Search for the Truth ( Search for Short) Shares One Method of Tearing Down the Gates of Deceit That Grip Our World

First edition August 2001 Second edition, September 2003 Revised/expanded third edition, December 2006

Dedication This book is first dedicated to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in appreciation of the greatest gifts anyone could receive - forgiveness for my sins and the accompanied promise of eternal life in fellowship with Him. It is also dedicated to my wife Robin, without whom my life would not be complete and this book would never have been published.

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2 About the Author

Bruce Malone gave his life to Christ over 20 years ago, as the Lord miraculously preserved him through a close call with death. Since that time Bruce has looked for a deeper purpose in life and realized that rejection of Biblical truth, justified by belief in evolution, is the acid which is eating away at the moral foundation of our culture.

Bruce has a degree in chemical engineering and has spent 25 years working as a research leader for the Dow Chemical corporation. He is reponsible for key innovations which have resulted in eighteen patents. However his passion is sharing the relevance and evidence for creation.

An adjunct speaker for the Institute for Creation Research, Bruce brings science alive through stories and demonstrations showing that Bibical creation is the most rational explanation for the world around us. The purpose of both his books and lectures is to help the non-scientific layman understand the importance of creation while motivating and equipping them to share these truths.

Bruce resides in Midland, MI with his wife Robin. They have four children who are all actively serving the Lord.

3 Table of Contents

About the Author ………………………..…………………………...... …...... ….....3

Table of Contents ………………………………………….…………………………...... …...... 4

Acknowledgements ………………………..…………………………...... …...... 5

Foreword ……………………………………………………………………………...... …...…...... 5

Introduction ……………………………………………...... 7

Section I - Evidence for Creation from Biochemistry and Biology ……...... 9

Section II - Evidence from Geology, Anthropology, & Paleontology……...... …...... 33

Section III - Creation and Education: Truth vs. Indoctrination …….…...... 55

Section IV - Creation Evidence from Physics, Cosmology, & the Age of the Earth…………...... 77

Section V - Creation, Absolute Truth, and Society …………………..………………………...... 97

Section VI - Creation, Christianity, and the Value of Life …..…...... ……...……....………...... ……..115

Appendix I - The Original Creation Lecture Newspaper Notice ...... …...... ………….....…....132

Appendix II - Typical Letters to the Editor ...... …...... …..……..…....134

Appendix III - Resources for Further Study ...... …...... …..……...... ….138

Illustrations………….…………...………………………...... ………………...... …139

Index of Terms ……..……………………………………………………...... …...... 140

Additional Resources for Changing our World...... 142

Resource Order Form ...... 144

4 Acknowledgments This book has been over ten years in the making and is the fruit of the encouragement, financial support, and prayer support of so many Christian friends that it would be impossible to list everyone involved. I owe a special debt of gratitude to those who patiently reworded so many of these articles. These dear and special friends include my wife Robin, Rob & Beth Kelch, Deanna Windon, Wayne Nichols, Carol & Robin Balderston and Stephen B. Austin. My heartfelt thanks goes to Dr. Tas Walker for his timely technical review of the original manuscript. Much of this book summarizes the work of brave, true scientists who dare to research outside the evolutionary paradigm which rules modern science. I am indebted and humbled to summarize the work of great men of science such as Dr. Russell Humphreys, Dr. Steven Austin, Dr. John Sanford, and Dr. Baumgardner all of whom work at the Institute for Creation Research. My deepest appreciation also goes to two of the best editorial cartoonists in the world Chuck Asay and Wayne Stayskal. They not only allowed the use of their work for the newspaper columns (and this book), but greatly encouraged my effort to bring a Christian worldview to public newspapers. Thanks also to Johnny Hart for allowing the use of his insightful cartoons. All of these cartoonists clearly understand the importance of this issue. Thanks also to Master Books, The Institute for Creation Research, Answers in Genesis, Creation Magazine, Alpha Omega Institute, and the Ark Foundation for technical advice and the use of their materials in this book. Further thanks goes to John Adam, Ron Cooper, Lanny & Marilyn Johnson, Pam & Mark Johnson, Dave & Mary Jo Nutting, Tom Wagner and John Whitmore for allowing the use of their excellent articles in this book. A very special thanks to Patricia Edmund for the final proofreading and Shelley Mordue for the fantastic cover design.

Foreword The typical American Christian is educated far beyond obedience. There are sermons, tapes, seminars, radio programs, and books galore on every possible subject dealing with Christianity and spirituality. It is neither a lack of knowledge nor understanding that prevents the Christian faith from having a greater impact on the world around us. What limits the power of Christianity is apathy, misplaced priorities, and direct disobedience. In essence, we fail to see the opportunities God gives us. Our national motto is In God we Trust, but we seldom demonstrate any genuine trust with our actions. It is almost as if we as a nation, although, we still acknowledge that God exists, have separated our spiritual beliefs from the physical reality of the world around us. What our actions really demonstrate is a trust in ourselves, not a living relevant God. Does this mean that continuing to talk about who God is and what He has done is a wasted effort? Not at all! One person impacted by truth can change the future of a nation. The primary purpose of this book is to provide a proven method for bringing the truth about what God has done in the past (and therefore is capable of doing in the future) into the public market place of ideas where right now it seldom sees the light of day. Few people understand how dinosaurs, ice ages, carbon dating, and the big bang fit into their view of the Bible and reality. Therefore, they rather blindly accept whatever they are taught in magazines, museums, and science textbooks without checking out the underlying beliefs upon which the conclusions are built. Even fewer have the time, desire, or patience to read a technical presentation of the Biblical viewpoint in these areas. Yet, the correct understanding of these issues would strengthen their faith, whereas an incorrect interpretation undermines their faith. There are dozens of excellent books on the scientific evidence for creation. This being true, what is the point of writing another one? Simply that knowledge, properly applied, can change lives. This book not only contains such knowledge, but explains how to present this information in a way in which people will respond. Christianity and truth are not commodities that must be sold like tubes of toothpaste. Our job is not to market or sell our beliefs, but to clearly and humbly explain them. The apostle Peter challenges us to ...be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, [do this] with meekness and fear... (I Peter 3:15). It is not our responsibility to convince people of the truth. We can only make the truth known and leave the convincing to the Holy Spirit. He will then open the eyes and hearts of those who really desire to

5 know the truth. This book is an attempt to share such truth in the areas concerning science. The heart of the debate over origins is not a discussion of science versus religion, but a clash of how to view reality. We all have the same ‘data’. The interpretation of this data is diametrically different because of opposite starting assumptions. The primary assumption of modern science is that God has not interacted with creation from the beginning of time. In other words, everything must be explained without God. Obviously, with this starting assumption, the world is going to arrive at a vastly different conclusion concerning our origin than that of the Bible. All valid world views must address the questions of where we came from; why there is so much pain and suffering in the world; and how to improve our lives. Darwinism offers a world view that concludes that people exist as the result of purposeless processes. Therefore, ultimately right or wrong do not exist. Evil becomes just a matter of poor training so we can ultimately perfect ourselves. This is in direct opposition to the Biblical world view that starts with an intelligent Creator, explains that death and suffering are a direct result of man’s actions, and provides a solution to this problem which are not based on our efforts to make retribution or ‘improve ourselves’. Both world views use science to support their conclusions. This book addresses which world view is best supported by the actual scientific evidence. School age children are receiving a barrage of information from our educational system and media telling them that they are here as the result of a gigantic, purposeless explosion. They are being told that life formed over billions of years as rocks dissolved to form a chemical soup which somehow came alive (by some purposeless force). Since they are old enough to watch cartoons on television they have been indoctrinated with the idea that they are here as the result of random-chance processes (evolution). The most basic brainwashing technique is to repeat something over and over again as if it were a fact. With enough repetition even the most outlandish lie can be molded as fact in people’s minds. Once this has happened, it becomes very difficult to overcome because the lie becomes the filter through which the individual views reality. If parents do nothing to explain the scientific problems with the evolutionary world view; don’t be surprised when your children reach their teenage years without any real faith in a relevant God. Don’t be surprised if, by the time they enter college, they totally turn their backs on God. And don’t be surprised if, by the time they leave college, they have totally rejected your standards of right and wrong while setting their own arbitrary, relative values. The purpose of this book thus is to reverse a 100 years of public indoctrination in evolutionary dogma by taking the offensive in an area where Christianity has been on the defensive for far too long. In a larger sense, this is a book about reality the reality of our past, the existence of absolute values, and the nature of God. It is my hope that this book will serve as a reference and encourage people to publish evidence for creation in their own communities. As you will read in the introduction and from testimonies from unsolicited letters (a few of which are shared throughout this book), presenting the evidence for creation changes people’s lives!

6 Introduction

”… upon this rock I will build my church: and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” - Matthew 16:18

Only a spiritually blind person can miss the fact that there is something terribly wrong with this world. Even though beauty abounds in both nature and people, it is not difficult to see that things are not as they ought to be. On a personal level, why can’t you always do what you know is right? If you are honest with yourself, you will realize that you can’t and you don’t. We are all selfish and cruel (often with the people we love most). The Bible call this evil ‘sin’, explains where it comes from, and prescribes a cure for this problem. It has been said that Christians are not really part of this world, but just passing through on their way to their permanent home (Philippians 3:20). With this perspective in mind, look again at the promise which Jesus made to His followers in Matthew 16:18 The gates of hell will not prevail against [my church.] This is not a comfort, but a command. Christians are not called to cower in their churches hoping that they can somehow hang onto their faith in the midst of the onslaught from this world. God blesses us to be a blessing. We are to be about His business so that someday we may hear those words, Well done, my good and faithful servant.

The Bible contains no example of God praising people for hiding themselves from the world. On the contrary, we are told to be a light on the hill and the seasoning to food. It was not by accident that the Promised Land (Israel) was located at the very crossroads of the two major world civilizations of that day. Everyone from east and west had to pass right though the midst of God’s chosen people in order to conduct trade and commerce. Jewish people were forced to interact with the world so that the World could see what was different about their faith. God expects no less from us, but how do we do this today? Search for the Truth ( Search for short) shares one method of tearing down the gates of deceit that grip our world. One of the wonderful things about Christianity is the realization that a creative God did not make us from a cookie cutter. He has an individual plan for each of our lives. Not everyone is called to put the material in this book to use. However, if you feel an excitement and stirring in your spirit as you read this book…if you start to think, I could do this in my church or community. …or… This really could make a difference. … Act on the thought. If just one person in every community would do so; it would lead many people toward a saving knowledge of God. By understanding what God has done in the past we can better understand what He is doing in the present and what He will do in the future. This book is divided into six sections corresponding to the different scientific disciplines dealing with the evidence for, or relevance of, creation. Each section contains individual articles about evidence for creation from these varied scientific disciplines. Anything in this book can be copied and shared with others or put to use as suggested in the last section by printing it in local newspapers. The short chapters between the Search articles provide a running narrative of how this book came to be, how God has used my life and this material in miraculous ways, and how you can put the same information to use. Can sharing the actual physical evidence for creation make a difference in people’s lives? Let’s contrast two examples of what happened with school boards which attempted to present a balanced view of origins. Currently incredible pressure and resources are in place within our public education system to prevent students from viewing any of the evidence for creation. Any attempt to present the evidence for creation is immediately

7 labeled as religion or “creationism” (note that the opposing belief system is never labeled “evolutionism”) and the national media and atheist organizations, unknowingly aided and abetted by teachers and others who know essentially nothing about evidence for creation, pull out all stops to prevent any crack developing in the edifice of evolutionary dogma. In 1999, the state school board in the state of Kansas changed the requirements for the science curriculum to allow for the evidence for intelligent design to be studied alongside the evidence for evolution. The national media went nuts and totally distorted the ruling of the board stating that evolution would no longer be taught in Kansas and that students were being dragged back into the dark ages. The end result, after this extensive misinformation campaign ran its course, was that every member of the state school board lost their job. As a result, the decision was reversed, returning the curriculum to an “evolution only” approach. In 2004, the State of Georgia wanted to place a simple sticker on biology textbooks stating that evolution was an unproven theory and not a fact. Again the national media moved in with a publicity blitz distorting the facts without presenting any of the evidence for creation. The result -- a federal judge ordered that the stickers be removed. In Pennsylvania in 2006, a local school board required that the science curriculum include some of the evidence for intelligent design along with the usual one sided presentation of evolution. Atheist organizations immediately sued and due to the much publicized media barrage, the school board decision was again reversed by a Federal judge and school board members again lost their jobs. Contrast this with what happened in the small community of Grantsburg, WI. In 2004, the school board of this small town of 1,364 voted to change the science curriculum to allow evolution to be critically examined in the light of true science. The national media and state atheist organizations once again descended upon the town like buzzards on road kill. They promoted the usual ‘creation is religion and evolution is science’ propaganda and warned how the children of the school system would be warped and ruined. However, this time instead of remaining silent, one family organized a group of friends and over the next six months started purchasing space in their town’s weekly newspaper and publishing a column containing articles from this book. Week after week, citizens of Grantsburg were exposed to concise, interesting articles that laid out the evidence for a Biblical worldview from every area of science. The school board election for those brave souls who dared to allow the evidence for creation to be viewed by students was held in April of 2005. To the astonishment of many, every board member who had voted to allow students the freedom to think was re-elected (albeit by a razor thin margin). [For the whole story of this victory for truth, see page 114.] We may not always see immediate results, but presenting the truth does make a difference in people’s lives. This book is the third edition of Search for the Truth: Changing the World with the Evidence for Creation. All of the articles have been updated and 17 new articles have been added along with new letters and resources, which are to be found throughout the book. For those who have the first two editions, the new articles can be found on pages 14, 17, 25, 48, 53, 54, 59, 60, 75, 76, 83, 87, 91, 94, 95, 96, and 114. These present some of the latest astonishing findings from the Institute for Creation Research and other sources. As noted on the front cover, the back of this edition also includes a CD containing all of the articles (in Microsoft WordTM format) as well as all of the illustrations (in .jpg format) to make it easier to publish these articles in your town’s newspaper or church’s newsletter. This CD also contains a 45 minute audio lecture on why this issue is so foundational and critical to our nation. I would only ask that you contact me at [email protected] to let us know that you are using these materials. Enjoy, and more importantly, share, all of these resources. An order form for low cost multiple copies of this book, as well as other great resources, can be found on page 144.

8 Section I: Evidence for Creation from Biology and BioChemistry

9 10 Chapter 1

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee…

- Hosea 4:6

If this book was just another fact filled volume expounding on the scientific evidences for creation it would have little impact on the world around us. Many books have been published that explain the impossibility of evolution in great technical detail. Yet with each passing year, the belief in evolution strengthens. Very few people read books on creation and even fewer attend seminars on the subject. The voice of truth in this area is actually a whisper in the midst of a tempest from our education system and the media shouting evolution is a fact. This book presents the scientific evidences for creation in ways not typically used. I was first exposed to the evidence for creation in the summer of 1988. At the time, I was attending a Presbyterian Church led by Reverend Leonard Phelps, a man with a deep faith in the Lord and a respect for the Bible. That summer, he invited a guest lecturer to speak on the topic of creation. Even though, I was at that time a Christian in a real sense (rather than by birth or tradition), I was still a complete product of our public school system. In 1981, I had graduated cum laude from the University of Cincinnati with a BA in chemical engineering and was working as a new product development researcher for the Dow Chemical Co. I had loved science for as long as I could remember and had naively accepted evolution as fact. Therefore, when a speaker came to our church to present the idea that man had not come from apes and that the Bible could be understood literally, I was idly curious, but not particularly interested. Had the speaker based his fruitfulness on my reaction, he would have considered his time wasted because I only attended two of the four Sunday night lectures. I can also remember some older ladies in the church commenting how incredible it was that anyone could believe that an ape could turn into a man. I distinctly remember commenting (under my breath) that they themselves must be the missing links in order to believe otherwise. My overall arrogant attitude was, how dare a bunch of religious fanatics question the findings of science . However, the second of the two lectures totally changed my perspective on life. The speaker talked about the evidence of a worldwide flood and showed how this event explained fossil records better than billions of years of gradual accumulation. In 23 years of education and church attendance, not one person had ever presented the flood of Noah as a factual historical happening. The ramifications of this on everything I had been taught in biology, geology, physics, anthropology, and the origin of the earth and universe became immediately apparent. The implication on the age of the earth was mind boggling. It was as if a light had suddenly been uncovered so that for the first time I could see things around me clearly. The evidence for the rapid accumulation of the fossil record simply made more sense than what I had been taught for years. I spent the next 8 months reading everything I could find on the scientific evidence for creation and evolution (including the Bible from cover to cover).This culminated with spending a week with scientists from the Institute for Creation Research in Cedarville, Ohio in July of 1989. During a field trip to study the geology of the surrounding area, I made a comment to Dr. John Morris that launched me on the adventure that culminated in publishing this book. I stated that, If just one person in every community would dedicate themselves to making the evidence for creation known; God could return our country to its Christian foundation.

11 Search for the Truth By Bruce Malone Western civilization was (known as hypotheses, theories, interacted with mankind in the founded on the realization that an and laws) constantly change. For past; there should be some physical infinite creator God exists. It was example, the universal laws of evidence for both His existence upon this basis (that the universe motion developed by Newton in and this interaction. The quantity was the orderly product of an the 1600’s have been expanded and quality of this evidence is the intelligent being) subject of these that the founders articles. of modern science Is it possible to had the confidence discover objective to develop the truth? Is there scientific method sufficient evidence and modern science. Used by permission of Chuck Asay to support belief However, in recent in the existence years, this open of a creator God? acknowledgment of Is this God an a personal creator impersonal force or has been replaced by a personal God who science as the source has interacted and of ultimate reality. communicated with This viewpoint shift humans? These are is primarily justified the questions which by the acceptance will be addressed. of evolution (both The foundational biological and assumption of every cosmic) as fact. The article is that truth late Christian philosopher, Francis by Einstein’s theory of relativity does exist. Jesus Christ repeatedly Schaeffer, put it best, in the 1900’s. This in turn has claimed to be God.1 Either He Modern man has two feet firmly been expanded to include other is the creator of the universe or planted in midair. discoveries of modern physics. He is not. The Bible claims to be The realization that scientific inspired by God.2 Either this is true In essence, modern man has discoveries are ever changing or the Bible is just a compilation of put science in place of God as has been incorrectly extended to men’s ideas. The Bible describes the foundation for understanding all areas of life and has led to the as factual events an instantaneous reality. Instead of the starting point, conclusion that there is no absolute creation of separate plant and In the beginning God created… truth. However, just because animal types and a worldwide we now have scientific interpretations are ever water catastrophe. Either these In the beginning hydrogen gas… changing does not prove that truth events happened or they did not. If However, science can never does not exist. Science can neither they did; there should be evidence define reality because it is merely a prove nor disprove the existence of supporting these events. These tool which organizes observations God. Furthermore, what we believe articles will thus examine all areas in such a way as to attempt to about the existence of God has of science to determine just what is explain the physical world. Current absolutely no bearing on the reality the truth of our past. observations are extrapolated to of His existence. If we only know a 1. The Bible - John 8:19, John 8:58 explain the past (which can no fraction of all reality; who are we to John 1:1-17, John 5:34 - 39, longer be observed) or to predict assume that the knowledge of God 2. The Bible - Isaiah 40:8, Matthew the future (which also cannot be does not exist in the areas we have 5:18, 2 Timothy 3:16 observed). As more observations not mastered? are gathered, predictions of science If God does exist, and has

12 No Chance of Life By Chance By Bruce Malone In the 1700’s, many scientists and analyzed. The experiment have been around long enough for believed that life spontaneously succeeded in producing a few of the life to have developed. Further- generated from non-living matter 20 amino acids required by living more, a cold trap was used to keep (such as raw meat or sewage). cells. These results have been the reaction products from being In the 1800’s, using careful heralded as proof that life could destroyed as fast as they formed. experimentation, Louis Pasteur have arisen by itself. However, Where is this “cold trap” in nature? proved this concept wrong and The biggest problem is verified that life only comes that the amino acids formed in from previously existing life. this experiment are always a Ironically, many scientists have 50/50 mixture of stereotypes once again returned to the belief (L and D forms). Stereotypes that life came from nonlife… are like a drawer full of right-

in spite of the fact that there Books Master of permission by Used hand and left-hand gloves, is no experimental evidence identical in every way except to show how that could have a mirror image of each other. happened. The reason for the Life uses only L stereotypes return of this unsupported belief of these random amino acids. is that science has been defined Yet, equal proportions of both to eliminate the consideration types are always produced. of the only other alternative the How could the first cell have creation of life by an intelligent selected only L stereotypes designer. from the random, equally Even the simplest living reactive mixture produced cell is an incredibly complex in this experiment? And machine. It must be capable what about the other required of detecting malfunctions, types of amino acids which repairing itself, and reproducing dozens of major problems with this have never been formed in this itself. Man has never succeeded experiment, (clearly understood experiment? in building a machine capable of for more than 30 years), still go These are just some of the these same functions. Yet, most unanswered and are not even myriad problems regarding the scientists accept the belief that life mentioned to students.1 fanciful idea that life generated arose from non-life despite the For instance, our early itself. What this experiment really ever increasing amount of evidence atmosphere is assumed to have had proves is that life could not possibly clearly indicating that it did not no oxygen because this would stop have developed in this manner. Yet, and could never happen. It would amino acid formation. However, students are told just the opposite. be easier to believe that a chemical with no oxygen, there would be no No experiment has ever shown manufacturing facility found on ozone shield. With no ozone shield, that matter has the ability to come Mars had built itself. life would be impossible. The fact alive. The best explanation for life A classic experiment used to that oxidized rocks throughout is still that life only comes from support the belief that life the geological record indicate that pre-existing life. As you search built itself oxygen has always been present is for the truth, perhaps you should was first proposed in 1953 by ignored. consider the possibility that the Stanley Miller. In this experiment, In addition, the same gases source of all life... is God. sparks were discharged into an which can react to form amino acids 1. Thaxton, C.B., Bradley, W.L., apparatus through which common in the presence of sunlight undergo Olsen,R.L., The Mystery of Life’s gases were circulated. These gases known reactions which remove Origin, Chapter 4, Philosophical reacted to form various organic them from the atmosphere. The products which were then collected required gases simply could not

13 The Invevitable Extinction of Humanity By Bruce Malone For the last 200 years, science have one minor random change to a species to extinction due to the has increasingly become ruled by their DNA every generation, over a “genetic load” of errors building up a single “prime directive.” Those billion meaningless mistakes would on its DNA code.2 who remember the original Star have built up - dooming them to It is not widely reported that Trek series will recall that every extinction. No mechanism exists every generation of humans has starship in the Federation fleet not one random error in their was bound by one unbreakable DNA code but thousands rule they were never to interfere of random and permanent with the development of changes. These random another culture. In a similar changes are actually a loss of way, one unbreakable rule functioning information the guides all modern scientific same way that random endeavors. Richard Dickerson, changes in the letters of a prominent biochemist and which can eliminate these minor a textbook result in the loss of member of the elite National mistakes. Natural selection can information content. Academy of Sciences, states it this act as a quality control mechanism The obvious question of ‘where way, “Science, fundamentally is a which can eliminate individuals did all of the original information game. It is a game with one overriding with major genetic problems come from?’ is also being ignored, and defining rule: Let us see how far because such offspring are less as is the rate of detrimental changes and to what extent we can explain the fit for survival. However, natural -- orders of magnitude greater than behavior of the physical and material selection cannot remove mistakes any yet to be identified source of universe in terms of purely physical in the genetic code that build up adding information. Furthermore, and material causes, without ever having minimal survival effect. the rate at which mistakes are invoking the supernatural... A chess For instance, suppose our increasing on the human genome player is perfectly capable of moving genetic code was similar to a provides compelling evidence that his opponent’s king physically from the textbook full of information and the human genome cannot possibly board and smashing it in the midst of a each subsequent copy of the have been around more than a few tournament. This would not make him textbook had a few letters randomly hundred generations nor can it the champion because the rules have changed. Natural selection would survive indefinitely. not been followed.” 1 be like the test taken by everyone Never has there been so much It is because of the “prime who had read each unique textbook scientific evidence supporting the directive” of science (i.e. we must with its individual set of errors. reality that humans were recently explain everything via evolution) Very few, if any of the textbooks, created by an unimaginably that no matter how conclusive the could be eliminated based on the intelligent designer. It is this evidence for our recent creation, it results of end of the year student evidence which makes it obvious will not be acknowledged. Further- testing. The next generation of that our hope lies not in this life nor more, the evidence pointing to this books would have a few more in this physical universe which is reality will be buried, ignored, and errors, and the third generation a winding down, not up. Our hope at times not even seen by those few more..etc...until the textbook lies in reconciling ourselves with whose paradigm of reality is that the ultimately became meaningless the designer of this universe and in prime directive must be upheld even nonsense. Yet, for any given what He has done to provide for us at the cost of intellectual honesty. textbook generation, natural in the eternity which will follow our For the last 50 years, it has selection (the testing of students physical extinction. been acknowledged that if there is using all of the textbooks from that 1. Dr. Michael Behe, Darwin’s Black more than one minor mistake on generation of books) would have no Box: The Biochemical Challenge to the genetic code of a species per ability to eliminate any but the most Evolution, Simon & Schuster, p. 240. generation, that species is ultimately blatantly erroneous textbooks. This 2. Dr. J.C. Sanford, Genetic Entropy: doomed to extinction. For instance, is why it has been acknowledged The Mystery of the Genome, Ivan if cockroaches have been around that more than one minor error per Press, 2005. for 300 million years and they generation will ultimately doom

14 Proteins: Life’s Molecular Machines By Bruce Malone Proteins are huge molecules molecule is perfectly designed to Further complicating the made by linking together hundreds, transport the optimal amount of process is the fact that all or even thousands, of different oxygen in exactly the right way. laboratory experiments simulating amino acids like beads on a long If just one of the 287 amino acids the conditions necessary for necklace. These proteins are not which make up the hemoglobin the formation of life produce a found in random arrangements, molecule is out of place, an often random mixture of 50:50 R and L but are specifically designed to fatal disease called sickle-cell stereotypes. The odds of just one carry out unique protein forming (such biological functions. as the 287 amino In order to function acid hemoglobin properly, they must molecule) with all have exactly the right L stereotypes, could amino acids, in exactly be compared to the right positions, flipping a coin and and be of exactly the getting “heads” 287 right length. It is the times in a row. This specific sequence of could statistically the ‘beads’ on a protein chain that anemia results. Because of this only happen only once in every allows each one to form the perfect misplacement of just 1 out of 10124 tries. Most scientists agree 3-dimensional configuration needed 287 specific amino acids, the that any specific event with odds to perform the required functions defective hemoglobin molecules greater than 1050 will never happen. within our bodies. bind together when the amount of It gets even more impossible, It is estimated that the human oxygen in the bloodstream becomes though, because proteins are not body contains over 200,000 low. This in turn stretches the just random molecules, but need all different proteins.1 The following red blood cells into a sickle shape the amino acids to be in a specific description of proteins is given which cannot easily flow through order to function correctly. The by molecular biologist Michael small blood vessels. odds of getting the specific 100 Denton: If this is the consequence of the proteins required for the simplest If a cell were magnified a thousand misplacement of just one amino form of life, with all L stereotypes, million times...in every direction we acid out of 287; how could all of and all in the specific order needed, looked, we would see all sorts of the very specific proteins needed by is greater than 1/1010,000. Yet, a robot-like machines. We would notice the first form of life have developed single human body uses not a mere that these simplest of the functional by random chance processes? The 100, but 100,000 such specifically components of the cell -- the protein simplest known form of life has designed proteins! molecules -- were astonishingly, over 100 different (and specific) These outlandish odds complex pieces of molecular machinery, proteins. These are all formed from demonstrate the scientific each one consisting of about three only L-type amino acids and are impossibility of the formation of thousand individual atoms arranged arranged in a very specific order life by chance reactions. However, in highly organized 3-D spatial by the DNA molecule. Yet in the these problems are almost never configurations…the task of designing words of John Horgan, presented in textbooks. Our even one such molecular machine - that The DNA cannot do its work, including children deserve better than an is, a single functioning protein molecule forming more DNA, without the help of indoctrination which ignores these

- would be completely beyond our proteins. In short, proteins cannot form overwhelming problems. capacity... without DNA, but neither can DNA form

2 1. James Perloff, Tornado in without proteins. a Junkyard, Refuge, 1999, p. 3 One example of a very common This is the classic chicken or 66. 2. Michael Denton, protein is the hemoglobin molecule. egg mystery. You need both to be Evolution:A theory in Crisis, Hemoglobin is a protein in our present simultaneously because one Adler & Adler, p. 328. red blood cells that transports cannot form without the other. oxygen throughout our bodies. The

15 Not Enough Monkeys in the Universe By Bruce Malone The DNA molecule stores of DNA. Yet the molecule is so typing the entire contents of the specific information by lining up energy sensitive that it easily comes Encyclopedia Britannica). Rather four chemical compounds in a apart. Many mechanisms are in than just accept such statements, very specific order similar to the place within a cell to protect the let’s use the science of probability way Morse Code lines up three DNA molecule from degeneration. to ask, symbols (a dot, a dash, and a space) How many monkeys (or how to convey a unique message. The much time) would it take to order in which these four chemicals randomly type just the title are arranged not only determines ‘Encyclopedia Britannica’? the distinguishing characteristics of

an animal, but also if the organism Used by permission of Master Books The odds of a monkey will grow into a man or a marigold. typing the ‘e’ of the title in Biochemists around the world are the first place is 1 in 39 (the involved in a major undertaking to number of keys on a typical decode the language written on the keyboard). The odds of human DNA molecule. But where getting an ‘e’ followed by did this fantastic molecule come an ‘n’ is (1/39 x 1/39). The from? odds of a monkey getting Scientists have had great success just the title ‘Encyclopedia splicing new sections of DNA onto Britannica’ correct (one time) the DNA molecule, duplicating is 1/1036. If these monkeys sections of DNA, producing the are extremely proficient building blocks of DNA from basic and persistent typists and chemicals, and unraveling the DNA make one attempt every molecular code. All too often, it How could DNA have survived second for the entire assumed is inferred that because we can do before all the protective age of the universe (15 billion these things, we know how the mechanisms existed? years) it would still require molecule originated. However, this 3. DNA is not a random, 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 is a total distortion of reality. meaningless molecule. It carries monkeys. In other words, enough Science has not even come specific and useful information monkeys to cover every square foot close to explaining how the DNA needed for the formation and of the Earth’s surface, stacked over molecule could have originated development of an organism. Where one mile deep, making one attempt without intelligent guidance (i.e. did this coded information come every second for 15 billion years creation). Here are just a few of from? MIGHT type the title right...once. the problems naturalistic scientists 4. Specific proteins function But even if one monkey did type need to solve before making any to construct copies of the DNA, the title right once, how would we sweeping statements concerning but DNA is required to create the ever recognize it among billions of life’s origin: needed proteins. How could one trillions of wrong ones? 1. When the building blocks of exist without the other being there The useful information coded DNA are mixed together, they do first? into the simplest DNA molecule is react and link up...but not in the There are many other major unimaginably more complicated spiral shape of the DNA molecule. problems which have no answer that the simple title ‘Encyclopedia How did the shape originally occur aside from the acknowledgment of Britannica’. The odds of the useful when it doesn’t happen now? an intelligent designer. Yet, chance code found on the DNA molecule 2. Great amounts of energy processes continue to be the only forming by chance processes is would be required to produce a possibilities taught. It has been said astronomically smaller. In actuality, molecule as complicated and as that given enough time, anything it is an absolute impossibility. large as even the simplest segment can happen (such as a monkey Science clearly reveals that life can not form by evolutionary processes.

16 Is it a Bird..a Fish...or a Mammal? By Bruce Malone Loons have been documented only propel itself underwater, but to random changes in the DNA code to diving 200 feet under the water run on top of the water for assisted change one type of bone to another and swimming with the agility of take-offs. And most importantly, would be like a cardboard factory a fish. Indoctrination from our its solid bones give it low enough suddenly turning out solid lumber school, museum, and media system buoyancy so it can rapidly descend due to random changes over time presents such abilities as having to great depths when searching in the fiber processing machinery. evolved over time by some natural for fish. Other water birds such as It could simply never ever happen. mechanism. Believers in Finally, the bone structure evolution provide only a supports the surrounding superficial explanation for tissue. Not only would the such specialized abilities, bones have to change, all while totally ignoring the the DNA code for each of problems posed by such the surrounding tissues, speculation. To see this ligaments, muscle types, and dichotomy more clearly, let’s blood generation apparatus examine in detail just one within the bones would have remarkable characteristic of to change simultaneously the common loon. and function perfectly while The loon is the only bird Notice how low the Loon Floats the bones themselves were that has solid bones similar transforming from hollow to to a mammal. Bones form the ducks and swans, ride high in the solid. Upon close examination the framework of bodies upon which water due to their hollow bones, but whole concept of slow change over the muscles, ligaments, and other they cannot dive deep in search of time is preposterous. tissue have a place to anchor and fish. If the loon had hollow bones; If students were given all of this function. In animals, other than diving deep would be as difficult as information, when presented with birds, bones are the densest and SCUBA diving with an inflated life the unique features of an individual the mechanically strongest parts of vest. organism, and were then asked to the body. However, in birds, the Believers in evolution would ponder the relevant question - how bones have been designed hollow argue that the loon developed its did this organism develop its unique in order to reduce the overall solid bones over time as small features? they would be far more weight of the bird, allowing it to fly changes in DNA gave some pre- likely to discover the truth. while expending the least possible loon type bird increasingly denser Only two possibilities exist energy. The bones of birds, while bones resulting in the advantage -- the DNA information was remarkably strong for their weight, of being able to dive deeper. This programmed by a designer are less dense than surrounding sounds logical, BUT the problems (creation) or this information tissue and can actually float on with such a scenario have been developed by random mutational water -- except for the bones of a ignored. First, the whole idea of a changes (evolution). The reason loon. It turns out that the loon has bone slowly changing from hollow this choice of possibilities is not solid bones like mammals, rather to solid is just story telling. There presented to students is that they than hollow bones like all other is no fossil or factual evidence to would invariably choose creation - birds. Why is this and how could it suggest it ever happened. Similar leaving naturalistic scientists with have happened? storytelling is repeatedly presented no followers. Furthermore, these Every part of the loon is as science by evolutionary same students would be far more designed for it to function perfectly believers as they talk about their likely to place the reality of God’s as a deep water diver. Its relatively faith. Second, the structure of the existence at the center of every small wings allow quick movement two types of bone is completely other choice they face in life. and direction changes under water. different and involves a totally Its large webbed feet allow it to not unique DNA sequence. Expecting

17 Try Looking into the Microscope By Bruce Malone NASA has spent hundreds of noise and are also not evidence of are willing to spend millions of millions of dollars scanning every intelligent origin. It is only when taxpayer dollars in an effort to find minute portion of the sky with there is a complex pattern with such a pattern in electromagnetic radio telescopes. Its goal is to occasionally repeated segments signals from space are unwilling locate signals coming to earth from that an intelligent originator must to acknowledge that the same extraterrestrial life forms. Although have been involved. If such a type of complex pattern, found NASA has backed off on these pattern coming from outer space in all living cells, came from an efforts, private funds intelligent source. In are still being solicited our search for intelligent in order to continue the extra-terrestrial life, search. How would why don’t we take our we identify a signal eyes off the telescope as coming from an Used by permission of Russ Bradshaw and put them on the intelligent source? It microscope? Inside would have to consist every living organism of a complex pattern is a marvelous blueprint with occasionally for life known as the repeated segments DNA molecule. Guess which could not be what this organic generated by a formula molecule contains? A or a natural cause. An complex pattern with example of a repeated occasionally repeated complex pattern is any segments which could human language. The not be generated by a carrier of the sequence formula or a natural could be as varied cause! This is the same as ink on paper, electro-magnetic were to be discovered; it would be type of evidence which scientists signals in space, sound through proof that we are not alone in our would immediately accept as proof air, or smoke signals in the sky. universe. of intelligent origin - if it was found Whenever and wherever such The primary motivation for the coming from outer space. a pattern is found it is proof of effort to find this pattern coming Why isn’t the coded sequence an intelligent originator. This is from a source outside of our solar of the DNA molecule heralded as why a pilot flying over a deserted system is philosophic and not evidence of intelligent origin? Can beach could immediately recognize scientific. If evidence of other it be that many scientists are blind a message for help spelled out life forms was found; it would to the evidence for supernatural in the alignment of rocks on the be heralded as proof that life had design because they have been beach even if he did not know the developed elsewhere. In other trained to believe that an intelligent, language in which the message was words, given the right conditions... creator God cannot be considered? formed. The pattern itself would be life could pop up anywhere. Yet, Does peer pressure from the immediately recognizable as having there is not a single shred of scientific community stop the open an intelligent source. evidence that life exists anywhere acknowledgment of this obvious The series of simple repeated else in the physical universe. evidence for the divine origin patterns emitted by rapidly Since the effort is philosophically of biological life? Furthermore, rotating stars (quasars) is not rather than scientifically motivated, as knowledge of our universe evidence of intelligence because negative results seldom change increases, do we have more or less the sequence is too regular and the motivation or beliefs of the reason to believe in its supernatural contains no information. Random experimenters. origin? non-repeating patterns are merely The same individuals who

18 The Builder will Eventually Return By Bruce Malone Parables are stories about was designed and built by other partially spin into place. familiar things which illustrate a intelligent humans argued that Amongst themselves they deeper meaning. The following this was obvious, but could not agreed that, given enough time, parable has its roots in modern prove how, why, or when. All the structure could have built itself man’s search for the origin of life. attempts to explain how, why, or (although the exact mechanism was In an isolated jungle lived a when, which were not based on a not yet known). tribe of primitive people with no belief in random natural processes, Even more convincing knowledge of the world outside were severely ridiculed. The evidence was forthcoming as the their village. They had never tribal elders believed that all of deteriorating airplane was repaired been in contact with any modern the knowledge needed to explain and the parts rearranged. Since the technology and lived natives eventually in constant struggle understood so with other tribal much about the groups. One day as structure, this Used by permission of Pamela Van Noose members of the tribe was accepted as were hunting in proof that the unknown territory, plane had built they stumbled upon itself. A project the wreckage of a was even started crashed airplane. to map, catalogue, Approaching the and understand plane with caution every piece of the they touched the structure. All of metal surface and these observations ran their hands confirmed to the over the smooth primitive natives glass of the cockpit that they had been window. As they ran back to the the world around them was in the correct in their understanding of the village to report the find to the possession of their tribal counsel natural origin of the object. village elders many questions ran and any attempt to persuade them Those stubborn few who through their minds. Where could otherwise was met with severe continued to believe the object this huge structure have come punishment. The first group soon was created by other intelligent from? A debate over the origin of became silent. people were considered backward this strange object soon raged - had Those believing in the natural and ignorant. They were ignored, the gods sent it to them as a sign? origin of the object strengthened and village schools were organized The village polarized into opposing their argument by showing that the so that all of the children would viewpoints. same rubber-like substance found be taught only the naturalistic One opinion was that the object in the tires could be found oozing “scientific” explanation. was built by humans. After all, the from trees. Likewise, a substance Within several generations, skeletal remains of several humans similar to the glass could be found there was no longer any dissension were found within the decaying on beaches where lightning had because everyone now knew that structure. Others believed the struck the sand. The paint and random processes had produced the object must have had a natural fluids in the structure could also wrecked airplane. So the mystery origin. To believe it was created by be shown to occur naturally. By was solved ... until the builder of other humans would acknowledge throwing one of the screws into an intelligence surpassing their the air with just the right spinning own. motion and catching it in just the Those believing that the airplane right hole, the screw would even

