening I have a surprise for you. Originally we had planned to have tonight as our last presentation. But since this series began, a relatively young artist-writer friend of mine, Jim Pinkoski, just published a unique booklet done in cartoon style about evolution vs. creation entitled "A Creationist's View of Dinosaurs and the Theory of Evolution." It addresses itself to most of what we have presented and more. It wraps up the whole subject into an easy understandable package.
I became acquainted with Jim through my friend Ron Wyatt. Jim does art work for Ron, and has given him considerable help with his museum project.
After reading Jim's book, I felt I could not let this series close without first seeing if he could possibly come and present his material in person. I was most pleased when he said that he could make it at this time, and kindly consented to do so. He was able to quickly make plane reservations and as a consequence is here tonight.
I asked him to present the material just like it is in His book. It is not only informative, but also humorous and entertaining. I think you will find this meeting tonight one of the highlights of this series.
The meeting originally planned for tonight will be presented next week, in which we will look specifically at Bible prophecy. Prophecy has for thousands of years been the most positive evidence of the divine origin of Scripture, and will be a fitting conclusion to this series.
Friend Jim, we are most grateful that you were able to come, and welcome you to our forum tonight. We are happy you were able to accept on such short notice. I know this really pushed you to make the necessary changes in your busy schedule and arrangements for your flight from Nashville. The time is yours.
Thank you Devon for the invitation. Whenever it is possible, I never turn down an offer to present what has been put upon my heart to share with whoever will hear. If anyone in the audience is interested in purchasing a copy of my book, I brought a supply of them and will sell them at a 10% discount after the meeting. They will be in the foyer. All proceeds will be donated to help Ron with his research and museum project.
My book "A Creationist's View of Dinosaurs and the Theory of Evolution," is new this year, and is printed by Amazing Facts Publications, which also offers a free Bible Correspondence Course (address at end of this chapter). It was done largely in response to Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park books and movies. I think it only proper that I begin tonight's lecture with a discussion of Mr. Crichton's view of the Evolution vs. Creation controversy.
On pages 205-210 and 309-312 of his 2nd Jurassic Park hard cover book, Michael Crighton honestly points out that there are some MAJOR PROBLEMS with evolution. He writes, "Nobody understands how it works!"
He admits to the complexity of amino acids, chromosomes, the hemoglobin molecule, the 2,000 enzymes in a single bacterium, the fact that one single fertilized egg has 100,000 genes, and that our bodies have 250 kinds of cells! But when asked if evolution is "directed," Michael Crichton dogmatically writes:"No... That's Creationism and it's wrong. Just plain wrong."
Michael Crichton and other secular scientists often consider themselves to be great dreamers and "visionaries," yet they can't see God's handiwork all around us! How is it that science fiction writers can easily envision "super-smart aliens" landing on a planet of "ignorant cavemen," and realize that the visitors would seem like gods to the uneducated primitives? Why? Because "science" seems like magic to uneducated people.
How is it that Michael Crichton and others like him refuse to "expand" this scenario and place themselves in the position of being the "primitives?"
All of God's creation proclaims that brilliant design is all around us, which proves the designer's existence! It is truly mystifying how people can be so "intelligent," yet so mindless. Maybe someday he will change his mind.
Once again Michael has gotten everyone excited about "dinosaurs" and "T-rexes" and those extremely mean and nasty "velociraptors!" The brilliant and very expensive computerized special effects of the dinosaurs have won the attention and admiration of literally millions of people.
But unfortunately, right along with the Jurassic Park movies come a built-in sales pitch for "evolution." Many of today's scientists believe that there is convincing evidence" which proves that evolution is true—but the real facts prove otherwise.
Life is far too complicated to have happened "just by chance," nor could it have "self-propelled" itself over millions of years into the animals and living organisms that we see all around us. The truth is that a Master Designer is the Creator of everything—God created this world, our Universe, and all the life within it.
The Bible says that "We are fearfully and wonderfully made." (Psalm 139:14). I hope that my presentation tonight will reaffirm to you, the audience what you have been hearing each week, that the Genesis story of creation is 199% dependable and truthful.
SCIENCE LIKE A NEW PLAY TOY:
Science is like a new play toy for mankind. Not that long ago we worked out the challenge of building indoor toilets, switching over from gas lighting to electricity, developed the "horseless" carriage, and we even learned how to make refrigerators! Wow, are we smart!
"Science" is our new thrill, and we are so pleased with ourselves. Many look back on the previous centuries of scientific ignorance, and they want nothing to do with "faith" in God. Critics of religion point to Galileo and how he was treated badly by the church of the dark ages, well, what would you expect? All mankind was scientifically ignorant! Truth takes time to be studied, researched, and proven. The trick has been to balance our understanding of science and religion.
QUESTION: HOW SMART IS MANKIND?
It has been said that man only uses 10% of his brain. The other day I was looking at one of those odd Styrofoam heads that ladies use to set their wigs on, and an idea came to me about this 10% of our brain. You know it might be a little more obvious that we only use 10% of our total brain capacity if people walked around with only 10% of their heads! Ha!! Now let's get serious here for a moment. Nobody on this planet is using the full capacity of his or her brain. NONE of us know it all!
