Biblical Creation verses Evolution? I challenge you to gather and study the evidence that is available and make your own conclusion. Here is why I ask this question, it is not to prove Creationism or Evolution wrong, but rather to challenge you to understand why you believe what you believe.
Being a Christian I need to understand what and why I believe what I believe. We don't need to have blind faith any more. As an Evolutionist I do not need to have blind faith to believe what public schools have been teaching any more. Neither theory has been proven. You need to dig deep and discover the truth for yourself.
Over the past few months I have been studying science and observeable clues to both theories. I've been looking for evidence that proves that the Bible is right or wrong. We need to challenge our thinking on any subject and this challenge will strengthen your belief in Creation or Evolution, but you must first dig deep and challenge the fundamental explanation that the Bible presents and the presumptions that Evolutionary theory is based on. If you search deep enough the truth will be revealed.
I started on this journey with the question about the Grand Canyon. How did a narrow river carve out the steep walls over millions of years or did they get formed in a very short period of time as creationist present? The evidence of the steep walls point to a very rapid erosion with lots of moving material to create it. So is it possible that a large amount of water flowing very fast possibly created the canyon walls? https://someinterestingfacts.net/how-was-antelope-canyon-formed/ How is this possible and were did that water come from? Evidently the start of the Colorado river is actually at a lower elevation than the top of the Grand Canyon so how did the water get to the point of cutting through that part of the landscape? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR4YTY8HQPs The river can't flow up hill so how did it carve out a canyon? One theory is that a large amount of water was released in a short period of time and carved out the canyon. Where did this large amount of water come from? Possibly a lake? So maybe the Grand Canyon was created in a short period of time? This raises the question can other geographically formations be created quickly? In the 1980's Mt Saint Helen's erupted and caused great geographical changes to the landscape. One of those changes was a 100 ft deep canyon created in a matter of hours. Ok so it is possible to have rapid landscape changes in a short period of time. https://littlegrandcanyon.blogspot.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEj4IX3YjNc
Coal was the next big question. If coal is millions of years old how can Creationist believe that the earth is only 6-8 thousand years old? Trying to resolve this led to discovering research that was done to create coal in a short period of time in a lab environment. They were able to produce a coal like substance simulating natural coal in a short period of time. Not millions of years, so lets assume without further investigation (you can investigate these claims started with the source below) that coal can be produced in a short period of time. How did it get buried in thousands of feet of earth under multiple layers of sediment? Does this point to a flood and technic activity?
http://creationwiki.org/Coal_formation
Lets talk about rock. How do we know the age of rock? The United States Geological Survey holds the stance that, “the actual length of geologic time represented by any given layer is usually unknown or, at best, a matter of opinion.” This article also captures and asks the question of the circular logic of the rock age verses Darwins's chart.
http://www.readysetquestion.com/how-is-age-of-rock-determined/ So Creationists have challenged the logic of how plants and animal fossils are aged. This is a big hole that I have not seen a good rebuttal for yet.
This brings us back to the flood. Could a world wide flood create so much havoc that plant and animal matter was buried thousands of feet in the ground? Well the Bible claims that the whole earth was covered with water. Really over the mountains too? So this event is recorded in myths, written records, and other text. So lets assume that this flood did occur. Can a flood explain some of these challenges that are being raised by evolutionary theories? It seams that yes, in a short period of time geographical transformation can take place, as observed in the canyon of Mt St. Helen's. So how can a world wide flood bury and create several layers that are thousands of feet deep sediment in the time frame of one year as mentioned in the Bible? So a study was conducted by John Baumgardner, Ph.D. Los Alamos National Laboratory, retired. His research was focused on what a world wide Tsunami would do. He was surprised to discover that through his simulations waves created from that type of tsunami could easily cover the earth and the tallest mountains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ls51VtSQBs&list=WL&index=72&t=615s
Ok so back to the theory that dinosaurs are millions of years old. This led to discovering that actual dinosaur tissue and blood cells have been uncovered. It has been determined that animal flesh can not survive for millions of years. So this seems to point toward a young age for the dinosaurs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-K7_H27Wq4&t=1s
How could there have been billions of people prior to the flood? Here is a short video on how that can happen (there are others, but this should do). This can easily have been accomplished in the time frame prior to the flood and after the flood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL6ih6QkaBo
Lets flip this over to the evolution side for a moment. Evolution is a theory that believes through random chance organisms have formed over millions/billions of years. So scientists have calculated that if you took the chance of 2 molecules coming together in the vastness of the ocean and having them combine into something is greater that all a the atoms in the universe. Ok, so the chances of molecules be formed is so improbable than its hard to believe that this same process can create, cells, animals, etc. chances of happening is pretty much zero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1_KEVaCyaA
So DNA evidence points to an increase in mutated genes over time. Our DNA cannot survive for millions of years. Dive into DNA and the resent discovers with DNA. DNA is information. According the science, information can only come from an intelligent source. It has to be created?
DNA points to a single origin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5bPbwkjKMM
Animals that have multiple element functions, where one part is depend on other part in order to have purpose. Evolution can not explain this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKM9yoQ3Wug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QVcViDEmGg
Historical timeframe for DNA mutations. "In school and in the movies, we are taught that mutants are “cool” and that mutations can be a very good thing. But that simply is not solid science."
http://thetruthwins.com/archives/the-human-race-is-dying-dna-degeneration-would-eventually-lead-to-the-total-extinction-of-humanity
Races, chromosomes and DNA by Geneticist and scientist Dr. Robert Carter addresses these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAEBOl3ZE0Y&t=1095s
Closeness of the moon. If the moon is moving further away, billions of years ago it would have been touching the earth?
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/98811/true-or-false-the-moon-was-touching-the-earth-1-2-billion-years-ago
There are still some things that are questionable on both sides of the coin but the evidence seems to point in one direction. With recent discoveries in science including studies in genetics, geology, archeology, paleontology, to cosmology is science actually proving evolution wrong?
Since evolution is a theory and creation is a theory, why are both not considered? We need to be concerned that evolution is being taught as scientific fact, when in actuality, from my research, it is further from the truth than Creationism.
Weigh in on your evidence and challenge the theories and sources presented. I look forward to learning more about how we can all understand our world better!