19 Life is Irreducibly Complex By Bruce Malone As we learn more about five pieces are in place. It is this number of components needed for a biological life, it becomes interdependence of the individual cilium to operate are three: proteins increasingly apparent that its parts which makes it so obvious forming the hair-like fibers (the similarity to complex machines that the simple mousetrap has a rotor), proteins linking the adjacent is startlingly strong. Yet, because designer. fibers so that they do not fly apart science has been redefined to Biological life is also made (links), and proteins which contract exclude the possibility of a from irreducibly complex to cause its whipping motion designer, we are left without any structures, even at the smallest (the motor). Without all three of plausible explanation of how life molecular level. For instance, these components - the structure developed. there are millions of organisms, would not function. Thus, cilia Michael Behe is a biochemistry including human bodies, which are irreducibly complex machines. professor at Lehigh University use a structure called a cilium to In reality, cilia contain hundreds who wonderfully illustrates the either swim or move things around of different proteins and all are similarity between mechanical within a creature. Cilia are hair- required for its operation. But machines and biological life in like structures attached to cells even these three specific proteins his book, Darwin’s Black Box: which beat like a whip in order could never have formed by chance The Biochemical mutations. All three Challenge to are specifically Evolution. According designed to function to Dr. Behe, even at the together and if any smallest biochemical Photograph by Bruce Malone one as missing, level, life is made up the cilia could not of irreducibly complex operate. Thus, machines. Although the cilia would these machines are become a useless made of proteins drag line hindering instead of metal, their the motion of the complexity is proof organism rather than that they could only aiding its survival. have been produced by In Dr. Behe’s an incomprehensibly words, intelligent designer. to move foreign particles out of The amount of scientific research which The perfect example of an our lungs. Sperm also use cilia to has been done... leads many people irreducibly complex machine is the swim. Because these structures are to assume that even if they don’t know simple mouse trap. This machine so biologically important and so how cilia evolved, somebody must consists of at least five parts: the widespread throughout the animal know. But the search of professional platform, the spring, the hammer, kingdom, Dr. Behe estimates that literature proves them wrong. Nobody the catch, and the hold-down latch TEN THOUSAND technical papers knows. bar. The absence of any one of have been published on various these components will turn the aspects of cilia. Nobody knows where cilia came machine into a piece of useless Like the mouse trap, cilia from because cilia are irreducibly junk. Furthermore, each of the require several components in complex and can never be explained components has to be designed to order to operate. In the case of without a supernatural designer. a specific size and positioned in a a mousetrap, the components Yet most biochemists are trained specific place in order for the mouse are specifically sized pieces of to ignore this possibility when trap to function. Thus, the simple metal and wood. In the case of mousetrap is irreducibly complex cilia, they are specifically shaped … it will not function unless all proteins. The absolute minimum

20 A Squashed Mosquito is Dead Forever By Tom Wagner Have you ever squashed a of the right ‘stuff’ for life is there, and controlled in time as well as mosquito? Interestingly, the not even one of the 100 million space. For a cell to live, it must squashing of a mosquito may critters will come back to life, nor be surrounded by a sophisticated help us understand what makes would any new creature arise. membrane that allows only certain life possible and what makes the For a third example lets consider chemicals in and out, according spontaneous generation of life the food industry. Each year over to when they are needed, not impossible. a billion containers of previously just at any time. Inside the When a mosquito is cell, the amount of slapped, what happens? any chemical must Obviously it’s shape be exactly correct, changes and it dies. otherwise the whole But what makes it die? system would be All of the thousands of Used by permission of Chuck Asay thrown off balance and sophisticated chemicals the organism would which make up its body die. Furthermore, the are still there, relatively entire living organism unaltered. At the must be controlled moment of impact its by the fantastically cellular components are complex three still intact including the dimensional genetic all-important DNA. So coded structure of why is it now dead? DNA. Prior to being All this means smashed, the mosquito that in order for the was a highly organized chemistry to have system with much organized living chemical ingredients are come together in the first place, the information. But when hit, it placed into containers where light individual atoms must have been became disordered, causing critical and/or heat can pass through (an purposefully and simultaneously information in the design of its open thermo-dynamic system.) organized by a creator having the body to become jumbled. There Everything needed for life to form knowledge and power to do such arose confusion in the finely is present in each jar or can. Yet not a thing. It could not possibly have tuned coordination of chemistry once, in any can or jar, does new life happened by the right chemicals (including the chemicals form. just involved in its overall structure) If the already complex coming together which culminated in an overall chemistry of minuscule bacteria . breakdown, resulting in death. And or canned food cannot reorganize It is Jesus, the Son of the Living you thought you just slapped it! itself back into a living cell, even God, who deserves our praise For another example, let’s when concentrated in the test for the awesome things He has say you were to take 100 million tube environment under carefully accomplished in this creation of bacteria and concentrate them in the controlled conditions, then how His. There is no other plausible bottom of a test tube. Now if you could life have evolved in the first explanation for the complex life were to physically lyse (break open) place, from basically uncomplicated we find all around us. Yet, this the membrane of each of the cells, chemicals in conditions FAR less plausible explanation is the only the insides would spill out, forming appropriate? It simply never could one not allowed to be discussed in a concentrated mixture of incredibly have happened! our public schools! complex As with the mosquito, in order Tom Wagner is a nature photographer life-giving for life to exist the chemistry and science teacher living in Iowa chemicals. Yet, even though all must be specifically organized who writes on the evidence for creation. This article was first

21 What Good is Part of an Animal? By Bruce Malone The late Dr. Werher von Braun, type creature. What the correct a renowned space scientist and would feet, desire, former director of NASA, made have bill, blinking the following statement concerning ability, shock- our origin, “One cannot be exposed absorbing to the law and order of the universe membranes without concluding in the back that there must of the skull, be design and and tongue...but now the tongue too purpose behind it long to fit into its mouth because all...To be forced its skull was not yet redesigned to believe only one happened to some worm- to hold the tongue? In each case, conclusion - that like creature that sealed the bird would be at an incredible everything in the universe happened itself inside of a cocoon but did not disadvantage and natural selection by chance - would violate the very yet have the ability to rearrange its would have brought its evolutionary objectivity of science itself. What biomatter into an adult butterfly? development to an end. random process could produce the There has never been a logical There are thousands of other brains of a man or the system of a explanation of how an insect other examples in nature. It is easy human eye? It is in scientific honesty than a caterpillar (which already to look at a perfectly designed that I endorse the presentation of possesses the necessary information organism and say, “Look at how alternative theories of the origin of to become a the universe, life, and man in the butterfly) could classroom. It would be an error to transform itself into overlook the possibility that the universe a butterfly by a series was planned rather than happened by of small genetic 1 chance.” This is not the statement changes. of an unintelligent, uninformed, Another example non-scientist. Furthermore, is the woodpecker. there are now dozens of creation Evolution teaches Skull of Woodpecker Showing Tongue Posi- organizations engaged in research to that some kind of explain our world based on creation. bird turned into a woodpecker at well this creature is adapted to its A powerful example of the some time in the distant past. But environment! evidence for creation is the what would happen to the first bird The critical question is ignored interdependence of the parts within born with its feet modified with by evolutionists and not presented an organism. Could completely a backwards claw... yet without to students - different yet fully functioning parts the instinct to search for insects Is it logical that this animal could of an organism have all arisen in a while holding onto a vertical tree have developed by one small step-by-step fashion? If not, their trunk? Or to the first bird born with change at a time? origin must have been simultaneous backwards talons and the desire to creation. The butterfly is a perfect beat its head against a tree... but 1. Excerpts from an original interview example. How could some worm- the incorrect bill? Or the correct in like creature have mutated with feet, desire, and bill...but no instinct “Applied Christianity”, from the both the ability and desire to seal to blink its eyes at the moment of Bible-Science Newsletter, May itself inside a cocoon? For either impact to keep its eyeballs from 1974, p.8. to happen would require thousands popping out? Or the correct feet, NOTE: of simultaneous and useful changes desire, bill, and blinking ability... Throughout this book ‘evolution’ to the chemical structure of this but with a tongue too short to reach will refer to its original meaning: the mysterious the insects inside the hole which it transformation of one type of animal into a completely different type. No pre-butterfly had just beaten into the tree? Or one disputes that there can be minor variations within a given class of 22 organism (micro-evolution). However, Mutations Always Result in a Loss By Bruce Malone Darwin’s original theory of changes to existing organisms. developed. evolution included the idea that This is because mutations never The belief that mutations could environmental changes could cause add useful information. They slowly change an animal into structural changes to occur in plants are exactly analogous to random some other animal is analogous to and animals. He also postulated misspellings in a book. Therefore believing that an old vacuum tube that these acquired characteristics this mechanism for evolution, black and white television could be could be transmitted to offspring. even in combination with natural changed into an color liquid crystal In other words, a horse-like animal, selection, fails to explain how new monitor by throwing random parts by stretching its neck to reach the functional structures could arise. at it. The impacts will definitely leaves in a tree, would be at an During the last century millions produce changes (given the quality advantage if it had a longer neck. of fruit flies have been irradiated in of current TV shows it could even So after a life time of using its body in this way,

it might develop a longer Used by permission of Master Books neck and would pass on this characteristic (which was acquired during its lifetime) to its offspring. This original belief, known as Lamarckism, has been shown false and has been replaced by the belief that mutations are the driving force behind evolution. Mutations are mistakes made laboratory experiments to observe be argued that these changes would during the transfer of information the effect of mutations. The be beneficial), but they certainly from the genes of one generation to mutation rate has been increased will not change the unit into a color the next (birth defects are examples by as much as 15,000 times1. The TV. of these.) Believers in evolution results of this experiment simulate In the same way, mutations postulate that if these mistakes are millions of years of evolutionary may produce changes, and it is beneficial to the animal it will give progress. What has resulted remotely possible that some may be the mutated animal an advantage, are big-winged, small-winged, beneficial, but they will not change and natural selection will then wrinkled-winged, and no-winged an organism into some other type preferentially select these animals fruit flies; large-bodied, small of organism. For that to happen, for survival. Although this belief bodied, and no-bodied fruit flies; useful information would have to be seems logical, it does not fit reality. red-eyed, speckled-eyed, leg- added to the DNA of the creature. Mutations are mistakes which in-place of eye fruit flies; many This simply is not going to happen have never produced a long term bristled or no bristled fruit flies; but as a result of random mutations. benefit. Even examples of mainly dead or sterile fruit flies. In It would seem that this beneficial conclusion, researchers began with commonly accepted evolutionary mutations, such as sickle cell fruit flies and end up with...well... mechanism (mutations) has serious anemia (a fatal disease which fruit flies - defective ones. flaws which are seldom reported to imparts a resistance to malaria) do Furthermore, after several students or to the general public. not create new features or improve generations, even changes in the 1. E.J. Gardner, Principles of Genetics, overall survivability. One hundred number of bristles on the irradiated (N.Y.: Wily, 1964) p. 180. years of experimentation has shown fruit flies reverted back to the 2. N. MacBeth, “The Question: 2 that mutations can not develop new original number. No new organ or Darwinism Revisited”, Yale organisms or even cause useful useful functioning feature has ever

23 Darwin’s Magic Potion By Bruce Malone When Charles Darwin published things concerning the origin of area being light so the light-colored The Origin of Species in 1859, he the enormous variety of life on moths were better camouflaged. brought scientific credibility to the our planet. The first was that “the Thus fewer light-colored moths concept that man developed slowly species are not immutable” (i.e. we were eaten by predators. After from previous life forms. Most came from a previous simpler form the industrial revolution, the trees people do not realize that the became primarily dark- concept of evolution did not colored (due to pollution) actually originate with Darwin, and the light-colored moths but predates him by thousands were now at a disadvantage of years. As far back in history to the predators. Thus, the as the ancient Greeks there peppered moth population were ideas about life coming shifted from light colored from previous forms of life. to 95 percent dark. This Even the mechanisms proposed is a classic example by Darwin can be attributed, in of the powerful ability a large part, to others.1 What of natural selection to sets Darwin apart is the timing adapt an organism to its of his work. The intellectual environment. But how community of Northern far does this go to explain Europe was ripe for a naturalistic of life). Darwin’s second proposal the development of completely explanation of life. The distortion was that this trans-formation of one different types of animals? We of Biblical Christianity was life form into another was driven started with light and dark moths bringing faith in the supernatural by a process called natural selection and we ended up with...light under increasing ridicule, and (popularized as “survival of the and dark moths. Nothing new humanism (man making himself fittest”). His third assumption was developed. The population merely the center of all things) was rapidly the rejection of a Biblical time shifted. replacing the Christian belief in frame and a world wide flood as There does not exist even absolute truth. an explanation for the geology of one example of natural selection Thus, when an alternative to the planet. This allowed him to producing a new type of animal, creation seemed to have been accept the increasingly popular a new organ, or even a major found, it was rapidly accepted as huge time periods needed for permanent change in an existing fact. The easiest way to reject the this transformation to take place. organism. This is because authority of a creator is to remove Believers in evolution still assume “natural selection” is just that - the existence of that creator. In that given enough time, there is selection. It can create nothing actuality, Darwin proved neither essentially no limit to biological new. It can only select the most where life came from nor how it variation. But can this seemingly advantageous information which developed. He merely proposed a magical force transform amoebas is already present in the molecular method whereby this transformation into man? blueprint of the organism. Natural from beast to man seemed possible. Almost every biology textbook selection cannot cause new useful With the exception of mutations has the following example of information to be added to the as the source of new genetic natural selection in action. In DNA of an animal. Darwin was information, the belief in evolution England, before the industrial simply wrong when presenting this as the explanation for our origin revolution, it was common to find mechanism as the explanation for has progressed little in the last 150 the peppered moth in proportions life’s development. years. The concepts popularized by of 95 percent light-colored to 5 1. Ian Taylor, In the Minds of Men, Darwin continue to be taught with percent dark-colored. This was TFE Publishing, 1987. the fervor of religious dogma. believed to be caused by the Darwin proposed several majority of the trees in a certain

24 Natural Selection to the Rescue? By Bruce Malone It is assumed by believers in the individual components...the control department (natural evolution that some mutations find processes needed to manufacture selection) would reject. It is far a useful purpose. It is proposed them...all of the metal press more likely that almost all of the that even a slight advantage will specifications...all of the robotics random changes (these are called be passed onto the next generation, and programming language...the mutations in living organisms) which, exceedingly slowly, assembly instructions...the paint would result in no noticeable change transforms one type of creature to specifications...the employee and the wagons would roll off the another. This process is known benefits manual... EVERYTHING assembly line with mistakes in as natural selection, but how does needed for the wagon’s construction their manuals intact -- to be used in natural selection hold up under needs to be attached as a manual the creation of the next generation the light of scientific scrutiny as to the bottom of the wagon. The of wagons. This next generation the directing force behind life’s next wagon to be would then origin and diversity? Dr. John produced must have another Sanford, retired Cornell University use only the set of barely geneticist, inventor of the “gene information in the noticeable gun” and 25 other patented existing wagon mistakes discoveries, uses the following to make the next added, one illustration to expose the fallacy of copy. The quality random letter this evolutionary belief.1 department mistake at a According to Dr. Sanford, the (natural time. Given amount of information required to selection) can only see the finished enough generations of the wagons, transform a single- wagon, i not the enormous and with every increasing letter- celled organism amount of by-letter mistake in their assembly into a human information in the manuals; eventually the point being would be manufacturing would be reached when wagons greater than the manual (the genetic could no longer be produced from information required code of the wagon). The the instructions because there are to transform the question is: can random so many tiny mistakes present. manufacturing plant changes in the assembly Large mistakes can be eliminated for a Little Red manual (the genetic code) by natural selection, but not the WagonTM into the allow the quality control small mistakes because, one Star Ship Enterprise -- complete department (natural selection) to wrong “letter” at a time, they are with warp drive engines and transform the little red wagon into essentially undetectable in the final holodeck! Can natural selection, a better wagon and ultimately into product. Yet, in the end they will acting on accidental changes to the USS Enterprise? drive the manufacturing process to the assembly directions of the The amount of information extinction the same way one rust little red wagon, accomplish this contained within the simplest molecule at a time will destroy a car. transformation? single cell organism (similar to This is exactly what is happening to Natural selection is similar to the information required to build a the human genome at an alarming the quality control department wagon assembly plant) would fill a rate. Thousands of tiny mistakes are at the wagon assembly plant and small library. Suppose you started building up with each generation. our genetic code is similar to a with a perfect set of instructions in It would seem that neither document containing the entire this library and randomly changed mutations, nor natural selection, can manufacturing process for the red hundreds of individual letters remotely justify the dogmatic belief wagon. Everything needed to throughout the instructions. Very in evolution as the explanation manufacture the wagon, including few of these changes would be for either life’s development or its the specifications for all of the critical for assembly or cause a origin. materials of construction...all of faulty wagon which the quality 1. Dr. J.C. Sanford, Genetic Entropy:

25 Concepts have Consequences By Bruce Malone Concepts have consequences. fraudulent drawings. Amazingly, has a radically different function. People act on what they believe his teachings remain in textbooks In a growing baby, the heart to be true. If children are to this day. Since the 1950’s, it and circulatory system develop indoctrinated through a public before the bones (which will education system which allows ultimately be the baby’s blood only evidence which fits neatly source). A baby’s heart into a naturalistic explanation actually starts to beat 18 days of life; we will increasingly from conception. Yet, the become a society which looks developing baby may have a only to ourselves for answers to different blood type than its life’s questions. mother, so it cannot use her If we have evolved from blood. With no bone marrow apes; if we are just another to make its own blood, animal ...then who sets the how can the baby continue rules? Whose standard should to develop? The simplest define right from wrong, good engineering answer would from bad, helpful from harmful, be to provide a temporary lawful from unlawful? Without alternative supply. The yolk an absolute basis for morals, sac does exactly that, then it the distinction between these disappears! opposites disappear. The Comparative embryology result is a spiraling descent does nothing to support the Haeckel’s fraudulent drawings - he changed the head and eye size, toward meaninglessness and a concept of evolution. The moved eyes to different positions, and modified body lengths. degeneration in the value of primary reason that it still human life. Acknowledgment remains in textbooks is that of creation provides answers to has been proven that a woman’s it is used to justify abortion. A foundational questions about life fertilized egg is a complete human woman does not have an abortion that are based on factual scientific being. Only time and nutrition because she believes in evolution: and historical evidence. If we are required for it to grow larger. although, it makes it much easier to evolved from pond slime; on what From the moment of conception, justify killing a baby if you believe factual basis could anyone say their a pregnant woman’s body is two it is just a blob going through some belief is right, while someone else’s bodies, not one. The second body stage of comparative embryology. belief is wrong? from the moment of conception, can How easy to justify moral A common consequence of the never be anything but a human. disobedience; if we are just animals belief in evolution can be found in Examples of developing baby accountable to no one but ourselves. most high school biology books that parts which have been said to It is a historical fact that contain a section on comparative be evidence of evolution are the mankind is sinful and rebellious. embryology. This is the concept “gill slits” and the “yolk sac”. In The taking of human life by that humans and animals have a a growing baby, the “gill slits” abortion is just one more example common ancestor because their and “yolk sac” serve completely of this sinful nature. Fortunately, embryos have a similar physical different functions from those God has provided a bridge to span appearance. This concept was of animals from which they are the moral abyss between sinful popularized in 1866 by Ernst supposed to be descended. Gill slits mankind and Himself. This bridge Haeckel as he traveled throughout form gills in fish. In humans, they is called Jesus and it is open to Europe showing the similarity of are merely folds forming various anyone willing to repent (change different animal embryos. Yet, as glands and facial features. The direction) and believe that Jesus is early as 1874 he was reprimanded yolk sac contains food for a reptile their Maker and Lord who paid the by his own university for using or a bird; while for a human, it

26 Our Design is no Accident By Bruce Malone Vestigial features are those from thousands of patients in order The human tailbone is parts of an organism thought to be to “cure” a variety of symptoms2. frequently listed as a vestigial useless leftovers from its ancestor, Many died. As late as the 1960’s feature but anatomists tell us that as the creature has evolved to a many people routinely had their the tailbone serves a very important new way of life. Our tailbone tonsils removed. This practice function in human physiology. The is commonly taught to be such was again fueled by the mistaken coccyx (tailbone) is the point of a feature. The idea of vestigial belief that the tonsils were a insertion of several muscles and features has been used as evidence useless leftover feature from our ligaments including the one which for evolution since 1859 when past. It is now known that they allows man to walk completely

Darwin first proposed that such Reproduced by permission of Creation Magazine, published Answers in upright. Without a features were evidence for the tailbone, people could descent of one organism from a not walk in a completely completely different one. The upright manner, dance logical consequence of this a ballet, perform alleged transformation is that gymnastics, or stroll the “new” creature would be down the street with their left with some features which arm around their spouse. are no longer needed in its new Hardly a useless, leftover environmental niche. -- vestigial feature! The Belief in evolution demands human body is designed that we believe that each type for maximum versatility of animal on earth is a result of -- it is far more versatile its descent from some previous than the body of any life form. If this were the case; other creature. What almost every creature should other animal can perform have many leftover features the range of movement which are no longer needed. Yet, serve an important disease fighting required for activities as diverse the more we learn about biology, function and should not normally be as ice skating, pearl diving, the more we discover that every removed. pole vaulting, snow boarding part of an organism serves some Some possible vestigial features and gymnastics? This range of useful function. For example, exist such as the blind eyes of cave movement would be impossible the appendix is often said to be salamanders. Blind salamanders without the tailbone! a useless leftover from our ape have non-functional eyes because In summary, evolution predicts ancestory. We now know that they live their entire lives in total that there should be leftover the appendix serves as a type of darkness. At some time in the past, features as one organism slowly lymphatic tissue in the first few salamanders may have found a turned into another. Based on this months of life to fight disease. It is niche in dark caves and apparently theory, over 150 human features no more a useless feature than one only those which mutated to were at one time listed as useless. of your lungs is useless just because blindness had a need to stay in the Creation predicts that although you can survive with only one lung. total darkness where they could some life forms have degenerated The acceptance of the idea that compete for existence without and lost use of an original function; some parts of the human body are blindness being a disadvantage. every part of an organism was useless leftovers has led to many However, these salamanders are designed to serve some useful tragic consequences. Based on the still salamanders, a mutation to purpose. As we learn more about misguided concept that the human blindness is hardly an upward the biology of living organisms, colon was a vestige of the past, improvement in complexity, and no including ourselves, it is readily Sir William Land and dozens of new information has been added to apparent which theory best fits the other surgeons stripped the colons the DNA of the salamander. facts.

27 The Eyes Have it - Creation is Reality By Bruce Malone Charles Darwin expressed designed to interpret the signals could the brain have known what confidence that natural selection would be sightless. the randomly wired image received could explain the development • There are over 100,000 from the pixels of the optic nerve of the eye1, but how does this different proteins in represented? Before there was confidence stand up to the light our body. The only one sight, the image would be wired of reason? Today, we are in the with a molecular structure to like the white snowy image of an curious intellectual situation make it perfectly transparent to out of tune television screen. It of allowing only naturalistic light is used to construct the lens can be statistically proven that explanations in public schools. of our eye. randomly changing the location This is done in spite of a few of the millions of of the fact that the available pixels would never alternative (creation produce a clear image and or intelligent sight could never develop in design) more this way.2 adequately explains In Darwin’s time, the observations. the complex design of It would take a the eyeball was forceful miraculous number evidence in favor of of design changes creation. Our more to transform a light advanced knowledge of sensitive patch the intricate design of the into an eyeball. eye provides even stronger Furthermore, each evidence for its creation. change would have The complexity of the to be coded onto eye still argues for the the DNA of the The Incredibly Complex Eye reality of its instantaneous “new” creature in formation by an incredibly order for the change to pass to the It is beyond credibility that intelligent designer. There is next generation. It has never been chance mutations could have neither a fossil record showing that explained how this could have produced any of these changes, let the eye evolved nor any testable happened. Each new feature would alone all of them at once. Any one observations to explain how it need to be independently useful or of these changes would result in a could possibly have happened. natural selection would not have worthless tumor. All are needed The fanciful story that a light allowed the new creature to live. simultaneously for sight to result. receptive patch turned into the • An eyeball with no retina would Yet, the chance development of complex eyeball is nothing but be a tumor, not an improvement to this “hardware” for the eye pales in the dogmatic faith of a religious be passed on to the next comparison to the impossibility of belief system. Why do we allow generation. the “software” development. The textbook selection which leaves out • An eyeball without a focusing lens brain must be wired to both accept both the problems with evolution would be worthless except as a and understand the signal coming and the evidence for intelligent light detector. to it from the eyeball. An analogy design? This is indoctrination, not education. • An eyeball without a functioning would be the multi-pixel image optic nerve to carry the signal to from a digital camera. Each part 1. Charles Darwin, The Origin of the the brain would be worthless. of the image is wired to a specific Species, republished by J.M. Dent • An eyeball without the perfect spot in the receptor screen of the & Sons Ltd., London, 1971, p. 167. balance of fluid pressure would camera to reproduce an image of 2. Stoltzmann, David, The Specified Complexity of Retinal Imagery, explode or implode. what the camera is viewing. As the Creation Research Society Quarterly, • An eyeball without a brain “first eye” was developing, how June 2006.

28 Common Creation Question Answered By Bruce Malone Many questions are raised Australia. coal seams we find today. by believers in evolution when How could worldwide coal Is “Survival of the Fittest” presented with the evidence for deposits form rapidly? part of evolution ? creation. This article addresses The first effect of the worldwide Modern evolutionists have tried some of these common questions. flood would have been the ripping to distance themselves from How did marsupials up of vegetation and erosion on an this concept due to the obvious get to Australia? unimaginable scale. As the water negative consequences of applying Noah was charged with building the receded from one area, vegetation the principle to the social realm. vessel to safeguard certain animals would have been deposited only to Denying that survival of the during the first flood (a massive and be subsequently buried as the area fittest is part of the evolutionary complex worldwide disaster) not sank and water brought in more process is akin to denying that with distributing them afterwards. sediment. Thus, layer upon layer one type of animal will drive Once Noah released the animals of coal would have been formed. another to extinction given the on Mount Ararat, natural instincts Furthermore, it has been shown in right conditions. Contrary to the and climatic the laboratory that vegetation can rosy picture of animal cooperation conditions which evolutionists like to determined how portray, one type of animal has the redistribution no qualms wiping out another in of the animal its quest to propagate itself. Wild population dogs introduced to Australia are took place. As endangering native species because subsequent they are more aggressive and have generations of no natural enemies. Sounds like animals spread “survival of the fittest” doesn’t across the it? Survival of the fittest has globe, territorial always been an integral part of the p r o w e s s or evolutionary theory. chance movements would send be turned in to coal in as little as If we are also animals that certain groups in certain directions. one hour with sufficient heat and have evolved according to this Those animals least suited for or pressure. A recent model of coal basic principle of evolution; why least able to defend a territory formation is provided by a study shouldn’t we extend this principle would either be forced further from of the catastrophic explosion of to the social realm? Why shouldn’t the landing site or exterminated. Mount St. Helens in 1980. This we eliminate weaker classes of A consequence of the worldwide explosion knocked down millions humans that compete for what we flood was a brief but severe ice of trees which ended up floating feel we need? Evolution taken age which locked ocean water into on Spirit Lake. Underneath this to its logical conclusion leads to vast ice fields. This lowered ocean floating vegetation mat is a thick a savage world akin to Hitler’s levels and created a land bridge to layer of peat consisting of tree bark Nazi Germany when the strong Australia. A similar land bridge and organic matter. If that organic determine what is right. It was connected Asia to Alaska during matter were buried by a subsequent no coincidence that Hitler was this period of Earth history allowing eruption, the result would be a coal strongly influenced by the writings for the free movement of man and seam covered by sedimentary rock. of Darwin. animals between these continents. Repeated cycles would rapidly It is a slap in God’s face and a Land movements during the ice age produce a series of coal seams with distortion of Scripture to believe or the subsequent melting of the sediment on top of each seam. It is that evolution, with its driving ice cut off the connection between perfectly reasonable to believe that mechanism of survival of the fittest, Australia and Asia effectively an enormous global flood would isolating the unique animal life to have rapidly created the extensive

29 Stasis - Yesterday Once More By Bruce Malone Illustrated throughout this article forms). Meanwhile, other animals reasoning because a 2004 Barna are a few of the thousands of of the same type remained identical poll showed that 45% of the people organisms which have remained for millions of years! in the United States still believe that literally unchanged while millions There is an acknowledged lack God created human beings within of years supposedly passed. of evidence for the transitional the last 10,000 years. Meanwhile, forms between 1. Dr. Colin Patterson, senior other forms vastly different paleontologist at the prestigious British of life were types of animals. supposedly The current changing - all explanation the way from concerning the fish to people lack of fossil -without evidence for leaving a evolution is called transitional punctuated record.1 This equilibrium is one of . This is really many problems with the belief in just a smoke screen for a lack of evolutionism. The pictures in this evidence. According to punctuated article show the fossilized or amber equilibrium, animals stay the same Museum of Natural History, and the encapsulated organisms (often for long periods of time but when author of the book, Evolution, made assumed to be over 100 million they change, they change rapidly. the following written comment when years old) compared with identical Thus, they leave no fossil record questioned why he did not include any illustrations of transitional forms in his modern living specimens (in the of their transformation because it book, smaller inset picture). happens so fast in relatively small ...if I knew of any, I certainly would or isolated locations. Thus for have included them... believers in evolution, the lack of . The full text of his statement is evidence becomes evidence! documented in Darwin’s Enigma by Luther Sunderland, pp. 88 - 90. There o g i c c h e c k t i m e L : are no transitional forms in the fossil What does the biological record record simply because creatures have show? - stasis (lack of change). never turned into completely new Evolution explanation: different types of creatures. Macro-evolution is happening The illustrations used in this article so slowly that we do not even see it today. It is a fact of biology that organisms What does the fossil record have an incredible ability to show? - no intermediate forms accurately reproduce copies of between different animal groups. themselves. So where do new types of animals come from? Believers Evolution explanation: in evolution theorize that new Macro-evolution happened animals arise when a reproductive so fast that the fossil record mistake happens. They believe did not record it. were kindly provided by Dr. Joachim the “old” creature slowly turns Apparently, I am not the only Scheven, LEBENDIGE VORWELT into a completely different type of person unconvinced by the Museum. creature (apparently without leaving evolution believer’s religious any fossil remains of the transitional adherence to such inconsistent

30 Only God Can Make an Instinct By Lanny and Marilyn Johnson The Mallee Fowl is a mound remove insulation so that the sun’s shelter in shade? How do they building bird that lives in Australia. heat can warm the mound. The know to eat seeds? How do they It is about the size of a chicken Mallee Fowl keeps the nest within know that their tongue can be used and is an incredibly busy worker. 1oF at all times. to sense exactly 92 oF? How do In the fall of each year, the male The female will visit the nest they know to add sand or remove it begins to dig a hole about three every few days until she has laid to keep a steady temperature? How feet deep. After the do they know to bury hole is dug, he piles plants because rotting leaves and twigs into vegetation gives off the pit. After each heat? rain he covers a layer Even if one bird of vegetation with somehow discovered sand sealing in the some of these things; moisture. The mound countless scientific he builds can be up experiments have to 35 feet across and shown that learned 15 feet high. He will knowledge is not move as much as 6000 biologically passed pounds of material to from one generation to build his mound. As the next. the wet vegetation A Mallee Fowl Nest in Australia The way animals decays, it produces know how to survive heat. So as the leaves and twigs rot, from 6 to 30 eggs. The eggs hatch is called instinct. Instinct is the pile warms up. after 9 weeks buried in the mound. knowledge which is programmed The Mallee Fowl keeps checking Each chick, once it has hatched, into a creature before birth. Man the temperature of the mound by will struggle from 2 to 15 hours has never been able to explain pushing his heat sensitive beak and to dig its way to the surface of the how it could have developed by tongue into the mound. It may take mound. They then totter to the any evolutionary process. Such four months for the mound to reach shade to rest. Within 24 hours of programmed wisdom demands the perfect temperature (92 oF). hatching, they can fly! The baby an intelligent programmer. Such When it is warm enough, the male birds then have no contact with intelligence testifies to a creator. digs an egg chamber and the female their parents. They are on their own Psalm 104:24 says it best, starts to lay eggs over a period of as soon as they hatch. The parents O Lord, how manifold are thy many days. After each egg is laid, rest for a month and then start the works! In wisdom Thou hast made the male covers it with sand. He whole process over again. The them all. The earth is full of Thy continually tests the temperature of male Mallee Fowl spends up to 11 riches. the mound with his bill and adjusts months a year taking care of the God is the one Who made the insulating layer of sand to raise nest. That’s dedication! instincts. or lower the interior temperature of When Mallee Fowl mature at 2 the mound. years of age, they find mates and Lanny and Marilyn Johnson If the nest is too hot because of start their own nests. How do they run the children’s ministry at Alpha- the rotting plants under the eggs; he know how to do that? They were Omega Institute. Alpha-Omega reaches thousands of people worldwide removes sand from the egg chamber never taught by their parents. No with the evidence of creation. They to let it cool down. If the nest is too one taught them that as soon as they can be reached at their website: hot from the sun heating the nest hatch they need to dig their way out from above; he adds sand to the of the mound of rotting vegetation. nest to insulate it better. If the nest No one taught them which way is too cold and the sun is out he will is up. How do they know to find

31 How did Cain Find a Wife? By Bruce Malone The following is the about our origin? cause hundreds of debilitating paraphrased essence of one of The reason that the answer to illnesses and birth defects. The the most critical junctures in the this question is not immediately reason all of us are not born with most famous trial of the twentieth enormous numbers of medical century. The scene is the 1925 problems is because our genes are Scopes Monkey Trial, and defense a combination of the characteristics attorney Clarence Darrow had of both our parents. Only when goaded prosecuting attorney both parents have the same DNA Williams Jennings Bryan to take mistake, do their children manifest the stand in defense of the Bible. the resulting genetic problem. Mr. Bryan,“Where did Cain find Furthermore, these genetic a wife?” mistakes accumulate and increase “I don’t know.” with time. In other words, the “Could you repeat your answer information in our DNA gets more Mr. Bryan? The entire nation is garbled, it never increases in clarity. listening via radio broadcast and Since mistakes are accumulating this is a pretty basic and simple in our DNA, it is logical to assume question. Let me rephrase it. If, apparent is that we have been that as we go back in time, there as the Bible claims, Adam and Eve trained to think like evolutionists. would be fewer mistakes. The were the first man and women, and Evolution was founded on a reason brothers and sisters cannot no other people existed, who did principle of modern geology called marry today is because they are their son Cain find to marry?” ‘uniformitarianism.’ This is the likely to have similar DNA errors “I don’t know.” belief that small changes over vast which only lead to children with Darrow made Bryan appear periods of time caused the massive birth defects. However, there foolish because he did not know geological changes (Darwin added were no moral laws against scripture well enough to defend biological changes.) In essence, children intermarrying until after the most basic of questions. This the time of Moses. This was trial marked a turning point in approximately 4000 years ago American education because, and at least 2000 years after the for the first time, the Bible was creation of mankind. Before openly ridiculed. Bryan’s inability that time, sibling marriage to answer simple and logical was quite common. The Bible questions was one factor that states that Adam and Eve had allowed the American educational many sons and daughters. establishment to accept evolution Cain merely married his sister. hook, line, and sinker, while we are trained to believe that every The reason we don’t realize this rejecting the historical creation thing has always operated as we see obvious answer is because we have account of the Bible. it today. This is not what the Bible been trained to believe things have Even today, most Christians do teaches. It teaches that mankind always been the way they are today. not know the answer to questions was created perfect, without flaws. The past and the present become as basic as “Where did Cain find It was only after man’s disobedience far more understandable when we a wife?” The problem with not that imperfection entered God’s view it from a Biblical perspective. having reasonable answers to creation. Thus mankind, as This viewpoint acknowledges that logical questions is that it brings originally created, would not the past was very different from the all Christianity into question. Why have had the myriad of genetic present. should people believe in a God mistakes now present in our DNA. that they cannot see; if believers in Mutations do not lead to better and God cannot answer life’s questions improved humans. These mistakes

32 Section II: Evidence for Creation from Geology, Anthropology, and Paleontology

33 34 Chapter 2

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

The “scientific establishment” has redefined science to accept only naturalistic explanations for the physical world. Furthermore, the modern media has provided an overwhelming publicity barrage implying that anything to do with creation is religious belief, while anything to do with evolution is empirical proven scientific fact. Even the language used to discuss the subject is tilted toward this viewpoint with the discussion couched in terms of creationism vs. evolution. Thus, even before the discussion starts creation is a religious “ism” while evolution is “reality”. As the articles throughout this book show, the exact opposite is true. The typical Christian knows little or nothing of the evidence for creation, instead just being satisfied in their belief that “God is creator” and seldom caring to learn more about the issue. Yet, the Biblical model of a real and recent supernatural creation, a real curse of the entire universe due to the rebellion of mankind, and a real global worldwide flood in judgement for mankind’s sin is so foundational to Christianity that everyone who considers themselves a Christian should be aware of how well modern science supports this reality of the past. Prior to graduation from college, I had not once been shown any of the scientific evidence for creation either in school or church. Little wonder, that by the time I started my career, God had little relevance in my life. It wasn’t as though I had any animosity toward God or religion. It simply held no relevance to the world around me. This should be no surprise when the subject never came up in school and everything seemed to be explained without reference to a creator. The decline of Christianity as a moral force in Europe correlates almost perfectly with European’s widespread acceptance of evolution as a fact. This is no coincidence. The increasing rejection of absolute truth in America is also intimately connected to the rising belief that we are all just the result of purposeless natural forces. The faulty logic and poor assumptions of evolutionism are at the heart of our culture’s moral slide. Once I had made this connection and realized the foundational connection between evolutionary teaching and the moral decline of our nation, I decided to fight the root cause of the moral decline and culture war which is raging in America. With this in mind, I set about developing a series of lectures on the scientific evidence for creation. I decided that the class should be held in a church and received approval to do so. However, I was also hoping to reach non- Christians so I advertised with flyers posted at two local colleges and purchased a full-page newspaper ad. Rather than just list what the class was about, the top half told about the class and the bottom half listed people in the community who believed in the Biblical creation model . In order to add credibility, the educational background of these Christians was also listed (see ad in appendix I on page 133.) As a new Christian, I made the naive assumption that older Christians had taken the time to study and verify God’s Word. I had only recently discovered the fact that if God exists, He should have the ability to communicate to humans what He means and unless this God is a liar, He must mean what He says. The Bible repeatedly claims to be the inspired Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16). Furthermore, the prophecies of the Bible are statistical proof that the book has been inspired by God because specific details of future happenings were written down in advance (see page 95.) This could only have been done by someone outside of time and space, i.e. the creator of time and space. I assumed that other Christians acknowledged the same basic facts about God’s Word and trusted it to mean what it said. However, as I approached Christians with a scientific background, I was surprised how many refused to be part of a public proclamation that God was a literal creator and were not even interested in hearing about the scientific evidence for the Biblical model of creation. Many of those with scientific backgrounds didn’t have a clue how well the scientific evidence confirmed the Biblical teaching of a worldwide flood and an intelligent designer of biological life. My biggest surprise was when I approached a highly awarded high school science teacher who frequently taught adult education classes in our church. Not only did she refuse to be associated with the ad, but also refused to attend any of the classes stating that, She was satisfied with her present beliefs 35 . I was shocked that a highly honored teacher would not even view the evidence for creation or consider the possibility that the Biblical model of creation could be true. The problem seems to be that most people, including Christians, have been conditioned to believe that anything to do with biblical creation is equivalent to studying the evidence for a flat earth. They have been so convinced by the propaganda for evolution and an old earth that they are totally uninterested in even viewing the evidence for a recent creation. However, the trail of those who believed in the recent Biblical creation model, understood the scientific evidence supporting this belief, and were willing to publicly proclaim the truth led throughout the city to a wide diversity of denominations, scientific disciplines, and personalities. It was like the larger picture of Christianity - scattered throughout every part of society. There were also an unexpectedly large percentage of engineers among those who accepted creation. This may be because engineers tend to be practical rather than theoretical in their approach to life and the Biblical model of creation is extremely practical and well supported by evidence.