Back in the 1850s Darwin observed and noted the varying beaks of the finches, etc., on the Galapagos islands, and he came to the best conclusion he could in the matter, as "imperfect" as it was.
It was the same with the primitive church of the Dark Ages. They did their best to get things right, but with imperfect data they came to imperfect and improper conclusions.
MENTAL INADEQUACIES:
All of us have to deal with our mental inadequacies. Nobody has a brain that can access 40% or 60% or 80% of their brain capacity. Not Darwin, not the president, not Einstein, not the Pope, not Carl Sagan, not your science professors, not your church pastor, not your mother, and not your father, and not any of this year's Nobel prize winners, and not even you!
Accordingly, mankind is trying to do its best to understand the universe around us, but hey! can we really trust our 10% brains to get it right?
A SCARY EQUATION:
Imperfect Bible Study (by people using only 10% of their brains) + Imperfect Science Speculation (by people using only 10% of their brains) = ERROR.
Now, you may have noticed that I said that this "mindless" condition includes all of us, so that includes me too. So you might ask, "Well then, what makes you think that you finally have the right answers?" That is a good question and I'll answer it by first quoting this Bible verse: "But the path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." (Proverbs 4:18)
Accordingly, the longer we keep investigating the evolution-creation controversy, the more light will come to shine upon it, and we will get closer and closer to the truth. And that truth is that a Master Designer created everything.
One of the simple, basic principles of science is this: The more we learn, the more we admit that we don't know. Yet today's evolution scientists arrogantly choose to ignore this truth. Instead they prefer to think they "know it all."
CREATIONIST VS. EVOLUTIONISTS
Does it really matter who's right? YES it does! This is a matter of life or death--eternal life or death. Why? Because one of these belief systems embraces God and salvation in Jesus Christ, and the other belief system leads to doubt, emptiness, and a Godless universe. Let's start by discussing the animals and Noah's ark.
Inheritable Variation:
Question: How many pairs of animals went onto Noah's ark? It has been estimated (we are not counting extinct animals, only those that are alive now) that not more than 290 are above the size of a sheep. Those of the size from the sheep to a rat, 760. Those smaller than the rats, around 1,360. The average animal size would be a cat. These numbers total to be 2410 different kinds of animals that went onto Noah's ark.
Would 30 different types of dogs or cats need to get on the ark? No! All we would need is 2 dogs and 2 cats, and each of those pairs of animals would be carrying all the genetic encoding to reproduce all the cats and dogs and tigers and wolves. God could easily do it this way, for He's God.
Here's what Evolutionists ignore, and what Creationists have failed to clearly communicate: THE POST-FLOOD WORLD WAS VASTLY DIFFERENT FROM THE PRE-FLOOD WORLD. When the animals got off the ark, God "evolved" changes into the animals so they could survive in this new world.
Darwin's Main Folly:
Darwin misunderstood the meaning of "kind" (Genesis 1:24, etc.) as related to "species." During the 300 years before Darwin, the popular belief was that the Bible taught the total fixity of species, which means that all successive generations of all animals were all alike, as coins cast from the same die. Theologians of that day actually thought the Bible taught this, and they were wrong!
When Darwin took his voyage on the Beagle to the Galapagos Islands, his keen eye saw the fact of inheritable variation, but then Darwin's imagination went completely overboard and he began to believe that variation could proceed endlessly. Thus Darwin foisted the false teaching of endless progression (total evolution) upon the world.
The Bible tells us that all living creatures were created in distinct "kinds" or groups (not species), and God clearly permitted inheritable variation to take place among "kinds" of animals. The cat family spread out to include lions, tigers, pumas, jaguars, ocelots, leopards, wildcats and house cats. The dog family became German shepherds, collies, wolves, coyotes, dingo's, and jackals, etc. But only 1 pair of each of these "kinds" of animals needed to be on the ark to provide the genes for all these "dogs" and "cats."
Darwin's error was thinking that one "kind" of animal can come from another "kind." Cats never evolved from dogs, or fish, or from any other "kind" of life. Darwin's error was the result of an improper understanding of what the Bible seemed to teach in his day.
Note: The beaks on Darwin's finches did "evolve" with God's guidance. So evolution is partially true. But endless progression is not true. So for the rest of my one presentation I will use the term evolution to represent "endless progression." Micro-evolution is perfectly OK! Macro-evolution is error!
THE COMPLEXITY OF LIFE:
Evolution falsely bases itself upon the totally erroneous belief that tiny "simple" forms of life evolve into larger, more complex forms of life. This can sound pretty logical, because science has proven that human beings and all the animals begin life as fertilized single cells, and we grow up into fully-developed complex organisms. But here's the problem: EVEN THE SMALLEST LIVING ORGANISM IS EXTREMELY COMPLEX.
