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The book of Romans says that the evidence of God's creation is 'clearly seen' by all and that people are 'without excuse' for their disbelief (Romans 1:20). If evidence for creation is that obvious, why then does it seem that public education and media almost always present evidence as pointing to an evolutionary conclusion?

A meteorite supposedly hit Mexico, 65 million years ago, causing the extinction of dinosaurs but someone forgot to tell the duck-billed Hadrosaur.

DARWINISM A CULT? (PETER HITCHENS) The following challenge to the British Broadcasting Corporation appeared on the Peter Hitchens feature page of the International Express (UK), on 5 January 2000: “DARWIN’S BIZARRE CULT The BBC teased religious leaders by asking them if they believed in the literal truth of the great Bible stories. I would like to ask BBC chiefs and the rest of our secular establishment if they believe in the literal truth of evolution. Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk up the beach. The idea is so comically daft that only one thing explains its survival—that lonely, frightened people wanted to expel God from the Universe because they found the idea that He exists profoundly uncomfortable.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: British columnist Peter Hitchens is the brother of Christopher Hitchens, who was famous for his very public stance in opposing faith in God. Peter, like his brother, was once an atheist, but partially as a result of seeing the fruit of atheism in Soviet Russia, he is now a Christian.

Quotable Quotes archive [/qa#quotable_quotes] BIRCH & EHRLICH: EVOLUTION “OUTSIDE OF EMPIRICAL SCIENCE” “Our theory of evolution has become, as Popper described, one which cannot be refuted by any possible observations. Every conceivable observation can be fitted into it. It is thus ‘outside of empirical science but not necessarily false’. No one can think of ways in which to test it.” REFERENCE Charles Birch and Paul Ehrlich, Evolutionary history and population biology, Nature 214:352, 1967. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: Darwinian explanations are too flexible to be useful (Skell) [/darwinian-explanations-are-too-flexible-to-be-useful]

A consequence of evolutionary thinking is that ancient people were intellectually inferior to moderns. On the other hand, the bible records that people began with high intelligence and had great capabilities. This week we look at evidence for the biblical record.

Most people don't like to be told they have a big head, but some scientists might actually consider that a compliment. Humans have much large skulls than apes and since humans are much more intelligent there's been a long-standing belief that skull size indicates level of intelligence. That's why evolutionists tend to interpret larger ape skulls as advanced apes and smaller human skulls as sub human.

“I HOPE THERE IS NO GOD!” Thomas Nagel > “I speak from experience, being strongly subject to this fear myself: I want > atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most > intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn’t > just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I’m right in my > belief. It’s that I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I > don’t want the universe to be like that. My guess is that this cosmic > authority problem is not a rare condition and that it is responsible for much > of the scientism and reductionism of our time. One of the tendencies it > supports is the ludicrous overuse of evolutionary biology to explain > everything about human life, including everything about the human mind …. This > is a somewhat ridiculous situation …. [I]t is just as irrational to be > influenced in one’s beliefs by the hope that God does not exist as by the hope > that God does exist.” 1 REFERENCE 1. Nagel, Thomas, The Last Word, pp. 130–131, Oxford University Press, 1997. Dr Nagel (1937– ) is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. Return to text.

SCIENTISM VERSUS SCIENCE “Scientism is not the same thing as science. Science is a blessing, but scientism is a curse. Science, I mean what practicing scientists actually do, is acutely and admirably aware of its limits, and humbly admits to the provisional character of its conclusions; but scientism is dogmatic, and peddles certainties. It is always at the ready with the solution to every problem, because it believes that the solution to every problem is a scientific one, and so it gives scientific answers to non-scientific questions. Owing to its preference for totalistic explanation, scientism transforms science into an ideology, which is of course a betrayal of the experimental and empirical spirit.” Leon Wieseltier, Perhaps Culture is Now the Counterculture: A Defense of the Humanities, 19 May 2013; www.newrepublic.com/article/113299/leon-wieseltier-commencement-speech-brandeis-university-2013 [Wieseltier self-describes as a humanist.] FURTHER READING The religion of scientism [/the-religion-of-scientism-m-shallis].

Is ape and human DNA really 99% similar? What is the evidence that ape chromosome 2 fusion led to human DNA? Richard Fangrad and Calvin Smith discuss these and other issues relating to human evolution this week on Creation Magazine LIVE!Many people believe humans evolved from and apelike ancestor, but science disagrees: we were created!

In 1978, a team led by Mary Leakey discovered a series of footprints in Tanzania. These are known as the Laetoli footprints. According to many researchers, these footprints are identical to those made by humans. Paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson stated, 'Make no mistake about it, they are like modern human footprints'.

For a long time we've been told that human and chimp DNA is over 98% identical, but even though this figure has now been revised to 95% or less, does that mean that chimps are 95% human?

Many people scoff at the idea that all humans descended from a woman called Eve only thousands of years ago. But geneticists actually endorse a similar idea, known as mitochondrial Eve.

It has long been claimed that monkeys typing randomly could eventually type out the complete works of Shakespeare. Plymouth University researchers recently installed a computer in a monkey enclosure to see what would happen.

Every time I hear of Neandertal man, I cannot help but feel sorry for the poor guy. Initially reconstructed to look like some apish brute, it took 44 years before a reanalysis of the fossils revealed that Neandertal man's anatomy was very similar to yours and mine.

In 2003, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to the pioneers of MRI scanning technology. But of those honored for this amazing medical breakthrough, there was a glaring omission.

How did the peacock get such a spectacular tail? Bothered by this question, Charles Darwin wrote: 'The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!'