I need to digress at this point to clearly state that being a Christian does not depend upon belief in creation. Your eternal destiny depends on only one thing - what you personally have done with your knowledge of the finished and final work of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is not the ‘NewAge’ inner consciousness but the Creator God who became a man and died for our sins. We may not understand much about the details of creation or how it was done, but we must have a desire to know Jesus personally (John 1, Colossians 1, Hebrews 1, Romans 10:9). If you choose to spit in God’s face and reject His sacrifice by not acknowledging your own sinfulness, not accepting the death of Jesus as payment for your sins, and not making him Lord of your life…there is nothing else God can possibly do to save you. You can attempt to be a perfect person, believe God is creator, and go to church every time the doors are open, but you have just insulted God if you think these things will earn you an eternal place in the presence of a totally holy Creator. If we could earn our way to heaven by working to be a good enough person; then Jesus died for nothing. Why should He have died in our place if we could earn our way to heaven by being a good person? This is the message of the bible from cover to cover and unless we accept that Jesus did it all; Christianity becomes just another man-made religion and the Bible is simply a book of myths and lies. However, rejection of what the Bible has to say about creation does have consequences. In order to accept evolution, much of the Bible must be ignored or spiritualized rather than understood to mean what it clearly says. The atheists know exactly what the Bible says and laugh every time Christians, who claim to believe in God’s Word, spin tangled webs of confusion trying to explain away clear statements of Scripture. Where does this practice stop? A Christian who rejects God’s Word when it clearly describes a recent creation (Exodus 20:11, Genesis chapters 1-5) and a worldwide flood (Genesis chapter 6-11, Job 22:15-17, Matthew 24:39, 2Peter 3:6), especially, when there is so much evidence supporting the factual nature of these events, will find their Christian walk hindered, their witness weakened, and will have to answer for undermining God’s Word when they do face their Creator. The biggest problem with blending evolution and billions of years with Christianity is the question of death. The Bible states that death is the penalty for man’s sin and that the entire universe is fallen as a consequence of the sin of one man (Romans 8:22). If man caused death to occur by his actions, how could death have been around for billions of years before man appeared? How could creation be restored to its original splendor where the wolf shall dwell [in peace] with the lamb if it wasn’t doing so in the original creation (Isaiah 11:6-9)? How can Christ’s death be the payment for our sins if there is nothing special about death and death has always been around. As a matter of fact, if evolution is true, then death, struggle, and disease is actually God’s method of creating us in the first place. So how can death be the consequence of our sins? Acceptance of evolution, and its required billions of years, undermines the very message of Christianity and allows people to separate “religion” from the physical world around us. Is it any wonder that the more strongly a society becomes influenced by evolution and billions of years, the more rapidly Christianity becomes irrelevant in

36 such a culture?

The newspaper ad, shown in appendix I, immediately created a controversy which ultimately generated a series of 40 letters to the editor by 20 different authors spanning several months. Over the ensuing years, hundreds of other letters have been written as I have laid out the evidence for creation in various newspapers. A few of these letters are included in Appendix II on pages 135-137. The original Sunday morning class lasted 10 weeks and covered a wide variety of scientific disciplines. The weekly attendance was a modest 60-80 with an average of 20 visitors (including several professors from a local university). Yet people traveled from other towns to hear this information that they were not getting elsewhere and many who attended told me they truly understood Christianity for the first time or that I had answered questions they had their whole lives. At the end of 10 weeks, I had enough feedback to know that this was indeed useful and proceeded to contact other churches with a condensed 4 to 6 week class. It was at this point that my second layer of naivetй was removed. I approached about a dozen churches over the next year. I tried to teach the creation class at many of the churches in my hometown of Granville, Ohio, but not one of the churches would allow the class to be taught. In one case, the pastor approved the class, but was overruled by an ex-professor on his church board. In another case, I was approved to teach by both the pastor and the church board and was scheduled to advertise the class in the newspaper when I got a call to attend a special church meeting. I was informed that the church could not allow the class because the property committee had vetoed it! Over the next few years, I taught at half a dozen churches, but was turned down by far more. So, just as Paul started with God’s people then moved on to unbelievers, it was

37 Our Mysterious Past By Bruce Malone Just beneath the lush vegetation event to judgment from God. If this is there really any and majestic scenery of our planet really happened; people would have missing is a massive worldwide graveyard. spread across the globe after the time? Along this interface Plants and animals are buried catastrophe. As centuries passed, great boulders of Shinumo by the billions under countless the account of the flood would have Quartite are buried exactly as if tons of mud and sediment which become distorted. This is exactly they were transported into place have subsequently turned to rock. what we find. by energetic flood waters.1 The How did all those expected consequence organisms get of an extensive and there? The answer energetic flood would to that question be the rapid erosion is THE KEY to of massive amounts understanding our of sediment and the origin. redeposit of these Starting in sediments at other the early 1800’s locations. Rocks geologists have and boulders would chosen to interpret drop to the bottom fossils and of these flood waters sediments based on and come to rest at the a presupposition of top of newly scoured slow accumulation, surfaces. This is or more recently, multiple local More evidence comes from what we find between the Tapeats catastrophes over billions of years fossils. The very existence of sandstone/Dox sandstone border in (uniformitarianism). Thousands of fossils is evidence of rapid burial. the Grand Canyon. Evolutionists geologists have been indoctrinated Fossils do not form today unless assume there is a in this belief and have spent the animals are rapidly buried. Yet missing last 150 years working to fit the many fossil deposits contain 500 million years at this border. evidence into this interpretation billions of tightly packed and Creationists see the evidence as a of earth history. Yet, many facts intricately preserved creatures conformation of a worldwide flood remain unexplained by this indicating that they had been with no interpretation. Most of these washed together and rapidly buried. missing mysteries The extent, frequency, and lack of time. disappear, if the reality of decay found in most fossil beds Creation geologists have a recent worldwide flood is testify to the worldwide extent of only been working to explain the acknowledged. A jury looking for the catastrophe. massive sedimentary rock layers the truth starts with eye witness The nature of the rock record of our planet by a worldwide flood accounts. In addition to the Bible, is also a testimony to a worldwide for a few decades and there is still which clearly presents the global flood. At many locations around much to be explained. However, flood as a factual event, every the world, often resting just above the creation model explains many major culture in the world has a those rock layers containing very problems which the uniformitarian flood story. From the Aztecs to the few indications of life, there is model does not - despite 150 years Chinese...Aborigines to the ancient a conglomeration of rocks and of study from an evolutionary Greeks...all cultures have an ancient boulders. The Great Unconformity perspective. account of a universal flood. Many in the Grand Canyon is an example The truth can only be found if of these stories include details of of this. The Great Unconformity all of the evidence is examined. a righteous man being saved on represents a supposed 500 million Does our current scientific and a floating vessel and attribute the years of missing earth history. But

38 Fossils Do Not Prove Evolution By Bruce Malone Fossils. The very name world that are tightly packed with buried in the lower rock layers and brings to mind images of untold millions of fossils. Apparently, land animals to be buried in higher ages past...dinosaurs roaming billions of organisms were washed rock layers corresponding to their ancient swamps...slow but steady together by the mass destruction ecological niche. This tendency progression as simple sea life is generally found. Sea was transformed creatures would have been into today’s complex buried first because the variety. Is this an salinity and temperature accurate reconstruction of the oceans would of the past or is a have changed during the worldwide flood the catastrophe, wiping out correct explanation of massive numbers of these the fossil record? sea creatures. Ninety-five Fossils are the percent of all fossils found preserved evidence are sea creatures. Even of past life. They are after the flood, plant and found in every part of animal extinction would the world, including have been common as the tops of the highest many types of creatures mountains. They failed to adapt to the may be as simple as a dramatically changing seashell which has left a permanent of the worldwide flood, buried by conditions. impression in sandstone or as massive amounts of sediment, and Creation geologists (and there grandiose as a giant plesiosaur rapidly fossilized. These extensive are many of them) believe that the whose bones have turned to rock fossil graveyards would be the majority of the geological record is after rapid burial. The fossils predictable result of a worldwide a result of geological activity during themselves tell us neither their age flood, but would hardly fit the and subsequent to the year-long, nor how they became encased in slow accumulation model which worldwide flood. This flood would the rock layers. Rather, they must continues to be taught as the have been an incredibly complex be interpreted within some view primary explanation of the fossil event. It must have involved of earth history. Many people record. Something dramatically rapidly moving continental plates, have been led to believe that the different must have happened in the changing climatic conditions, and existence of fossils proves that past to have caused the wide spread massive volcanism for decades. millions of years have passed. fossilization which we find all over Geologists and paleontologists In reality, fossils can form quite our planet. Noah’s flood would operating from an evolutionary rapidly. Heat and pressure from have been this event. world view acknowledge local rapid burial can accelerate the Geologists and paleontologists catastrophes, but do not allow fossilization process. Geological operating from a Christian world consideration of a worldwide flood. conditions following a worldwide view acknowledge the possibility This would wipe out the flood would have exceeded that a worldwide catastrophe buried slow change over eons of time anything imaginable today and thus unimaginable amounts of plants interpretation of the fossils led to the rapid fossilization of the and animals. This was the disaster which is needed to continue plants and animals on a massive documented in the first book of the believing in evolution. scale. Bible. It lasted over a year and had Only one interpretation of the Fossilization can happen rapidly reverberations lasting for centuries. evidence can be correct and only under the right conditions, although Although any order of burial in a one interpretation of the evidence it is a rare event today. Yet, there flood would be possible, the general agrees with what the Bible claims is are mass burial sites throughout the tendency would be for sea life to be the history of our planet.

39 Explosive Evidence for Creation By Bruce Malone In order to determine what exactly what the fossil record history, but Mt. St. Helens has happened in the past, geologists reveals. provided geologists with a scale study current processes and use One criticism of the Biblical model of how such strata could be these observations to determine explanation for our past is the lack laid down rapidly by flowing water. how rock layers came to cover Subsequent to the Mt. St. Helens our planet. Before the 1800’s, explosion, a new river canyon was geology was dominated by the formed in one acknowledgment that a worldwide day (March 19, flood was the cause of most rock 1982) as backed layers. This changed when the up water broke founders of modern geology, through the James Hutton and Charles Lyell, newly deposited succeeded in replacing this of a natural sediment. This interpretation with the belief in model which canyon is over uniformitarianism. duplicates 100 feet deep and Uniformitarianism is the belief the processes looks amazingly that slow-and-gradual processes, that were like a 1/40th scale like we see today, account for the happening model of the geological features of our planet. It during Grand Canyon. also assumes that there never was Noah’s Had no one a massive and rapid accumulation flood. been present of sediment caused by a worldwide However, to see this area catastrophe. Charles Darwin was in 1980, the form, we might heavily influenced by this type explosion Rapidly Formed New Toutle River Canyon assume that the of thought when he extended of Mt. St. small stream at the concept of slow and gradual Helens in Washington provided just present located at the bottom of the geological change to include slow such a model. When it erupted, an canyon had cut the canyon over and gradual biological change. In estimated 18 billion cubic feet of millions of years. This is the story the last 30 years, many geologists rock, ash, dirt, steam and melted most of us have been taught about have come to accept as fact that the snow flowed down the side of the the Colorado River and the Grand past saw rapid geological changes mountain at speeds estimated at 90 Canyon. Many geologists are now far surpassing anything we see MPH. This, and subsequent ash coming to acknowledge that just as happening today. However, the flows, laid down as much as 600 the Toutle River canyon at Mt. St. majority of geologists still cling to feet of sediment on the north face Helens formed rapidly, the Grand the belief that there has never been of the mountain slope. In essence, Canyon was also formed over a a worldwide flood. a massive flood event was modeled short period of time by a massive The foundational assumption for the scientific community. flow of water. Yet the majority of of the creation model is that there The sediments laid down during the geological community continues was a worldwide flood in the recent this violent mud and ash flow were to believe that low energy processes past. If this assumption is correct; not a homogenized mixture but and long time periods account for there should be evidence for this rather a series of finely layered the geological record. Creationists event. A worldwide flood would horizontal strata. They look quite believe that high energy processes have caused massive destruction similar to the horizontal layers of and short periods of time account of plant and animal life followed rocks which can be observed in for the geological record. Only one by a redeposition of this biomatter road cuts as we travel our interstate viewpoint is correct and only one and sediment. This would result in highways. This type of horizontal viewpoint agrees with the biblical enormous fossil beds at locations rock strata is often assumed to record. Guess which one? throughout the planet. This is indicate millions of years of earth

40 Water CAN Move Mountains - Rapidly By Bruce Malone Four million people per year water. An ancient lake was blocked all of these local examples pale visit the Grand Canyon and ponder at the end of the ice age by an ice in comparison with the effect a the incredible forces which cut dam in northern Idaho. When the worldwide flood would have on this chasm out of the earth. Did water breached the dam it ripped regional geological features. If the small river at the bottom through Montana, Idaho, and there were a worldwide flood; carve through the many layers of Washington leaving 16,000 square the illustrated destructive forces sediment over eons of time or did a miles of scarred terrain and deeply would be in operation during and catastrophic event carve the canyon subsequent to the event. The more rapidly? Used by permission of Institute for Creation Research result would These are the be the rapid competing accumulation explanations of very thick for the origin sedimentary of the Grand deposits Canyon. How over massive could a flood, regions. though, have During such an accomplished event, valleys so much? As would be filled the following with sediment examples show, moving water has cut valleys. At one location, the flood cut a 50-mile long trench thousands of feet thick. enormous erosion capabilities. A single worldwide flood In the spring of 1983 the spill- 6 miles wide and 900 feet deep through solid rock! An estimated is still the best explanation for way tunnel of the Glen Canyon the sedimentary rock layers that Dam had to be opened to allow 10 cubic miles of Columbia Plateau basalt was eroded in a matter of cover our planet. Geologists drainage of water from Lake who believe in an old Earth hours by this single event. The Powell. When one of the spillways do not reject the evidence for process by which moving water was fully opened the flow pattern this flood based on scientific can cause such extensive damage is changed and blocks of rock were observations. They simply choose illustrated above. seen hurtling out of the spillway to interpret the evidence based on Could the Grand Canyon exit. The water became red with the assumption that there never have been carved out by similar dissolved sandstone and there were was such a flood. Could it be a catastrophic events and processes? noticeable earth tremors. The philosophical aversion to accepting Many qualified geologists are spillway was immediately closed that which is supernatural in its for inspection. The survey team coming to believe this is exactly origin? Would a geologist who discovered incredible erosion what has happened. These accepted a worldwide flood as damage to the spillway tunnel geologists have proposed that a the formation of our planet’s caused by cavitation of the flowing large area of the southwestern geological features be welcome in water. In a matter of minutes, United States was covered by water the present science community? Or flowing water had penetrated the which apparently broke through a would this “politically incorrect” three foot thick, steel reinforced, natural dam and very rapidly eroded interpretation cause him to be walls and ripped a 150 foot much of the Grand Canyon to its ostracized? To accept a worldwide diameter hole into the surrounding current depth. The water for this flood as a factual event would rock requiring 63,000 cubic feet of rapid erosion came from water left profoundly affect other areas of concrete to repair. on the plateau when the global flood science, as well: including biology, In the scab lands of eastern receded. paleontology, and anthropology. Washington is an even more There are many other examples Would such an interpretation dramatic example of the incredible of moving water accomplishing be allowed by the scientific erosion force of rapidly flowing massive geological changes. Yet community?

41 Science is Only a Tool By Bruce Malone Science is a tool. Sweeping statements by scientists concerning what happened in the past should never be confused with facts because the former are always based on limited knowledge. Conclusions often change as more knowledge, data, and mechanisms are discovered. Science is just the tool used to uncover the truth. It is not, nor should it be confused with, absolute placed on interpretive park signs. mind boggling proportions, not by truth. One area of science where Bible believing Christians had multiple forests over thousands of this misunderstanding is especially no better explanation. However, years. Could the primary reason that this explanation for Specimen prevalent is with scientific in 1980 Mt. St. Helens erupted, Ridge is not widely accepted is statements regarding the age of knocking down thousands of acres of trees. Over one million of that the idea of a global flood the earth. Over the last 200 years, these trees ended up floating on would destroy the current scientific the “accepted” age of the earth has Spirit Lake. Dr. Steve Austin, a paradigm? risen from 6000 to 5 billion years. Ph.D. geologist for the Institute of This is just one example One classic argument for the Creation Research, realized that as of the evidence, which at first great age of a geologic feature these trees became water logged, glance, seems to be ironclad in its comes from Specimen Ridge in many sank to the lake bottom in an implication that the earth is much Yellowstone National Park. At upright position. As tree bark and older than the Bible indicates. this location there is an eroded sediment dropped to the bottom of However, additional knowledge the lake these upright trees became always vindicates the clear buried at different levels. Sonar statements of this remarkable book. tracking of the lake bottom has Evolutionary geologists prefer revealed as many as 10,000 dead to choose interpretations which trees standing in upright positions indicate that long time periods on the lake bottom. If the trees have been involved in geologic were buried under a subsequent processes. To do otherwise would volcanic event; the area would have leave no explanation other than the appearance of many forests supernatural creation for the which have grown one on top of formation of our planet. Christians the other over thousands of years. who take the Bible seriously Yet, this sedimentary deposit was acknowledge that a catastrophic formed rapidly by a single flood- event, such as the worldwide flood, hillside with petrified trees standing like event. account for areas such as Specimen upright through exposed sediment. Returning our focus to the Ridge. The classic interpretation is that evidence from Specimen Ridge, it It is only by examining all these layers of trees represent 32 is interesting to note that the buried the evidence in light of both subsequent forests. As the lowest trees do not have the extensive roots interpretations that the truth can forest was destroyed and buried which would be expected from trees be found. Unfortunately, modern under the sediment, another forest which had grown in place. Rather, geological interpretation starts grew on top. It is taught that this they have abruptly ending root by excluding the consideration area represents earth history in bundles. This provides additional of a worldwide flood. With this excess of 100,000 years old. For support that this extensive area possibility eliminated at the start, many years, this interpretation was was formed during a flood of how can the truth be found? written in geology textbooks and

42 Still Missing After All These Years By Bruce Malone If the creation model of thus show concerning the special creation...” 3 life’s origin is correct; the fossil appearance of these most basic ⇒ “The known fossil record fails to record should show a pattern animal groups? The following document a single example of phyletic of distinct breaks between very quotes are representative of what evolution accomplishing a major different “kinds” of creatures. If morphologic transition” 4 the classic evolutionary Evolutionists have lined up model is correct; the fossil some fossils which seem to fill record should be a blurred small gaps between closely related continuum of creatures. creatures. However, accepting small The most fundamental transitions as evidence in support of grouping of animals is the grand evolution scenario is like the phylum. There are believing a single stepping stone dozens of phyla in the can bridge the Atlantic Ocean. animal kingdom and each Evolution requires transitional phylum represents a vastly forms between the most basic different body structure. animal groups... yet none exist. For instance, all animals Whereas, creation asserts that there with a backbone are in one have never been transitions between phylum; most insects are in another; external-shelled very different kinds of life. This creatures, such as clams, is exactly what the fossil record are grouped together, while Answers Drawn by Dan Leitha, Used Permission from shows. What better evidence for jellyfish are in yet another. creation could there be? The phyla comprises the Evolutionary scientists continue broadest distinction among to search for an acceptable life forms. If any group explanation for how one type of of animals should have animal could have turned into a transitional forms; it should be the completely different type of animal. phylum. has been found after extensive Yet, precious little fossil evidence Creationists predict that as search by an army of evolutionary shows that this has happened, there we examine the fossil record, we paleontologists over the last 150 is no undisputed evidence showing should not find organisms which years. These statements are both that it is currently happening, and bridge the gap between the very contextual and relevant to what the there is no adequate theoretical different created body types. fossil record actually reveals: explanation for how it could have Believers in evolution, on the ⇒ “All paleontologists know that happened. One must wonder if other hand, reject divine creation, the fossil record contains precious the belief in evolution is based on believing instead that all life slowly little in the way of intermediate forms; wishful thinking and faith, NOT changed from a simple single cell transitions between major groups are objectivity and science. characteristically abrupt.” 1 into the complex forms we see all 1. Gould, Stephen, “The Return of the around us. If they are correct; ⇒ “Despite the bright promise Hopeful Monster”, Natural History, there should be thousands of “in- that paleontology provides of ‘seeing’ Vol. LXXXVI(6), 1977, p.24. between” forms as one basic body evolution, it has presented some nasty 2. Kitts, David, “Paleontology and the type changed into another. This difficulties for evolutionists, the most Evolutionary Theory”, Evolution, necessitates millions of changes to notorious of which is the presence of vol. 28, 1974, p.467. an organism, (such as an amoeba) ‘gaps’ in the fossil record.” 2 3. Ridley, Mark, “Who Doubts before it could have turned into a ⇒ “...no real evolutionist, whether Evolution?”, New Scientist, Vol. 90, clam. If these transitions between gradualist or punctuationist, uses the No. 1259, (June 25, 1981), p phyla cannot be found, something fossil record as evidence in favor of must be very wrong with the theory the theory of evolution as opposed to of evolution.What does the fossil record

43 Contrasting Views of Reality By Bruce Malone The Macro-Evolution creation geologist shown the Framework of History: same rock or fossil will arrive at a different conclusion concerning In the beginning, something The Biblical its origin and age. They will exploded (we really don’t know Framework of History: interpret the data based on the what, how, or where it came from) This framework acknowledges framework which they believe to and then our current universe slowly four major interventions by be true. The best way to determine formed and cooled. The who is correct is to see how rock surface of earth many contradictions arise from dissolved to form a interpreting the data within each chemical soup which framework. An example of this somehow became the first is the black shales of the Hartford self-replicating cell. This rock formation in Connecticut. cell somehow adapted Evolution geologists commonly itself to its environment, interpret these rocks as having becoming increasingly formed from plant and animal complex with time. sediments slowly collecting at the Billions of years passed bottom of a deep lake.1 Creation as useful information God in history. The first is the geologists interpret this deposit was added to the chemical blueprint instantaneous creation of the as the result of a rapid deposit of of simple organisms and caused the universe and diverse forms of sediment during the worldwide variety of life forms to increase. The life. The second is the curse of flood which has subsequently end result is the current diversity of this creation in response to the turned to stone. life we see all around us. Thus, what disobedience of the only organisms Interestingly, portions of this we are really being taught is that created with free will (mankind). formation contain hundreds of well rocks (or basic elements) turned into The third is a worldwide flood preserved and tightly packed fish people. as judgment for the almost total fossils per cubic meter of shale. As shown in previous articles, rebellion of humanity. The last This is what would be expected the commonly proposed evolution was God’s appearance on earth from a catastrophic burial, but mechanisms simply do not justify as Jesus Christ in order to deal does not match the observations the belief in this miraculous story with the human sin problem. This of slow settling at the bottom of of life’s development. Mutations framework is also based on faith. a deep lake or shallow sea. Dead are random mistakes which The evidence supporting the fish can occasionally settle and be demonstrably do not add useful first three interventions of God is well preserved but not in the tightly information to the DNA molecule. either ignored or undermined by our packed manner observed in this Natural selection cannot begin public education system. Is it any formation. To reinterpret this large to eliminate the vast majority surprise that the reality of the fourth rock formation as a catastrophic of harmful mutations and does major intervention by God often deposit would upset the entire not explain how useful complex seems to have even less relevance uniformitarian foundation of interrelated new functioning features in our children’s lives? geology. Therefore, the sediments could have developed. And despite continue to be interpreted in a way 2 enormous efforts in laboratories all True Science Points to which doesn’t match observations. over the world, it has never been the Correct View 1. McDonald, N.G., “Paleontology of shown how chemicals could be The rocks don’t talk. No the Mesozoic Rocks of the Conn. Valley”, State Geo. and Natural mixed together and fossil has ever been uncovered History Survey of Conn. , 1982. come alive with a label attached. All must be . Thus, evolution is firmly based 2. Whitmore, John, “The Hartford interpreted within a framework. Basin of Central Conn.: Multiple on faith, not scientific observation. An evolution geologist and a evidences of Catastrophism”,

44 What Happened to the Dinosaurs? By John Whitmore Although the monstrous creature flowed over all the land surfaces, duck-billed dinosaur. Legends from was obviously a vegetarian, its animals would have been drowned ancient China to ancient England size was overwhelming. Its hips and rapidly buried by massive have recorded descriptions of could withstand the enormous amounts of accumulating sediment. dinosaur-like creatures. The Kuku force of each pounding step and It is not at all surprising to generally Yalanji aboriginal people have its midsection was paintings which look a mass of muscle. exactly like plesiosaurs. Its gigantic tail These and other extended far behind intriguing evidences him, not unlike a seem to indicate that giant cedar tree the age of the dinosaurs swaying behind ended more recently his body. Its bones than is commonly taught. were like steel Christians do not need girders with ribs like to feel foolish about iron bars to support standing on Scripture his enormous in their understanding weight. This is the of the world around us. greatest creature to There is ample evidence roam the swamps to support the Biblical and rivers of the record. earth. Ancient petrograph of an dinosaur-like creature by the Kuku Yanlanji Evolution is the Is this a scene foundational basis for from the blockbuster movie, find animals from similar ecological the religions of humanism and Jurassic Park? It could be, but zones buried together. Thus atheism. These world views are it isn’t. This description, which simple popular because man, instead of perfectly fits an Apatosaurus, is sea creatures like coral and God, decides on rules and moral a paraphrased description taken shellfish would be buried first (and standards. Creation serves as the from one of the oldest books of the lowest) with more mobile creatures foundational basis for Christianity Bible, Job 40: 15-24. If dinosaurs higher in the rock layers. which acknowledges that all things have been extinct for 65 million Genesis 7:2 states that Noah were created by God, we live in a years, how could a writer of the saved two of every representative fallen universe that will be restored Bible have accurately described the “kind” of land animal on the to perfection in the future. appearance, food, and habitat of this ark. Noah would have taken There is a danger of becoming creature? young specimens, not huge, older so indoctrinated by evolutionary The vast majority of books creatures. Dinosaurs would have thinking that we become closed to on dinosaurs are written from an emerged from the ark to inhabit an Christianity. We need to be diligent evolutionary perspective which entirely different world. Instead of to understand what our children assumes that the dinosaurs died a warm, mild climate worldwide, are taught and make sure they are out 65 million years ago. The they would have found a harsh hearing all the facts. By teaching leading model for the demise of the climate which soon settled into an them the evidence for creation dinosaur involves a large asteroid ice age. If climatic hardships did and the fallacies of evolutionary hitting the earth. Yet, the most not cause the dinosaur’s extinction, explanations, they will be directed obvious alternative explanation is man’s tendency to destroy large toward God, instead of away from almost always ignored. Almost all animals probably did. Him. fossils are the remains of creatures In the early 1900’s on the John Whitmore is a MS geologist buried by waterborne sediment Doheny expedition into the Grand and professor of geology at which has subsequently turned to Canyon, Indian cave drawings were Cedarville College in Cedarville, rock. During the flood, as the water found which closely resembled a

45 The Missing Link was Never There By Bruce Malone The following statement was The teeth of the creature were scientific discipline who must made by Ph.D. anthropologist intermediate between the two. expose faulty assumptions and John Cole1 and is typical of what For the next 41 years this was make new discoveries. This is is commonly taught throughout the proclaimed as definitive proof of the especially true if these assumptions world concerning human origins. transformation from ape-to-man. form the very basis of the thinking “There are extreme numbers, in that scientific discipline. hundreds and hundreds, of In 1984, there was a major known fossilized individual show of man’s supposed humans at various stages ancestors at the American of evolution from the most Museum of Natural History. primitive semi-humans to the The following excerpt is present. ... You can see a very from Phillip Johnson’s book, nice progression.” Darwin on Trial. It is very Variations on this theme revealing concerning the are repeated everywhere. anthropologist’s bias toward From the cartoons to EPCOT interpreting fossil fragments center, from advertisements within the presupposition of to zoos, from museums evolution: “This is how Roger of science to your child’s Lewin described the scene at textbook ... the assumption the 1984 Ancestors exhibition. that humans came from ape-like Most top paleontologists of the day The ‘priceless and fragile relics’ were creatures is presented as fact. were in agreement and hundreds carried by anxious curators ... to be However, a closer examination of of papers were written on the find. admired by a select preview audience these fossils justifies some valid Two generations of students were of anthropologists who spoke in skepticism of these shown this “proof” of evolution and hushed voices because ‘It was like hundreds and hundreds many were ridiculed if they dared discussing theology in a cathedral’. of intermediate links. to voice doubts on its validity. It Lewin considers it understandable that Creationists are often accused was only after someone OUTSIDE anthropologists observing the bones of presupposing the Bible to be the field of paleontology was given of their ancestors should be more true and interpreting data in light permission to date the fragments emotionally involved with their subject of that presupposition. Believers that it was discovered that they than other kinds of scientists. ‘There in evolution, especially in the field were of vastly varying ages. The is a difference. There is something of human anthropology, also start whole thing had been a hoax! inexpressibly moving about cradling with a presupposition - that man Upon closer examination it was in one’s hands a cranium drawn from has evolved from some apelike even noticed that file marks were one’s own ancestry’... Descriptions of creature. Evolutionary anthro- clearly visible on the teeth. How fossils from people who yearn to cradle pologists will a l w a y s interpret could honest, qualified experts have their ancestors in their hands ought to fragments of animal bones from the been duped for so long? Because be scrutinized as carefully as a letter of presupposition that evolution is a Piltdown Man recommendation from a job applicant’s fact. This can blind even the most was exactly what believers mother.” honest researcher from the truth and in evolution had expected to Creation anthropologists are also cause a faulty interpretation of the find. Their presuppositions had highly biased. They are far more physical evidence. overshadowed careful scientific likely to interpret an apelike skull A classic example is the now analysis. Although science can be as an extinct ape. The problem defunct ape-to-man link known a self correcting endeavor, there arises because only the evolution as “Piltdown Man”. In 1912, a is strong pressure to conform to interpretation is allowed in schools human skull fragment was found the majority opinion. It is often and museums. along with an ape’s jaw fragment. someone outside a particular 1. WOSU radio debate; John Cole

46 Continental Drift or Continental Race? By Bruce Malone The continents of the world are instrumental in developing one started, it would trigger a rapid large rock masses which of the world’s most complex and subduction of the continental plates float comprehensive computer models so that the continents would move on a vast layer of hot material on continental movement. In the into their current positions in a located matter of months rather than over miles below millions of years. Dr. Baumgard- the surface ner’s model shows that the sinking of the earth. plates would have moved at billions For many of centimeters per year rather than years, it has at the current rate of only a few been taught centimeters per year. that the The ability of modern science continents to model the past is only as good are slowly as the starting assumptions. A drifting large meteor impact or massive apart as earthquake could have triggered the plates a runaway subduction process on which that moved the continents to their they ride are slowly spreading apart process of developing this model, current positions quite rapidly. Dr. in some places; while in others, Dr. Baumgardner discovered the Baumgardner thus believes that they are being subducted (plunged importance of including in his the worldwide Biblical catastrophe into the hot layer below.) Current model the shear thinning of the in Genesis chapters 7 and 8 underlying rock. This happens (commonly known as Noah’s flood) measurements place the speed of when thick fluids could have easily triggered this this process at an excruciatingly thin out runaway subduction of the earth’s slow 3 cm per year. If the under a shearing force continents. If Dr. Baumgardner European, African, and American is correct; massive land continents were once movements would have one large land mass, it accompanied the flood. would have taken 100 This rapid movement of million years for them the various continental plates to drift to their current also would have caused rapid position at 3 cm per mountain formation around year. This is part the world as the moving of the evidence that plates collided near the end of evolutionary geologists Noah’s flood. The folded and use to support their vertical sedimentary layers belief in an extremely Pictured used by permission of Don of the Himalaya Mountains old earth. formed rapidly while the However, work Himalaya Mountains - Note Folded but Unbroken Sediment sediment was still relatively by geophysicist, Dr. soft after Noah’s flood as John Baumgardner, has shown (movement). This thinning the Indian continent slammed into that this continental movement tendency has been confirmed by the European continent. There is to their present positions could laboratory experiments on rock at more than sufficient scientific data have happened extremely rapidly.1 high temperature and pressure. It to support the contention that our Until recently, Dr. Baumgardner is this mechanism (fluid thinning of continents moved to their current worked at the Los Alamos the earth’s underlying rock layers) positions quite recently and rapidly. National Laboratory as an expert in which explains the rapid movement 1. John Baumgardner, Ph.D, modeling geophysical movements of the earth’s continental plates. Computer Modeling of of the Earth’s crust. He was Once this shear thinning had Large-scale Tectonics Associated with the Genesis Flood, 47 Grand Canyon Mystery Solved By Bruce Malone One of the most distinctive rock unique geological features. One of statistically be lined up in a single layers in the Grand Canyon is a the fossil finds that Steve noticed flow direction? formation known as the red wall was ancient extinct nautiloid shells Dr. Austin discovered a research limestone which extends from Las fossilized in this redwall limestone paper explaining how highly Vegas in Nevada through Arizona, layer. For many years, these fossils sediment laden water, flowing at Colorado, and into New Mexico. It were labeled as extremely rare high rates causes large objects is widely reported that this rock in the flow stream to become layer represents millions of years oriented at the exact center of of earth history as carbonate the fluid flow.2 This is exactly containing sea creatures slowly what we find in the red wall settled to the bottom of a sea that limestone layer. This layer is not for eons of time covered a huge a geological feature demonstrating area of western United States. millions of years of earth history, This 400-foot thick rock layer but a testimony to the mass is assumed to have formed 335 extinction of billions of nautiloids million years ago. during a flood flow event of No rock layer comes with unimaginable proportions! The a label attached. All scientific within the canyon. Yet, Dr. Austin nautiloid shells are found at the data must be interpreted so the managed to find dozens of them. center of this huge and extensive interpretation depends upon the This anomaly prompted him to rock layer because this was just presuppositions (assumptions) of examine this geologic feature more one of many sedimentary layers the researcher. For the last 200 closely. laid down on our planet during the years, the majority of geologists What he discovered was a layer worldwide flood of Noah only a few have approached the interpretation of nautiloid shells at the very center thousands years ago. of the rock layers on our planet with of the limestone which contains not Scientists operating from a the assumption that there was never just a few rare nautiloid shells, but billion year old earth perspective a single worldwide, globe covering an estimated 20 billion shells all missed this discovery because flood. They have located near the exact center of this they were blinded by preconceived assumed that gradual or local events layer. notions of an ancient earth. For this produced the geological features of These nautiloids are apparently reason they were not looking for our planet. Recent discoveries in now extinct, but they were squid- this type of evidence. Studying the the redwall limestone layer of the like creatures with long, hard cone earth from a Biblical perspective Grand Canyon revealed that this shaped shells up to two feet in provides enormous opportunities assumption of slow accumulation length. Even more intriguing than for fruitful research discoveries over huge periods of time is totally the huge number of shells, is their about the world God has made. wrong. This should come to no location and position within the It also yields abundant evidence surprise to Christians who take limestone layer. It turns out that all for both a young creation and God’s Word seriously because it of the billions of shells are located worldwide flood. was predicted almost 2000 years essentially at the very center of this 1. II Peter 3:13-16 ago that “In the last days scoffers 400 feet thick rock layer and they 2. Dr. Steve Austin, ‘Nautiloid Mass Kill would come... [denying both a are statistically oriented in the same and Burial Event, Redwall Lime literal creation and a worldwide general direction. Had this layer stone’, Proceedings of the Fifth 1 flood]” been laid down over eons of time International Conference on Steven Austin (Ph.D. in as dead creatures slowly settled to Creationism, 2003, pp.55-100. geology from the University of the bottom of a seabed, why would Pennsylvania) has led dozens of all of these creatures be found in tours through the Grand Canyon a narrow layer at the center of the and spent many years studying its formation and why would they

48 Man’s Slippery Family Tree By Bruce Malone The popularized notion of half- is merely a minor variation of the man was man’s meal ... not man’s humans scraping together a bare human family. ancestor. existence of berries and prehistoric Java Man (homo erectus) animal meat is so common that In 1892, Eugene Dubois found a Lucy (australopithecus) most people believe that This very ape-like creature there is total agreement in the supposedly preceded homo erectus scientific community over this in the evolutionary progression concept of our past. However, from ape to man. The most famous this idea is based far more on example was found in the early conjecture than on fact. Thus 1970’s by Donald Johanson and considerable disagreement brought him instant fame. The exists as to its validity. Listed 40% complete set of bones was below is a very brief summary missing most of the skull. It is thus of just a few of the key ape- still debated whether this creature to-man links which have been walked upright in a human manner. used to Many respected evolutionists still prove Early Anthropologists Examining “ape-man” Skulls reject the claim that human evolution. Lucy Neanderthal (homo thick boned skull cap in the same was an ape-to-man link. For neanderthalis) general vicinity as a human thigh instance, British anatomist Lord After Darwin’s theory on evolution bone. This is still presented as Solly Zuckerman conducted was published in 1859, the search evidence of an early transformation an extensive examination of a for man’s ape-like ancestor began from ape to man. However, many wide variety of australopithecus in earnest. Throughout Europe, years after this supposed creature fossils concluding that they were 1 many apparently human skeletons was widely accepted as an not upright walkers. He and a were found which had thicker than ape-man team of scientists spent 15 years normal bones and eyebrow ridges. link, Dubois admitted that the skull studying the anatomical features These skeletons were reconstructed cap and leg bone were separated by of humans, monkeys, apes, and with a hunched over, ape-like 46 feet in a gravel deposit. These australopithecus fossils before appearance. They were rapidly details are omitted when Java man coming to this conclusion. If presented to the public as is discussed. Lucy ape-man did not walk upright; the obvious Peking Man (homo erectus) conclusion is that Lucy was an links in spite of the fact that many In the 1920’s, a group of ape. Further studies by Dr. Charles experts of the day disagreed with researchers found a large number Oxnard also came to the conclusion this conclusion. If fully clothed of ape-like skull fragments in a that australopithecus were not and placed in a modern city, it is cave near Peking China in the intermediates between man and unlikely these people would even direct vicinity of fire pits and tools. ape.2 be noticed. The differences in Although all of the original skulls There are similar problems bone structure are easily attributed disappeared during WWII, it is with every fossil link between to pathological diseases or minor still assumed that since the skulls humans and apes. Not only is there genetic variations. A probable and tools were found together this considerable disagreement between explanation for their existence in was an ape-man link. However, caves was because of their attempt students are seldom presented evolutionary researchers but the to repopulate the world north of the with a more plausible explanation. evidence is sparse, fragmentary, and warmer equatorial regions during Monkey meat is very tough, but open to other interpretations. the ice age (which immediately monkey brains are still considered 1. S. Zuckerman, Beyond the Ivory followed Noah’s flood). a delicacy in that part of the world. Neanderthal Man is classified by Since only the skull fragments were most scientists as fully human and found, it is quite likely that Peking

49 Are Birds Really Dinosaurs? By Bruce Malone From magazines to useless to perform their designed feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a newspapers... from museums function unless complete. A step bird -- a perching bird. And no amount to textbooks... the concept that by step transformation from scale to of ‘paleobabble’ is going to change that. dinosaurs turned into birds is feather makes a nice story but 1 presented as fact. Yet, this concept, the devil is in the details University of Kansas like all the other supposed . And the details simply do not paleontologist, Larry Martin, gives facts add up to a workable intermediate an excellent summation of this of evolution, is wrought creature. The building blocks of presentation of this dinosaur to bird with problems which are seldom scales and feathers aren’t even the fossils: exposed. Whenever dinosaurs same - they are made from radically You have to put this into perspective. with a bone structure To the people who remotely similar to wrote this paper (linking birds are found, the dinosaurs to birds), the link between dinosaurs chicken would be a and birds is assumed feathered dinosaur. to exist. Bird fossils 2 such as Archaeopteryx Those who reject (right) are presented the possibility of the as proof of evolution sudden appearance because the bones have of birds have no some characteristics alternative but to reminiscent of reptiles. accept the remarkably Yet this whole idea of inadequate evidence dinosaurs turning into proposed for birds is based more evolution. However, on faith than scientific the actual evidence fact. Here are a few The Most Complete of Only Four Known Archaeopteryx Fossils for evolution (merely observations which are variation within a seldom reported: particular kind of 1. Birds have a totally different types of protein. animal group) does not support different respiratory system to 3. Many recent dinosaur to bird the fact that one type of animal that of reptiles. For a reptilian links could ever turn into a completely respiratory system to change into are different creature. Evolution is the an avian respiratory system would dated only alternative shown to students be analogous to a steam engine between because the other alternative changing into an electric motor by 120 - 140 million years. Yet, (creation by God) has been randomly removing or modifying archaeopteryx (which exhibits all arbitrarily eliminated. one component at a time, without the characteristics of a fully formed Rather than blindly accepting disrupting the motor operation. It is bird) is the latest evolutionary find, dig into simply an impossibility. dated the details and determine if real 2. The hollow bones, muscle at 150 million years. How science can prove that reptiles could design, keen eyesight, neurological could a fully formed bird be have turned into birds or lifeless signals, instincts, feathers, and a older than the transitional links chemicals could have ever hundred other unique bird features between birds and dinosaurs? Alan are completely different from that Feduccia, a world authority on birds of reptiles. In particular, a bird’s (and an evolutionist) states, lungs and feathers indicate brilliant Paleontologists have tried to turn design. Either would be totally Archaeopteryx into an earthbound,

50 Ape or Man, but no Apeman By Bruce Malone Charts showing a progression they were found in deeply buried evolution is a fact, the entire group from ape-like creature to man rock, they were arbitrarily assumed of humanoids known as Homo are extremely common and leave to be from an ape-like creature in habilis could just as easily be readers with the impression that the process of becoming a modern classified as a variation of modern the search for man’s ancestors human. humans. is essentially finished. These Another example is the skull Martin Lubenow spends the types of charts seldom acknowledge the massive body of evidence that reveals discrepancies and outright fraud which has accompanied the search for man’s ancestry. It is beyond the scope of this article to refute each of the supposed fossil fragments in the Typical of Charts Assuming Ape to Man Lineage Commonly Found in Textbooks, Magazines, and ancestral line leading to man, but a few will be highlighted. labeled KNM-ER 1470 which was largest amount of space in his 295 For a balanced view of the evidence found by Richard Leakey in 1972 page book discussing the group concerning our origin read Bones in Kenya. This skull had an 800 known as Homo erectus. There are of Contention, A Creationist cc brain capacity. It is not widely over 200 known fossil fragments Assessment of Human Fossils known that the cranial capacity which fit into this category. by Martin Lubenow. It is a well for modern humans ranges from However, almost all of them are documented assessment of all the 700 to 2200 cc and that cranial well within the range of human fossils which have been placed capacity has absolutely nothing variation currently present on our in the line of human lineage and to do with intelligence. The skull planet. In reality, no compelling clearly shows the bias that enters had a modern appearance including reason exists for them to not be into both the arrangement and a high dome, thin cranial walls, and considered mere variations of acceptance of fossil evidence. evidence of a Broca’s area (speech modern humans. Lubenow shows that those fossils center). Yet, because the skull was Only the australopithecine is left which do not fit into the accepted found in a stratum which should as a potential human ancestor once evolutionary time frame are either have contained no modern humans, the other possibilities have been ignored or reclassified. The only the fragments were pieced together fairly evaluated. These creatures alternative is to discard the entire to give the skull a very ape-like are so ape-like that they bear little evolutionary scenario. For instance, appearance. It could just as easily or no resemblance to humans. in 1978, associates of Mary have been pieced together to look They are simply the bones of some Leakey found human footprints completely human. Roger Lewin extinct ape-like creature. The in Tanzania at a rock level which describes the following comment bones truly are in contention with should not have contained fully by Michael Day as he and Richard the evolutionary theory of human human prints. Russell Tuttle of the Leakey were studying the skull origins. University of Chicago was asked “You can hold the [upper fragments, 1. R.H. Tuttle and D.M. Webb, jaw] forward, and give it a long face, or to study the footprints and came “The to the conclusion that they “...are you can tuck it in, making a short face,” Pattern of Little Feet”, American indistinguishable from those of he recalls. “How you held it really J o u r n a l o f P h y s i c a l habitually barefoot Homo sapiens depended on your preconceptions.” Anthropology (modern humans).”1 Yet, because Without a preconceived bias that 78:2, (2/89):316.