The Problem:
Evolutionists say that "teeny-tiny" life forms somehow willed themselves to "evolve." Which means that we must credit microbes with being smarter than Albert Einstein. So here's how it all worked. For millions of years little single cell guys floated around thinking "great plans" for themselves and their offspring. The Stegomeba thought to be a Stegosaurs. "Boy, have I got big plans for myself! I'll magnify myself 8 trillion times. Yeah! Maybe in 10 or 15 million years I'll grow really, really big, and I'll have an eye, whatever that is." HOW TOTALLY ABSURD! But this is basically what evolutionists believe.
EYE TROUBLES
It is a total impossibility for the "eye" to have "evolved" over millions of years. (Devon tells me that you had George Vandeman as one of your speakers. He addresses this problem in his book, and may have mentioned it when he was here.) The eye is useless until ALL of its parts are assembled. Even Darwin admitted that the extreme complexity of the eye seemed to totally disprove his theory of evolution. I quote: "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree...The belief that an organ as perfect as the eye could have formed by natural selection is more than enough to stagger anyone." (Origin of Species, 1902 edition Part One, page 250, Charles Darwin)
But then the rest of Darwin's essay went on to attempt to point out that "simpler" life forms have "simpler" eyes, so in his opinion eyes still "evolved." But even those "simple" eyes are extremely complex. None of them work until they are fully formed. There is no way those individual eye-parts evolved. The human eye, for example, contains a retina, lens, iris, cornea, optic nerve, eye muscles, blood vessels, 137 million light-sensitive receptor cells, 130 million "rods" for black and white vision, and 7 million "cones" used for colored vision. The Bible says about the eye: "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" (Matthew 6:22,23)
The Trilobite Eye:
Let's see—if "older" means "simpler," then how is it that trilobite eyes (composed of inorganic calcite) have anywhere from 100 to 15,000 lens in each eye? Human eyes only have one lens. These multiple lens would guarantee perfect underwater vision without distortion, which shows that these eyes were designed by a very knowledgeable physicist—God!
Remember the Stegomeba who wanted an eye? (As if an ameba even knows what an "eye" is!) If evolution is true, then each major life form would have to evolve its own eyes, as well as every other major organ of its body. Common sense tells us that "evolving" all the individual parts of the eye is impossible. But I want to address an aspect that most overlook. IF THE "EYE" REALLY EVOLVED, WHEN DID ALL THESE ANIMALS DECIDE THAT 2 EYES WERE BETTER THAN ONLY ONE EYE.? Evolution depends largely upon mutation. It only makes sense that if an "eye" suddenly mutated into existence, then THAT ANIMAL WOULD ONLY GROW ONE OF THEM. So where are all the 1-eyed T-rexes, 1-eyed Allosaurs, 1-eyed Stegosaurs, 1-eyed Velociraptors, etc.? WHERE? Can you even imagine them saying: "Wow! This eye-thing works pretty good. I think I'll grow another one on the other side of my head."!
Bilaterally symmetrical:
Have any of you in the audience ever heard of "bilateral symmetry?" Thousands of living creatures on this planet are Bilaterally Symmetrical. This means that if you drew a line down the middle of their bodies, each side would be the same as its opposite side.
Believe it or not, "bilaterally symmetrical" life forms prove how impossible evolution is. Just like I just stated about the evolution of the eye, the same thing applies to arms, hands, feet, ears, fins and wings, etc.
Evolution says that each of these organs evolved by mutation, and if this was true, the mutation would have only brought forth one of these body parts at a time. So, where are the 1-finned turtles, 1-winged birds, 1-flippered porpoises, and the 1-armed, 1-eared, 1-legged ape men?
Another Major Flaw:
Why would an evolving life form ever choose to split itself into 2 separate gender? It would be equivalent of committing evolutionary suicide!
If all living things truly evolved from single celled microorganisms that reproduce by mitosis (splitting in two), only an idiot organism with a "death wish" would choose to evolve itself into separate "male" and "female" animals. They would then have to spend the rest of their lives having to find each other at just the right time for their reproductive cycle to continue their existence.
Can you imagine the Doofusotis pre-historic Ameba saying: "Hey, this life is just too easy. Yeah, I could be eaten at any moment by a passing paramecium, but I think I'll make my existence a real challenge. Being able to reproduce at any time by myself is too boring. I think I'll split myself into two separate sexes, and see what happens." The existence of the male and female genders is only possible as the result of a kind and loving God. The SEPARATE GENDERS NEVER EVOLVED.
WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
Let's make sure that we understand exactly what evolution is all about. It says that God doesn't exist, the Bible is a lie, and ALL forms of life evolved from the basic microscopic chemicals of life over a time period of millions of years.
FACT:
The simplest type of protein molecule is comprised of at least 400 linked amino acids, and each amino acid is made up of a special arrangement of 4 or 5 chemical elements. Each chemical element is made up of a unique combination of neutrons, protons and electrons. What are the odds of this happening? Something like 1 in 10 to the 250th power. The probability for forming DNA proteins is gigantic: 1 in 10 to the 167,625th power. MATHEMATICS PROVES THAT THE PROBABILITY OF EVOLUTION BY MUTATIONAND NATURAL SELECTION IS IMPOSSIBLE.
