Darwin's Dilemma

As we have just said, Darwin would disagree with the statement above. According to him, we are all inter-related and evolved through a slow process of minute changes, through eons of time, out of some primordial soup. So lets see...

Darwin claims that because we are similar to monkeys in some ways, then we must have evolved from them. So whay are there still monkeys around then? Shouldn't they have died off? A knife and a fork may look very similar, but one did not evolve from the other! Their similarity implies a common designer not a comon ancestor.

To evolve through a process of minute changes requires a stable environment. But through the ages this planet has been beset with earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, ice ages, meteorite collisions, floods, famines, plagues and the like...hardly a stable environment in my book!

If we had evolved in this way, then the fossil records would show a gradual emergence of life on Earth. But they don't! Instead, what we find is the "Cambrian Explosion," the existence of many and varied lifeforms found suddenly, all at once and together near the bottom of the geologic column...just as if someone had created them!

Not looking too good charlie boy is it! Here's some more questions...When we cut ourselves, our blood clots at just the right rate to heal the wound. Too much clotting or too little and we would die. So how could this level of clotting agent have arisen in 'small minute changes over a long period of time'?

What conceivable process of natural selection would encourage half an eye to develop? Where are all the fossils of half developed zebra or three quarters of an elephant? A woodpecker needs a thick skull and a strong beak and a long sticky tongue and a tree and another woodpecker. These requirements cannot have evolved haphazzardly and independently by chance. The woodpecker needs them all...and all at the same time!

Mathematician/astronomer Fred Hoyle put it this way. He said that the probability of evolution creating the living world by chance is like believing that "...a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein." (See Evolution from Space, Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasingne, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1981).

The potential power of evolution is the theoretical ability of a lower kind of being to change into a higher order of being, for example from a frog to a dolphin, all through random and unplanned natural processes. The historical textbook examples (finches,etc.) show nothing of the sort! They do not present evidence, for example, about how finches came to be in the first place or if finches changed into other kinds of higher animals. The finch proposition merely shows that you start with finches and end with finches. Coloration, beak shape, etc., may vary, but the finch remains not only a bird, but a finch.

OK then...the numbers! In regard to Life on Earth occurring by chance, researcher Hugh Ross explains that there are actually two sets of odds that interrelate: first, the unique characteristics that must be fashioned to explain the earth's capacity to support life, and second, that life could arise even on a suitably configured planet by random chance. He calculates the odds for life as remote as 1:10100,000,000,000. (Facts and Faith magazine, Second Quarter 1998)

Remember William Dembski calculated that if the probability of something occurring is less than 1:10150, it has no possibility of happening by chance at any time by any conceivable process throughout all of cosmic history? He further estimates that the probability of evolving the first cell is no better than 1:104,478,146. (Impact magazine, November 1999)

OK, lets be fair here. Our question was 'Where did we come from; and so lets ignore the facts that both the origin of the universe and the existence of a life supporting planet Earth are scientific impossibilites. It makes typing the numbers in easier! Lets just take Dembski's odds for first cell evolution.

Oh dear, this too has "No possibility of happening by chance at any time by any conceivable process throughout all of cosmic history". So us being here by chance is impossible...or at least 1:104,478,146 against. Now the only alternative to life by chance is life by a Creator and the odds for this are the inverse of the odds against evolution: At Least 104,478,146:1 in favour!

Alternatively, if something has "No possibility of happening by chance at any time by any conceivable process throughout all of cosmic history" then its occurrence constitutes a miracle! Either way there is only one possible conclusion...God exists and He created us!