51 Noah’s Ark Was No Little Boat

♦ If the average animal size was as large as a sheep, and between 2 to 7 of each kind as a fact of history, but tied his By Bruce Malone of animal was taken, 16,000 sheep- imminent return to a time when the If “Noah’s Ark” is found, it size animals, at the most, would state of affairs on earth would be will be the greatest archeological have been on board. This number similar to those at the time of Noah, discovery of all time. Finding an could have been as low as 2000 if i.e. widespread evil but going about ancient wooden sea vessel, buried the Biblical “kind” is equivalent to life as normal as if nothing would high on Mt. Ararat, large enough to the family level of modern animal hold two of every basic type of land ever change (Matthew 24:37-39). classification. These numbers dwelling animal, would have the Assuming the ark is found (there include every known living and following implications: have been many sightings but no extinct type of mammal, bird, ⇒ It would supplement definitively proof), there will once amphibian, and reptile. and reinforce confidence in the again be an enormous monument ♦ This was no small boat. geological evidence that the entire pointing toward impending Noah built a vessel longer than surface of our planet had been judgment. When this event occurs, a football field and three stories covered by water within the last I pray that many who have not high. The total space available was 6000 years. placed their faith in Christ will equivalent to 522 railroad stock ⇒ It would provide an wake up and do so because their cars. A stock car holds 240 sheep additional factual basis for the flood opportunity will soon be gone. God so the ark could have held 125,000 legends which are present within never brings judgement without animals. the oral history of almost every adequate warning - His desire is ♦ At most, only 40% of the human culture. that none would choose to perish total space was needed for all ⇒ It would again confirm the (2 Peter 3:9). of the animals!2 The remainder reliability of the early Biblical The most common question would have been used for food record of the human race. asked about the validity of Noah’s storage or could have been used to ⇒ It would support the Biblical ark is, rescue thousands of people from model that every land animal How could millions of different impending judgement - had there (including humans) has descended animals fit on one small boat? been any who accepted God’s from those animals taken on the grace. The account of Noah’s flood ark. ♦ First, there were not millions is similar to many other Biblical of animals. Not every “kind” of The discovery of Noah’s ark is stories. It makes perfect sense–if animal needed to be on board. yet to be confirmed by a qualified you assume it means exactly what team of scientists, but many Only land-dwelling, air-breathing it says and take time to study it seemingly reliable sources have animals were present. Fish and carefully. claimed to have seen it.1 insects could have survived well According to the Biblical text, outside of the Ark and would not 1. B.J. Corbin, The Explorers of Ararat, Great Commision Illistrated Noah had over 50 years to build need to have been taken aboard. Furthermore, every minor variation Books, 1999. the ark which would have been 2. Woodmorappe, John, Noah’s Ark: an unmistakable witness to the of animal (species) was not present. A impending judgment of God. Jesus Wolves, foxes, coyotes, and dogs Feasibility Study, Institute for not only referred to this event could have come from an original Creation Research Publications, dog kind.

52 Dinosaur Discoveries Rock Evolution By Bruce Malone 4 Only seven Tyrannosaurus Rex specimens have been found which Close are more than 50% complete. examination Because these fossils are assumed of the broken to be over 60 million years old, thigh bone evolution believers have historically also revealed failed to look for unfossilized round Unfossilized Material Within T. Rex Fossils material within the bones. Dinosaur microscopic bones are generally found in a structures the discoverer, took careful fossilized condition with silica and that appear to be blood cells inside measures to avoid contamination other minerals having completely hollow vessels. Dr. Schweitzer and his analysis of the bacteria “I am quite aware that according replaced the carbon structure of the stated, showed it to be very similar to to conventional wisdom and models original bones although bones with the DNA found in modern “bee of fossilization, these structures aren’t the appearance of recent burial have bacteria.” 1 supposed to be there, but there they been documented. Fossilization These finds -- soft tissue, are. I was pretty shocked.”5 is a well understood process that bacteria spores, and DNA in fossils can take place very rapidly under and amber -- are not isolated proper conditions. There are many examples, but part of a documented cases of the rapid growing number of scientific fossilization of organic matter in discoveries which are rocking silica rich water exposure.2 the evolutionary time frame Yet, a recent T. Rex discovery to its core! However, don’t expect to hear about them sent shockwaves through the Unfossilized Blood Vessels and Red Blood Cells scientific community. Evolution in your child’s textbook, believer, Mary H. Schweitzer, of popular science magazines, North Carolina State University has The entire evolutionary or museums any time soon. Why? discovered flexible blood vessels community should be far more than Because it is easier to deny, ignore, inside the fossilized bones of a shocked. They should be rethinking or explain away the implications of “68-70 million year old” T. Rex their dogmatic faith system these finds rather than to admit that from the Hell Creek formation in requiring millions of years of earth the presuppositional assumptions eastern Montana.3 In fresh bones, history. How could a fossilized of the evolutionary belief system any weak acid can be used to bone, buried under enormous heat -- huge periods of time, no recent remove the calcium, leaving only and pressure, and after millions of worldwide flood, and no interaction organic material such as fibrous years exposure to the environment of God with creation -- could be have intact organic structures? The wrong. connective tissue, blood vessels and various cells. By comparison, soft tissue would have completely 1. Buddy Davis, Mike Liston, John if one were to use acid to degraded, no matter how fortuitous Whitmore, The Great Alaskian the preservation process. Dinosaur Adventure, Master Books, demineralize a typical mineralized 1998. fossil, nothing would be left This is not the first soft tissue to 2. Carl Wieland, ‘The Earth: How Old because everything has been turned be unearthed. Nucleic acid (DNA) Does it Look?’, Creation ex nihilo to stone. Yet, this acid-treated T. with up to 800 base pairs has been 23(1):813, December 2000. 3. Schweitzer, M. H., et al.,Science, Rex bone fragment left flexible and taken from “fossil” magnolia leaves ”6 307, no. 5717, pp. 1952-1955, elastic structures very similar to allegedly “17-20 million years old. 25 March 2005. what one would get from a fresh Yet, DNA exposed to water and 4. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7285683/, bone which appeared, oxygen rapidly degrades. A “25-40 March 2005. million year old” bee was also 5. Boswell, E., Montana State so flexible and resilient that when University News Service, stretched would return to its original found encased in amber containing 24 March 2005. shape living bacteria spores.7 Dr. Cano, 6. Golenberg, E., et al., Nature 344:656-8. 7. Cano, S., Science, vol. 268, no. 5213, 53 Transitional Forms of Life By Bruce Malone Believers in evolution claim water), we find trillions of bones land animals because it was that the fossil record is filled with and fossils of creatures deposited assumed that the bones in its fins transitional forms of life that prove by this enormous event? Is it any were “in the process of turning one form of life turned into another wonder that these fossilized bones into legs”. For decades, this was over vast periods of time. Those range from creatures completely definitive proof that “evolution who acknowledge the evidence different from creatures alive today is a fact”. Yet in 1938, a living that we have an intelligent designer to slight variations of creatures coelacanth was found. It was claim that there are no transitional alive today? Why the assumption discovered that they lived deep fossils showing how one animal that any variation from a modern in the ocean (not near shore) and turned into another. Both that the bones in their fins groups have the same rocks, were used to survive in their fossils, and data, so why do environment (not as legs). they come to such different They were quietly dropped conclusions? And how can as a supposed evolutionary the non-scientist know who is transition between fish and correct? land animals. It was never Any set of objects can be explained how they could lined up to claim a transition have remained alive for “70 from one form to another. million years” without leaving A tricycle, a bicycle, a a single fossilized remain. motorcycle, and a car can “Fishapod” Fossil - Where are the Legs? More recently, a four foot be aligned to show massive fishlike creature called the changes in the “evolution” of creature is a transition between very tiktaalik roseae (nicknamed the transportation. Yet, one did not different forms of life? fishapod), supposedly alive 375 “evolve” into the other by random Even in Darwin’s day the million years ago, was proposed mutational changes and natural enormous variability of creatures as the definitive link between fish selection. All exist because of coming from a common ancestry and land animals.1 Why? Again intelligence and controlled energy was known. Darwin acknowledged because of bones in its fins. input by a common designer to the wide variety of pigeons with For fins to turn to limbs would create each mode of transportation. different sized beaks and skulls require enormous information Small changes from a Volkswagen could be bred from a common added to the creature’s DNA. to a Volvo might represent pigeon. Yet, this variability was Ligaments, muscles, nerves, and microevolution–but again even this built into the original pigeon’s instincts would all have to function change is by intelligent design, not DNA. What is not addressed by perfectly in each useful step by step chance. lining up supposedly transitional change. This is story telling, not The same is true when we forms is the question of where science. The fishapod is no more view the fossil record. Billions did all this information originate? a transition between fish and land of creatures died and were buried Neither mutational changes nor animals than a duck billed platypus during the global catastrophe natural selection can explain it. is the transition between a duck and commonly known as Noah’s flood A revealing look at just how a beaver. Should the fishapod be that covered the world. Thousands desperate evolution believers are found alive today, it would no doubt of creatures alive before this flood to suggest transitional forms is be yet another marvel of God’s bcame extinct as the ocean salinity revealed by the fossils proposed creative genius -- perfectly adapted and temperature changed. They as transitions from fish to land for its environment, bones in the could not adapt well to life on animals. In the early 1900’s, the fins and all. a completely altered planet after fossil of a fish call the coelacanth, this catastrophic event. Is it any found in “70 million year old rock 1. Michael Novacek, ‘Darwin wonder that, across the world and layers”, was commonly proposed Would throughout the sedimentary rock as a transition between fish and Have Loved It’, Time Magazine, layers (those layers laid down by

54 Section III: Creation and Education: Truth vs. Indoctrination

55 56 Chapter 3 “...I found an altar with this inscription, ‘to the unknown God’, whom therefore you ignorantly worship, Him I declare to you.

Acts chapter 17:16-34 is a fascinating study in how best to introduce Jesus to a culture which knows nothing about Him. In every country that the Apostle Paul visited, there were Jews who had a clear understanding of God. They had experienced the supernatural intervention of God in miraculous ways throughout their history. They understood that God was a supernatural Creator who was not part of the physical world around them, but who was capable of interacting with mankind and performing miracles whenever it suited His perfect and holy purposes. Therefore, when Paul spoke to the Jews he did not need to start by explaining the character and reality of God’s existence. In synagogues, Paul could start by directly explaining that mankind could not earn its way into favor with a perfectly holy God, but needed an intermediary who could Himself make the payment that we deserve to pay for our sins, (i.e. God Himself in human form) -- Jesus Christ. However, in Athens, Greece, Paul had no common foundation upon which to build. Therefore, he went to Mars Hill, the spot in the city where philosophic ideas were discussed, and laid out the case for Christianity by starting from a point of common understanding -- the unknown God of the Greeks. Paul first explained that this unknown God was the creator of all things, God made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelling not in temples made with hands...He gives all life, and breath, and all things; and has made of one blood all nations of men... (Acts 17:24-26). Paul next explained that this God personally interacts with us, ...He is not far from any one of us. For in Him we live, and move, and have our being. (Acts 17:27-28). Paul thirdly explained that this God was not invented by man, ...we ought not think that God is like gold, or silver, or stone, shaped by art and man’s device. (Acts 17:29). It was only after laying this foundation that Paul went on to talk about Jesus Christ, “Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He has ordained.” (Acts 17:30) The result of starting with creation rather than starting in the “middle of the story” with Jesus Christ was that “many rejected what Paul had to say” (acts 30:32), BUT many others were convicted and a great church movement began. This will always be the case when presenting the truth of who God is, what He has done for us, and what He expects from us. Many will reject Him, but the Holy Spirit will use our efforts to convict and draw others. To tell someone who has no understanding of the Bible that Jesus died to be our Savior is like starting a novel in the middle. It simply makes no sense. Until someone understands that he had a Creator, and that mankind has rebelled against this Creator, (i.e., we are sinners), why would he need a Savior? Thus, Paul started with creation not with Jesus Christ. We are in the same situation today. The majority of people in our culture no longer have an understanding of either Jesus Christ or of a Biblical God. Re-establishing a foundational understanding of God as Creator will lead directly to understanding His personal nature and His interaction with humanity. Establishing this groundwork is critical if people are really going to understand who Jesus Christ is and what He has done. So where is the Mars Hill of today where this message can be proclaimed? Where is the best place for a public give and take of ideas? Some would suggest that our public school and university system are the best places for examining ideas. Those who have tried to bring a balanced view of origins into the public education system (by teaching evidence for creation) have quickly found just how closed our education system is to evidence for our supernatural origin. Our entire education and media system currently operate with one underlying prime directive. No one talks about the underlying and often unstated rule that strongly guides the actions of educators and media professionals alike

57 but anyone breaking this rule will quickly find themselves censored or fired.The rule is -- under no circumstances will any direct reference or acknowledgment of the Biblical God or Biblical model of reality be acknowledged as true. Because this prime directive is in operation, no matter how strong the evidence is for the Biblical model of a recent creation, the fall of man, and for a worldwide flood; some other explanation for the world around is always shown. Therefore, very little access to the public education or media system is allowed for any true Biblical model of reality. Even baby steps in the direction of acknowledging that the overwhelming scientific evidence supports an “intelligent designer” are venomously opposed by the educational establishment. So how can Christians best proclaim the truth in our rapidly darkening culture? Most Christian denominations and even para-church organizations such as Campus Crusade for Christ see creation as a side issue which keeps people from focusing on Christ and creates too much controversy. They work hard to present Jesus Christ as the answer people are looking for, but the vast majority of people in our culture are too busy with their lives to bother with Jesus. A few are saved, yet culture as a whole continues to slide downhill so the pool of people who are interested in anything that has to do with Christianity continues to shrink. People are not being shown the connection between the reality of the world around them and what the Bible has to say about why the earth operates the way it does and where everything came from. They act on exactly what they have been taught by the educational system and media, i.e., the world will pretty much go on forever the way it is today (uniformitarianism). The church is, therefore, doing very little to help people see the truth -- we were very recently created; a holy God does and will always judge sinful behavior; the world is rapidly running downhill; and the final judgement of this world is not far off and our individual judgement is only one heartbeat away. Since the church at large is ignoring the message of creation and how this message brings the Bible alive by tying the physical world to the spiritual aspects of God’s Word, how can individual Christians get the truth out? Some would suggest that the internet or public access TV provide for the free flow of ideas at little or no cost. However, because of the overwhelming barrage of propaganda stating that evolution is a fact , relatively few people bother to attend lectures on creation so getting people to visit a creation web site is similarly difficult. There are enormous amounts of in-depth research information on the Internet, but it is like a drop of water in a swimming pool of information. There is just too much out there. Another option is writing books or religious magazines. However, these seem to reach only those who have already heard the message. With rare exception, Christians find themselves preaching to each other instead of impacting our culture! I believe the Mars Hill of today is the public newspaper. This is especially true for small community newspapers. This resource influences a large percentage of the population, still has good credibility, and allows for the give and take of ideas via the letters to the editor. A few of the hundreds of letters to the editor which resulted from placing Search for the Truth articles in newspapers are shown in appendix II. With this goal in mind of getting the truth into public view in such a way that it would be seen and understood, I thus set out to produce an appealing newspaper column showing the scientific evidence for creation to people who were not likely to be exposed to it in any other way. This book is the result of this effort. The articles in this book have also been reproduced in over a dozen small papers across the nation, always with controversial results which raise people’s awareness that they are not getting the whole truth through our educational system. In at least one case a school system was allowed to continue showing the evidence for creation because these articles were published (see page

58 Science Defined to Exclude Creation By Bruce Malone The following strategy is on faith repeatedly used by those who that denies advocate “evolution only” experimental education. They: reality. 1. Define science to exclude the It is possibility of a creator. commonly 2. Claim that all the evidence for parroted by our designer is “not science” and, evolution therefore cannot be shown. believers that 3. Repeat, like a mantra, creation is statements such as “evolution is not science the basis of science” and imply because it is that microbes to man evolution is a not testable proven fact. or repeatable. 4. Then give examples of minor In actuality, Used by permission of Johnny Hart changes within organisms as the creation “proof” that one organism can model is far change into a completely different more testable type, while using the same word, than the evolution, which survives by ‘evolution’ for both the small and concept that microbes turned into defining “science” so that it leaves the enormous changes. man by random mutational changes. out the better creation alternative. Actual scientific evidence Any sequence pattern even remotely Those setting the standards for any major evolutionary similar in form or function to the for our public school science transformation is non-existent. DNA code, beamed to earth from curriculum have merely replaced No experiment ever performed outer space, would immediately the acknowledgement of our has come even remotely close be acknowledged as evidence of Creator’s existence with a definition to showing how life could form an intelligent originator. Yet, the of “science” that excludes the from chemicals. Major problems same evidence for a designer, possibility of God’s interaction with origin of life experiments found in every DNA molecule, with His creation. In essence are systematically hidden from cannot be acknowledged as such in modern man has decided to use students after all, we can’t have classrooms! Mutation rates have the public education system to students considering the only other been accelerated a million-fold pretend that there is no God (at alternative (creation), can we? with fruit flies, yet no new creature least not one worth mentioning). In No experiment has shown how or even any new functioning reality what is being taught is that useful functioning information can feature has ever developed. Fossils there is no God except naturalism. be added to the DNA molecule by are an undeniable record of the God, who desires for us to have random changes. Yet, it can be sudden appearance of distinctly a personal relationship with Him, experimentally demonstrated that different animal forms with huge has a response to this sad situation. every known mutation results in gaps between enormously diverse Psalms 14:1 states, “The fool says a net loss of original functioning creatures. The creation model in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ ” information. Why aren’t we explains the fossil record as a We have become a nation of fools training students to ask the big consequence of a real worldwide in the way we have allowed our question - where did all of this flood and the reality of this ancient children to be educated. original functional information global flood has been repeatedly come from? Acknowledgment confirmed by careful scientific of a designer gives a mechanism observations. Yet, these evidences that agrees with known scientific are systematically suppressed observations; evolution relies because of a dogmatic faith in

59 Education - Redefined By Bruce Malone The goal of public education biology, biochemistry, physics and by water, these areas cannot be should be training children to think, cosmology) would be examined shown to you.” reason, and discover truth. Yet, in laboratories and classrooms to “You will notice that this model the methods used by our education discover which model best fits of our globe is much simpler and system seem more directed toward the available far more molding young minds in such a way evidence. Yet, convenient to as to guarantee agreement with the when presenting understand. majority opinion. This teaching anything Since our method is most apparent when it concerning global comes to evolution. evolution, community is Whenever there is even the students are connected by slightest hint of criticism or only allowed to the internet opposition to the naturalistic view evidence and rapid evolution found in our textbooks, which fits the transportation, schools, or museums, the charge evolutionary open water is of bringing religion into public belief. It is irrelevant to schools is leveled against concerned as if allowing travel anyway. parents. However, it is a fact that students to even Therefore, we the very different types of creatures view the data are going to on our planet were either created that would lead pretend that as distinctly different types or they them to question our oceans are exist because one type of creature the validity of much smaller. gradually turned into another. It is the “billions- If we say it a fact that either the sedimentary of-years often enough, fossil record exists because there evolutionary and train has been a world covering deluge model” is off The new (less water) World Map each other to which rapidly formed these rock limits. Science cover our eyes layers on the earth or there have has been redefined to eliminate when crossing over them; I’m sure been huge periods of time where consideration of anything except everyone will eventually believe it.” slow gradual processes created natural causes and students are “Most importantly children, them. It is a fact that the enormous only shown evidence and theories we must never, ever allow maps amount of information found in which support this definition. Let’s showing large oceans into our the genome of living creatures has examine what it would be like for schools. Any evidence supposedly resulted from either intelligent any other area of knowledge to be showing the existence of large design or random chance processes taught in a similar fashion: oceans cannot be allowed. After (such as mutations) that created “Today students, we are going all, the very definition of geography this information. It is a fact that to discuss the subject of geography, excludes the possibility that such a the earth was either created quite but first we must define geography. thing could exist.” recently or it is billions of years Very smart people have decided that DING… “Well, that’s all for old. geography is the study of only land geography today, children. Now, its The correct possibility in surfaces. Therefore children, any time for your English class, where each of these cases can only be surface of the planet covered with you will learn that English has been answered by scientific inquiry, not large areas of open water is outside defined as a language which does by philosophy or religious study. the definition of geography. You not contain verbs...” In any other scientific inquiry the will not be allowed to view such evidence for or against these two maps. It does not matter that large opposing possibilities (involving oceans exist. Since the definition of evidences in areas of geology, geography excludes areas covered

60 Magic, Science, and Great Mysteries By Bruce Malone The best kept secret of a of dollars and thousands of looks magician is to get the observer scientists attempting to produce billions of years old, yet could to eliminate the obvious while life using purified chemicals and have been created quite recently.2 focusing on the illusion. For sophisticated laboratory equipment, Science cannot even explain instance, the magician will display not one scientist has even come why both males and females exist. empty hands or an ordinary scarf remotely close to producing a This is because evolutionists before putting something back into living organism from a mixture of assume that all life came from a his hand (which you assume is chemicals.1 Yet we are being led to sexless single-celled organism. still empty) or switching Evolution cannot explain to a trick scarf (which you why (or how) this cell assume is still ordinary). could have turned into two His skill as a magician radically different types of depends upon getting the creatures (male and female) observer to disregard the and how these creatures correct answer so that miraculously ‘found’ each the mystery remains. other. Again, the Biblical Believers in evolution use answer is obvious and the same method as they straight forward. Sex present students with only was created by God and the natural possibilities no creature other than for the appearance and a woman can provide a advancement of life, while hiding suitable mate for a man. the evidence for creation. believe that it happens by random Yet, another of the scientific Magazines occasionally publish processes all over the universe. mysteries was, lists of “great mysteries.” U.S. Another what caused the ice ages? News and World Report devoted mystery Creationists have demonstrated the cover story of the 8/18/97 issue was - for years that the worldwide flood to 18 How old is the universe? was accompanied by massive Great Science Mysteries. Subsequent articles will volcanism and increased ocean Yet, most of these mysteries explain why no dating method water temperature. This would simply disappear if we assume is 100% reliable because all are have caused both the massive the Bible is true. They are only based on unprovable assumptions. destruction of life (which we find mysteries if the correct answer has However, the vast majority of as fossils all over the world) and been eliminated before starting the dating methods indicate that the greatly increased evaporation investigation. earth is thousands, not billions, rates. The increased evaporation One of these of years old. A straight-forward and volcanic cloud cover would great mysteries reading of Scripture would also have caused a buildup of snow in was titled, indicate that the earth has only northern latitudes. The inevitable Is there life on other planets? been around for about 6000 years. consequence of this, in any global Most biochemists know the A thorough understanding of climate model, would have been an 3 answer to this question, but they dating methods shows this to be ice age lasting for centuries. have been trained not to consider a perfectly reasonable scientific Almost all of the other the obvious. Life is far too position. Dr. Russell Humphreys, mysteries complex to have developed by a highly regarded Ph.D. theoretical also disappear when one applies natural processes. The information physicist who recently retired from a straightforward Biblical world inherent within any living cell Sandia National Laboratories, view. They are only mysteries requires direct intervention from has mathematically demonstrated when, like the magician preparing an outside intelligence (God). how Einstein’s theory of relativity an audience for a magic trick, the Furthermore, even with billions explains why the universe

61 Science Can Never Define Reality By Bruce Malone America’s founders centered what makes life Science Can’t Predict the their discussions of almost every alive Future with Certainty topic around what the Bible taught. or even what makes life exist. Although not all were believing Furthermore, science can never The wiser the scientist, the Christians, they did recognize the answer the more tentatively he draws his unique authority of the Bible. One why conclusions and the more carefully study conducted by the University questions. Why does life exist? he extrapolates his data. Science of Houston found that 92% of can predict what may happen if all important quotes by all the variables are America’s Founding Fathers known, but from 1750 to 1790 were seldom are all either direct or indirect the variables references to Biblical known. This is teachings.1 very basis for Today, if a person were to new scientific state that his viewpoint was discoveries based on Biblical teaching; and frequently he would be met with either a blank Why is the earth in the perfect changing stare or open ridicule. America’s position to sustain life? Why can’t theories. Furthermore, if God culture is post Christian in nature people just get along? Why does does exist, He is fully capable of because Christianity is no longer evil exist? All of these questions changing the future course of events the primary influencing philosophy. are part of reality, yet science has just as He seems to have done The belief that science can define no answer. repeatedly in the past. reality has replaced Christianity as Science Can’t Show How Science Can’t Prove the Past the primary source of truth. Things Should Be There are vast differences in Science is a powerful tool Science merely observes and opinion between equally qualified that has helped mankind develop makes tentative predictions. It can scientists over what happened the technological marvels of our make no comment on happiness, in the distant past. For instance, modern age. Because of this, purpose, or fulfillment. It knows dozens of theories exist about many people are under the false nothing of love, hate, faith, honor, what caused the extinction of impression that science can prove or virtue. Science is totally the dinosaurs and all of them are what has happened from the silent on these important human unprovable. Scientists can view beginning of time, predict what characteristics and can provide no the exact same data and come to will happen eons into the future, guidance concerning the existence completely different conclusions and explain everything in between. of right and wrong. However, each because all scientists approach the This false conception of the person has an overwhelming inborn past with a bias. Equally intelligent capability of science is promoted sense of how things and well-trained creationists and by false philosophic ideas, such as ought to be evolutionists differ profoundly on evolution, which have masqueraded . Most of us also realize that the history of life’s development, as true science for over 150 years. things are not as they should be. the cause of the fossil record, and Understanding the limits of science Science simply cannot explain why the age of the universe. All of these can help put this discipline into a there seems to be so much wrong subjects deal with events of the proper perspective. with this universe in which we live. past which can never be proven by

Science Can’t Define Reality scientific experimentation because 1. David Barton, The Myth of Science cannot explain what life the past cannot be repeated. Wise Separ- is or define the difference between scientists from both viewpoints ation, A revealing look at what the Founders and early courts really human and animal life. Science can admit that science cannot prove said, Wallbuilders Press, 1992. describe how things work but not what has happened in the past.

62 Inherit the Lie By Bruce Malone The key historical event defense attorney, Clarence Darrow 100% wrong. Every piece of leading to the general acceptance (to defend evolution), and the great evidence cited as proof of evolution of evolution in America was not orator and three time presidential has since been falsified. From the the publication of Darwin’s book candidate, William Jennings Bryan, fraudulent Piltdown man to the in 1859. The defining moment as prosecuting attorney (to defend single tooth of Nebraska man (it for evolution was the publicity the Biblical record of history). John turned out to be a pig’s tooth) all of surrounding the Scopes the evidence for evolution has been Monkey Trial in 1925. debunked. However, the media What most people know decided that creation was about creation is tainted religion and evolution was by the distorted historical scientific truth. Therefore, presentation of the trial that view continues to be called Inherit the Wind. endlessly parroted to the This Broadway public. play was first released In the drama, Inherit in 1955 and a movie the Wind, Christians of the same name was are portrayed as narrow- released in 1960. Both minded religious bigots the movie and the play and Scopes is portrayed as are pure propaganda for an atheist Scopes was neither ridiculed nor an open-minded defender of truth worldview and grossly distort true did he spend a single hour in jail. and freedom. The drama itself is historical events. Clarence Darrow’s goal, like the bigoted propaganda; although it is The one-sided publicity modern ACLU, was to rid public so skillfully presented that most surrounding the Scopes Monkey education of the evidence for a people simply accept this distorted Trial makes the truth of the trial Creator and the acknowledgment of portrayal of the historic trial. relatively unknown. In 1925, God’s existence. Although Inherit the Wind Tennessee had an unenforced law William Jennings Byran had seems to be a drama about which outlawed the teaching of limited ability to cross examine the freedom to think; it paints evolution using public funds. The the experts brought in to defend Christians as hypocrites in order purpose of this law was to gain evolution so their statements were to discredit the creation position. public support for science education broadcast unchallenged across the This type of evolution propaganda by assuring citizens that public nation. Therefore, Bryan agreed does not promote free thinking, education would not be used to to take the stand in defense of but actually limits it. Scientific undermine religious beliefs. Sadly, Biblical truth in exchange for the evidence for creation is not allowed educators today have little concern opportunity to put Darrow on the in public school classrooms while about undermining religious faith as stand in defense of evolution. After fabrications such as Inherit the they work to replace the Christian ridiculing the inconsistencies of Wind are welcomed. belief in the absolute truth with the Bryan’s limited knowledge of the The irony of Inherit the Wind religious relativism of Darwinism. Bible, Darrow ended the trial in a is profound. The drama which is The ACLU advertised for a clever legal maneuver before the supposed to encourage freedom defendant willing to contest this law evidence for evolution could be of thought is used to form public and John Scopes accepted the offer. questioned. As a result, the media opinion in such a way as to exclude Scopes had briefly taught biology as portrayed the creation position as the possibility of allowing evidence a substitute teacher and was willing foolishness without ever having the for creation in schools -- thus to serve as defendant in the case evolution position brought under limiting student’s access to the (although he later admitted that he close scrutiny. information they need in order to had never taught evolution). The In retrospect, those defending discover the truth. town welcomed both the famous the evolution position were shown

63 Creation Viewpoint Heavily Censored By Bruce Malone Censorship is a word which scientific evidence supporting Berkeley, had similar problems evokes a strong response because it creation, their work was rejected.1 publishing his book, Darwin on

conflicts with our inherent sense of The situation is no better in Trial, which deals with the fallacies fairness. Each year, the humanist school, university, or public libraries of evolution. He finally settled on a organization, Christian publishing Citizens for an house. Most American Way, creationist writers publish a report of and researchers supposed realize that this censorship creation censorship incidents in exists so do not which waste their time fundamentalists trying to publish attempt to keep their material with books out of mainstream journals libraries. Yet, or publishers. a far more dangerous type of where censorship leads to a scarcity The late Dr. A.E. Wilde-Smith censorship is largely ignored. of creation materials. Libraries was an Oxford professor with 3 Censorship is the banning of typically purchase materials from earned doctorates. Yet, an OCLC ideas so that people do not even a relatively small number of computer search of 1000 libraries have the opportunity to hear them. publishers. Creation publications showed that only 18 carried any The reason this is so dangerous is are not selected, no matter how well of his classic works supporting that the human mind tends to work their work has been researched and creation while almost all of the by paradigms. A paradigm is a presented, because these publishers libraries carried books critical of framework which all people develop use reviewers who won’t accept creation. Library journals publish concerning what is right or wrong, any material critical of evolution. book reviews and out of 100,000 true or false. The human mind For example, Biology: A Search book reviews, several hundred often finds it very difficult to even for Order in Complexity is a well anti-creation books were favorably consider ideas outside an accepted documented high school biology reviewed; yet, only one creation paradigm. Increasing exposure to book written by a dozen Ph.D. work was reviewed at all and the the truth improves the probability level creationists. Yet, not one of review was extremely negative. that it will be embraced. Exclusive 15 different textbook publishers There are hundreds of excellent exposure to a false belief, no matter WOULD EVEN LOOK AT THE books documenting the scientific how outrageous, insures its eventual MANUSCRIPT! The textbook evidence for creation, yet almost acceptance. This is the essence of finally had to be published by none can be found in any public, brainwashing. Zondervan (a Christian publishing school, or university library. The In an extensive search of 2.2 house) effectively eliminating it Citizens for an American Way are million mainstream magazine from consideration in any public correct - censorship is alive and well and journal articles (scanned by school. The authors of The Mystery in America’s libraries. SCISEARCH), only 18 items were of Life’s Origin also had difficulty found which dealt with creation. getting their book published because 1. All of these examples of censorship When another computer search was it critically exposed the enormous (and many more) are documented in an article called the Censorship of done to find articles written by well- problems with chemical evolution. Information on Origins, Jerry known creationist authors, not one This exclusively scientific treatment creation-related article was found. Bergman, Creation ex Nilhilo of the subject was rejected by 100 Technical Journal, Vol. 10, no. Subsequent interviews revealed agencies before being published 3, (1996). However, it is that whenever these authors had by Philosophic Press. Phillip extremely submitted articles showing specific Johnson, law professor at U.C.