The human brain contains over 10,000,000,000 (10 billion) cells, each arranged to function instantly. And how many cells are located in the digestive system? How many billions of cells are running throughout a person's nervous system, and how many cells form the bones and muscles in our legs and arms and neck and face and torso and our feet and our hands—and all this happened by chance?
The odds for assembling a system or only 200 integrated parts in only 1 in 10 to the 375th power. Mathematicians usually consider any event with a probability of less than 1 chance in 10 to the 50th power as having a zero probability, which means it is impossible. The human body has 11 extremely complex systems that perfectly operate as one. Over 600 skeletal muscles throughout our bodies, move our 206 bones smoothly and jar,pmopis;u/ harmoniously are 60 trillion cells in an adult human body. The odds of this happening are 1 in 10 to the 2 billionth power (a figure with 2 billion zeros after it).
Here is the bottom line to the Creation Vs Evolution controversy. IT TAKES MORE FAITH TO BELIEVE IN THE ABSURDITY OF EVOLUTION THAN TO BELIEVE IN GOD!!
The late Carl Sagan once said "the simple cell is not really all that simple, and that it would take 100 million pages of the encyclopedia Britannica to explain all the intricate parts of the cell and how it functions."
Now, let's take a look at how S.E.T.I. (Sciences Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) works. They would consider hearing 3-5 notes in a row as being proof that they have finally found the evidence for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. Only 3-5 simple notes. But they choose to ignore the 100 million pages as being evidence of a master designer and creator. Some folks aren't using their common sense!
Sun Disproves Evolution:
Scientists have been able to measure the diameter of our sun, and it is burning up and shrinking at the rate of about 5 feet per hour. If the sun really was there billions of years ago, it would have been GIGANTIC. The earth would have been fried to a crisp. Once again true science proves that evolution is a lie.
MUTATIONS:
The Evolution-By-Mutation theory was originated by Hugo deVries in 1901 and was based upon the work of Gregor Mendel on genetics in 1866. But it is a fact that nearly all mutations are harmful to the life form. Mutations belong in the comic books and science fiction movies.
ENTROPY:
The second law of thermodynamics is known as the Law Of Energy Decay. The law states the fact that "the universe is proceeding in a downward degenerating state of decreasing organization." DOWNWARD NOT UPWARD. Yet evolution would make us believe that on millions of occasions, over billions of years, tiny organisms successfully grunted themselves into higher, extremely complex life forms. What total foolishness!
We live on a planet where people are arrested and fined for breaking traffic laws, etc. But when our scientists and professors go and break a functioning law of the universe, what do we do? We go and put them in charge of our institutions of higher learning. "That's the way to go folks! YaHoo! There's nothing like that wonderful feeling of thinking you woke up in the twilight zone and the inmates are now in charge!
Absence of Transitional Forms:
Evolution says that this is the progression of mankind's evolving: non-living matter, to protozoa's, to Metazoan invertebrates, to Vertebrate fish, to Amphibians, to Reptiles, to Birds, to Fur-bearing Quadrupeds, to Apes, to man.
If all this is true, then we should find lots of transitional forms that would link these major groups, BUT THE LINKS ARE MISSING! Evolutionists countered this fact by thinking up the concept of "punctuated equilibrium," saying that evolution occurs via sudden giant leaps rather than in small, gradual modifications.
What these people are saying is that one day, millions of years ago, some reptile laid an egg and a bird hatched from it. It is the evolutionists who have laid the egg!
The Geo-illogic Column:
The flood happened in approximately 2350 BC, and the whole world was covered with water. The water canopy above the earth collapsed and all the underground aquifers burst forth. The surface of the earth ripped apart. Multi-directional water currents laid down different layers of sediment, and these layers (which came from all different directions) contained the bodies of the various pre-flood animals.
The 4000 plus years later, men came along and started digging up all these fossils in these rock layers. They began teaching that there are vast ages between these layers of sediment and rock, and they it all sound so very logical. The sad truth is that these men despise God and despise the Bible. And here's what God says he does with these people: "God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie... because they received not the love of the truth." (1Thessslonians 2:10-11)
So what if marine fossils are found in the geologic column 7,000 feet above sea level? And so what if these supposed layers are out of order here and there around the world? In Glacier National Park there is a 1 billion year old block of Precambrian limestone on top of a Cretaceous shale formation which is supposedly only 100 million years old. This misplaced block is 350 miles long, 35 miles wide, and 6 miles thick. THE ONLY PLACE THE GEOLOGIC COLUMN EXISTS IS IN THE TEXTBOOKS OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS! The truth is that the Grand Canyon, etc., was formed by the Genesis flood. "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, I will also reject thee." (Hosea 4:6)
Comparative Anatomy:
Evolutionists see the similarities of various bone structures, and their minds jump to the conclusion that this is proof that we all evolved from one common ancestor. But all it means is that God merely re-used the same pattern over and over again in His various creations (Just like all cars share the same basic components). This basic interior design pattern works and God made wide use of it. You can tell who designed a building by the way it is constructed. It reflects its designer. God, the Master Designer of the universe uses the same basic components when He creates, showing that it is He who designed everything.