64 Chinese Language Reveals Creation By Bruce Malone One of the primary characteristics that separate human symbolic concept, “Have you not read that in the behavior from animals’ is the ability to transfer abstract beginning He made them man and women.” The concepts to another human via written language. The Bible teaches that this ability came directly from our Creator. It also teaches that the vastly different languages of the world are a result of the confusion of one original language during an event known as the tower of Babel. Our English word babble (meaning gibberish, chatter, nonsense) has it roots in this event. Modern scientific ancient Chinese symbol for create is a combination studies really have no better explanation because it is of person (or breath), dust, walking, and alive. still a mystery how totally different languages could have Thus, to create, is to have dust walk, breathe, and developed by any natural process. live. There should be accounts in ancient cultures for Biblical events such as the creation of man, the fall of The Bible further describes a world wide man, the existence of a single creator (God), the world flood catastrophe in which all human life with the wide flood, and the tower of Babel; if these were actual happenings in time and space. Knowledge of all these events can be found not just in the Bible, but in the ancient writings of people throughout the world. One of the more interesting collaborations can be found within the very characters of ancient Chinese letter symbols. Ancient Chinese writing consisted of a series exception of eight individuals on a floating vessel of word pictures or pictographs which combined separate were destroyed. The ancient Chinese symbol for features to express an idea or concept. Buddhism, ‘boat’ is vessel, eight, and people. Taoism, and Confucianism dominate the religious Thus, a boat is eight people on board of a vessel! beliefs of China today. However, 2000 years before the appearance of any of these religious beliefs, the ancient The Bible again states that man was told to spread Chinese served a single creator god known as out over the earth after the worldwide flood. Yet, Shang Ti he rebelled and built a tower to his own glory. God . The symbol for Shang Ti (God) is a combination of ended this rebellion by confusing man’s language the symbol for emperor and the symbol for heaven (or so that the people set out and journeyed across the

globe in different language groups. Interestingly, the above). ancient Chinese chose to use the identical symbol for Thus, the original God worshiped by the Chinese was confusion and rebellion ... a combination of tongue a single heavenly emperor (not many gods). and right leg (or journey). Thus, to confuse is to set out on a journey with a The Bible states that God created man from the dust of new tongue (or language). the ground and breathed into him the breath of life. This is presented as a factual event and the original Biblical These are just a few of the many examples of the language is not poetry, but a narrative description of a literal event. We even read in Matthew that Jesus Christ referred to this event as a true happening rather than a

65 Turn on Your Baloney Detector By Bruce Malone • Carl Sagan was the unofficial be found that combine intermediate Random information cannot voice for naturalistic atheism features between the features of two produce o r d e r e d for many years until his death in different animals? Just because a complexity by natural 1997. In one of his last books, bicycle and a motorcycle both have processes. • The Demon-Haunted World, two wheels does not mean random One type of life has never Sagan lamented that in spite of changes in a bike can turn it into a changed into a distinctly different monumental public education motorcycle. What does the bulk of type with new functioning features efforts to teach that random chance fossil evidence reveal? An honest not originally programmed into processes had produced all life, only viewing of the fossil record reveals the creature’s DNA 9% of American citizens accepted distinctly different types of animals code. • this as true. Sagan’s solution was without intermediate transitions. Mutations destroy rather for people to learn critical thinking A d Ho m i n e m Ar g u m e n t s than create skills. However, Dr. Sagan never Ad hominem is Latin for useful functioning features. applied these same critical thinking to the man skills to his own unshakable faith . Those who publicly defend the These statements are scientifically in naturalistic evolution. Professor scientific evidence for creation are testable and there is enormous Phillip Johnson does an excellent often greeted with personal insults evidence to support each. job of doing just that in his book, and attacks which have nothing to St r a w Ma n Ar g u m e n t Defeating Darwinism by Opening do with the evidence. The weaker A straw man argument is when Minds. Here is a summary of some the evidence for evolution, the more a position is distorted and the classic distortion techniques used vehement the attacks. The essence distortion is then attacked. This is all too often to defend evolutionism. of the attacks are, repeatedly done by evolutionists. Bl i n d Ap p e a l t o Au t h o r i t y Creationists believe in God. The creation/evolution debate is This is often the first resort used Therefore they are biased and about determining the truth of the to discredit those who do not cower anything they say on the subject of past. Yet, believers in evolution to the opinion of the majority. origins cannot be trusted. constantly set up a straw man attack Yet every major breakthrough in Everyone is biased. Believers in by trying to make this an issue of science has happened because evolution whose jobs and funding religion vs. science. some researcher looked beyond the depend upon agreement with Be g g i n g t h e Qu e s t i o n prevailing opinion. An authority naturalistic interpretations are also Begging the question is asking a stating that something is true does highly biased. It is the quality and question to which you have already not make it true. When searching testability of the scientific evidence assumed an answer. Evolutionists for the truth, rely on the quality which must determine a theory’s start with the assumption that and quantity of evidence rather validity. creation is a myth, there has never than on empty claims. In science, Te s t a bl e Co n c l u s i o n s been a worldwide flood, and all experimental evidence must reign One must learn to distinguish animal life has evolved from a supreme - not opinions or appeals between interpretations and facts. common source. By defining to authority. Carl Sagan stated, science to exclude supernatural The Cosmos is all there is, or ever was, Se l e c t i v e Us e o f Ev i d e n c e intervention, evolutionists have or ever will be. Evidence can be found to begged the question by eliminating

support any point of view - no This is opinion... not science. the truth before starting the debate. matter how absurd it is. Truth is How could statements such as this No honest debate is even possible usually found by examining what ever be tested? On the other hand, under such circumstances. most of the evidence supports. creationists make the following type Defeating Darwinism by Opening For example, lots of animals have of claims: Minds is an excellent book which • similar appearances and features. Is There has been a worldwide flood should be read by every high school it any surprise that some fossils can in the past. and college student who hopes to

66 Good Morning Students By Bruce Malone The debate over evolution vs. You see, Johnny and Suzy, you are creation is not just a dry technical here as a result of cosmic accidents One more thing, Johnny, because argument concerning isotopic and random chance. Billions of you are just a cosmic accident, dating methods, dinosaur bones, years ago, “nothing” exploded and you really have no basis for or even whether mutations can turned into gas molecules. These judging other people. You must be turn pond scum into people. What tolerant. Homosexuality is just a we believe about choice. Abortion is just a where we came from choice. Sex with anyone determines how or anything at anytime is we view life, and just a choice (but please ultimately, our actions. be careful.) Anything you Answers to such basic choose to believe is OK as questions as long as it is good for you. Where did we come And you get to define what from? is , good What is the purpose of ! After all, you are life? really just a cosmic , and accident, and after a few How do we determine more billion years the right from wrong? gas molecules bounced around until universe will collapse back into , are derived directly from our they became stars. The stars then nothingness anyway. beliefs about our origin. If we are changed simple atoms into bigger just the result of random chance atoms. After lots and lots and lots changes that turned swamp gas into of time passed, these larger atoms That’s all the time we have for people; then life has no ultimate and molecules formed a big rock biology and history today. Now, purpose or meaning... Each person that we call Earth. Parts of this rock it is time to go to your new class must determine for themselves what dissolved into water and came alive. on self-esteem and good behavior is right or wrong... and any ultimate After billions more years, little where we will try to define good meaning and purpose for life, really critters in the water climbed onto behavior for you. Have a good day, does not exist. land and started walking around. Suzy and Johnny, and be the best This is the essence of what is Over time, birth defects happened little well behaved accidents you being taught to your children each (which we call mutations) and these can be day in public schools: critters turned into other kinds of critters. More often than not these Is it any wonder that lying and Good morning students and critters wiped out the previous cheating are widespread in both welcome to high school. Our first critters. Finally apes turned into schools and governments? Is it lesson today will be to teach you people. And here we are. We were really surprising that despondent where you came from. Many of you not there to see any of this happen, students resort to violence and have been taught that God created and we cannot really prove how suicide? you. However, that is a religious it could have happened, but we Let’s return to true education concept and must be reserved for are absolutely sure this is what where students have the freedom Sunday mornings. You may keep happened. That’s why we call to view the scientific evidence for that belief, if you wish, but we will this science. You see now Johnny creation. Then, they will once now teach you more important and Suzy, why science and reality again have a factual basis for things like science and reality. can teach you so much more than understanding that their lives have religion. meaning and value, because they

67 Watch Out for the Snow Job By Bruce Malone Phillip Johnson in his book, or creatures? The information required to watch a government Defeating Darwinism by Opening needed for microevolution is funded Nova television series Minds, suggests that whenever the already present within a creature’s which presented evolution as word evolution appears in schools, genetic code. Macro-evolutionary fact and glossed over the problems. textbooks, nature programs, or change requires new functioning The response to his request that museums, a red light should go off information. Furthermore, the such propaganda for an atheistic in our heads flashing, worldview be removed snow job alert... from the classroom snow job alert was that the “scientific . This is because the establishment same word, evolution, came down on him like is used to convey a ton of bricks. Bruce completely different Alberts, president of meanings and the the National Academy definition shifts without of Sciences, felt that he notice. needed to personally The most general use respond to Danny in a of the word evolution is Denver Post editorial. change. His primary evidence to No one can argue prove that evolution is a with this - things do fact...finch beaks show change. The second meaning of fossil record reveals no evidence variations!1 the word is also agreed upon by that any creature has ever turned • Francis Crick argued for everyone. This is when evolution into a completely different type evolution with these words, is used to mean microevolution of creature. In any other type of

or minor variations within a type scientific endeavor or debate using Richard Dawkins (in The of animal. Examples of this are the same word to mean completely Blind Watchmaker) shows that different breeds of dogs and cats. different things and changing the man, by selection, has Microevolution also happens in definition without notice would be produced an enormous variety nature to produce such relatively intolerable. Yet, this is exactly what of dogs. minor changes as different beaks on public school science textbooks and 2 Lost to this brilliant finches (which Darwin observed on evolution believers routinely do. scientist is the obvious fact that the Galapagos Islands). Notice that Many examples of this bait and the dogs remained dogs - what dogs are still dogs and finches are switch can be sited: is not already present in this still finches. • Almost all high school biology animal’s DNA, can never be The switch occurs whenever texts use examples of micro- produced by random changes. evolution believers switch to evolution such as finch beak The next time you see the word the third definition without variations as an example of evolution mentioning that they are shifting evolution, yet nothing really , examine how it is being used. definitions. Macroevolution is new is ever created. How can Is it the modification of already the concept of one animal turning breeding existing existing features (which proves into a completely different type. characteristics transform a bird nothing about the origin of those Believers in evolution repeatedly or a dog into some completely features), or is it a bait and switch use the same word (evolution) different type of creature? where microevolution is used as to mean both minor variations proof and major transformations. • In 1996, Danny Phillips, a high of macroevolution (for which Can minor variations create school student in Denver, completely new biological features Colorado, wrote a lengthy defense of creation after being

68 What about all the other Creation Stories? By Bruce Malone One of the frequent objections on testable observations, and the life forms and throughout known to allowing the teaching of creation theory, unlike ancient history this has been observed to creation in public schools is that if mythologies or modern evolution, is be true. However, thousands of “creationism” is taught, all other very testable. different types of creatures have different cultural stories concerning Creation theory states that become extinct over this same time creation would have period. New viruses to be brought into a and microbes result science classroom. This from the rearrangement is a classic example of a of information already “straw man” (distortion present in existing of the truth) argument. microbes. This does This strategy is used to not tell us where these discredit the scientific organisms came from or evidence for creation how they could turn into by denigrating it as a completely different a religious concept. type of organism. Those opposed to The creation theory exposing students to the states that a massive evidence for creation worldwide flood occurred which buried hope to equate this and fossilized creatures evidence with ancient by the billions. This creation myths, such is exactly what we find and there as the absurd idea that the universe complex ordered information is abundant geologic evidence came from the egg of a large bird. requires an intelligent source. This supporting the reality of this Yet modern evolutionists believe is exactly what we find in the DNA relatively recent catastrophe. that the entire universe essentially molecule, and if the same type Furthermore, every scientific came from nothing, as the “cosmic of code were found coming from experiment ever performed has egg” (which contained all the outer space; it would immediately shown that chemicals fail to react in matter and energy of the universe) be recognized as having had an ways which result in the formation somehow explosively expanded. intelligent source. of living organisms. This is Creation is based on the existence The creation model predicts that what the creation model predicts. of a Creator so at least it has a cause there is a limit to natural genetic Unlike the creation myths, such for the universe. Which group of variation. In other words, one as the modern big bang theory believers really have egg on their type of creature does not turn into and microbes-to-man evolution, face? a completely different type with the Biblical creation account and The primary desire of totally new functioning features. the worldwide flood described creationists is to have science This has been experimentally in Genesis is full of testable, taught in science classrooms. confirmed as the mutation rate of observable predictions which can be Unfortunately, that is not what fruit flies has been accelerated by explored in science classrooms. is happening today. The current millions of times. Furthermore, Unfortunately, believers in situation is that minor changes no links between major forms of evolution hold a firm grip upon in animals (variations which are animals have been found in the most of the scientific community already encoded onto the DNA of fossil record. This confirms that because science has been redefined the creature) are being presented biological variation has always been to eliminate the consideration of an as proof that one type of creature limited. intelligent Creator. It’s time to give turned into a completely different The creation theory states that students all the evidence and let creature. This is a religious belief, new forms of animals do not form them decide for themselves which not science. Science is based via random changes to previous theory holds up best under close scientific scrutiny.

69 Humanism only Allowed Public Reli- By Bruce Malone Neither creation nor evolution can be proven by the scientific method. However, by examining which model best explains the observations of science, we can determine which is the correct explanation for our existence. However, how can students come to the correct conclusion if they are exposed to neither the scientific evidence for creation nor the scientific problems with evolution? The Supreme Court has repeatedly confirmed the rights of public school teachers to share the scientific evidence for creation.1 Yet, any objective observer would have to admit that evolutionary schools. The biology classes were science teachers to present presuppositions have almost total divided into two groups - one group evidence for both creation and control over the public education was taught only the evidence for evolution. This allows students system. This is typically not the naturalistic evolution (the standard to make up their own minds as to teachers’ fault because he or she curriculum in most schools) while which theory of origins has the is merely passing along the same the other group was taught both most validity. However, this will one-sided information which they the evidence for evolution and the ONLY happen if there is an outcry have been taught. They also put evidence for the sudden appearance by concerned parents over the their career at risk when teaching of life (creation). The result was current indoctrination. By letting creation in the current educational that in standardized tests given to your child’s teacher know that you environment. both groups, the group which had would like the scientific evidence Instead of presenting evolution seen evidence for both viewpoints for creation to be presented, you as a fact (which it is not), why not only knew more about creation, may encourage some teachers to not present the evidence which but they also learned and retained do so. You might start by giving supports both positions and let more information about evolution!2 them a copy of this book. There are the students make up their own There are excellent two-model dozens of technical supplemental minds which has the most validity? science curricula that present the texts available from the Institute for If evolution is truly a fact of evidence for both evolution and Creation Research (www.ICR.org) science and has overwhelming “sudden appearance” in a balanced and qualified guest speakers could evidence supporting it, then manner with no reference to the also be invited. there is nothing to fear from this 3 Bible. 1. Edwards vs Aquillard, 1987, approach and truth will triumph Forcing high school science The over fantasy. This two-model teachers to teach what they neither Supreme Court again confirmed that approach was tried in a carefully understand nor agree with would the scientific evidence for creation controlled study with students in the can be taught in public schools. result in a caricature of the creation Racine, Wisconsin, Unified School 2. Dr. Richard Bliss, Impact Article model. However, the current District. This was done before the #36, available from the Institute for situation of only presenting the Creation Research (619) 448-0900. death grip of evolutionary thinking evidence for one of two possibilities 3. Origins: Creation or Evolution, became so strong in our school is also unfair and unwise. The available from Master Books. systems. At the time of the study, best option is for the school board this district consisted of four high and administration to encourage schools and seven junior high

70 Creation Scientists are Abundant By Bruce Malone One of the many lies used to defend evolution is the statement that no real scientist believes in creation. Shown below are abbreviated biographies and quotes of just a few of the myriad of qualified scientists who reject evolution. Dr. Russell Humphreys estimates that in spite of heavy indoctrination from public education, It’s a conservative estimate that there are in the U.S.A. alone around 10,000 practicing scientists who are Biblical creationists.

Scientist Qualifications Quote Dr. Russell Humphreys Ph.D. Physics, retired physicist from (The facts of science) support a recent creation Sandia National Lab. He is an expert and go strongly against the idea of billions of on particle beam fusion and winner of years which the theistic evolutionists uphold. 1 several scientific awards. Dr. Danny Faulkner Ph.D. Astronomy, teaches physics and (I believe) the universe is 6 to 8 thousand years astronomy at Univ. of S. Carolina, old...we have a very clear indication from has published several dozen papers in scripture that creation took place in six astronomy & astrophysics journals. ordinary days. 2

Dr. John Baumgardner Ph.D. Geophysics, retired from Los To make sense of the world as the Bible lays it Alamos Nat. Lab. - expert on modeling out, does not allow for millions of years, but interior earth movement, winner of does require that there be a catastrophe which NASA’s grand challenge project for destroyed all air-breathing land life except for high performance computing. that preserved in Noah’s ark. 3

Dr. Andrew Snelling Ph.D. Geology, numerous published The flood was a global event, therefore we papers on a variety of geological topics, should expect to find global patterns of from coal formation to uranium deposits. sedimentation, volcanic activity, mineral deposits, etc. 4

Dr. Eric Norman Ph.D. Biochemistry, Asst. Professor of Evolution is just plain unscientific. It violates research and medicine at Univ. of Cinn., the laws of chemistry including the second law has published numerous scientific papers, of thermodynamics, the laws of probability, and pioneer in vitamin B12 research. information theory.5 Dr. Donald DeYoung Ph.D. Physics, Chairman of Physical ...I would be very cautious about accepting Science at Grace College, member of the the ‘big bang’ and trying to fit it into the book Indiana Academy of Science; teaches of Genesis...what encourages me in my science physics, astronomy, electronics, and career (is) showing people that the creation mathematics. view is not outdated - it’s good science. 6

Dr. Raymond Damadian Inventor of the MRI, National Tech. Rejection of (the Bible’s) account of creation... Metal winner, National Inventors Hall is basic to the spiritual, social, and economic of Fame inductee. Snubbed on Nobel Prize sickness of our times. 7

71 Science Foundation laid by Creationists By Bruce Malone Science is currently defined to exclude the possibility that a personal creator God exists. Those who dare to oppose this view are often insulted and censored. However, just because the majority believes something does not make it true. Science is neither a popularity contest nor a democratic endeavor. Science deals with observation of the physical world in order to understand its operation. Thus, the ultimate purpose of science is to understand reality. The great advances of modern science over the last 100 years have convinced many that because science can explain the operation of the universe, it also defines reality. However, there is a great difference between understanding how something operates and how it originated. It is revealing that many of the very scientists who laid the foundation for modern science saw no conflict between God’s supernatural intervention and our ability to understand His creation. Below are quotes from just a few: Scientist Accomplishments Christian Stance Blaise Pascal Developer of first mechanical adding How can anyone lose who chooses to become a (1623 - 1662) machine, developed mathematical basis Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no for theory of probability, laid basis for God he has lost nothing - in fact, he lived a happier life hydrostatics and hydrodynamics. than non-believing friends. If, however, there is a God, he has gained heaven, while his skeptical friends will have lost everything in hell.

Sir Isaac Newton Discoverer of the universal law of gravity, Defended a young earth and wrote papers refuting (1642 - 1727) three fundamental laws of motion; atheism and defended creation and the Bible; believed developed calculus into a mathematical in a worldwide flood as cause of geologic record, and science, developed the particle theory of believed in literal six day creation of universe. light propagation, and made the first reflecting telescope. Charles Babbage Father of modern computing. His design Babbage believed that the scientific method (1791 - 1871) was the forerunner of modern computers. pursued to its utmost limit was entirely compatible A prolific inventor of hundreds with the literal belief in the Bible. of items including the speedometer, cowcatcher, and ophthalmoscope.

James Joule Discovered the relationship between Joule stood firmly against those scientists of (1818 - 1889) heat, electricity, and mechanical work. his day who were caught up in the increasing Founder of the science of thermodynamics. popularity of Darwinism. The order maintained First measured velocity of gases and in the universe...works smoothly and discovered Joule-Thompson effect (basis harmoniously...the whole being is governed by for modern refrigeration). the sovereign hand of God.

James Maxwell Developed the four equations Strongly opposed and demonstrated the fallacy of (1831 - 1879) which are the basis for modern electro- Darwinism. A prayer by Maxwell’s says it all, magnetic theory. His work ranks with Almighty God, Who hast created man in Thine own Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstin image...teach us to study the works of Thy hand, in scientific significance. that we may believe on Him Whom Thou has sent to give us a knowledge of salvation and the remission of our sins. All this we ask in the name of Jesus.

Louis Pasteur Proved that life comes only from pre- Pasteur strongly opposed Darwinism because the (1822 - 1895) existing life. Developed the process of theory did not fit scientific evidence (it still doesn’t). pasteurization which has saved countless He believed, Science brings men nearer to God. and 72 School Prayer Sets Tone for Society By Bruce Malone Since prayer was eliminated lasting meaning or joy. allow laws to be passed which limit from public schools, the quality A primary purpose of public the free expression of speech in of education has shown a steady education is to shape good citizens. public by banning public prayer in statistical decline. Is there a link This involves more than just the classrooms. Federal and Supreme between the two? memorization of facts. Most Court judges who undermine the Americans are in favor of prayer very freedoms upon which America Humanism assumes that the supernatural does was founded, not exist and should be that reality must impeached. be discovered The situation purely by man’s has become reasoning. Our so absurd that public school congressional system has been prayers cannot operating on be voluntarily this foundation read in a school 2 since prayer was building. removed in 1962. Our nation Returning prayer was founded to school would on the freedom be an affront to to publicly this philosophy acknowledge because prayer God’s existence. acknowledges the existence of in public school because they Allowing prayer in schools will someone greater than mankind -- realize something is to be gained only improve, not detract from his Creator. from the open acknowledgment a student’s understanding of the Allowing prayer in school sets of God’s existence. Morals can universe. Our experiment with an important standard. It tells only be built on the basis that a replacing the affirmation of God’s students that they are more than moral source --God -- exists. Once existence with atheistic humanism just a collection of chemicals and acknowledgment of God’s existence has been a dismal failure. Whenever energy that happen to be occupying is removed, there is no absolute the opportunity arises to support the space and time. Prayer is an action basis for morals, and a free society public acknowledgment of God by which proclaims that life is more drifts toward anarchy. Since prayer prayer (or any other means), taking than saving the environment or was removed from public school, a vocal stand benefits all of society. accumulating wealth. The fervency we have had a sixfold increase in As Edmund Burke, correctly noted with which school prayer is violent crime, our divorce rate has in 1795, The only thing necessary for the opposed is not because the ACLU tripled, births to single mothers triumph of evil is for good men to do (an anti-Christian legal group) have increased fivefold, the teenage nothing. is trying to protect atheists from suicide rate has tripled, and SAT being indoctrinated by religion. It scores (standardized college As with all truths, this is still is opposed because it represents entrance test) have dropped 80 applicable today. 1 the antithesis to the beliefs of those points (10%). The removal of 1. Bill Bennett, The Index of who set policy for much of our prayer may not be the only cause of Leading public school system. Prayer is social ills, but the negative trends Cultural Indicators, published by a frontal attack on the notion that are certainly a symptom of the the Heritage Foundation, 1993. mankind is in autonomous control spiritual decline which is at their 2. 1970 Supreme Court Case, of his own destiny and is an insult root. State to those who believe that friends, What a hypocritical message possessions, or power can bring we send to our children when we

73 Creation as Comparative Religion By Bruce Malone Proverbs, an ancient book of there is a natural limit to genetic space, it would immediately be wisdom, states that any story will variations; that one type of creature recognized as having an sound true until the other side has never turned into a completely intelligent designer. is heard. “He that is first in his different kind, and that the vast 4. The laws of thermodynamics own cause seems just; until his majority of the fossil record is a show that matter and energy do neighbour comes and searches result of an enormous worldwide not just appear and matter does him.” (Proverbs 18:17) The primary flood.] not, by itself, increase in ordered strategy used complexity. to keep the 5. Accelerating the mutation rate of evidence for fruit flies by a million fold has creation out of not resulted in a new creature public schools or any new functioning is to claim that feature. teaching creation 6. There is abundant geological is introducing evidence for a recent religion into massive flood of schools. It is worldwide extent. These and many often suggested more evidences involving biology, that the geology, and physics, belong in solution is to a science class – not in a class on teach creation comparative religion. It is not in a class on the desire of creation scientists to comparative religion. indoctrinate students in religion. Neither evolutionism nor Teaching the evidence for Creationists merely want students creationism can be proven because creation is not an issue of science to have a chance to see all the data both deal with events of the past. vs. religion. The crux of the debate so they can decide for themselves Yet both provide models which can is whether students should be whether creation or evolution is be tested by scientific observation. allowed to see all of the scientific true. Currently, students are only There is no doubt that both data so that they can make up given the selective evidence which natural selection and mutations their own minds where we came supports a belief in evolutionism occur. Small variations do occur from. Currently one religious because that faith can only survive as the result of random changes belief (evolutionism) maintains if evidence supporting creation within a given type of animal. Yet such a monopoly over thought continues to be censored. dogs stay dogs and frogs stay frogs. that students are only allowed A Barna poll conducted in 2004 Furthermore, there is an enormous to see literature favorable to it. showed that 68% of the people in amount of evidence supporting the [Evolutionism is the belief that life the United States want the evidence creation model: formed itself and that a creature can for both creation and evolution transform itself into a completely 1. The fossil record shows a pattern taught in schools. The evolution/ different type of creature by some of systematic gaps between creation debate is not about whether natural process.] vastly different types of animals. teaching the scientific evidence Meanwhile, the scientific 2. Scientists have not come even for creation will bring religion evidence supporting the other remotely close to showing how into schools. Scientific evidence possible explanation for our non-living chemicals could form belongs in a science classroom, existence (creationism) is a living cell. even if that evidence points to a suppressed. [Creationism is the 3. If the same type of code found Creator. Allowing the evidence for belief that the complexity of life on the DNA molecule were creation provides students with the requires an intelligent designer; that transmitted to earth from outer opportunity to think and judge for themselves.

74 Biblical Creation vs. Intelligent Design By Bruce Malone Seldom does a year go by beneficial mutational changes. This defined to exclude the possibility without a new controversy over is widely acknowledged because of God’s interaction. So no matter the teaching of intelligent design there is a universal avoidance and how strong or how scientific the in our public school system. fear of any such mutational change evidence is, it will not be shown to When President Bush endorsed (i.e. birth defect) from radiation, students! the teaching of intelligent design drugs, or genetic diseases. Everyone There is certainly nothing wrong in 2005, the atheistic leaning instinctively knows that mutations with attempting to get the evidence educational establishment and result in a loss of functioning for “intelligent design” into our media went ballistic. A federal information and are to be feared, schools and science classrooms, but court in Pennsylvania shot down not welcomed as the source of in the end it will accomplish little. the teaching of intelligent design in an upward human evolutionary Over 90% of people already know public schools in 2006. A sticker in advancement. Furthermore, the we have an intelligent designer and the front of Georgia science books incredible amount of information in the 1800’s, when Darwin first stating that evolution was “just a on the human genome can be proposed that natural processes theory” was ordered removed in statistically shown to have never produced us, intelligent design (i.e. 2005. Just what is this thing called arisen by chance mutational a watch must have a watch maker), “intelligent design”? changes. Any similar code was the primary argument used In a nutshell, intelligent design coming from outer space would in favor of creation. Yet almost is the acknowledgment of what immediately be acceptable as every European country eventually almost everyone knows to be true having come from an intelligent rejected the obvious and accepted -- that the intricate and interrelated source. In short, the scientific evolution in its place. Why do we design of living organisms case for an intelligent designer is believe the result would be different require a Designer. Over 90% overwhelming. in America? of American citizens already So why is this type of evidence What people in America really believe in the existence of God not being shared with students? need to hear is the evidence for and 59% of American citizens Because science and education the Biblical creation model which want the evidence for creation have been defined as excluding involves evidence from geology, taught in public schools. Even any possibility of a Creator. biology, paleontology, and 30% of atheists/agnostics want this When the Kansas State School cosmology. The overwhelming evidence taught in schools!1 Yet this Board voted to allow the critical evidence for a worldwide flood evidence is systematically withheld examination of evolution in public explains the fossil record without from public school students all schools in the late 1990’s, (by the idea of slow transformation over America. Why is it being allowing some of the evidence from one creature to another. The concealed? What is this evidence? for intelligent design to be vast majority of dating methods And what is the difference between viewed by students) the national indicate that the earth is far intelligent design and Biblical media overwhelmed the Kansas younger than the billions of years creation? airwaves with a misinformation accepted by most intelligent design The evidence for intelligent propaganda campaign which led advocates. Furthermore, the fossil design comes primarily from to all of the school board members record clearly shows that one type the science of statistics and being replaced with pro-evolution of creature has never turned into biochemistry. Simply put, the candidates (who later overturned a completely different type of information content of the DNA the decision). In a typical letter creature. Once this type of model molecule could not possibly have written by Dr. Scott Todd of is openly discussed in our schools, arisen by mutational and natural Kansas State University, “Even if then we will start to see a revival of selection processes because the all the data points to an intelligent faith in America. designer, such a hypothesis rate of detrimental mutational 1. Barna Group Poll, www. changes in order of magnitude is is excluded because it is not Barna.org, 1 higher than any yet to be defined naturalistic.” Science has been Barna Update, 7/26/05.

75 Questions to Ask By Bruce Malone As the relentless propaganda for Why isn’t this acknowledged as though, there is currently no free an old earth and an evolutionary a direct contradiction to the idea water on the planet. Yet, on earth, world view is piled upon your that everything came from some where there is enough water to children, how should they respond? unknown ancestor? (pp. 43) cover the entire globe with water I Peter 3:17 should be our guide Evolution Examples: 5000 feet deep, the evidence that in these matters, “Always be we have experienced a recent ready with an answer for the faith Why is archaeopteryx still used global flood is ignored. Why do that is within you, but do so with in textbooks as a link between most cultures in the world have a gentleness and respect.” dinosaurs and birds when modern cultural story involving a universal birds fossils have been found in Directly challenging those flood? Why did advanced cultures even lower (i.e. assumed to be in authority over you, either in suddenly pop into existence, around older) rock layers? (pp. 50) Why a ‘know-it-all-attitude’ or with the globe, almost simultaneously are peppered moths still used as disrespect, will win neither hearts within the last 10,000 years? Why evidence for evolution, when it is nor minds to the Truth. The best do many Ph.D. geologists believe now acknowledged that nothing strategy is to understand the poor that the flood explains the fossil and new developed (just a shift in assumptions and presuppositions sedimentary rock record better than population), that the pictures were upon which evolution teeters (which huge time periods yet the evidence staged, and moths don’t normally for this interpretation is not shared even most teachers are unaware rest on tree trunks? (pp. 24) Why with students? (pp. 40, 41, 42) of) and ask these types of probing are accelerated mutational changes questions to reveal the fallacy of Apeman: in fruit flies used as evidence for evolutionary presuppositions. Why are artist drawings of apeman evolution, even though, mutated presented as a fact to students when The Origin of Life: features have ALWAYS resulted in fossil experts cannot even agree on Why do textbooks continue a nonfunctional rearrangement of where our ancestors came from or to imply that the Miller-Urey already existing information? If what they looked like? Why are the experiment shows how life could these are the best examples that countless misinter-pretations of the have developed when it actually support evolutionary theory, isn’t human to ape links not shared with uses an arbitrary and unrealistic set evolution really just a belief system students in order to put the “latest of conditions and produces amino and not science? (pp. 23) finds” into proper perspective? acids which could not possibly The Age of the Earth: Origin of Information: lead to life? Only a few of the Why are the majority of dating Where did the information content required amino acids have ever methods which indicate a young of DNA come from? Why are been produced and even those are earth never shared with students? students not told that undetectable an unusable mixture of stereotypes. Radiometric decay assumes a mutational mistakes on our DNA Why was oxygen excluded, even constant decay rate extrapolated code are building up hundreds of though, rocks in the earth’s crust back billions of years. Yet, many times faster than natural selection indicate oxygen has always been decay processes produce helium can remove them? Therefore, present? Doesn’t the origin of life which would VERY rapidly leave natural selection and mutations remain a total mystery? (pp.13) rock crystals. However, most could not possibly have produced The Cambrian Explosion: of the helium decay product is this information. (pp. 25) Why is still found in the rocks. Why is At the lowest rock layers containing the search on for the same criteria this strong evidence for recent, for intelligent design coming life, why does every basic phylum rapid radioactive decay not in our (major animal group) suddenly from outer space (a sequence of textbooks? (pp. 87) information such as is found on the appear with no transitions between The Worldwide Flood: DNA molecule) not acknowledged very different forms of life? What Why do textbooks never discuss as evidence for intelligent design better evidence for creation can the evidence for a worldwide flood? when already found in every be found and why is this not There is speculation that Mars biological organism? (pp. 16, 18) openly discussed in textbooks? experienced a global flood, even

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The primary objective of these individual Search for the Truth articles is to present the evidence for creation in an interesting, appealing, and an easy to read format. This book has the same goal. These articles are meant to be widely distributed and I have given away hundreds of copies over the years. Furthermore, readers of this book are encouraged to copy any part without compensation to the author in order to share the information with others. It would be appreciated, though, if you would E-mail or write to Search for the Truth Ministries to let us know how you are putting the articles to use. Our E-mail is [email protected] and the address is 3275 Monroe Rd., Midland, MI 48642. In order to be most effective, each article is written on one specific subject so it does not require the reading of other articles in a given topic area. They are written in a variety of styles by several authors also to avoid becoming a sterile presentation of facts. In addition, all of the articles contain an illustration, cartoon, or quote in order to attract the attention of the reader and pull them into the body of the text. The CD at the back of the book contains both the text and the illustrations from all of the articles in this book, along with a audio lecture on why this issue is so important. Also a 15 minute radio talk is included on some of the latest scientific research findings which support Biblical reality. The first time that these articles ran in public newspapers, it generated more than 60 letters to the editor. In the process, I was also insulted, lied about, and accused of undermining the Constitution of the United States -- all because I was presenting the evidence for creation in a public newspaper and recommending that students be allowed to view all of the evidence concerning their origin. There can be no doubt that this is a critcal battle front for our culture; if for no other reason than because creation is opposed venomously. Should you decide to make this book or these articles available to others, be prepared for a spiritual battle. It was a spiritual revelation rather than an intellectual argument that first convinced me of the truth of creation. Putting this material to use will only have a lasting impact if it is accompanied by prayer. Before starting the first time, I sought the encouragement and approval of my pastor and close friends. After explaining what I hoped to accomplish with the series, I asked for help proof reading the articles, ongoing prayer support, and help paying for the column space. The response was overwhelming. There were many people praying for each article and $3000 was raised to pay for the cost of publishing the series over a six month period. Many of these articles have since been updated and were seen in the Granville Booster, a free countywide newspaper with a distribution of 20,000. In addition to the letters to the editor, over 100 people wrote during the first year asking for copies of the articles. They also enclosed encouraging comments on how the series had helped their faith. I recieved feedback from college students, pastors, and people from all walks of life thanking me for putting this information in a weekly column. Before this first outreach ended, articles on creation had been sent to Christians on five continents; I had been invited to talk to two different college classes; and I had the opportunity to debate one of the country’s top defenders of evolution on a live public radio broadcast. It is truly amazing what the Lord can do with a willing believer who steps out in faith and obedience. In many ways, the original outreach via public newspapers is still continuing because it led to other outreaches, books, and hundreds of speaking opportunities. Further to all this, the truth is continuing to spread in ways I could never have anticipated or imagined.

79 Time, Computers, and Eternity By Bruce Malone One of the most startling card will not change. Software is concept is not all that strange. discoveries of the twentieth century weightless, and therefore, eternal. One of the greatest practical was Einstein’s theory of relativity, As long as it is scientists of the last century, George which shows that time, space, remembered, Washington Carver said it best, and matter are all interrelated. it can never disappear. In I have found nature to be a For instance, it has been conserver. Nothing is demonstrated that time does wasted or permanently not move at the same speed lost in nature. Things everywhere, but varies with change their form, but the mass, acceleration, and they do not cease to gravity in its immediate exist. After I leave vicinity. Modern physics this world I do not has also shown that without believe I am through. mass, there is no time. In God would be a bigger other words that which is fool than even a man without weight is eternal. if he did not conserve One of the technological what seems to be the marvels of our modern age most important thing is the computer. Computers “The guy at the door wants to know if we’ve all been saved...?” he has yet done in the can store enormous universe. 1 amounts of information, perform calculations at incredible essence, it is a creation from the Long before we understood anything about relativity or speeds, and operate complex video mind of a creator. computers, the Bible stated that we games. But what is a computer? If Now let’s combine these two would live forever and be given we tore it apart and examined every observations from computers and new bodies. Given the discoveries physical component in minute relativity to derive some practical of modern physics, this is quite detail, we would learn nothing implications. Some day, each of us reasonable, but there is a catch. about how the programs work or will die. These biological machines We don’t deserve to live forever their origin. This is because the that we call our bodies will return in the presence of a perfect and real value of a computer is not to dust, as it is dust from which Holy Creator because we are the hardware. The real value of a we are composed. But what about rebellious and sinful creatures. computer is in the software. The the programming? What about Anyone looking at the mess that hardware is just the means by which the soul and mind which inhabit humans have made of this world a computer communicates what it is this hardware, we call our bodies? has to admit this. The One who programmed to do. Since our souls, our minds, and our created us would not be righteous; So what is this mysterious thing thoughts are without weight, they if He allowed sin to go unpunished. we call are eternal and will last forever. Furthermore, it is an insult to God software This is who we really are. Our to believe that our puny attempts to ? It can be transferred from bodies are just the be machine to machine. It can be hardware. good transmitted by electromagnetic Furthermore, just as the can pay the price required for our shortcomings. Fortunately, waves through phone lines or across software from an old 300 MHz there is a solution to this dilemma. the universe. It can be loaded into computer can be moved into a You might want to take some another machine which would then machine which operates 10 times of your limited time, while you operate in the same way as the faster, the Bible states that we will are still inhabiting this very fragile original. The entire software from some day be given far superior piece of hardware that we call a computer can be loaded onto bodies. Given what we know about bodies, to check the solution for memory cards and the weight of the information and software, this how God can be totally merciful

80 Can Time Plus Chance Create Life? By Bruce Malone Have you ever wondered why information (degeneration) never to come together to form the first a car doesn’t get shinier and more results in creatures with completely complex living cell? Natural trouble free with each passing year? new features. selection and mutations are of no As obvious as the answer seems, it For something to increase effect before life exists. Even with took scientists centuries to formally in complexity, there must be an living organisms, neither natural define the cause as the action of the ordering mechanism already selection nor mutations provide second law of thermodynamics. in place. For instance, a seed a plausible ordering or energy It is why houses, conversion mechanism. machinery, and even Furthermore, how can the our bodies wear out, mechanisms of evolution run down, and fall explain the increasing apart. Stated in simple complexity which supposedly terms, the second law happened in the biological of thermodynamics world. Mutations are random means that everything mistakes (causing increasing eventually breaks! If disorder) and natural selection no maintenance is done, can only select that which things become dirty is advantageous within an and disorganized and organism. The entire concept are eventually reduced of macro-evolution is based to dust. Every person, on tenacious faith because every machine, every no evolutionary mechanism reaction, and every can adequately explain the molecule is subject to increase in complexity which this law of nature. becoming a full grown tree can happened as the universe and life Try the following experiment be considered an example of formed. The ‘big bang’ model of to see this law in action. Find a increasing complexity. However, cosmic origins can only be true, detailed picture of an animal (such the seed starts with the necessary if some yet to be defined ordering as a frog) and make a photocopy of characteristics (or inherent mechanism is found (other than it. Now take the copy and use it to information) to make this God...of course). How much more make another copy. Continue this transformation. This example does intellectually honest it is to accept process while observing the change not begin to explain how the seed intelligent design as the guiding with each copy. This Second Law developed. Without an ordering force which created both our predicts that something will get lost mechanism, energy destroys order complex universe and all of life. with each copy. It would violate not unlike a tornado’s sweeping As you search for the truth, this law of science for the process through an airplane factory -- consider which explanation of to produce a picture of greater there would be abundant available life’s origin is most logical. Is clarity, new features, or be slowly energy and the tornado could it evolution, which starts with transformed into another creature be even carrying sufficient raw basic assumptions that eliminates of more ordered complexity. By materials. Why is the end result the consideration of outside the thousandth “generation”, not a fully operational airplanes? intelligence? Or is it creation, not only will nothing new have It takes intelligent design and which acknowledges the possibility developed, but the picture will controlled energy to create ordered of supernatural intelligence and have degenerated to the point that complexity. provides the ordering and energy the frog will be hard to recognize Let’s return our focus to the conversion mechanism required? as a frog. We observe similar supposed evolutionary origin 1. Sir Fred Hoyle, degeneration (loss of information) of life. What is the ordering Hoyle on occurring as biological life makes mechanism that caused chemicals copies of itself. This loss of

81 Physics Show Six Day Creation Possible By Bruce Malone Exodus 20:11 makes one of the expanding universe which is billions Furthermore, this “time dilation” most unbelievable statements of the of years old at every location. effect would have been magnified Bible: “In six days the Lord made Rather than start with these tremendously as the universe heaven and earth, the sea and all that arbitrary assumptions (a universe originally expanded. There would is in them, and rested the seventh having no center and no edge), Dr. have been a point at which time was day.” It is hard to imagine a clearer Humphreys decided to take the most moving very rapidly at the outer statement defining apparent meaning of the Biblical text areas and essentially stopped near how long God the center. In other words, only took to create the days were passing near the entire universe. center, while billions of However, this years were passing in simple statement the heavens. This is the has presented inevitable conclusion a seemingly based on our current impossible knowledge of physics dilemma for and starting with Biblical Christians. On the assumptions instead of one hand, modern arbitrary ones. cosmology teaches Albert Einstein that the universe rejected the idea that the has taken billions Bible could be literally of years to form. On the other hand, and see what model of the universe true. He wrote that, “Through the if this clear and straightforward developed. He reasoned that, if the reading of popular scientific books, statement of the Bible cannot be Bible was inspired by God, as it I soon reached the conviction that trusted to mean what it says; how claims to be, it should not have to be many of the stories in the Bible 2 can we know that any statement of twisted to be understood. It should could not be true.” How ironic that the Bible can be trusted to mean have the same straight forward the most ridiculed Biblical text (the what it says? meaning for a “man on the street”, a account of the recent, literal, six day This was the dilemma that Dr. brilliant physicist, or a theologian. creation of the universe) is exactly Russell Humphreys (recently retired The Bible clearly indicates three the account which Albert Einstein’s physicist from Sandia National things about God’s formation of work showed to be entirely possible. Laboratory) set out to solve as he the universe: first, the earth is the A comprehensive explanation of studied what the Bible had to say center of God’s attention in the Dr. Humphreys work, can be found about the formation of our universe. universe; By implication, the earth in his popular book, Starlight and 3 Most people have been taught may also be located near the center Time. that the universe is the result of a -- perhaps so man can see the glory 1. Job 9:8, Psalm 104:2, Isaiah 40:22, gigantic explosion called the of God’s creation in every direction. Jeremiah 10:12, Zechariah 12:1, Big Bang Second, the universe (both matter 2 Sam. 22:10, Psalm 144:5, Ezekiel . During this explosive and space itself) has been “stretched 1:22, Isaiah 48:13, Job 26:7, Isaiah 1 expansion, all of the matter of the out” . Third, the universe has a 42:5, Isaiah 51:13, Job 37:18, universe supposedly expanded boundary, and therefore it must have Isaiah 44:24, Jer. 51:15, Psalm 18:9, Isaiah 45:12. outward from a tiny pinpoint. All a center. If these three assumptions 2. Joseph Schwartz, Einstein for modern cosmological models are plugged into the currently accepted formulas of physics, and Beginners, Pantheon Books, New start with the assumption that the York, p.31. the mathematical crank is turned; universe has neither a center nor 3. Russell Humphreys, Starlight and we find that we live in a universe in an edge. When these assumptions Time, Master Books, 1994. are plugged into Einstein’s general which clocks tick at different rates theory of relativity, the result is an depending on your location.

82 The Odds are on God’s Side By Bruce Malone Statistics is science. This is rotational rate, size of why Las Vegas is filled with multi- the planet, magnetic billion dollar casinos. Casino field of the planet, owners know the statistical odds presence of the right are in their favor; even if they concentration of O2 occasionally lose, in the long , etc. By attaching a run they will make enormous reasonable probability amounts of money. So what are to each required the odds that our current universe condition and to could have formed via random each of the required All this by Random Chance? chance processes? In actuality the characteristics, a statistical odds of this are totally, conclusion can be hundred billion stars in a hundred impossibly, essentially infinitely, drawn that less than 1 in 1069 (1 billion galaxies could have ever negligible. with 69 zero’s after it) potential formed by any natural process. Our universe is “fine tuned” planets in the entire universe could How do believers in cosmic to make life possible. There are harbor life. This is a number evolution respond to this obvious over 25 precisely tuned scientific trillions times trillions greater evidence for a creator? Since constants, which if changed, even than all of the stars in the entire their prime directive (see pp.14) the slightest amount would make universe. is to explain everything without a life impossible anywhere in the If you combine this designer, no matter how strong the universe. For instance, there are infinitesimally small probability, evidence for that Designer, they are four known forces which hold the with all of the known constants incapable of seeing the evidence. entire universe in place. If gravity that “just happen” to have exactly The most common response is that (which draws any two objects the value they need to sustain life; the design of the universe is only an together) is given a relative strength you will find that the odds of this “appearance of a design”, but is not of 1, the weak nuclear force which happening is 10,000,000,000123. really a design. The irony of this holds neutrons from flying apart is This is a line of zeros reaching intellectual blindness is no more 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 beyond the edge of our 15 apparent than in the writings of ,000,000,000,000 times stronger! billion light year universe and it one of the most brilliant theoretical Electromagnetism is 1000 times represents a number far beyond astrophysicists of our time. stronger than this “weak” nuclear the total number of subatomic Stephen Hawkings, in his book, force, and the strong nuclear force particles in the entire universe. Brief History of Time, claimed (which keeps positively charged Thus the probability of our that the big-bang theory is “in protons in close proximity on a universe happening by random agreement with all the observational nucleus) is 100 times stronger natural processes is so far beyond evidence that we have today.” Yet a than electromagnetic forces. If plausibility as to be the closest few sentences later, he admits that ANY of these forces were varied definition to an impossibility as “the origin of both stars and galaxies even slightly; every atom in the could exist.1 is yet to be explained.” Without stars universe would either fly apart or The entire universe gives the and galaxies, there is no universe. fail to allow the existence of most distinct appearance of having been So how does the big bang theory elements. Where did this fine designed to allow for life on earth. explain all observational evidence?2 tuning come from? Furthermore, although we can If you want to gamble on your There are dozens of factors describe the strength of the forces eternal destiny put your bets on the that determine if any planet could which hold the universe together God of the Bible, not the fruitless be habitable for life: the size and and observe the incredible number speculations of modern scientists type of the nearest star, distance and variety of stars within our who start with an assumption that from the star, position within the universe: we really do not have any God did not design the universe. galaxy, presence of water, presence idea what these forces are, nor do 1. Charles White, God by the and characteristics of any moons, we know how EVEN ONE of the Numbers,

83 An Alternative to the Big Bang By Bruce Malone It has been demonstrated both away, it would appear that clocks if this is how our universe formed. mathematically and experimentally and all natural processes were First, the expansion of space that time is not a constant, but is proceeding in a rapid fast-forward would have left a very uniform dependent on the gravitational pull motion. Although one has never background radiation throughout at the location where time is being been observed, Einstein’s equations the universe. Second, as space measured. This itself expanded, the light concept was first coming from stars (which proposed by Albert formed as the matter Einstein and is moved out of the white called gravitational hole) would be shifted time dilation. toward the red end of the Numerous spectrum. Third, if the experiments seem earth was close to the to indicate that this center of our universe, it strange concept is would have been one of the true. For instance, last things to have emerged time moves five from the white hole. microseconds per Billions of years would year slower at the have elapsed for distant Royal Greenwich stars giving plenty of time Observatory (which for light from those stars is located at sea to have reached the earth. level) than it does at These three observations the National Bureau are exactly what we find as of Standards in Boulder, Colorado also allow the existence of “white we observe our universe. (which is 1 mile above sea level). holes”. Instead of collapsing From the moment that all of the Atomic clocks flown around the inward, matter (and space itself) matter of the universe was created world in different directions seem would expand outward from a (day one of creation), until the earth to vary by the amount predicted by “white hole”. When matter inside emerged from near the center of Einstein’s equations. The direct the white hole moves past the the white hole (at which point stars result of this gravitational time boundary, the boundary begins would have appeared), it is quite dilation is that seemingly strange to shrink inward. Eventually, mathematically feasible that only things happen to time near areas of the radius shrinks to zero and the four 24-hour-days had passed on space known as black holes. white hole disappears, leaving earth. Although this theory is quite A black hole is an area where behind all of the matter which it controversial (and rejected out of matter is so concentrated that its originally contained. However, the hand by those who are committed to gravity prevents even light from first material out would have aged evolutionary development theories), escaping. Indirect observations millions or billions of years while this type of work demonstrates seem to indicate that many areas the last material out may only have that there is not necessarily a of our universe do indeed contain aged a matter of days. contradiction between a six day black holes. Black holes are so Dr. Russell Humphreys1,2 has creation and modern science. dense that they actually “bend” the proposed that this expansion of a 1. Russell Humphreys, Starlight and fabric of space. In addition, time white hole moves exceedingly slowly at the Time, Master Books, 1994. rather than the standard 2. Alex Williams & John Hartnett, boundary of the black hole. Thus, big bang Dismantling the Big Bang, Master if you could move from the center theory is the method God used Books, 2005. of a black hole outward, while to create the universe we live in. observing what was happening far Three effects should be apparent,

84 Wrong Assumptions Yield Wrong Answers By Bruce Malone It is hard to open a newspaper, that he lives 16 miles away. You wrong assumptions lead to wrong book, or magazine without finding can easily use the formula at the answers. some implication to the earth being top of the illustration to calculate In all dating methods, the billions of years old. Given the that your friend left home 8 hours initial amount is an assumption, overwhelming barrage of these earlier. You have just performed the estimate of contamination is an statements, it is assumption, understandable and the overall why so rate is an many people assumption. have trouble The only considering things which the possibility can be known that the earth for sure are the might be only present amount thousands and the present of years old. rate. Yet there is Unless you actually an estimate the overwhelming initial amount amount of data correctly, the that indicates average rate that the earth correctly, and is indeed much the amount of younger than contamination the billions correctly, of years needed for evolutionary a dating method of how long your answer will be wrong. theories. your friend has been on the road. Furthermore, depending on your Despite what people have been However, something doesn’t make assumptions, it could be very, very led to believe, there are no dating sense. Why would your friend be wrong. methods which give an absolute up all night walking? Although There are actually very few date for the formation of the earth. you used the correct formula, your dating methods which seem to All dating methods are based on assumptions may not have been indicate that the earth is extremely non-provable assumptions about correct. Perhaps your friend stayed old. On the other hand, nine out some event in the distant past. with someone in town and woke of ten dating methods indicate Furthermore, there is a strong bias up minutes before for a morning that the earth is quite young. If to reject any dating method which stroll. In this case, you have used the earth is relatively young; then does not allow enough time for the ‘wrong initial amount’ in evolution is obviously a myth evolution to have happened. To your calculation. Perhaps he took and creation becomes the only understand the validity of any a shortcut which cut 12 miles off logical alternative. Could this be date, the reader must gain an his walk. In this case there was the primary reason that only those understanding of how all dating ‘contamination’ of the total methods which seem to indicate the methods work. The following amount. Perhaps since you last earth’s very old age are shown to illustration should help: saw your friend, he has taken up students? Suppose you were up at 6:00 marathon running and averaged 8 a.m. and happened to see a friend miles an hour (only having slowed who lives in a nearby town. You down just before you saw him). In observe that he is walking along this case, you have used the wrong at 2 miles an hour and you know ‘Average Rate’. The point is,

85 Science Indicates the Earth is Young By Bruce Malone Rivers are carrying salt into the a few hundred million years old, of helium, etc.), but each sets an world’s oceans at a known rate, yet they should be a featureless smear maximum possible limit. The the sodium (salt) level in the oceans instead of a distinct spiral. For lower limit of the age of the earth is is far below saturation. Ocean- 50 years. this problem has been approximately 6000 years because ographers have determined that, at known, but no plausible explanation this is when historical records most, 27% of this sodium flowing has been found.4 The best current began. All other methods are based into the ocean, manages to get out explanation for how stars could on unprovable assumptions. The of the ocean each year. Therefore, have formed involves “density graph below shows the maximum every year the concentration of salt waves” from supernovas. Yet, how age from a few of the hundreds

These Methods Yield Ages Less Than 50,000 Years max (Way Too Short to Show on Graph)

These Methods Yield Ages Less Than 10,000 Years max (Way Too Short to Show on Graph)

in the oceans increases slightly. All could there have been supernovas to of possible ways to date the earth of the salt in the world’s oceans create the stars when there weren’t or various geological features. can be accounted for in just 1/50 any stars to begin with? Notice that many of methods the time assumed available by These young age indicators are give an age which agree with the evolution1. not based on just one technique, Bible (less than 10,000 years) Helium is being released into but cover a wide range of scientific whereas the evolution assumption our atmosphere by radioactive disciplines. They are just a few of that radiometric methods give the decay at a known rate, yet all of the hundreds of dating methods, correct age of the earth (5 billion the helium in the atmosphere can which give a wide variety of years) is completely out of touch be accounted for in 1/2500 of the possible ages. The vast majority with all other methods. Problems time assumed by evolution. This of methods yield dates far too short with radiometric dating are dating method accounts for all of for evolution to have taken place. discussed on pages 87, 91, 94. the helium escaping into space and This leaves those scientists who 2 1. Austin, S.A., Humphreys, R.D., assumes no starting helium. are intent on maintaining extreme “The Measurements indicate that the ages for the earth in the unenviable Sea’s missing Salt: A Dilemma for total energy of the earth’s magnetic position of trying to explain away Evolutionists”, Proceedings of the field has decreased by a factor of the majority of the data while Second International Conference 2.7 in the last 1000 years. This basing their position on the minority on sets an upper limit to the age of the of the data. Creationism, Vol II, 1991. earth’s magnetic field at 10,000 No dating method provides 2. Vardiman, L., The Age of the years. Were the earth older than an absolute date for the age of the Earth’s Atmosphere: a study of the this, the magnetic field would be earth. With each method, the lower 3 helium flux, ICR (1990). impossibly strong. limit can be zero (for instance, salt 3. Humphreys, R.D., “Physical The inner stars of galaxies could have started out at current mechanism for reversals of the rotate faster than the outer stars. levels in the ocean, air may have earth’s magnetic field during If spiral galaxies were more than started containing current levels the

86 Accelerated Radiometric Decay By Bruce Malone Radioactive elements decay has a high permeation rate). This to different temperatures, and the like a set of racked billiard balls allows helium to be routinely used permeation rate vs. temperature struck by the cue ball. The to measure the leakage rate through equation was developed. By decaying element fragments into other materials. If you found a dividing the amount of helium pieces, among which left in the rock with the are alpha particles. measured permeation These are pieces of rate of helium through the nucleus of an the zircon crystals, it is atom which consists possible to measure how of two protons and long ago the radioactive two neutrons. These decay happened. This particles rapidly grab is the same concept as two electrons to become a very helium balloon floating on the measuring the age of a helium stable helium molecule. Since the ceiling of an ancient Egyptian tomb; balloon by knowing the amount original location of the radioactive you would know that someone had of helium left in it and dividing elements is often within cooled recently been in that room. If your by the rate at which the helium rock layers (such as granite) the guide told you that no one else had left the balloon. The result was helium which forms from this been inside the tomb in the last the astounding discovery that the radioactive decay is also trapped 4000 years, you would know that radiometric decay which created the inside these rock layers. Many of they were either ignorant or lying. helium within these zircon crystals these granite layers are assumed This brings us back to the helium had to have happened within the to have been formed billions of found in granite across our planet. last 6000 +/-2000 years. There years ago so the radioactive decay The amount of radiometric is no known mechanism which would have happened shortly after decay that has happened within any could have allowed the helium to the formation and cooling of the granite containing zircon crystal remain within these rocks for a granite. Thus, if the rock layers can be calculated by measuring the longer period of time. However, are millions of years old, any amount of original uranium-238 conventional dating techniques helium found within these rock and the final amount of stable place these rocks at over a billion layers would have had to have been lead-206 within a given crystal. years old. This is incredibly trapped for millions of years. The decay sequence from uranium strong evidence for both the recent The reason why helium to lead actually creates eight helium creation of the rock layers of our balloons float is because helium molecules which are then trapped planet and the accelerated nuclear is an energetic molecule which within the zircon crystal. What has decay which must have happened is lighter than air due to the low not been measured until recently either at the time of creation (when density (weight) of the gas. Helium is the rate at which the resulting the heavens were being “stretched balloons do not float indefinitely helium diffuses out of the zircon out”) or possibly during the year of because the helium molecule is so crystals. the worldwide flood.1 small that it slips right through the In 1974, a project by Los This evidence for our recent wall of the balloon and escapes to Alamos National Laboratories creation is no different than finding an area where the concentration collected core samples of granite a helium balloon still floating in of helium is lower. This is why drilled down 2.6 miles into the a tomb. It is unmistakable proof helium filled latex balloons sink earth’s crust at Fenton Hill, New that the balloon had to have been within hours and even aluminum Mexico. The permeation rate of filled recently. In a similar way the coated mylar balloons stop floating helium through this granite was granite (foundational) layers of our within weeks. Helium is such a then measured at an internationally planet had to have also been created small energetic molecule that it renowned laboratory. Samples of quite recently. can escape at a measurable rate these rocks were obtained at a wide 1. DeYoung, Don, Thousands...not through solid stainless steel (i.e. it variety of depths, corresponding Billions, Master Books, 2005.

87 More Young Earth Indicators By Bruce Malone Evolutionists assume that man have a distinct composition which complicated possibilities as to how dropped out of the trees 1 to 5 is easy to identify. The fact that these types of transient phenomena million years ago and became fully we find so few is confirmation of could still exist. However, their human about 100,000 years ago. the rapid accumulation of Earth’s explanations are based on faith, not Archeological records show that sedimentary layers. science. The simpler explanation is civilizations appeared around 5000 Suppose you walked into an that these years ago. It has been said that empty room and found a smoking smoking cigars the ability to raise food (farming) are still smoking because they are drove the advancement of modern young. civilization. In other words, by What about dating methods evolutionary reasoning, it took which seem to indicate that things mankind 95,000 years (after are very old? As seen in the becoming fully human) to figure first article on dating methods, out that food could be produced assumptions are everything. by dropping a seed into the Carbon-14 dating, for instance, ground. Even many animals and assumes that there never was insects seem to know this. a worldwide flood. This is the It has been estimated by main method cited as proof for evolutionary anthropologists the existence of mankind tens of that the earth could have easily thousands of years before the Bible supported 10 million hunter/ states that we were created. A gatherer type humans1. To recent worldwide catastrophe would maintain an average of 10 million have caused an enormous change people, spread over the entire in the total amount of carbon in planet, with an average life span earth’s biosphere. This shift in of 25 years, for the last 100,000 the total amount of carbon in the years...would mean that 40 biosphere completely invalidates billion people lived and died. one of the starting assumptions Archeological evidence clearly of the carbon-14 dating method shows that these “stone age” people cigar. You could assume that the (a known carbon-14 to carbon-12 buried their dead. Forty billion cigar was very old and that it had ratio throughout the measurement graves should be rather easy to only recently burst into flames, but period). This is why the method find. Yet only a few thousand exist. the more logical conclusion would results in erroneously old dates for The obvious implication is that be that someone had recently lit organisms alive shortly after this people have been around far less it. The universe is full of similar flood. Similar faulty assumptions than 100,000 years. “smoking cigars”: exist for all old age dating methods. Another indication of both a - All planetary rings still exhibit intricacies The vast majority of methods young earth and a confirmation of which should have long ago indicate a young earth. Why would disappeared. the worldwide flood is the scarcity God use billions of years of death - All known comets burn up their of meteors in sedimentary rock material with each pass around the and dead ends before making layers. If most of the rock layers sun and should have a maximum life mankind and then deceive us by were laid down rapidly during the expectancy of 100,000 years.2 telling us that he created us recently one year period of a worldwide - The outer planets in our solar (Genesis chapter 5)? flood; you would not expect to find system should have 1. E.S. Deevy, “The Human Population”, many meteorites buried in only one long ago cooled off. Scientists working Scientific America, (9/60) 194-204. year. However, if the sediment was from the preconception that the 2. W i l l i a m S t i l l m a n , laid down over billions of years, The Lifetime and universe is 10 - 20 billion years old Renewal of Comets there should be billions buried have suggested controversial and within this sediment. Meteorites

88 Only a Personal Test Matters By Bruce Malone In another universe and another inside an area known as a black healing the sick, changing water time, lived a civilization of two- hole. A black hole is an area in into wine, bringing food into dimensional people, which we will space where it is believed that existence from nothing, coming call the “Flats.” For them, two matter is so concentrated that the back from death, and ascending into dimensions (a flat plane) was reality gravitational pull prevents even heaven are easily explained by the and they could not acknowledgement that conceive of beings He was this Creator. which inhabited Therefore, He had the more than these two- ability to take on extra “dimensions” in time dimensions. One day, and space. Thus, just as a three-dimensional in the first illustration being visited the the three-dimensional universe of the Flats. entity could step in and Since they were two- out of two-dimensional dimensional, they space, Jesus has the could only see, touch, ability to step in and and feel the two- out of four dimensional dimensional outline time/space and at of the creature as it present abides outside passed through their of time as we know plane of existence. it. (See pp. 131.) The Even more mysterious Bible is not unscientific was that this outline would electromagnetic waves, such as because it cannot be tested in a disappear from their plane of reality light, from escaping. When any laboratory anymore than a black without a trace... only to reappear particle approaches a black hole, hole is unscientific because we in another location. This happened it disappears at what is known as cannot go inside one. Christianity is based upon each time the three-dimensional the “event horizon.” Anything personally accepting the death creature stepped in and out of their that comes closer than the event and sacrifice of Jesus Christ as two-dimensional plane. Some horizon is sucked into the black payment for our own wrongdoing. of the Flats proposed that there hole and cannot escape. At the This payment is only necessary existed a reality which was outside center of the black hole is a point because of the literal rebellion of their known science. Therefore, of singularity where (supposedly) the first man against His Creator. it was deemed supernatural. matter accelerates to the speed of The historical events described They proposed that this universe light, time stops, and mass becomes in the Bible are testable and was inhabited by creatures infinite. This is an area in our verifiable by archeology, historical possessing more than just two- own universe about which we can documentation, and scientific dimensions. They also reasoned only speculate. Experimentation study. However, ultimately the only that an entity possessing one more is absolutely impossible. Yet test of Christianity which matters dimension could move in and out scientists accept its existence. is a personal one. Until you are of a universe which possessed These illustrations show that willing to submit to His authority one less dimension. Although just because you cannot see, touch, and accept His payment for your this explanation of the mystery feel or falsify the existence of sin, you cannot know whether explained the observations, it was something; does not mean that it Christianity is true. Only by rejected because it could not be is not scientific. The miracles of personally testing the promises of scientifically tested. It relied upon the Bible demonstrate that the One God can you know the Truth. the supernatural.1 who created the known universe has control over time and creation. 1. This illustration is used by Dr. It is impossible to observe what The accounts of Jesus walking on A. happens at the point of singularity water, appearing in locked rooms,

89 Why Radiocarbon Gives the Wrong Dates By Bruce Malone In order to understand why over the last twenty years, samples but the total carbon in the biosphere carbon-14 ( 14C ) dating gives from every carbon containing and oceans would have been much erroneously ancient dates, we must substance (supposed to be up to 300 greater before the flood - making 14 understand how this dating method million years old) has been shown the concentration of C in all living works and the assumptions used things significantly for interpreting the results. less. The assumption When one of the sun’s that there has always high energy particles hits a been the same amount nitrogen nucleus, neutrons are of vegetation on earth released which react with 14N leads to the belief in a 14 12 to form 14C. This 14C atom uniform C to C ratio rapidly reacts with oxygen to throughout history. 14 This is simply a wrong form a CO2 molecule. Plants 14 assumption that causes take in the CO2, animals eat the plants, and a uniform vastly overstated ages dispersion of radioactive carbon when dating those throughout the biosphere (all organisms which living organisms) results. The were alive before or current ratio of radioactive 14C immediately following to normal 12C is one atom of the flood. You cannot 14C per trillion atoms of 12C. As accept both the reality long as an organism is alive, of a worldwide flood it continues to take in both and radiocarbon dates 14C and 12C in this ratio. However, to contain measurable levels of of great age. The flood would 14 14 after it dies the radioactive carbon C, averaging 0.3% modern of C have caused an enormous shift 1 14 begins to decay and the ratio of levels. This is 300 times above in the C level of all creatures. 14C to 12C decreases. It takes 5,730 the detection limit and has never Many scientists believe this years for 1/2 of the original 14C been explained as contamination. flood happened as recently as to decay. Thus, if something has The presence of this radiocarbon approximately 5000 years ago, a 14C to 12C ratio of 1:2 trillion, is strong evidence for a recent making any organism dated older instead of the current 1:1 trillion, worldwide flood (see pp. 91). than this totally inaccurate. Such 14 it is assumed to be 5730 years The level of C is significantly an artifact simply contains a lower 14 old. A ratio of 1:4 trillion would lower than expected for creatures concentration of C, because at the 14 be interpreted as 11,460 years alive 5000 years ago because of the time it was alive, the available C old, 1:8 trillion would be 17,190 much greater amount of vegetation was spread throughout more living years old, etc. Highly sensitive alive on the planet before the organisms. accelerator mass spectrometer worldwide flood (as attested by the The real challenge to evolution methods have improved the ability massive worldwide coal fields). believers is to explain why there 14 to measure the amount of 14C so This resulted in much less C in is ANY radiocarbon left in coal, that 0.001% of modern amounts can all organisms alive before and wood, gas, bones, and shells which be measured. If the 14C generation shortly after the flood than there is are supposedly millions of years 14 level was always constant, this in modern organisms. During this too old. Absolutely no C should would correspond to an organism global flood, enormous quantities of remain. Yet it does.... about 100,000 years old. The plants and animals were buried and 1. decay rate of 14C is such that after massive amounts of carbon dioxide Measurable Radiocarbon in 250,000 years, starting with modern precipitated out of the oceans as Fossilized Organic Materials concentrations, every molecule of calcium carbonate. The world , 14C should be gone. Astonishingly, rapidly readjusted after the flood, Baumgardner, John, et. al, Proc. of

90 Scoffers and an Old Earth By Bruce Malone Almost 2000 years ago, an as- observations, and it is statistically straightforward way that any tounding statement was made, “... improbable at best. other book would be read, clearly scoffers will come in the last days, 3. The amount of sediment indicates that the world and walking according to their own in the oceans indicates that they the universe were created quite lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the are quite young -- The response recently -- in six literal days. promise of His coming? For since is an assumption of old age, an Genesis is a narrative passage the fathers fell asleep, all things assumption that there was never and is not intended to be poetic or have continued as they were from a worldwide flood depositing figurative. Genesis chapter five the beginning of creation.’(belief sediment at rates greater than today, lists a geneaology from Adam (the in uniformita-rianism) For this and an assumption that geological first man) to Abraham which spans they will willfully forget: that by processes do things that we don’t about 2000 years. Abraham to the the Word of God the heavens were observe them doing today. Again present day spans only another of old, and the earth standing out faith in an old age is not based on 4000 years. Then, in Exodus 20:11 of water (denial of creation)...and data, but on a distrust in God’s God gives us the only one of the ten the world that then existed perished, Word. commandments with a justification, being flooded by water(denial of a 4. Not enough salt in the sea “...For in six days the LORD made global flood).” -- Scoffers totally ignore the the heavens and the earth, the sea, (2 Peter 3:3-6) scientific studies and papers that and all that is in them, and rested on Hundreds of ways exist for document the criteria for this the seventh day...” This statement dating the age of the earth, yet conclusion. They simply ignore makes absolutely no sense unless it no dating method can absolutely the mathematics and have faith that means six literal days. prove the age of the earth. Scoffers unmeasured natural processes can The reader really only has two intent on explaining everything explain the relatively low salinity of choices when approaching the without God, simply invent excuses the ocean. subject of the age of the earth: to ignore the obvious. They will 5. The rapid decay of the total 1. Join the ranks of the scoffers, define science to exclude God, strength of the earth’s magnetic who, as predicted would deny a suppress the evidence for creation field - An indication of how literal creation, literal worldwide and the worldwide flood, and damaging this evidence is to flood, and by implication deny a ignore the overwhelming majority old earth believers is their need young earth -- in the “last days” . of straightforward dating methods to distort Dr. Humphreys work. 2. Accept the vast majority that indicate a young earth. What He has conclusively shown that of very straightforward dating do evolution believers say about there really has been a systematic methods that indicate this earth the many young earth indicators decrease over time and field really is quite young so, therefore, mentioned throughout this book? reversals would make this problem God’s Word can be trusted to mean 1. Galaxies wind up too quickly even worse. Scoffers simply have what it says. - They rely on some unknown faith this isn’t true and have not The strategy of Satan has really mechanism to wind them up - i.e. even tried to rebut the mathematics. not changed in 6000 years of human faith that God’s word is wrong. As one examines the objections history. Remember what Satan first Shockwaves from exploding to each of the straightforward young said to Eve in the garden of Eden, stars (where did they come from) earth dating methods, it becomes “Has God indeed said...” He is somehow compress gas to form apparent that the objections are asking each of us the same question new stars. based on faith rather than on good today. What is your answer? 2. Short lived comets would not science. Yet, these same scoffers be around if the solar system were sound authoritative because their billions of years old - The response claims are repeated everywhere and is the belief in a unseen Ort cloud few people take the time to check full of comets. Not mentioned out the validity of their claims. is that this is based on faith, not The Bible, read in the same

91 Where Have all the Remnants Gone? By Bruce Malone Stars are large spheres of are of significance in revealing the have occurred in the last 55,000 highly compressed gas millions of age of the universe near Earth’s years. times larger than the earth. Like location. Using the estimate that one everything else in our universe, they Theoretical models suggest supernova should occur within our eventually wear out. At a certain that the expanding debris from a Milky Way galaxy approximately point in the lifetime of a very supernova would go through several every 25 years, if the remnants last massive star, it implodes upon itself stages as the matter and energy an average of 55,000 years, there releasing energy that exceeds the dispersed. During the first few should be 55,000 years divided output from an entire galaxy. This hundred years after a supernova, by 25 supernova/year = 2200

is called a supernova and results material is hurtled outward at second stage supernova remnants in a center that is so dense that it thousands of kilometers per second. detectable. Even if we can only cannot collapse further. The rest of Later a blast wave forms, emitting detect 1/2 of those remnants, there the stellar debris spreads outwards. powerful radio waves for 10,000 to should still be 1100 detectable These supernova remnants 100,000 years (an average expected remnants in our galaxy if that (the collapsed center and the detectability of 55,000 years). much time has passed. However, spreading debris) should be During the final stage, the material if our galaxy is only 10,000 years detectable for millions of years becomes so spread out that only old, the number of second stage after the initial implosion. Based heat energy is emitted. remnants would be (10,000/25) x on what we currently know about Although opinions vary, 1/2 = 150. So the number of second stars, scientists estimate that a scientists have estimated stage supernova remnants actually galaxy the size of the Milky Way approximately how many detected reveals the actual age (our galaxy) should have one supernovas should be visible from of our galaxy. Only around 200 supernova approximately every each stage of development2. Even have been found. The chart above 25 years. This estimation is based if supernova remnants last for an graphically illustrates which theory on historical observations over the average of only 55,000 years; we best explains the observable data. last 2000 years. If our galaxy is 10 should be able to detect most of This is one more piece of to 20 billion years old; millions of the ones which have exploded in evidence that indicates that the supernovas should have occurred our galaxy. First stage supernovas earth and the universe are far since it first formed. Thus, the are hard to see because of the younger than commonly thought. number of supernova remnants massive number of stars within Indeed, the vast majority of dating actually observed could indicate the our galaxy which blocks the view. methods indicate a young earth. age of our galaxy. However, if Dr. However, second stage supernovas Humphreys is correct (that time has are more detectable because of the 1. Russell Humphreys, Starlight and Time, Master Books, moved in fast forward for distant radio signals they emit. Statistical 1994. galaxies during the formation of the estimates indicate that we should 1 2. This article is a condensed universe - pp. 82) , then only those be able to detect at least 50% of version of a technical remnants within our own galaxy the second stage supernovas which paper given by Keith

92 The One and Only Ice Age By Bruce Malone On the morning of July clearly illustrates that hundreds of has experienced only one great ice 15, 1942, six brand new P-38 thousands of years are not required age which lasted several centuries Lightnings and two B-17 Flying for the formation of the polar before the ice receded to present Fortresses took off from a secret ice caps. Instead of hundreds of levels. The evidence for this ice airfield in Greenland, heading for age, and for a dramatically different bombing missions in Germany. The climate in the not so distant past, is squadron became lost in a blizzard undeniable. Furthermore, evidence and ran out of fuel. The pilots were is rapidly accumulating to indicate forced to land on a glacier. One that there has been just one ice made a crash landing and the other age.2,3 seven made perfect belly landings. The creation model of history The crewmen were rescued nine shows that the great ice age was days later, but the planes were an inevitable outcome of the abandoned to the relentless snows worldwide flood. The massive and remained on the glacier for half land movements and volcanism a century. which accompanied the flood would In 1980, Richard Taylor have left the oceans considerably and Patrick Epps, two Atlanta warmer than they were before the businessmen, decided to find the flood or following the ice age. airplanes. Patrick Epps joked that Solar radiation would have been All we’d have to do is shovel the reduced by volcanic ash high in the snow off the wings, fill them with sky following the flood, resulting gas, crank them up, and fly them off in colder terrestrial temperatures. into the sunset. The inevitable result of warmer After twelve years of obsessive oceans would be increased water effort, extensive searching, back evaporation. In combination with breaking labor, and millions of less solar radiation reaching the dollars spent; the persistent partners earth’s surface, massive snow finally succeeded in locating storms would be caused in the and retrieving one of the eight northern and southern latitudes. airplanes. It was awhile before that These snow storms would have P-38 was “flown into the sunset” continued for centuries until because it had to be recovered thousands of years and multiple ice the oceans cooled off and the from underneath 250 feet of solid ages, a single catastrophic event atmosphere cleared up. Thus, the ice and then dismantled piece-by- that caused an incredible shift in great ice age is not only explained piece. The story of this discovery climatic conditions, could explain by the worldwide flood but can be found in the December 1992 the depth of ice at the polar caps.1 would have been an unstoppable issue of Life Magazine, “The Lost Both evolutionists and consequence of this flood. Squadron”. creationists alike recognize the ice This event calls into question age as the last major geologic event 1. Larry Vardiman, Ice Cores and the standard interpretation of ice to have drastically affected our the Age of the Earth, ICR, 1993. cores that have been drilled in the planet. Most evolutionists believe 2. Michael Oard, The Evidence ice at the polar caps. These cores there have been dozens of ice ages, for supposedly show hundreds of but this belief is based on secondary only One Ice Age, Proceedings thousands of years of accumulation evidence, such as changes in the of and multiple ice ages on our planet. oxygen concentrations in ice cores, 2rd International Conf. on The fact that 250 feet of solid ice rather than direct evidence. Most Creationism,1990. can accumulate in only 50 years creationists believe that the earth

93 Will the Real Date Please Step Up By Bruce Malone The Institute for Creation large proportions of the final decay For instance, for the rock sample Research recently concluded an product is found in the rock; it is taken from the Bass Rapids Sill eight year research project aimed assumed that a huge amount of time in the Grand Canyon the K-Ar at understanding variability in has passed. date was 656 +/-15 million years. radiometric dating methods. Six Since it cannot be known Rb-Sr yielded 1055 +/- 46 million Ph.D. experts from fields of exactly how much of the original years. Pb-Pb yielded 1250 +/- 130 geology, experimental physics, material was present, the analysis million years. Sm-Nd yielded and geophysical modeling were of several different minerals within 1379 +/- 140 million years. This chartered with understanding this a given rock sample increases the is a huge variation -- way outside type of dating on a fundamental confidence that the correct starting the supposed accuracy of each level. As with any real scientific amount can be found. This method, individual method. So what is the endeavor, the team did not know called an isochron, is believed real age of the rock? Believers what the research results would to be extremely accurate; if it in evolution will commonly use reveal. They suspected, though, yields straight line results between whichever method gives the date that many of the widely unreported the various ratios of mother and in agreement with the already problems with radiometric dating daughter elements in different established “geologic time table.” accuracy could be explained within minerals in the same rock sample. Furthermore, all the methods ignore the Biblical framework of a recent It is not uncommon to achieve a the reality that the radioactive decay creation, followed by the curse and reported dating accuracy of +/- rate has been faster in the past as a global flood. One of the facets 1% using this widely accepted proven by the presence of helium (a of this project was to compare radiometric technique. product of many radiometric decay several widely used radiometric What has not been processes) still trapped in rock dating techniques to determine how systematically studied is a crystals.1 consistent different methods were comparison of completely different One of the significant finds of when used to measure the age of the elemental dating methods on the the RATE project was that those same rock sample. same rock sample. If each specific elements which decay by alpha Radiometric dating is based on radiometric dating method is so particle emission show statistically the amount of decay of unstable accurate (often stated as within greater amounts of decay than isotopes of radioactive elements +/- 1%); then using four completely those elements which decay by beta trapped in rocks as they form and different types of radiometric particle emission. This may be cool. These elements fly apart over dating, on the same rock sample, an important clue to exactly what time leaving some of the original should yield very similar ages. The happened to accelerate radiometric element in the rock while a portion RATE team chose four common decay in the past. is changed into a different element. dating techniques -- potassium- These types of scientific It is similar to sand in the top of an argon (K-Ar), lead-lead (Pb-Pb), research programs are, of course, hour glass. If you know the rate rubidium-strontium (Rb-Sr), and being ignored by evolution at which the sand is flowing into samarium-neodymium (Sm-Nd). believers who are blinded by the bottom (turning into a different From 11 to 20 samples of each their need to maintain a belief in element) and the amount of sand in mineral from carefully documented huge time periods. Studying the the top and bottom of the hour glass rock samples were sent to world universe from a creation perspective (the amount of the original and class radiometric dating laboratories repeatedly yields discoveries not final elements); you can determine for analysis of the mother and seen by those blinded by this how much time has passed. Since daughter elements. Isochron dating evolutionary bias. the rate at which many radioactive correlations were developed for 1. DeYoung, Donald, Thousands... elements decay is currently very each of the four different methods slow, it would take millions of for the same rock sample. The years (at today’s decay rate) for any results showed an astonishingly significant quantity of decay. If wide variation.