Discern The Truth:
Obviously, since none of us were alive 500-6000 years ago, none of us were eye-witnesses to these events. So how do we come to a decision in the matter? How can we confidently state that Creationism and the Bible are 100% true. Here's how:
1.) Check the facts—When Pre-Historic living animals existed, THEY WERE FULLY DEVELOPED ANIMALS. The fossil record shows no half-developed trilobites or half-formed T-rexes. Every fossilized animal ever found was a fully functional animal, which shows and proves that all of these Pre-Historic animals appeared FULLY FORMED. They did not evolve over millions of years.
2.) It is impossible for complex amino acids or DNA chains to form by chance, and it is impossible for individual kinds of animals to slowly evolve things like stomachs, eyes, nervous systems, etc., of millions of years. THEY EITHER HAVE THESE FULLY FUNCTIONING ORGANS, OR THEY ARE DEAD!
3.) Evolution with God is a TOTAL IMPOSSIBILITY—therefore it makes more sense to believe the Bible, and admit that God the Creator exists.
Now for a little bit, let us consider what really would have happened if evolution was true. Evolutionists look at the world around us and see thousands upon thousands of different types of fully-developed fish and birds and land animals, and they take it for granted that it all functions, and all these animals exist.
But what would life on this planet be like if life really evolved on the earth? The odds clearly show that this spectacular event could barely even happen one time! Therefore, if life really evolved from nothing, then all we should have living on this planet would be only one viable kind of life form and its food supply. That's all! But in reality even that one evolved life form would never make it at all without God's help.
Adam and Noah, etc.:
Let me clarify something about this "10% brain" thing. I'm not locking in that number as a literal, fixed number. I'm using it as an example of the fact that our mental capabilities are nowhere near perfect, so let me define "perfect" here for you. The Bible says: "There were Giants in the earth in those days." Adam lived 930 years and may have been around 15 feet tall. Then mankind deteriorated—Noah at 12 feet and now we're down to half of that. If you doubt this is possible, how is it there are pigmies and dwarfs?
The fossil record shows that everything grew larger before the flood. All the plants were bigger, all the animals, and this would also apply to mankind. Along with his greater size, Adam's brain was also "perfect" when God made him. That means that Adam and Eve had perfect photographic memories, and their mental capacity was capable of storing and accessing the information they would've gathered throughout all eternity. That's why I say even Einstein was down to only 10%. Maybe the rest of us are down to something more like 2 or 3%.
Cavemen:
If Adam and many of the people who lived before the flood were Giants, why haven't we found lots of their fossils? There's a simple answer to that. God destroyed the world by the flood because of the evil being done by fallen corrupt mankind. God's wrath literally pulverized man to dust.
God wasn't angry with the animals, God was fed up with fallen man, so any areas that had major cities received God's "special attention." God made sure that these cities were totally destroyed. Few remains will ever be found, as these places are probably located under the coal beds that were once pre-flood forests.
So what about these fossils of "prehistoric cavemen," "Neanderthals," "Java man," and "Lucy," the bones of the supposed "mother of our race" found in Ethiopia in 1974?
Cavemen are not links between apes and mankind, they are DEGENERATED HUMAN BEINGS. They are the de-evolved imperfect human beings that were genetically damaged by the curse of sin and the pervasive effects of cellular entropy.
Modern-day Giants:
Robert Wadlow was born in 1918 weighing 8 ½ pounds at birth. His abnormal growth began at the age of 2 following a double hernia operation. At the age of 5 he was 5'4". When he was 10, he was 6'5", and at the age of 15 he was 7'8". Robert Wadlow reached his top height when he was 22, which was 8'111/10".
He passed away on July 15, 1940 as a result of a septic blister on his right ankle, caused by a poorly fitting brace. Wadlow's greatest recorded weight was 491 pounds on his 21st birthday. His shoes were 3711 (18 ½") from the wrist to the tip of the middle finger. His arm span was 9' 5 ¾". He was buried in Oakwood cemetery in Alton, Illinois, in a 10' 9" coffin.
The Bible states that Goliath was 6 cubits, or 9 feet tall.
Robert's main problem was that he was always tired, and very lethargic. His metabolism just didn't function properly because of his size.
The Water Canopy:
In the days before the flood, the earth had a thicker "protective" atmosphere around it. This "water canopy" put more pressure down upon the atmosphere of our earth and the pervasive benefits of this was that the life functions of both man and the animals were affected. How?
The extra pressure on the atmosphere caused the blood cells in all the "Giant" animals and all the "Giant" people to function much more efficiently! Thus "Giantism" could flourish.
Have you heard of "Hyperbaric Chambers?" These are machines made to increase the air pressure, and if a person is placed inside one of these machines, an interesting thing happens. The cells of that person's body begin to do an excellent job of transferring oxygen and removing the waste products from the body, which means that on the cellular level the body functions healthier and better.
If our planet still had that water canopy, then Robert Wadlow never would've had all those tiring problems.
The metabolisms of all those huge dinosaurs and the giant people worked wonderfully well because of the greater pressure of our atmosphere, and the better nutrient quality in the food they ate. But after the flood, that canopy was gone. At that time nearly all man kind and the animals decreased in size and stature, down to a smaller size that their weakened metabolisms could handle.
Odd Animals:
There are certain animals on this planet that are living proof of God's handiwork.
The Bombardier Beetle:
This beetle has an amazing defense system. If attacked, he shoots extremely hot irritating gases out of twin combustion tubes in his tail. Chemicals are squeezed from storage glands, mixed in a holding chamber, then ignited by an enzyme. The resulting gases are 212 degrees F.
There is no way this type of beetle evolved because if it did, generation after generation of this beetle would have blown themselves up.
The Woodpecker:
This bird is a miniature Jackhammer. How does he survive ramming his head against trees a thousand times a minute? God gave his brain special cushioning.
The Giraffe:
People take the giraffe's long neck for granted, and know nothing of the science of how it works when this animal has to lower itself down to drink or swallow.
The Archer Fish:
This fish shoots water up at bugs and leaves, and it's amazing how its eyes can see through the refraction of light under water to hit that bug.
VARIOUS ANIMALS ARE ABSOLUTE PROOF THAT A LIFE ONLY HAPPENS BY DESIGN!
Carbon Dating:
Carbon dating is a highly flawed and imperfect science! The Carbon-14 method was developed in the early 1950's and is used to attempt to date the age of plants and animals.
Living things ingest carbon, both ordinary carbon (C12) and radioactive carbon (C14). The "half-life" of C14 is 5,700 years, and scientists assume they can accurately measure the remains of this C14 and determine the age of dinosaurs, etc. But there is a problem.
First, this entire system assumes that the amounts of C12 and C14 have always been constant, but they haven't.
Secondly, living snails have been tested to be 2,300 years old. Wood taken from living trees came out 10,000 years old. And the shell of a living turtle also tested to be thousands of years older than it actually was. CARBON DATING IS NOT RELIABLE!
THE AGE OF THE EARTH:
The Evolutionist's View:
They say the earth is billions of years old (Who cares if the sun would have been so big that it would have vaporized all life off the planet.) For the Evolutionists, time is the magic factor that turns frogs into princes. Just take one frog and add 3 ½ billion years, and presto! a prince.
The Creationists View:
The Bible says that creation week was approximately 6,000 years ago. This number was reached by adding up the ages of the people in the Old Testament, paying special attention to how old they were when they "begat" their various sons.
There are 2 different views of the 6,000 years time period. 1) God created the earth and all the universe 6,000 years ago with a built-in age factor. 2) God created the whole universe billions of years ago in the beginning, and then 6,000 years ago God came and made our world capable of supporting life during the 7 literal days of creation week. God is in either of these views, and each of us can pick which we prefer. But God isn't in the "frog-prince" scenario!
GAP THEORY INTERPRETATIONS
The Wrong One:
This gap theory originated in the early 1800s when evolution-believing Christians wanted to reinterpret the 7 days of creation as 7 long periods of millions of years. They inserted a giant gap of time between genesis 1:1 and 1:2, thereby making room for the millions of years needed to supposedly let life "evolve" from chemicals in slime pools into dinosaurs, etc.
An OK Gap Scenario:
God created all the universe billions of years ago, the earth without a finished form. When God spoke, the earth stood fast (Polonium Halos froze in place which I will explain to you shortly). Time passed. God had thousands of galaxies to occupy His attention.
Our solar system had no sun. The foundations (Hebrews 1:10) of our world and our other planets floated in space, cold, frozen, lifeless.
Then it came time to "defrost" our planet and put life on it 6,000 years ago. The Spirit of God moved over the frozen waters and warmed them (Deuteronomy 4:24), and the earth rotated. The water vapor atmosphere formed, liquid water formed small seas and was pulled into underground aquifers. The dry land appeared. God (not dependent upon pre-existing matter) created plants and trees. One the 4th day God ignited our sun, and the moon reflected its light. Then God created the sea life, the birds, the land animals (and some dinosaurs), Adam and Eve on the 6th day, and God blessed the 7th day.
CREATIONISM:
Not all creationists believe the same way in regard to dinosaurs. Perhaps some dinosaurs did go onto the Ark (There have been reports of small brontosaurs living in Africa); and other creationists believe that the dinosaurs were "amalgamations" wherein the antediluvians messed with the genetics of God's original animals, which was why God destroyed them all in the flood.
It would be nice if all creationists could agree on one and only one scenario, but it probably won't happen. So maybe all we can do is focus on the high points, like how evolution defies all logic and how there's tons and tons of evidence that supports the creation story that is told in the Bible's book of Genesis.
Devon told me that Bob Gentry gave one of your presentations not long, presenting his evidence of the Polonium Halos, so I will just touch briefly about his finding.
I met Mr. Gentry in person back in 1989, and we discussed the possibility of me helping him illustrate his material, but that project never saw completion.
I don't know if you knew this but Scientist Bob Gentry is the world's leading authority on radiohalos, and he is a very kind, quiet-spoken Christian gentleman.
His Evidence For Creation:
Polonium 218 is a daughter element of the natural decay of uranium, and Polonium Halos have been found in mica and fluorite. But these halos should not exist because of their extremely short half-lives. POLONIUM HAS A HALF-LIFE OF ONLY 3 MINUTES.