94 How Prophecy Validates God’s Word By Bruce Malone A very scientific method himself king while riding into a one person fulfilling 48 of these exists for confirming that the city on a donkey (Zechariah 9:9). 300 very specific prophecies would Bible is what it claims to be -- a Perhaps 1:100 kings throughout the be equivalent to randomly picking document inspired by the Creator last 3000 years have done this. one specific atom out of a sphere of the universe who is outside of 3. He would be betrayed in a packed with atoms -- the sphere time and space.1 Only someone house of God and the money would being the size of our entire universe outside of time and space, who go to a potter (Zechariah 11:13). (15 billion lights-years across). could, therefore, see the future in Perhaps this has happened to However, you would need an atom advance could inspire very specific 1:100,000 people born. filled sphere for every atom, and predictions of future happenings to 4. The price of his betrayal would this many spheres created every be documented. It is statistically be exactly 30 pieces of silver second for 10 billion years to have possible to prove that the Bible is (Zechariah 11:12). Pretty unlikely, enough atoms to choose from. The the inspired Word of this Creator but lets say it has happened in only scientifically valid conclusion by studying these predictions 1:1000 betrayals. is that these very specific (prophecies). Over 300 predictions, 5. He would receive significant prophecies of the Bible were of very specific events surrounding wounds on his arms (Zechariah inspired to be written by someone the birth, life, ministry, and death 13:6). Maybe 1:100 received who could foresee the past, present, of Jesus are documented in the significant wounds on their hands, and future. Only an entity outside Old Testament. Copies of the Old wrists, arms during their lifetime. of time would be capable of so Testament (the Jewish Torah) have 6. He would be an innocent man accurately seeing the future in been found which we know were brought to trial, yet would make no advance. Only the Creator of the written and sealed in containers attempt to defend himself (Isaiah universe can fulfill this description. over 300 years before the birth of 53:7). How many innocent men Some people believe that, if Christ (The Dead Sea Scrolls). would not even try to defend their they just saw God or a “miracle”, Amazingly, these documents innocence? Perhaps 1:1000 they would then believe in God or agree with modern versions of 7. He would die with the wicked, trust the Bible. God has provided Hebrew Scriptures with a greater yet be buried with the rich (Isaiah more than enough evidence for us than 99% precision with differences 53:9) . Surely this has happened to to trust that the Bible is indeed His only being minor spellings of less than 1:1000 people throughout inspired revelation to man without names and some slight numerical history. having to physically appear before deviations. This in itself is an 8. He would be crucified (Psalm each of us. Prophecy is proof that astounding feat that testifies to 22:16). Less than 1:10,000 people the Bible can be trusted in every God’s ability to protect His inspired born in the last 2,300 years have area of knowledge. We are without revelation to mankind. Within these died from crucifixion. excuse for not believing His Word documents are specific predictions Now comes the fun part. The and turning our lives over to the one of a coming Messiah who would statistical odds of one person, of who died for our wrongdoing. The save mankind from God’s judgment the 100,000,000,000 people born in choice is left to each of us. Making of sin. Let’s examine just eight of the last 2300 years, fulfilling all of no choice is choosing to live for some 300 specific prophecies and these predictions, is 1:1017 . This ourselves and the result will be place conservative probabilities that is the same as randomly picking spending eternity separated from these predictions could be fulfilled up one specific silver dollar, from our Creator. It takes an act of our by one specific person: an area the size of Texas, covered will to accept the price Christ paid 1. This Messiah would be with silver dollars ten feet deep. for our sins, to repent for rejecting born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2). It is actually far less likely than his authority over us, and to live for Perhaps 1:200 ,000 people born in winning a lottery in which every eternity forgiven. the last 2000 years could fit this person ever born has entered. And 1. Chuck Missler, The E.T Senario, requirement. that is just 8 of these 300 very 1994. 2. This person would declare specific predictions! The odds of

95 Why is There so Much Carbon-14 Left? By Bruce Malone Carbon-14 (14C) dating has long the reality of a worldwide flood coal seams are thought to be 35 been heralded as the definitive means that creatures alive before to 300 million years old so should proof that the Bible is wrong when and relatively soon after this flood not contain a single atom of 14C. it speaks of a 6000 year old earth. would have started out with much Even more amazing is that 14C was 14C is a radioactive element which less 14C even while still alive. found by the same research team disappears over time as an unstable Therefore, they would “date” as if in measurable quantities inside carbon atom (which contains 8 tens of thousands of years old even unflawed diamonds. Diamonds instead of the normal 6 neutrons while still alive. are the hardest natural substance in the nucleus of known to man and are the atom) breaks completely impervious down to form other to infiltration by modern elements. At today’s carbon contamination. decay rate, one half Diamonds form deep of any 14C disappears in the earth under every 5730 years. tremendous temperature 14C is present in all and pressure and are living organisms in thought to be millions, the proportion of 1 radioactive 14C A second important implication if not billions, of years old. The atom for every trillion regular 12C of radiocarbon dating is the speed presence of measurable amounts of atoms. with which radiocarbon disappears. 14C inside diamonds is again proof As long as any organism is alive, 14C decays so fast that not a single that they could not possibly be this it is taking in radioactive carbon atom of 14C could remain in a mere old. and making the very structure 250,000 years. Thus, if 14C is still The actual age of any 14C of its body from this radioactive found in ancient organic matter, it containing sample older than material. However, as soon as it is proof that this organism cannot Noah’s flood is unknown because dies the radiocarbon starts to decay possibly be millions of years old. the starting concentration of 14C is and within 5730 years 1/2 of the Note the table above. It is unknown and any acceleration of original material disappears. In a little publicized fact of the radiometric decay during this time 11,460 years 3/4 of the original 14C radiocarbon industry that every also unknown. What is apparent is gone. In 17,190 years 7/8 of the carbon containing material still is that these samples could not original 14C is gone, etc. Since the contains a measurable amount of possibly be as old as commonly original amount of 14C in living 14C in its structure. In a ten year thought. organisms is incredibly small, the effort to understand how this could How do evolution believers deal measurable amount of 14C relatively be true, the radiocarbon industry with this anomaly? They sweep soon reaches immeasurable levels. went to extreme measures to it under the proverbial rug by One of the amazing feats of eliminate every possible source simply subtracting the existence of modern science has been the of modern carbon contamination. known amounts of 14C in all carbon development of instruments such as Yet the labs involved still found containing matter and calling it the accelerated mass spectrometer significant amounts of undecayed “background contamination”. Once which is capable of measuring 14C in all samples tested.1 again the dogma of evolution does 14C levels as low as 0.001% of the Careful research efforts by the not allow the actual evidence to amount present in living creatures. RATE team at the Institute for modify their belief system. This is equivalent to measuring Creation Research sent carefully 1. Vardiman, Larry, et.al. editors, one specific grain of sand on a collected and uncontaminated coal Radioisotopes and the Age of beach 10 miles long! At the current samples from a variety of locations decay rate of radioactive carbon, to nationally certified radiocarbon this corresponds to approximately labs and found an average of 100,000 years of decay. However, 0.25% modern 14C left. These

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, decieving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of a man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he

In order to explain what brought about the next development leading to this book, I need to elaborate on how the Lord was working in my life following the first publication of theSearch for the Truth articles. After the publication of the first set of articles, I felt that my usefulness in this area had run its course so I moved on to other activities. Even though, belief in evolution was continuing to undermine the faith of believers and continuing to be a root cause of the moral decay in our society, God seemed to be leading me into other areas of ministry. I had an occasional opportunity to speak on creation, and sporadically someone would request a set of articles, but there did not seem to be much I could do about the situation. Then Dow Chemical announced the closing of the research center where I had worked for over 15 years. I had the option of finding another job locally or moving with the company to Midland, Michigan (rumored to be a flat, barren land of ice and cold). Granville was the only home our family had known (we have 4 children) and our roots had grown deep. Furthermore, the Lord had blessed us greatly over the years and we had our home almost paid off. This meant that we could have stayed on in Granville, even if I had to take on a lower paying job. More than anything, though, I wanted to know God’s will. Through my study of Creation, I had come to deeply trust God and greatly appreciate His guiding hand over every circumstance. Deep trust in God comes from being on the front lines of a spiritual battle and seeing God victorious. After learning that the research center was closing, I applied for a job at a competitive research organization located within a mile of our home. I was a highly rated and prolific new product development leader who had worked on exactly the type of products that this company was involved with. Amazingly, in spite of the fact that they were hiring, I did not even get a job interview. Employees at the research center were given two months to decide whether or not they would move to Midland. Every morning, I was up early to pray. Nothing improves your prayer life like stressful situations. After a few weeks of seeking direction, I heard the Lord speak quietly to me. It came in the form of a thought that said, You can enjoy this time, I am in control. Several more weeks passed and I was given the answer I had been seeking. As I was reading Luke 18:29 I came across a passage which said, …there is no man that has left house, or parents, or brothers…for the kingdom of God’s sake, who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come -- life everlasting. The words seemed to just jump off the page as if they had been written directly for me. The Lord had told me through His thoughts, through His Word, and through circumstances what I was to do. Yet, I still did not want to go to Midland (that flat, barren land of ice and cold). I held off signing my transfer commitment until the last possible day. On the morning the decision was due, I walked out to the wildlife pond on the site and made one last appeal. It went something like, Dear Lord, You know I don’t really want to go to Midland (the flat, barren land of ice and cold). However, if that is where you want me, I would be foolish not to go. I know there are going to be times when I’ll wish I’d stayed in Granville. I really need to know you want me to move. Jesus, you have repeatedly shown me that you are in control of everything, including the animals you created. If you really want me to move, bring a deer as a sign

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Perhaps not an elegant prayer and I certainly had no right to ask for further confirmation, but it was from the heart. I opened my eyes with the expectation of seeing my deer -- none appeared. So I waited... and waited... and waited. I was getting both cold and disappointed. I even climbed up on the railing of the wildlife observation platform for a better view… still no deer. I finally gave up and started back to D building where I worked, praying as I walked. As I prayed, that soft thought, which I am still learning to recognize, rebuked me, I’ve already told you where I want you. Right after that I looked up and not 15 feet away from me a deer stood up in the tall grass. We looked at each other for a few moments, and as tears clouded my eyes, he bounded off into the woods. The God of this universe loves us dearly, and when we truly seek His will, with the intent to obey, He will not remain silent. Too often we do not hear because we already know the answer, don’t want to obey, or are too distracted by our own thoughts to hear Him. In hindsight, I can see the hand of God orchestrating our entire move. Our son was heartbroken that we would have to leave our home surrounded by acres of fourteen-foot tall pine trees that we had planted as saplings. We had spent many evenings singing around campfires or playing ball tag among the trees. So guess what the Lord provided in Midland? -- a home which had been on the market for over a year without a single offer (the Lord had it reserved for us) and had recently been marked down into the range we could afford (He knew our limits). It was built on a small rise with a hill in the back yard (making Midland no longer flat.) It came with a completely finished wood shop in the back (He knows my hobbies), and was surrounded by acres of mature pine trees (just for my son)! The Creator of the universe is a God who can orchestrate details. Even after the Lord had provided our home, He was not done pouring out His blessings. We had been trying to sell our home in Granville for several months with no success. If our house did not sell; Dow Chemical would purchase it, but at a reduced price. I had been on a short trip to Midland and was driving home when the Lord again spoke a distinct thought into my mind. My wife had just called to tell me that the only prospect that we had for selling the house had fallen through. After months of keeping the house clean and holding open house showings, we were left without a single prospect. As I was thinking this over on the five-hour drive back to Granville, the Lord impressed His desire upon me, You have not prayed with Robin. Sure enough, I realized that Robin and I had been praying about selling the house for months, but we had never brought our petition before the Lord as a couple. As soon as I walked in the door, I grabbed Robin’s hand, pulled her into the living room, and said, We’ve got to pray! I don’t remember the exact prayer, but the gist of it was, Dear Lord Jesus, we would really like this house to be sold seven days from now. Thank you. We even told others in our Bible study group what I felt the Lord had said and how we had prayed. Three days later, the realtor called with a prospect. Four days later, the couple returned for a second look. Five days later, we had an offer and six days later the house was sold! I had asked for a week, but should have known the Lord only needs six days to complete any job. Most significant of all was how the Lord used this move to affect others. I now know of dozens of people who accepted Jesus as their Savior as a direct result of our move to Midland and the events that followed. How wonderful to be used by the Maker of the universe and to see the fruits which develop out of faith and obedience. The purpose of this digression was to lead into the subject at hand -- what happened after moving to Midland? The Lord led our family to a wonderful mission-minded church in Midland and during a Sunday night prayer meeting, the Lord once again spoke to my spirit. We were facing outward in the sanctuary praying for the city of Midland, when I felt as if the Lord was saying to me, Satan is not going to flee just because you are praying. The implication was that we needed to follow prayer with action. I felt God was telling me to publish Search in the Midland paper. God has brought me a long way since that night 12 years earlier when I had sat alone on our couch and given Him my life. I didn’t feel any different after I accepted Him as Savior, but my life had changed. I can see that my priorities changed for the better.

100 ♦ I have learned that God often uses us in ways we would least expect. God didn’t send me off to the mission field (although I have travelled aound the world on short term mission trips), but He gave me dozens of new product ideas for my existing job. I have always wondered where an original idea comes from. Giving credit to God is not only a great cure for pride, but is a better explanation than humanists have to offer. ♦ God didn’t wow me with chills up my spine, flashing lights, audible voices, or bowl me over. How- ever, once Jesus became my Lord, I was able for the first time to resist sins which had controlled my life for the previous 15 years. ♦ God didn’t send me off to Bible college, but used me to tell friends, family, and co-workers about Him through my life, actions, and words. Furthermore, He steadily transformed me from a shy introvert to a confident person whom He could use to reach others with the truth of His love and the reality of His existence. Perhaps, the greatest evidence of His sovereign hand was His taking someone who was petrified of speaking in front of people and ultimately bringing him to the point of being a public speaker for one of the greatest scientific orgainizations in the world -- The Institute for Creation Research. Back to my story. After moving to Midland, God seemed to be leading me to proclaim in the public newspaper of a highly scientific, highly educated town that the earth is young, that diverse forms of life instantaneously came into existence, and that much of what people were being taught about geology, anthropology, cosmology, biology, and biochemistry was wrong. This time, God didn’t have to tell me twice... First, the 50 original articles were significantly updated. Next, twenty new articles were added from ideas that I had put on hold as I thought my ministry in the area of Creation was over. The Lord had already provided the money to purchase the newspaper space via a moving bonus. Thus, all that remained was to make sure that I had the support of the pastor and the church. I would not have proceeded without this, so I presented the concept to Pastor Stocker. He was enthusiastic and set aside part of a Sunday night prayer meeting to launch the project. The next step was approaching the newspaper. I had written half a dozen editorial letters since arriving in Midland, so I asked the editor if there was any chance of the newspaper donating the space for a regular weekly column. As expected, the answer was ‘No.’ Therefore, I purchased the space and over the next six months, the newspaper placed the articles in a perfect location -- directly across from the editorial page. Having the evidence for creation presented in a public forum again resulted in much controversy as it challenged the readers to consider the truth in areas where they have been misled. Over the next several years, over hundred letters-to-the-editor were written by 60 different authors highlighting both sides of the evolution creation controversy. Many of these were directly related to the weekly column which was published. In addition, I received dozens of requests for copies of the series. There is no doubt that presenting a public discourse on the scientific evidence supporting creation (by placing this evidence in public newspapers) helps many people to understand the foundational truths of the Bible. This is the type of effect on society that Jesus called us to have as

101 What is Truth? by Bruce Malone In order to of man’s opinion instead of God’s which ties the physical world to search for the truth revelation. Consider sex education a supernatural God. By denying , the as an example. Most people believe creation, a person is rejecting the truth they should not impose “morals” physical evidence that the Bible must exist. The debate over on others by telling them that it is is God’s Word. We are already origins deals with real events in wrong to have sex before marriage. several generations down that time and space. Either there path (with predictable was a worldwide flood... consequences to Western or there was not. Either culture). God initiated the flood Years ago, I laid an as judgment for man’s arrowhead on the desk rebellion... or He did not. of an anthropologist and Either life has existed for explained the parallel billions of years...or it has between the creation not. Either man came from of life and the making an ape-like creature... or he of an arrowhead. An did not. There are no gray arrowhead is the product areas here - only black or of intelligent design, white. One person cannot but it is impossible to have one truth and another scientifically prove. have an opposing truth. One Furthermore, if someone of them must be wrong. wanted to believe that Many people have the an arrowhead was misguided idea that evolution and If most adults in a community the product of chance (instead creation can both be true. believe it is morally acceptable to of design); he would conduct There are very real have sex with children... does that experiments to try to show how consequences to accepting multiple make it right? If a group of people that might have happened. Nothing realities. Ask your grandparents wants to teach our children that would convince such a person that about a time not so long ago when sex with animals is just another he was wrong. locking doors was unnecessary acceptable choice... do we let them? The evolutionist rejected the and a man’s word was all that was Furthermore, why is telling children whole analogy with a wave of needed to believe he would carry that sex outside of marriage is his hand, stating that science can through on a commitment. Contrast “wrong”, any different from never consider the possibility of that to today when our society is telling them that lying, stealing, the supernatural. I pressed the permeated with lies and litigation or murdering is “wrong”? Once point further, “But what if God from the schoolroom to Congress. the tie has been severed from an has supernaturally affected the What has happened to the moral absolute source of truth, everything world in the past? Shouldn’t fiber of our culture for things to becomes an arbitrary opinion. The there be scientific evidence of that change so radically? Bible repeatedly claims to be THE interaction?” The root of the problem is that ultimate authoritative source of His answer was very revealing, Judeo-Christian moral absolutes truth. If you want to search for ‘The have been replaced by the moral The Western World is morally Truth’, (tracing an imaginary ‘T’ relativism of humanism. The adrift and the blame lies squarely in the air); you can go home and very idea of “relative morals” is a on the shoulders of Christians do it... but it doesn’t belong in contradiction of terms. who have failed to defend the scientific endeavors. Once morals have been removed authenticity of the Bible as God’s How sad that in our school from an absolute source, such as revelation to man. Creation system, only evolutionary the Bible, they become a matter provides the only evidence

102 It Does Matter HOW God Created By Bruce Malone God’s existence, in His personal a drift toward humanism and the The cosmos is all that is or ever involvement with His creation, and devaluation of human life. was or ever will be. in the Bible as God’s revealed truth. Fourth, the Bible couldn’t 1 Thus the late Carl Sagan began Third, the Bible is very clear be more clear concerning God’s his famous and influential book, method of creation and the history Cosmos, with a statement which of our planet. Unlike the numerous is more akin to religion than to creation stories from cultures science. all over the world, the Biblical The heavens declare the glory of creation account is precise, concise, God. and provides testable predictions 2 Thus states the Bible which concerning the world around us. claims to be the inspired Word of For instance, the Bible describes this God. humanity with a tendency toward Here, then, is the sharp contrast evil and every society in the history between the two mutually exclusive of the world has ended in tragedy worldviews which are currently and bloodshed. The Bible describes locked in combat for preeminence a worldwide flood and there is of thought in the Western World. abundant evidence that this event The winner will determine the happened. The Bible describes the course of world history. But why creation of separate animal and not just say, “God used evolution plant “kinds” and that is exactly to create...,” and be done with the that human behavior is closely tied what the fossil record shows. controversy? to our beliefs. Take time to read In the face of this evidence, why First, Christians are always to Romans 1:17-26. This passage not consider the possibility that the look for the truth. Anything else states that because of the evidence Bible is exactly what it claims to would dishonor the very God in of creation, no one has an excuse be - God’s inspired revelation to whom they profess to believe. for disbelief in God. However, if humans to be read and understood Evolution and creation cannot both God used evolution; then there is in a normal, straightforward be true because they completely no evidence for God’s existence manner? Jesus was more to the contradict each other. One must be from observing His Creation point in Luke 16:31, “If they hear wrong, if the other is right. How so this Bible passage must be not Moses [who passed down the can we claim to be followers of wrong. The verses in Romans go creation account]...neither will they the One who claimed to be “The on to list the results of denying be persuaded, though one rose from Truth”;3 if we aren’t willing to God’s existence: a society with the dead.” Jesus is largely ignored search for the truth. widespread homosexuality, greed, today. Second, Jesus Christ said that envy, murder, hatred toward the A physician does not treat just we could tell a tree by its fruit.4 God of Christianity, and many other the symptoms when he treats a Have you ever heard anyone consequences. Does this sound like dying patient. Our country shows sincerely state, “I’m glad I have America today? The primary tie many tragic symptoms of a society learned the evidence for evolution. of the physical world to a spiritual drifting away from God. The It has led me to the reality of God’s God is the reality of creation. This root cause is the denial of God’s personal love for me. Now that is why the Bible equates belief in existence and the Bible’s authority. everything can be explained by God with the acknowledgment This would be inconceivable had random chance, I feel purpose and of Him as Creator. If any society not several generations been taught meaning in my life.” On the other accepts evolution as reality; the that evolution is a fact. hand, many people confess that relevance of God decreases, and 1. Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Random hearing the evidence for creation the tie to an absolute source of right House Publishers, 1980, p 4. has strengthened their faith in and wrong is broken. The result is

103 No Stopping on the Slippery Slope By Bruce Malone Most people are concerned moved from an acknowledgment give our full effort to our employer? about the rise in crime, drug use, that absolute truth exists to the If so, why are we surprised when and suicide among our youth. shifting sands of tolerance and our children choose to be less than Many have been led to believe relativism. The final Star Wars honest or honorable in other areas? that government supported anti- episode, seen by millions of youth Do we justify lies in order to avoid drug or self-esteem programs will in 2005, even boldly proclaimed consequences? If so, why expect help reduce this trend. our children to be honest. However, studies have God is pure. Do shown that there is no we entertain ourselves long term significant with talk shows, dirty difference in the behavior jokes, and the moral of children who have been raw sewage emanating through these types of from TV and movies? programs.1 Religion also Why should we expect seems to have little effect our children to remain on children’s behavior. sexually pure? Do we A scientific survey deal with stress using showed that the behavior alcohol, cigarettes, of churched youth is or legal drugs? Why appallingly similar to shouldn’t we expect our that of unchurched youth. children to do the same Almost all the youth in this survey during the climatic scene that, with illegal drugs? professed a personal relationship [only evil men] believe in absolute Absolute moral truth is a plateau with Jesus Christ, regularly read the truth. surrounded by a slippery slope. Bible, and attended weekly youth Once you step off the plateau, you Absolute truth exists because group meetings. Yet 66% stated God exists. An absolute truth will slide down the slope until you that they had recently lied, 36% is something which is true for put in a stake to keep you from had cheated on exams, 10% had all times, for all people, and sliding further. We often deceive been drunk or used drugs in the last under all circumstances. It is not ourselves into believing that our 3 months, and 55% had engaged true because it is convenient or stake is the correct moral standard. in sexual activity by age 18 (1994 expedient. Absolute truth is a Why are we surprised when our Church Youth Survey, George reflection of the One who made the children slide further down the Barna Research Group). universe. Too many people have slippery slope before putting their Parents who wish their children not realized the extent to which stake in at a lower moral level? to have an unshakable moral they have accepted our cultural Jesus stated, foundation cannot rely on church dance with relativism. It is time to I did not come to abolish (God’s attendance to provide it. So what is quit blaming society, the media, the moral) law, but to fulfill it. the solution? Allan Bloom provides schools, or peers for the attitudes How tragic when our actions , The Closing the clue in his book and behavior of our children. It reveal a rejection of absolute truth. of the American Mind . He states is time to look in the mirror and If we expect our children to abstain that, honestly assess the model we set for from substance abuse and sexual There is one thing a professor can our children. sin; we must be willing to model be absolutely certain of: almost the straight and narrow path that Jesus Christ stated that He is every student entering university truth. This is not a conditional should characterize Christianity. believes, or says he believes, that statement, and we are commanded 1. Both a 1991 Kentucky Study and truth is relative. to live by this absolute. Do we a 1990 Canadian government study Western civilization has cheat on taxes, ignore speed limits, showed no significant difference in experienced a shift in thinking bring home items from work, not where the basis for morals has

104 Only God can Provide a Basis for Truth IfBy ultimate Bruce Malonetruth exists; this truth Used by Permission of Johnny Hart

such a concerted effort to remove that someone may be wrong or must have a basis outside of human all references to God from public sinful. Christian absolutes are opinion. If we are creations; then life is not to protect the Constitution simply not tolerated. there is a Creator. An author has of the United States. God is under Our government and legal the ultimate authority to interpret attack in order to remove the system were based on the absolute his own writing. Likewise, if we source of absolute truth upon which moral truth defined by the One have a Creator; He has ultimate our government was founded. who claimed to literally be “the authority over us. Finite human Whenever God’s Word, the Bible, truth”. This foundation produced opinion can never create absolute is rejected as the absolute source a nation of the greatest economic truth. An enormous number of of truth, people’s opinions become and social freedom in the history opinions can never add up to their own source of absolute truth. of the world. Yet, the modern absolute truth. Only a source of This is why ‘tolerance’ has become definition of tolerance (that every moral truth which is outside of the most valued and treasured virtue opinion is of equal value) has ourselves can provide a sufficient within society. Christian tolerance replaced this viewpoint. This is basis for morality. Absolute truth values the opinions of others, but a direct consequence of the belief can only exist if an ultimate being weighs those opinions against an in evolution -- which forms the (God) exists. Therefore, as belief absolute standard -- the Bible. foundation for relative morality (i.e. in a Creator declines, belief in The new tolerance demands that no morality.) absolute truth also declines. The everyone’s morals be considered of The whole idea that multiple two are irrevocably connected. equal validity and that no absolute truths can coexist is flawed logic. This is one reason why Jesus truth exists! Truth, by definition, means that emphasized that he is “the Truth.”1 The new tolerance sounds kind other possibilities are not true! The text does not say that He and compassionate, but really it just Whenever Biblical truths and knew, told, or revealed the truth. trades one absolute belief (that God morals are rejected, an oppressive Rather, Jesus explicitly stated that exists and has revealed the moral government ultimately begins to He literally is truth. The history order of the universe through the enforce some other set of arbitrary of mankind is the reality of how Bible) with another absolute (that standards. humans have responded to God as man can set his own rules of right 1. The Bible, John 14:6;John 18:37; the source of absolute truth. and wrong). Furthermore, this new John 5:33; John 1:14 The primary reason that we see tolerance mercilessly persecutes anyone who would dare suggest

105 Why Do We Have a Conscience? By John Adam One of many questions left sense of right and wrong. There sacrificial in a society that teaches unanswered by evolution is how also seems to be universal guilt any life style is acceptable? The man’s conscience could have among humans and a desire to be God of Christianity extols self developed. How could ideas of free of this guilt. How could we be sacrifice. This is the opposite of right and wrong (which seem to born with an innate sense of right what evolution would produce. The be firmly ingrained Bible is full of examples into every culture) of loving sacrifices but have developed by nowhere can the concept evolutionary processes? of survival of the fittest If we evolved; ideas be seen as a characteristic of right and wrong of God. must have also evolved To summarize, with us. Therefore, a according to the conscience, a knowledge evolutionary principle of right and wrong, must of survival of the fittest, have some intrinsic a loving human with survival value. But a conscience would does it? In a struggle have been at a great for survival, will the disadvantage and thus existence of a conscience unlikely to have survived. help or hinder one’s From a humanist survival? An evolving person and wrong? Maybe we feel guilty viewpoint, attributes of the without a conscience would be because we are... in reality... guilty. conscience (such as self sacrifice free to covet belongings, steal the People can ignore their purely for the good of others) are possessions of others, and even conscience. If this happens weaknesses. Yet it is these very murder without guilt. A creature repeatedly; their conscience will attributes which make us humans with a conscience is hesitant and tend to atrophy the same way and not animals. soul searching. Where is the an unused muscle will atrophy. No person has ever lived without survival value to the individual In Biblical language, to ignore violating his conscience in some having the conscience? The the heart is to cause the heart to way. Every one has fallen short conscience serves as a detriment to become hardened. There are many of what God expects from us. So survival, not a mechanism which influential voices today who believe how do we make amends for the increases an individual’s ability that the solution to our social disobedience to the One who built to survive. Unless the universe problems is to deny that there is the standard into our conscience? was created by a God who has an absolute standard for right or The Bible is very clear that we can established inherent values of right wrong. Thus, a person with little never earn our way back into God’s and wrong; it would seem that or no conscience is as welcome favor. It is also clear that God has there is no survival value to the in society as one with a highly provided a means of forgiveness development of conscience. developed conscience. In such a through the loving sacrifice of If the conscience did not evolve; society, right and wrong is defined Himself as payment for our sins. then it must have always existed. only by what is most expedient for It is as if the judge at a trial took What could be the source of what those in power. Nazi Germany was the penalty for a crime upon has always existed and determines such a society. Any society which himself. Once we have accepted good from evil? The question in denies the reality of an external His forgiveness, we can truly start itself defines one characteristic of source of conscience becomes a hell to live out sacrificial love... even God. on earth. toward those who hate us. What an Almost all people of every Where does sacrificial love illogical concept, if evolution is a culture seem to have an innate fit into such a society? Why be

106 Evolution and Modern Myths There is a preponderance of scientific evidence to support creation as the correct explanation for our existence. The misconception that evolution is science while creation is religion is propagated by a variety of “myths” surrounding the evidence for evolution. Here is the truth about a few of these icons of evolution.

Myth: Our universe is the result of the “Big Bang” explosion of the “Cosmic Egg” billions of years ago. Reality: This just ignores the bigger question who laid the cosmic egg ? The first law of thermodynamics proves that matter and energy cannot just appear. Evolutionists must ignore the most basic law of science at the very start of their belief system. Furthermore, explosions do not result in increased organization of matter and expanding gas clouds do not form stars and planets. Has an explosion ever created ordered complexity?

Myth: The fossil record proves evolution. Reality: There are no clear transitions between vastly different types of animals in either the living world or the fossil record. Lining up three objects by size or shape does not prove that one turned into the other.

Myth: Structural and biochemical similarities prove common ancestry. Reality: The lack of fossil transitions strongly refute this myth. Common ancestry is only one of two possible explanations for similarities. Purposeful design can explain the same features in a more direct way. In addition, totally different organisms often display similar features. This supports the existence

of a common designer.

Myth: The rock layers of the earth form the pages of earth’s history showing millions of years of evolutionary progression. Reality: The fossil record does not show a clear, “simple-to-complex” progression of life forms. Life is complex and well developed wherever it is found in the fossil record. Major groups of plants and animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, with nothing leading up to them. Most rock layers and the fossils they contain can be explained better by a worldwide flood and subsequent events.

Myth: Radiometric dating methods are “absolute.” They are accurate and reliable. Reality: Although radiometric dating methods seem to indicate great age, these methods depend upon numerous unprovable assumptions. When used to date events of known age, such as the lava flows in Hawaii or the Grand Canyon, they have been wrong by orders of magnitude. Even more revealing, recent studies indicate that there has been rapid radiometric decay in the recent past so the methods really are just a measure of the amount of decay, not the age of the rock sample. Furthermore, the vast majority of alternative dating methods indicate a very young earth.

Myth: The human body contains many “vestigial organs” -- left overs from our evolutionary development. Reality: Although at one time there were dozens of features of the human body listed as vestigial, all have been shown to have important functions. Even if a few parts have lost their original function that does not prove evolution. To demonstrate evolution, you need to show the development of completely new structures, not the loss and degeneration of previous characteristics.

Myth: The fossil record for human evolution is complete and clear. Reality: All too often the propagandists for evolution present their story with statements such as, “Every knowing person believes that man descended from apes. Today there is no such thing as the theory of evolution, it is the fact of evolution.” (Ernst Mayr) The evidence for human evolution is fragmentary and reconstruction involves artistic license. Many competent scientists totally reject evolution. They acknowledge that it is not even a good scientific theory, much less a fact. 107 We Become What We Think About By Ron Cooper As Christians, we are written word (which is exactly what 60% church attending Christians commanded to “Take every thought evolution does). Survival of the during World War II, to less than captive into the obedience of fittest is theopposite of Virtue, 4% church attending Christians Christ”1 and to think upon the right (such as self sacrifice) which Jesus today. What happened? Could it kind of things - be that, as they rejected the “ Whatsoever things are True, historical truth of the Bible, whatsoever things are Honest, the relevance of Christianity whatsoever things are Just, faded? Or as Jesus said, whatsoever things are Pure, If I tell you about earthly whatsoever things are Lovely, things and you don’t believe whatsoever things are of them, how will you believe Good report; if there be any me when I tell you about Virtue, and if there be any heavenly things? Praise, think on these...”2 3 The Biblical creation story is The Bible lays the the Truest history on this earth. It framework for understanding comes from an Honest and Just and correctly interpreting God. It is a Pure history, straight the evidence from biology forward and Lovely in its detail. (each creature reproduces It is the first report ofGoodness . after its own kind), geology I find Virtue in its every detail. (a worldwide flood laid And I find reasons for Praise down the sedimentary rock concerning everything it contains, layers, filled with billions in its smallest detail. of dead organisms, all over On the flip side, I can think exhibited for us. I can think of no the world), anthropology (mankind of no thankful consequence from philosophy ever conceived by man was created as man and woman the belief in evolution. Evolution as unPraiseworthy as evolution. and has always been highly contradicts the most basic laws Evolution has been (and still is) intelligent), cosmology (in six days of science and is obviously not used to justify abortion, rejection God created the heavens and the True. It is intellectually disHonest of God and absolute truth, racism, earth and all that is in them), and to believe the earth is billions slavery, euthanasia, communism, sociology (the world is the way of years old when 9 out of 10 sexual immorality, genocide, and it is because of man’s rejection dating methods indicate a much divorce. of God and his resulting sinful younger earth and God’s word You must choose how to nature). Only by starting with clearly teaches a recent creation. If direct your thoughts. Know that a Biblical understanding of true evolution is true then the universe God is your Creator. Study the history can we come to the correct has always been ruled by inJustice evidence that He created the entire interpretations of the data in all as stronger creatures have wiped universe in six literal days as these areas of science. out weaker species. According to clearly described in the Bible as We become what we think. What evolution, it is the imPure transfer six mornings and evenings of work is the basis of your thinking? of information (mutations) from one followed by a single day of rest. 1. 2 Corinthians 10:5 generation to the next which has The desire to remove accountability resulted in upward advancement. 2. Philippians 4:8 is the primary motivation behind 3. John 3:12 Millions of dead ends and the the promotion of evolution as a happen-chance development of life fact. Evolution ultimately allows Ron Cooper is president of the Ark can only be considered unLovely. mankind to remove God from his Foundation in Dayton, A Biblical Creation Science and History God always gives a Bad report thinking and do what is “right” in to those who reject Jesus and His Worldview group promoting the his own eyes. England went from relevance and trustworthiness of the

108 The Day the Earth Stood Still By Bruce Malone In the classic science fiction capable of these atrocities: raised in The Day the Earth Stood movie, The Day the Earth Stood ♦ Six hundred thousand killed Still, history shows a consistent Still, the question of how mankind during the American Civil War answer to how humanity would would respond to a choice of because of the desire for wealth respond to such a challenge -- man obedience or certain destruction based on slavery. has always crossed the line. The is posed. A reality of human history is representative of that humans are rebellious. life from outer Historically, what force has space delivered an been able to restrain the ultimatum to earth. evil of humanity for brief If mankind did not periods of time? Only three stop fighting and are apparent: producing nuclear 1. Brute government warheads, all life force as in the case of on earth would be Communism, Fascism, destroyed. The Marxism, and to a lesser viewer was left degree, socialism. to ponder, would 2. Rigid religious humanity stop systems with stiff social waging war and penalties for disobedience subject itself to this such as is found in ultimate authority? Buddhism, Hinduism, or A brief overview Islam. of history might help resolve the ♦ The murder of approximately 3. The freedom and liberty question. According to the Bible, 60 million people under the last 90 which comes with acknowledging the original created set of human years of Communist oppression. the Christian absolutes as reality. beings were given the same choice: ♦ The murder of 6 million Jews obedience or death. As they chose Our founding fathers clearly due to Nazi prejudice. disobedience, they died spiritually understood that these were the ♦ Millions of deaths from and started to die physically. choices which any society faced. starvation due to the Hindu [Note: If God had not allowed for That is why John Adams said, religious caste system. There are this possibility of disobedience; “Our Constitution was made only enough cows to end this starvation, mankind would be no different for a moral and religious people. but they are considered more sacred than animals - not really possessing It is wholly inadequate for the than human life. the freedom to love or reject their government of any other.” Yet our ♦ The deaths of over one Creator] Since that time, the history society is moving rapidly down the hundred million unborn children of humanity has been a history of road which removes all influence of worldwide from abortion. The vast Christianity from public life! continual conflict and bloodshed. majority were disposed of because This is not to say that mankind has their births would have been an One last note: not achieved magnificent artistic In The Day the Earth Stood Still, a inconvenience to the parents. and intellectual accomplishments mother had no hesitation letting her over the years, or that there are not Many other examples of the ten-year-old son spend the entire day isolated examples of sacrificial love cruel side of humanity could be in Washington, D.C. accompanied by and kindness. cited. The overall picture is not a total stranger. This was 1951. There was no fear letting a total stranger However, to deny the savagery pretty because we continue to rebel watch a child unsupervised. How far which humans are obviously against the absolute moral absolutes capable of is to deny reality. Just laid down by our loving Creator. in “modern times” man has been Returning to the dilemma

109 Human Value Cannot Survive without By Bruce Malone The value of anything must children whose value and lives were raging in our country. Many of us always be set by something outside eliminated by a single Supreme are aware of the surface skirmishes, that object. A coin is no more Court decision. but all too few are aware that the valuable than a pebble except by The founding fathers of our root cause of the war is a deep common agreement that it can be country clearly understood both philosophical difference about exchanged for something reality. The basis of else. Humans are unique in America’s cultural their ability to assign abstract war is the question values to inherently non- of man’s relationship functional and otherwise to God. Either useless objects. A diamond life’s value is based ring, a thousand dollar bill, on God’s personal or a gold bar have no more existence (meaning value to an animal than a absolute values do smooth pebble, a shiny rock, exist) or man sets the or a fuzzy leaf. Animals standards. There are cannot even assign value no other possibilities. to their own lives. Apart The consequence of from survival instincts and some human nature and the sordid history 150 years of indoctrination with mutually beneficial biological of mankind. They realized that evolutionary principles is the relationships, animals either ignore only a source outside of mankind’s acceptance that man is part of the each other or eat one another. Tears existence could assign a lasting natural forces which shaped us. are never shed as one group of value to human life. That is why The inevitable result is the removal animals seeks to destroy another in the Declaration of Independence of any objective basis for truth. its own quest for survival. Animals has, as its most basic assumption, Thus, mankind either arbitrarily assigns value to things (including make no judgments concerning the the existence of certain inalienable people) or all life becomes of equal value of biological life. Only man rights such as: “...life, liberty, value. In the case of the former, is capable of recognizing the value and the pursuit of happiness.” atrocities such as human sacrifice of animal life and seeking to protect Inalienable rights must be granted or passive acceptance of abortion it. Who is capable, though, of by someone greater than the authors occur. In the case of the latter, assigning value to human life? of the documents, otherwise absurdities occur such as animal If human value is set by the those rights could be changed rights groups equating the murder mutual consent of other humans; by the next group of people that and mutilation of humans with the it is subject to change at any time. comes into power. However, this slaughter of chickens1. Both are This has happened countless times does not imply that all forms the inevitable outcome of following throughout history. Many ancient of life are of equal value. Man evolutionary humanist philosophy cultures sacrificed living children has special value because he has to its logical conclusion. either to appease their pagan gods free will and is not controlled by Christianity is rooted in the fact or to request favors from them. instincts. Most importantly, man that a personal God exists. Thus, Not all that long ago, the U.S. has special value because his human life is inherently valuable. Supreme Court declared slavery Creator has demonstrated His love We have no right to do with life legal, effectively removing human for him through natural revelation as we arbitrarily please. There status from Negroes. Aborigines (creation); special revelation (the is some thing special about all in Australia were shot and skinned Bible and the earthly visitation humans and no one has the right less than 200 years ago because of Jesus Christ); and personal to remove their value by murder, they were not considered to be revelation (the personal knowledge abortion, or euthanasia. human. In the last four decades, the and peace which come with 1. Charles Nicoll & Sharon abortion industry has profited from accepting Him as Savior). Russell, the destruction of 40 million unborn At present, a war of values is

110 Eugenics & Overpopulation By Bruce Malone All too frequently, there are of evil, we need to get the state of California. Most of these stories which present as a fact the facts straight. Predictions people live in urban areas because idea that the world is of overpopulation have been of the mountainous terrain. Yet the overpopulated repeatedly wrong in the same Japanese are quite satisfied with . This alarm has been their quality of life. sounded repeatedly over In addition to these facts, the last century with dire some population models consequences if the human predict that it will take over population is not controlled or 200 years to double the reduced. This idea has its roots current world population. in the eugenics movement of Other models actually the early 1900’s. During this predict a shrinking future time, the science community, world population. based on the evolutionary The most important principle that natural selection perspective to maintain is would ultimately eliminate that our Creator is ultimately poor genetic traits, promoted in control. Newsflash - God the concept of reducing really does know what undesirable genetic traits He is doing. The Bible from the human population by way that predictions of massive clearly teaches that children are eliminating less fit people. This energy shortages by the end of the to be considered blessings, (rather idea was especially popular with 1970’s were totally inaccurate. than a curse to be prevented and racists such as Margaret Sanger Calculations of total world disposed of). Nowhere in the (founder of the infamous Planned population are based on very Bible is there even a hint that it Parenthood abortion organization) tentative data which cannot predict is our responsibility to reduce the who advocated the sterilization of unknown future variables. For number of children desired by our the poor, the sick, the blacks and instance, the enormous effect of neighbors. Almost all methods other AIDS on the world population was limiting world population involve less evolved not known 10 years ago and the coercion at best and murder at people. It was only after tendency of developed nations such worst. The dignity of human life the atrocity of the Nazi party of as Europe, Japan, and America to is often reduced to statistics in Germany taking this philosophy to voluntarily stabilize growth are an effort to obtain some arbitrary its natural conclusion that eugenics seldom taken into account. population growth goal. Only God lost its luster with many people. Furthermore, the entire knows what population this planet Yet, the current public school population of the world could be was built to sustain, but we are curriculum ignores the sordid placed into the state of Texas with certainly nowhere near that limit. history of the population control every family given a 2000 square Money currently spent to control movement and continues to push foot home on a 40 by 100 foot lot. world population would be much the need for population control in This planet has more than enough better spent improving the quality more subtle terms. Billions of tax resources for its growing population of human life. dollars have been spent in attempts and almost all the problems The next time you hear dire to coerce developing nations into associated with predictions of the effects of stricter birth control methods, overpopulation over population, respond with sterilization, and abortions. How are the result of greed, pride, a statement of trust in God’s should we respond to the dire and racial hatred rather than the providence rather than jumping on predictions that the Earth is being total number of people present! the overrun with human vermin? Japan is home to 125 million people overpopulation To combat this subtle form on a land mass smaller than the bandwagon. Once we start treating people with dignity and