If the Evolutionists were right, and the earth's rock formations gradually cooled over millions of years, the Polonium radiohalos would have vanished and decayed into other elements long ago. These radiohalos are solid scientific proof of the instantaneous creation spoken of in the Bible. "By the word of the Lord were the heavens made. For He spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast." (Psalm 33:6-9).
Bob Gentry's work is pertinent and viable, no matter which interpretation of the Genesis creation story you may currently believe—"Gap" or "No Gap." God still spoke the entire universe into existence, and those Halos prove it.
DINOSAURS IN THE BIBLE:
Yes, Dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible. "Behold now behemoth which I made with thee." (Job 40:15-24) God was describing the dinosaur known as a Sauropod, and we have found their giant bones.
Giantism flourished in the pre-flood world. The largest Sauropod ever found was 150 feet long, and would have weighed 100 tons. This creature was "chief of the ways of God," the biggest and strongest creature that ever walked the earth.
"He moveth his tail like a cedar.: (Job 40:17) Some Bible commentaries think the "Behemoth" was an elephant or a Hippopotamus, but neither of those animals have "cedar-like" tails. But Sauropods do!
The second dinosaur mentioned in the Bible was Leviathan. Job 41:1-34 describes the meanest, strongest, fiercest animal that God ever created. Some Bible commentaries believe that the "Leviathan" was a giant pre-flood crocodile. Maybe it was, but if we look at all the fossil-creatures that have ever been dug up, the "king" of the Dinosaurs was T-Rex.
The Bible says that "Leviathan" had terrible teeth, scales, and it breathed smoke and fire. How could this happen? Remember the Bombardier Beetle I mentioned a little while ago? and how it can shoot out fiery gases? Maybe the T-Rex could do the same. Tyrannosaurus has been nicknamed the "Air-Headed Dinosaur" because of all the hollow chambers in his skull, which could have held the explosive chemicals. History is full of stories about fire-breathing dragons. The stories might be true.
SCOFFERS:
God knew how things would be down here near the end of time:
"There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. (II Peter 3:3-9) The following verses tell us that these people are willingly ignorant of these 3 things. 1) "By the word of God the heavens and the earth were made." They ignore Creationism, and prefer Evolution. 2) "The world was overflowed with water," the flood. Evolutionists refuse to accept the Genesis flood story. 3) "The heavens and the earth [are] reserved unto fire against the day of judgment... of ungodly men." Scoffers also reject the 2nd coming and God's judgment.
The final verses in Peter say that God is longsuffering (patient) with us, and that He wishes that none should perish. God desires that ALL should come to repentance and be saved.
Count the Chromosomes:
Did you know that Evolution textbooks refuse to teach the number of chromosomes as proof for evolution? Evolution insistently teaches that simple life evolves into more complex life. Let's count the chromosomes in different living things. Going from the greatest to the least, at the top of the list is the fern plant with 480, next the White Ash at 138, followed by the carp at 100, goldfish at 94, sweet potato at 90, turkey at 82, chicken, dog and duck at 78, horse at 64, cow at 60, amoebas at 50, chimp at 48, tobacco at 48, HUMAN at 46, bat 44, wheat 42, soybean 40, cat 38, starfish 36, apple 34, alligator 32, onion 32, opossum 22, redwood tree 22, kidney bean 22, carrot 20, lettuce 18, honeybee 16, garden pea 14, house fly 12, tomato 12, fruit fly 8, penicillin 2.
If Evolution was right, the fern with 480 chromosomes would be the ultimate goal of evolution. How can a fern with 434 more chromosomes than a human being with 46 be a higher evolved life form? An Ameba has more chromosomes (50) than man (46). If evolution was right, kidney beans, redwood trees and opossums all with 22 chromosomes evolved from carrots. You can see how chromosomes totally disprove evolution.
Dr. Kent Hovind says that he has only found one college-level evolution textbook that even commented on this very embarrassing fact: "The number of chromosomes do not seem to follow the evolutionary pattern. Therefore we feel the information is irrelevant."
Christians Who Believe In Evolution:
Did you know that there actually exist lots of Christians who actually believe the fantasies put forth by today's Paleontologists that man evolved from apes and the single celled organisms in primordial swamps? To me this doesn't make sense.
The Problem:
Here is the problem with this belief: If we evolved from apes, then the Bible is a lie. If the Bible is a lie, then God is a liar, God's angels are liars, the Bible prophets are liars, and that would make Jesus a liar too.
Jesus lived in the Jewish culture, and every Jewish synagogue in the world taught the law, the first five books of the Tanakh. Nobody, but nobody argued with the story of Genesis and the written account of the 7 literal days of creation. Every Jew knows that God created Adam and Eve on the 6th day, and that meant Jesus knew it too.
If that straight forward story was a lie, then God would be a liar for permitting it to be included in Scripture and passed on down the centuries to billions of believers.
So, if you are going to believe in Jesus, then that means you must also accept the fact that God's word tells us that he created Adam and Eve in one day.
It was surprising to many Christian's when the Pope recently came out with the statement that "mankind evolved from apes." Today's secular evolutionary scientists have succeeded in hoodwinking many Christians saying they have "overpowering evidence" for Evolution. This is error.
Creation week was 7 literal days, wherein God blessed and sanctified the 7th day. Adam and Eve were perfect human beings from the very day God breathed the breath of life into them. Monkeys and apes are merely one of the man forms of animal life. PERIOD!
The Scopes Trial:
The scopes trial was held in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution in a public school. He violated a Tennessee State law which mandated that teachers in public schools could only teach the Biblical account of the creation of man. Scopes was fined $100.00, but the conviction was later overturned because of a small legal error. The Tennessee law remained in effect until 1967, when the state legislature abolished it.
William Jennings Bryan, famous poet, was a fundamentalist Christian who had run three times for the Presidency, and he offered to help the prosecution. But when he accepted a challenge from Darrow, who was a very sharp lawyer, Bryan was humiliated and outsmarted by Darrow in his cross-examination. Thus creationism and the Bible were made to look foolish.
Why did this happen? Because Bryan did not yet have enough scientific knowledge to prove his case. But now we do. If this case could be tried now in a truly open public forum, and all the ex-evolution scientists came forward, we would see that science is verifying that creationism is 100% true.
Time For Some Fun:
In 1991, before the Jurassic Park movies came out, I drew up my version of the T-Rex sequence from the first Jurassic Park book. I wondered what it might have looked like if these vicious dinosaurs tried to attack Noah's ark. I pictured a chaotic scene where a herd of T-Rexes were running toward the ark with fallen evil angels above them stampeding them toward the ark hoping to destroy it. The next picture showed how the angel of the Lord stopped and repelled both the evil angels and the dinosaurs. God made sure that the ark was protected and T-Rex was not permitted to harm the ark. I imagined what it would have been like to see this scene on an Imax screen in sense-surround THX Dolby stereo sound. WOW!!
The Flood Was Real:
The flood waters drowned and killed the dinosaur. This event is not a fable and not a myth. It is a verifiable scientific fact. Genesis 6:-9 says that all the people and all the animals that did not go onto Noah's ark died, and the flood waters covered the whole world.
The fossil remains of numerous dinosaurs have been found with their heads and necks arched upwards. It was as if in their death throes they were straining to keep their heads above water.
Scientists today believe that a giant asteroid hit the earth 65 million years ago and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Asteroids of various sizes have hit the earth, but it was the flood that killed the dinosaurs.
CONCLUSION:
In concluding my talk this evening I would like to share with you information taken from a book "The Discovery of Genesis," by C.H. Kang and Ethel Nelson, published in 1979, p 12.
The story of the Genesis flood has been told in the myths and legends of over 250 different cultures. Sure, specific details in these stories differ, but this is exactly what we should expect to see. All these stories validate the Bible story. The written Chinese language originated around 2,200 BC. That date closely coincides with the dispersion of the people from the Tower of Babel. Take for example the Chinese character for "boat." The three symbols that comprise that word are "vessel," "eight," (the number of people on Noah's ark), and "mouth" which can also mean "person."
This shows that 2,200 years before Christianity, and before the Jewish people became established in Israel, the Chinese people knew about Noah and the ark. And why did they know about it? Because it was a real event. Only an earth-shaking real event can work its way into 250 cultures. That's the truth of the matter.
Totally Conflicting Scenarios:
Creationism says that God created mankind and the animals, and that they were all perfect. Mankind fell from perfection into degradation and death, from perfection into nothingness.
Evolutionism says that life somehow began by itself and raised itself from nothingness to higher and higher reach for perfection.
There are only two choices, Creationism or Evolution—two totally opposite and conflicting belief systems. Evolutionists have suggested that perhaps life originated elsewhere in the universe, and then it was brought here to our world. But the flaw with this idea is that life would still have to evolve and develop from nothing somewhere else. So this idea also falls apart. FACE IT, THERE IS NO WAY LIFE EXISTS WITHOUT GOD BEING INVOLVED!
I hope you found the information I have shared with you informative and worthwhile. I have my cartoon booklets for sale in the foyer if you would like one. On the last page of that book I have listed all the creation science organizations.
Share it with your friends and neighbors. Millions of people have seen the Jurassic Park films, and millions of people visit and tour our natural history museums. These museums have wonderful nature displays, but these museums are also funded and operated by people who have as their agenda the establishment of the faulty theory of evolution. A theory that falls apart under close inspection. God bless you all in your search for truth.
Thank you Jim for your presentation tonight. It has certainly confirmed what we have been hearing over the past weeks, and gives us yet more of the proof we have been looking for. Now friends, for sure next week will be our last meeting at which time we will consider what I believe is the ultimate proof of God and His Word, the fulfilling of Biblical prophecy. Once again thank you for coming tonight. I look forward to seeing you all next week which will be the final meeting of our seminar-symposium.
A Creationist's View
of Dinosaurs and the Theory of Evolution,
by Jim Pinkoski, can be purchased from: Amazing Facts, Inc, POB
1058, Roseville, CA 95678