111 Same Sex Marriage Inevitable By Bruce Malone Legally recognized same knowledge we have of creation, our children to be trained that they sex marriages seem inevitable. we have also eliminated the only are made in the image of hydrogen After all, why shouldn’t any two factual basis upon which to set gas and pond slime. Instead of consenting adults be allowed to standards of morality. It logically acknowledging that man was marry? How can Christians be follows that all rules of sexuality specifically designed for fulfillment such narrow-minded, and morality become arbitrary by a woman (and vice versa), we bigoted, kill-joys as are teaching our to interfere with the children that any happiness of two arrangement of consenting adults? relationships is Yet, if two men can be equally acceptable. married, why not three The real battle men? Why not one is for absolute man and 32 women? truth and the For that matter, why reality of creation. not one man and a Once creation is gorilla to whom he acknowledged as is emotionally and fact, homosexual sexually attracted? marriage cannot Given enough even be a sympathetic television consideration. shows and publicity in Since the public favor of such acknowledgement marriages of our literal , why shouldn’t all of these (determined only by popular creation has crumbled, the passive scenarios be allowed? If the opinion.) Maintaining the sanctity acceptance of legally sanctioning definition of marriage is based on of marriage is a losing battle until homosexual unions is essentially nothing more than public opinion; we start with the acknowledgement unstoppable. We are debating from there is no firm basis upon which to of our Creator. The outcome of the shifting sands of opinion instead oppose any of these arrangements. this issue was actually decided of standing on the rock of historical However, if our Creator specifically decades ago when the majority of fact. Our literal creation is the designed man and woman for each Christians stopped fighting for the foundation that determines how we other, then any other arrangement is acknowledgement of creation in deal with every other significant a perversion of our design. public schools. The literal creation social issue. God created Adam and Eve, not of man and woman provides the It is only God’s Word that Adam and Steve. Yet, evolution has only factual historical standard provides the unchangeable become the for human sexual morality. If the foundation upon which to build only allowed creation story is just a myth and we our culture. God’s Word, starting explanation for our existence. did evolve from ape-like creatures; from the very first chapter of The evidence for creation is the Bible is clearly wrong in its Genesis, is invariably confirmed censored from our public schools statements concerning our origin. by scientific research and by being labeled If the Bible is wrong about its clear observation of the world around religion statements concerning physical us. The Bible lays the framework in spite of the fact that this matters; why should it be trusted for correctly understanding evidence comes from every area on moral matters such as marriage? physical evidence from biology, of science including biochemistry, Instead of allowing the evidence geology, anthropology, sociology, geology, and physics. By to be taught that we are made in cosmology, and every other natural suppressing the scientific the image of God, we are allowing science that we had a divine

112 Evolution & Creation Mix like Oil & Wa- By Bruce Malone Francis Bacon and most of The reason that the evidence for the Jews, and the rise of Marxism the founders of modern science creation is not commonly known is and Communism. It also serves clearly understood that science because our public school system as the primary justification for could not replace faith in Christ. has become increasingly dominated disbelief in God. Although They realized that without an believers in evolution acknowledgment of God, the attempt to distance present could not be adequately themselves from explained. Furthermore, taking their theory these outstanding scientists into a social realm, had stamina to proceed with these historical scientific inquiry only because atrocities are the of their confidence that an undeniable result orderly universe had to have of taking evolution had a designer. This trust in the to its logical existence of a personal God, conclusion. If we who fashioned an intricate, are a product of interwoven universe, provided by the philosophy of humanism. biological forces; why not extend the foundation upon which to The very basis of humanism is that these forces into our dealing with proceed with scientific inquiry. man, not God, is the center and other humans? Animal groups do Today’s intellectuals have lost measure of all things. Evolution not lament wiping each other out in this foundational understanding serves as the primary justification order to survive. Why shouldn’t we of the purpose of science. The for this belief system. Thus, be the same; if we are just part of an very definition of ‘science’ has evolution is presented as fact in evolutionary process which formed been altered from “acknowledged truths and laws, especially as the public school system and only us? Creation is the event which demonstrated by induction, evidence supporting this concept is ultimately gives life value because shown to students. Yet, evolution it links every human’s value to our experiment, or observation” (1934 edition of Webster’s New stands in sharp opposition to a Creator who loved us enough to die School dictionary) to “knowledge Biblical worldview in the following for us. Evolution is the opposite. concerning the physical world and ways: Abundant scientific evidence its phenomena” (1983 edition of ⇒ The Bible states ten times that exists that microbe to man evolution Websters Collegiate dictionary). life reproduces only after its own has never taken place. The fossil This definition removes the idea kind. This is certainly true as we record shows no credible links that “truth” exists and relies solely observe the biological world around between major groups of plants and on “natural phenomena.” By us. Dogs stay dogs, and people stay animals. The chemical structure of this modern definition, God’s people. Yet evolution preaches that DNA contains useful information intervention cannot even be all life is a blurred continuum. which could not have developed considered because science has ⇒ The God of the Bible by natural processes. Also, there is been defined to exclude this demands unselfish sacrifice for the abundant evidence for a worldwide possibility. good of others. “...whosoever will flood which undermines the Truth operates regardless of the be chief among you, let him be your possibility that evolution could have opinions of man, just as gravity servant. happened. operates independent of belief, (Matthew 20:27) Would this Evolution is a religious understanding, or interpretation. If same God use a method of dead philosophy unsupported by the the universe and mankind are direct ends, extinctions, and survival of majority of scientific observations. creations of a personally involved the fittest to make us? Its power to influence society has God; then man’s opinions and ⇒ Belief in evolution justified been a detriment to true scientific interpretations cannot change this the excesses of the industrial advancement. truth. revolution, the Nazi elimination of

113 Sharing the Truth does make a Difference By Mark & Pam Johnson The year was 1999 and the balance. Could common folks have but a credible presentation of Kansas State School board dared to a say in what was taught in their scientific facts. Monies to fund the modify the state science curriculum schools? Was there any tool that project were secured by sending to allow the dogma of evolution to enabled people to hear informative, letters to those who seemed to take be questioned. Not to teach Biblical straightforward answers concerning an interest in our effort. A sample creation... merely to allow evolution the creation/evolution chasm? article was included with the letter to be critically examined. The After hearing Bruce Malone to give potential supporters a taste national media went crazy, accusing speak passionately on Twin Cities of the writings involved. Funds Kansas of driving its children back radio station WCTS, about the need flowed in and the job began. The into the dark ages. The result - to get the evidence for creation series was launched on February 9, every school board member was into our schools, Jean Ekblad of 2005, wrapping up with the final replaced in the next election and Grantsburg was filled with resolve. article in the August 17 edition. the original curriculum, allowing There was a tool which gave In the midst of the newspaper only the one-sided evolutionary clear answers. After reviewing run was the April school board propaganda, was returned. Search for the Truth, Mrs. Ekblad election. The origins science Fast forward to the small, was convinced that this was what curriculum was a pivotal issue and rural community of Grantsburg, Grantsburg needed. Soon the book candidates were quite candid with Wisconson, in the fall of 2004. was in our hands and ideas began to their views. The future of origins Population - 1364. Nothing formulate as to how to employ the teaching was on the line. This noteworthy of special attention Search articles in our community. election came down as the closest could happen here. Or could With well-researched, ready-to- vote in Grantsburg’s history, with it? While reviewing the science print articles, the process was the scale barely tipping in the favor curriculum, the school board unbelievably simplified. of those who stood for creation and decided to open the door to A small band of interested and absolute truth. It allowed students critical thinking with regard to concerned people formed -- naming to view all of the evidence for their origins. In doing so, the gate our enterprise origin. Every school board member swung open to those that oppose Beacon of Truth who desired to allow students the such considerations for public . This grass-roots board had freedom to view the evidence for school students. This was not a a mission: -- allow people, often creation was elected. Perhaps, our simple, run of the mill rubber- for the first time, to read about humble newspaper articles caused stamped review. No, this time the the scientific evidence for the some to stop, think, and vote for science curriculum was critically reality of Biblical creation. Just truth. Perhaps, it made others scrutinized in a controversial as Samuel Adams influenced the reconsider issues they deemed as endeavor which had the potential to early colonists through his written scientific absolutes. We will not polarize the close-knit community. reports, Bruce Malone’s writings know this side of eternity. We do Suddenly, heads turned, petitions had the propensity to herald the believe, though, that attempting were put in place, and lawsuits truth in our community about to make a difference has made a threatened to intimidate the district. origins -- and in communities difference. Opinions flew; tempers flared. everywhere. After establishing We are a small, rural The curriculum change was THE a connection with the Burnett community. Our population is still talk of the town with much ink in County Sentinel editor, plans were growing. Good things happen when the newspaper. Even the national made to begin printing weekly the people of a community dare media turned its powerful spotlight articles. The newspaper run would to make a difference. It happened on Grantsburg in an effort to last for six months, furnishing 28 here. influence the activities of this tiny well-written articles to Burnett Mark & Pam Johnson are concerned town in rural America. County subscribers. As footnotes parents from Grantsburg, WI. Creation vs. evolution was again documented each article, the on the hot seat. Truth hung in the information was not just opinions,

114 Section VI: Creation, Christianity, and the Value of Life

115 116 Chapter 6

How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him whom they have not heard?...How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring tidings of good things!” As noted in the introduction, this book has been written for the purpose of sharing, duplicating, and distributing the good news that we have a creator and a redeemer. Unless people understand that they have rebelled against their Creator, they do not really understand that they are sinners. Therefore, the idea that they need a redeemer is foolishness to them. Not everyone is called to start a newspaper campaign to expose the faulty logic, poor science, and circular reasoning of evolutionism. However, if one person in every community would make the effort to do so, it would make an eternal difference in many people’s lives. Furthermore, this is a project that anyone from a teenager to a senior citizen can undertake because the work has already been done. In the back of this book there is a CD with all of the individual articles formatted in a MicroSoft WordTM document. The illustrations for each of the articles are place in a separate file so that each page can be easily formatted to fit the desired newspaper or newsletter space. In addition, the CD contains a audio file with a 45 minute talk on the relevance the Biblical creation model and a 15 minute sample of the Search for the Truth radio program. All of this comes with permission to reproduce and share with others. It would be appreciated if you would inform us at Truth for the Search Ministries if you are planning to use any of our materials. We can be reached at www.searchforthetruth.net. Sharing the information in this book benefits everyone. The newspaper sells ad space and people in the community are exposed to a perspective they are unlikely to get anywhere else. It is a win-win situation for everybody except those who don’t want the Biblical worldview to reach beyond church walls. The most effective method of printing Search is to buy space in small community weekly newspapers. In this way Search is in every issue and the cost will be much lower than in a large circulation city newspaper. The articles tend to get lost in large city newspapers. In addition, the articles make excellent additions to any church newsletter. It is appalling how little the typical Christian knows about the scientific evidence for creation. The following tips may help as you consider whether this is something you would like to try in your community: 1. This is not an intellectual battle, but a spiritual battle. We wrestle not against flesh and blood...but against the spiritual wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6:12). Pray about this. Present the concept of putting these articles into a public newspaper to some trusted friends and most importantly, take it before the Lord in prayer. If you get the confirmation to proceed; present the idea to your pastor and church. Make sure you have the full support of a core group of Christian friends before proceeding because you will likely be ridiculed and attacked. You will need their support. 2. Rotate subjects. Do not run more than 3 weeks in a row from the same subject, but try to hit all of the basics over the first 6 months. Watch the news and published stories that relate to hot topics. When the latest discovery of a new planet is announced, print an article showing the absolute impossibility of life forming by chance. On the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade; print an article on the value of life. Around Christmas or Easter print the basic Christianity series. When the latest ape-man fossil is found; print an article from the anthropology section on the bias involved in this search or the history of mistakes and deception involved in this area. 3. Sign up people to pray for the articles each week. I have found that a rotating list of seriously interested people works well. Divide up the names so there are 2 - 4 people praying each week. Send them an advance copy of the article that they are to lift up in prayer that week. This is ultimately a spiritual battle rather than an intellectual battle. Without prayer nothing will be accomplished. 4. Plan to run the articles for at least 6 months. It will take awhile to build the case for creation and shatter the blindness that has been built up over many years of evolutionary teaching. 5. Expect opposition and do not expect everyone to embrace the truth. 6. Even if you can personally pay for the project…don’t. People are more intimately involved in a ministry; if 117 they have financially contributed toward it. As hard as it is to ask for donations for a project, this helps others to buy into the vision. 7. As letters to the editor are written attacking Search, respond with a letter which shows how the facts of science support creation. Examples are shown in Appendix II (page 135 - 137). Every attack is an opportunity to teach the truth and letters to the editor are the most read part of a newspaper. Consider it an honor to be attacked for your Christian beliefs. It means you are having an effect. There is adequate information contained within this book to counter most objections. Feel free to reword and use any of the articles in this book, expressed in your own words, in reply to letters to the editor. Most papers will print a well worded articulate response to a personal attack. Never resort to personal attacks and name calling in your response (as many evolution believers do). This does not mean that we should not point out errors and outright lies, but we should always do it in a respectful way. 8. Add your own material or get permission to reprint materials from other authors. It will help maintain continuity if the material is related to science or creation. a. Keep the same format. b. Avoid becoming preachy. There will be time for that in personal interactions. Such a tone will cause the people you hope to reach to tune out. Do not turn the column into the sermon of the week. c. Have a trusted friend review and proofread your writing. We can be totally blind to our own errors and tone. d. Add a quote or illustration to each article to break up the text, make it more readable, and draw the reader to the article. 9. Simply do the following for each article to be published: a. Decide on which article to publish and provide the electronic version to the newspaper office. b. Proofread the final version and approve its location before publication.

Write to me if you have any comments or questions. Search for the Truth Ministries will gladly help you in any way we can. We can be reached at [email protected], www.searchforthetruth.org, or Bruce Malone, 3275 Monroe Rd., Midland, MI 48642. We would appreciate hearing about any comments and experiences you have. Hopefully, I’ll be able to share them with others in the next edition! May Jesus richly bless you as you seek to serve Him in whatever way He has prepared for you.

118 Suppose By Bruce Malone Suppose, just hypothetically, that not surrounded by perfection (an layers of stone, sometimes miles you are an infinitely powerful god. intolerable situation). You sentence deep, stand as a timeless silent Suppose you have the power to mankind to a physical death so testimony to the consequences create the entire universe, in all of that he will not live for eternity of sin. In mercy, however, you its complexity, and to see in minute separated from you. However, this preserved one family, because you detail the consequences of your does not solve the problem, you have a plan. actions. Because you have created still love these people and they Suppose that before the mud the entire universe, you had dried, it started all are not part of it and over again. Instead of you can see everything spreading out over the that has happened or earth as you told mankind will ever happen within to do, they chose to stay that universe from the in one place and start a beginning of time (time monument to their own is part of the physical glory. Before they can universe) until the end of complete their monument “time”. and turn to pagan Within this entire vast worship, you confuse universe you decided their languages so they to create one special are forced to spread planet made specifically across the globe. Now, for one special creature. you begin to select one This creature was not special group of people to be controlled by for one very special instincts but by free purpose. will. This creature still cannot live in your presence You select one man was to be capable of deciding because they have rejected you. and reveal a small part of your whether or not to love his maker But you have a plan. It’s the plan plan to him. Your plan will span enough to obey him. You decided you had from before you ever thousands of years and involve upon this risky course of action started creating the universe. millions of people. It is a plan because you wanted this creature You begin to teach mankind the which could not be implemented to love, respond, and communicate eternal laws with which you built by anyone but the creator of the with you from his own conscious the universe. Not only physical universe. You promise to make desires. This creature occupied laws, but moral laws such as, a great nation of this man named a very special place in your plan. “murder is wrong”, “worship only Abraham and to bless the entire In fact, everything else in the God”, and “love your neighbor”. world through him. In spite of his entire universe was created for the And the results? Cain kills his repeated failures, you do not reject appreciation of this creature. brother Abel, men worship idols, him but patiently continue to train Suppose that this creature was and violence spreads across the him. Finally, you test his obedience mankind and this universe was earth. You demonstrate how much by asking this father to kill his son... our universe. Suppose that these you hate sin by destroying the his only beloved son...on a lonely humans you created decide to spit entire earth with a worldwide flood. hillside. You start to lay a pattern in your face and reject you. Since The earth is filled with sediment for something to come. you are god, you cannot tolerate clogged with the carcasses of the the presence of that which is now creatures you had created. Over To Be Continued... imperfect (mankind), so out of time the sediment hardens into rock mercy you decide to curse all of filled with fossilized bones from the creation so that imperfect man was perfect world you had created. The

119 You Have a Plan By Bruce Malone Suppose you are God and decide something other than themselves obey. Time after time, you send to lead a special group of people because they can never pay for their messengers to tell your people out of ancient Egypt where they had own sins. You teach them that life how they are to behave. However, been slaves for almost 500 years. giving water comes from a rock. always they drift back into their At the right time, you bring them You teach them that it is only by evil ways. You tell them over and out of Egypt with an incredible the shedding of innocent blood that over again that you are going to display of mighty send them a Savior. You miracles. In one final tell them where He will demonstration of your be born. You tell them, power, you show them hundreds of years before that just by covering it happens, the exact their dwelling with day when He will enter the blood of the Jerusalem and declare most innocent of Himself their eternal King. creatures -- a lamb, You tell them that He that they can be will become their eternal spared judgment. sacrifice so that they You continue to teach can end their pitiful and them a pattern. You hopeless pursuit of trying then bring deserved to work their way into judgment on an evil your favor. You describe Egyptian nation and specific details of future kill the firstborn child events over 300 times so in every household. You separate their sins can be forgiven. Each they will know it is you speaking your people from the influence year they must bring an innocent with them. Their response is to of an evil world. You bring them creature - a spotless lamb - and slit kill the messengers who bring your through a sea with a wall of water its throat in a gruesome, bloody promises and prophecies. But you on their right and a wall of water on sacrifice. It makes no sense, but love these people. Through them, their left to demonstrate that they you are laying a pattern. you will show all people how much are being baptized into a new life. Suppose that after 40 years in you love them. The time for your Yet, incredibly, they immediately the wilderness, you decide that it plan has come.The time to complete return to their evil ways. They is finally time to bring them into the plan which you conceived build idols to other gods. They a special land made just for them. before laying the foundation of the refuse to enter the land which you You delay until the people living universe -- the plan started before have provided. They are a stubborn in that land had been given every the first molecule was created and people. But you have a plan. possible opportunity to turn from the first electromagnetic wave Suppose you allow your chosen their wicked ways. Then you win appeared... the plan laid out before people to spend 40 years wandering battle after battle for your people. the first animal was made and you in the wilderness in order to teach You show them that you are giving breathed life, spirit, and part of them many lessons. You teach this land to them. You drop walls yourself into these people whom them that they must depend wholly of impregnable cities... You hurtle you love so much... You become a on you for their sustenance and meteorites from space to destroy man. Permanently, for all eternity, that they must come back to you enemy armies... You stop the sun in you become human. each day for refilling. You teach the sky at their request... You drop them that they will be healed only giants with a single stone... You To Be Continued... by a symbol of sin raised up on destroy entire enemy armies at the a wooden pole. You teach them request of those who love you. that they must put their sins upon Yet, your people still refuse to

120 Not What They Expected By Bruce Malone Suppose, at just the right time, you are not whom they expected. humanity. You are the innocent thousands of years after history Suppose that the climax, which lamb sacrificed for others. began, it was time to demonstrate has been building since man first Suppose that three days later you to humanity what love means. You sinned, arrives. You pray for some rise from the dead to show them did not come to earth as an arrogant other way to save mankind from his all that... at long last, they can have ruler... but as a humble servant to sin and to restore fellowship with victory over death. Death has lost wash the feet of others. You did you. But there is no other way. its sting. You have shown that there not arrive with fanfare and pomp, You allow yourself to be taken. is nothing they can do to bridge the but left the glory of heaven chasm between themselves to become a baby born in an and their Maker... you have animal stall. Your prophets had done it all. Your forgiveness told of this... but this was not is free but they must love you what was expected. more than their wickedness. Suppose that you start your You have shown them that ministry to your people by there is no other way. There announcing that you are the is no religious system by Lamb who has come to take which they can earn their way away the sins of the world. to heaven. They have been Surely, they will understand the trying to cover their sins with implication after 4000 years fig leaves from the very start. of teaching. You demonstrate But this was not what they who you are by healing You make no defense in mock expected. sickness, casting out demons and trial after mock trial because the The plan is finally completed. controlling creation. Yet, they still one you represent (mankind) is The path back to you is open to all follow you with their stomachs guilty and deserves judgment. who are willing to accept it. You and not their hearts. Your prophets You allow Satan to pour his fury have done everything you could had told them these things would out upon you. You are beaten possibly do to restore fellowship happen, but this was not what they so severely that you hardly look between sinful man and yourself. expected. human. You are whipped until your You have satisfied the perfect Suppose you spend three years back resembles raw hamburger. justice required of your nature. patiently teaching your people Your beard is ripped out, thorns You have shown absolute mercy by how to live and who you are. You are thrust onto your head, you are providing a bridge over the chasm repeatedly teach them that you are slapped, cursed, and spit upon. between sinful man and a perfect the rock upon which they must Nails are driven through your God. You took the penalty which build their lives. You hate the feet and wrists and you are left they deserved. You have made it so arrogant lie that Your children can hanging on a pole to die. You could simple that anyone can understand earn their way into Your presence. destroy the entire universe with a it. You have done it all. But it was Your character is justice and justice word, but you chose instead...to not what they expected. requires payment for sin. Yet no suffer. You become that symbol of Suppose that this is all true. It is man can pay the price. Throughout sin lifted on a pole which will heal history. It is Christianity. history Satan has deceived your your people. children into believing that religion You become sin and take the It is reality. can save them. You expose the penalty humanity deserves. You lies and hypocrisy of salvation by pay the price for every sin ever religious acts. You hate religion. committed by every person in Your harshest words are for these the past, present, and future. The religious leaders. They are the ones anguish is incomprehensible. who should know you best... but Your blood is shed for the sins of

121 Only One Cure for this Disease By Bruce Malone How can human depravity and into having abortions, and the To confront abortion as an putrid sin be explained? What tens of millions who have a friend unbridled atrocity results in a would have caused the Germans who has had an abortion, will shutdown of communication. in Hitler’s concentration camps find it very difficult to remain However, to say nothing is not to torture and slaughter millions objective about this subject. We helpful to those who are already of innocent Jewish civilians? condemned by their own actions. Most of those involved were not Modern psychology has confirmed depraved maniacs, but ordinary, what the Bible has taught for and often highly educated, thousands of years. Until guilt people. Particularly puzzling is admitted, no healing can is the action of the physicians take place. Modern man is involved in vile human increasingly trying to deal with experimentation. What would guilt by denying that sin, or cause doctors to torture and even guilt, exists. Other people mutilate? Robert Lifton sought are guilty... but never us. All an answer to this question in his religions, except Christianity, book, The Nazi Doctors. What attempt to “pay off” guilt by Lifton found was a universal some retributive behavior. denial of guilt! The doctors Neither of these strategies for whom he interviewed either dealing with the reality of guilt refused to accept responsibility, will work. Humans feel guilty denied wrongdoing, or blamed because they live in the reality of the situation in which they were a holy God’s existence. We are trapped. According to Lifton, guilty. The very nature of a just “... not a single former Nazi God requires repentance before doctor I spoke to arrived at a forgiveness can take place. Until clear, ethical evaluation of what we admit our sins, repent, and he had done or what he had been accept His sacrifice as payment, a part of.”1 we can never be truly free. Such a clear window into all seem to have the built in ability As painful as it may be to human nature should serve as a to guard ourselves from the pain admit wrongdoing, the benefit of warning beacon to each of us. We of responsibility by denial and knowing you are forgiven by the have an unquenchable desire to justification. To acknowledge Creator of the universe is worth the consider ourselves innocent. Yet, guilt is to admit that some payment pain of acknowledgment. After deep down, we all know that we for the wrongful act is required. admission of guilt there must be are guilty. Abortion is ground Yet, what payment could provide more than regret. Admission of zero in the value of life discussion. adequate retribution for ending guilt is just the first step and regret Conception is the point when a the life of an innocent baby? The is not the same as repentance. fetus” becomes a baby. The Bible almost infinite ability of humanity Repentance is a 180 degree change clearly speaks of unborn children to justify evil is part of the basic in thinking and actions. It is only as human beings2 and makes no nature of sin which goes back to by turning away from the darkness distinction between the value of the very foundation of humanity. you can see the light. babies before or after they are Adam’s response to his sin was to 1. Lifton, Robert, The Nazi Doctors, born. To discard unborn children is hide the sin (denial); to blame Eve New York: Basic Books, 1986. equivalent to playing God. for the sin (rationalization), and to 2. Psalm 139:13-16, Isaiah 49:1, Those closest to the abortion refuse to accept responsibility for Jeremiah 1:5, Judges 13:3, 6-7, Job issue - the millions of women who the sin: “... the woman YOU 3:3, Job 10:18-19, Ecclesiates 11:5. have had abortions, the millions sent gave the fruit to me.3 ” 3. Genesis 3: 10-13 of men who have coerced women (Justification)

122 Verbicide: The Murder of a Word By Bruce Malone Over 80% of born again fundamentals of the Christian faith love, care, hope, and justice for Christian youth no longer accept undergo a remarkable change to all people, they do not hesitate to that unchangeable truth exists.1, become more productive citizens. point out behavior which is harmful 2 One of the consequences of What are these fundamentals? That or sinful (the two are actually this rejection of absolute truth the Bible is inspired by the Holy synonymous). To neglect to speak is passively accepting the Spirit and therefore without error out on these issues is not love, but manipulation of words to advance (interpretation can be erroneous apathy. a cause. For instance, although but not original content); Jesus Chuck Colson is a the word “gay” was living example of how traditionally defined as acknowledging Jesus a state of happiness, it Christ as Lord and has been appropriated Savior, and the to describe a group of Bible as truth, can people who clinically change a person’s exhibit a much lower life and attitudes. level of happiness than He was Richard the general population. Nixon’s right hand “Choice” has been used man during the as a banner to remove heyday of President the most basic freedom Nixon’s power. (the freedom to live) By his and others’ from the most innocent of life (an Christ is God; He died to pay admission, he would have steam unborn child). “Family” has had the penalty for our sins and only rolled over his own grandmother to the long standing definition of a by believing this and receiving maintain his position. Twenty-five mother or father with children. It Christ as Savior can you “get years after his conversion to the is currently being redefined to right” with God (John 1:12); He fundamental truths of Christianity, mean any group of people who rose from the dead; He will return he still runs a worldwide nonprofit reside together for any length of again. Either these things are ministry to prison inmates. He time. Rather than adding dignity to true or they are not. Believing daily confronts inmates with non-family groups, it undermines them makes you a Christian and a the reality of their sinfulness, traditional families, the basic fundamentalist regardless of your but always with love toward the building block of society. Of particular denomination. Likewise, person. Chuck will often hug particular concern in our society not believing them means you inmates who are dying of AIDS is the negative use of the word are not a Christian in the Biblical as a demonstration of his love for “fundamentalist”. understanding of the term. human beings made in the image of Fundamentalist is frequently The Christian faith has never God. used as a label for any individual been a blind faith. Christianity The next time you hear about or group of people who are accused describes the world around us, a fundamentalist don’t picture of having closed minds and of explains our history, and has a someone who has a closed mind being hate filled and bigoted. It positive effect upon the lives of or is hateful and bigoted. Rather is typically used as the ultimate those who embrace it. This is not picture someone who would lay insult for those who dare oppose to say that Christians are perfect down his life in defense of the the politically correct values people or that the Church has Christian principles upon which of the liberal media. However, never erred. Christians are wrong America was founded. accepting the fundamental beliefs whenever they exhibit a hateful of Christianity does not make you a attitude. A true follower of Jesus 1. Josh McDowell, The Last dangerous fanatic. On the contrary, will freely admit this. Although, the Christian Generation, Green Key Books, 2006. those who truly accept the classic absolute truths of Christianity teach

123 That’s One Body that will Never be Found By Bruce Malone Christianity centers on the manuscripts of the New Testament followers, the religious leaders feared that they might try to steal the body. resurrection of Jesus Christ almost Bible which are essentially identical to our modern translation.1 The Therefore, they had the tomb sealed by 2000 years ago. Did it happen the Roman government and guarded or not? If this event actually oldest manuscript has been dated to within a single generation of the tomb around the clock. Several happened; it is not only the focal days later, the tomb was found empty, point of Christianity, it is the most the events described. If Caesar or except for the burial cloths which important event of all human history. If Jesus Christ rose from the dead after three days in the grave just as He predicted on four occasions prior to His death; then why would we doubt other statements He made while here on made it appear as if the body had just earth? How do we know that the Aristotle were real people and if we disappeared out of them (they had not account of the resurrection of Christ have an accurate account of their been unraveled). The massive stone was not a complete hoax? How lives and statements; there is far sealing the tomb had been moved away from the entrance. Jesus appeared do we know that Jesus Christ even greater evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ, the accuracy of His on numerous times to many groups existed? of people. On one occasion He was Historians judge the accuracy statements, and the reality of the events surrounding His life. This is recognized by 500 people. The body of ancient documents by several was never found... criteria. The most important of the account of Jesus death: Either these events Prior to His death, Jesus claimed these criteria are the total number of happened…...or they didn’t. to be God and stated that He had not The documents describing these ancient manuscripts, the time-span come to earth to bring peace among between the actual event described men but to make the ultimate sacrifice events were widely distributed and the oldest manuscript, and how in payment for mankind’s rebellion during the lifetime of those who well the events described by the against God. Because He claimed to be had witnessed them and could have manuscript are confirmed by other God, the religious authorities had him been refuted were they not factual. historical events or manuscripts. crucified. This form of death was so Not only were the accounts not No other ancient document even excruciatingly painful that no Roman refuted, Christianity transformed approaches the Bible for accuracy, citizen was allowed to be put to death the entire Roman world in spite total copies available, or effect upon in this way. Before Jesus was nailed of incredible persecution. The Western culture and thought. For to the cross, He was beaten beyond amazing effect that Christianity recognition. His final words were, “It has had on Western civilization is instance, we have only 10 ancient is finished.” The exact same words documents describing the Gallia were written on paid bills to mean, undeniable. In the face of these wars of Julius Caesar and the “Paid in full.” facts, what excuse do we have for oldest available document is 1000 The body of Jesus was pierced denying the claims of Jesus Christ? years removed from the events with a spear to assure that He was 1. McDowell, Josh and Hostetler, described. We have only 5 ancient dead, tightly wrapped in strips of cloth Bob, Don’t Check your Brains at coated with spices, and placed into a documents describing the life and the Door, pp.52, Word Publishing, work of Aristotle and the oldest sealed tomb. After His execution, his 1992. copy is 1400 years removed from closest friends fled and even denied the events described. In contrast, that they knew Him. In spite of this demonstration of cowardice by His there are over 2,000 ancient

124 History Validates the Resurrection By Bruce Malone Christianity is a faith based on thinking will discard this idea as has been around since before the real events which really happened pure nonsense. The very idea moment of resurrection -- the idea in time and space. It is not a of a man reviving after he has that the disciples stole the body. mystical faith based on good been brutally beaten, nailed to a The religious leaders who had Jesus feelings. The miracles of Jesus cross, pierced with a spear, and murdered, feared this possibility were His calling card; i.e., the tightly wrapped with suffocating and took the logical precautions to validation of His prevent this from claim to be God. happening. The The resurrection sealed tomb was was His proof of guarded day and identification. Even night. How could more importantly, a group of “rag tag” the death and Jewish fishermen resurrection of Jesus have overpowered were God’s method a group of highly for sinful mankind trained and to stand forgiven motivated guards? before Him. God’s How could they nature demands have moved a huge payment for stone and sneaked wrongdoing, yet He away with the is merciful beyond body unseen and comprehension. unheard? The very How can these two fact that guards contrasting sides of were posted adds God be reconciled? credibility to the Without acknowledgment of the cloth is ridiculous. For such a fact of the resurrection. If any of factual nature of the resurrection, person to push aside a huge stone the details reported in the Bible Christianity is nothing but smoke and sneak past trained guards is were false; they would have been and mirrors; just another spiritual ludicrous. Even more remarkable successfully refuted by the Jewish attempt to explain reality based was the effect the appearance of leaders. Although they tried, on man’s opinion. The two most Jesus had on His disciples. They they were unsuccessful in their prevalent attempts to explain were transformed from a group of attempt to discredit the facts of the away Christ’s resurrection will be sniveling cowards into men who resurrection. Evidence for the truth examined in this article. In spite traveled the world, preaching that of the resurrection was apparent of the obvious historical accuracy Jesus was God and had risen from to the thousands who converted to of the Bible, there have been many the dead. Because of their message, Christianity soon after the event. alternative explanations for the all but John died horrible deaths The rapid spread of this persecuted missing body of Christ. Liberal of torture. Merely changing their faith is perhaps the greatest theologians have even speculated story would have spared them this evidence of its reality. The facts that Christ’s body ended up in a persecution. They had absolutely of the resurrection were checked ditch. Yet, Jewish laws would nothing to gain and everything by converts of that day and led to never have allowed this. to lose if their story wasn’t true. changed lives. They still do today. The most popular excuse for Would a half-dead Jesus, who had Christianity has nothing to fear rejecting Christianity is the idea dragged Himself from the tomb to from those honestly searching for that Christ did not really die on their doorstep, have inspired this the truth. It is based on logical the cross. Although this has been response? evidence surrounding real events in suggested in recent years, rational The second attack on reality time and space.

125 Pro-Abortion Arguments are Deceptive By Bruce Malone Justification is not a neutral the time, is of a different sex. An than killing them before birth. This term. It implies that something has unborn child carries innumerable was no idle gesture. Dedicated been done that needs to be excused. characteristics that distinguish it Christians are willing to raise these Wherever there is justification, from its mother. children regardless of race or other there is sin. A myriad of common The most basic purpose of circumstances surrounding the excuses are used for the purpose any society is to provide justice child’s conception. If the money of justifying abortion. Perhaps and assure order. Almost every our government has put into the sheer number of excuses is an law places some kind of control encouraging abortions was used to indication of just how difficult it is over how we use our bodies. We streamline and encourage adoption; to justify. are not free to strike other people there wouldn’t be any unwanted It’s A Fetus - not a baby except in self defense, drive a car babies. Calling a baby a fetus is mere in a reckless manner, or steal the Some Babies are Better semantics. Labeling an unborn property of others. For the good of off not being Born child by the scientific Does the prospect of poverty or name is purely an physical handicap justify disposing effort to depersonalize of a child before it is born? If so, the baby in order to why not use the same rational to make the process dispose of a child after it is born? of disposing of the Countless accounts of marvelous baby less emotionally accomplishments by physically painful. Any woman handicapped people attest to the who plans to keep her remarkable value of every human child immediately refers life. Helen Keller (deaf and blind) to the child as a baby. and Steven Hawkins (a brilliant No one asks, “What are physicist who can currently control you going to call your nothing, but eye movement) are just fetus?” As soon as sperm and egg society as a whole, we are not even two examples that show a person’s combine, a new human is the result. allowed to use certain addictive worth is not dependent upon a Biologically and physically, the drugs or commit suicide. Justifying perfect body. Even more numerous baby is a completely separate entity the disposal of an unborn baby by are people who have risen to the from the mother. The baby is only claiming it is part of the woman’s height of human accomplishment dependent on the mother for time body is biologically illogical and from the depths of human poverty. and nutrition to survive. Women do culturally inconsistent with other If there is any established fact of not give birth to guppies, cabbages, laws which protect innocent life. human existence, it is that material or blobs of tissue. The only reason Every Child should be a wealth does not assure happiness for calling a baby anything other wanted Child and fulfillment. Disposing of babies based on affordability is the than a baby is to depersonalize it in Everyone is “unwanted” by ultimate in selfishness. It is also order to justify its disposal. someone at sometime, but this the clearest possible representation It’s my Body, I’ll decide is never considered adequate of a lack of trust in the providence what to do with it justification for murder. Why of God! Women in poverty are a As soon as a woman becomes should it be considered valid social concern, but allowing them pregnant, her body becomes two justification for the disposal of to destroy their unborn children bodies. At first a young baby may an unwanted child? There is no has obviously not removed their not resemble a human, but it is shortage of dedicated couples who poverty. Furthermore, our society one, and not long after conception, would gladly adopt and raise a child has certainly not improved in the 40 it is easy to recognize as human. rather than see it aborted. Mother years since it has become The developing baby is a different Theresa pleaded with mothers to legal for mothers to kill their unborn entity from the mother and, half send their children to her rather children.

126 The Intolorance of TRUE Tolorance By Bruce Malone The most highly valued basis upon which to condemn any world insists that all opinions are virtues in our culture were once activity as immoral. In other words, to be respected as equally valid. honesty, bravery, hard work, and unless you are willing to defend the Unfortunately, this rule holds compassion. Today, the most Bible as absolute truth (and there is true only insofar as the world’s highly valued virtue is tolerance. plenty of good objective evidence beliefs are concerned. Take for If you doubt this, ask your child upon which to do so), you have instance, the stance on evolution. what they believe is the Evolutionists insist that most important teaching their view of our origin is of Jesus. I was shocked the ONLY correct answer, a few years ago when the but do not consider response of my son was, themselves Do not judge others intolerant. . However, any Only God can Christians who insist accurately judge a that Biblical creation is person’s heart and we are reality ARE labeled as commanded to forgive intolerant. others but... we are also Biblical tolerance told to hold each other is acknowledging the accountable. How dignity of all people can we hold each other because they have accountable without been created in the judging actions against some image of God. Biblical absolute standard? Even when already lost the battle. You are tolerance is loving homosexuals Jesus forgave the woman caught in merely stating your opinion as to even as you cry over their spiritual adultery his parting words were, what is morally acceptable. Why blindness. Biblical tolerance is Go and sin no more. should your opinion be more valid not persecuting another person than someone else’s opinion? just because they are wrong in A prime example of the removal As soon as we stop reasoning beliefs or actions. However, this of any absolute standard for moral from a foundation which does not mean that there will not judgement is the acceptance of acknowledges an absolute source be consequences to their actions. homosexuality. The Bible clearly of right and wrong (and our entire True love, compassion, and teaches that men and women were legal system was founded on tolerance confronts someone who is created separately for the purpose this principle), it is only a matter destroying their lives with sin. of forming a permanent union in of time before we are forced to If you doubt that the definition order to complete each other. The accept whatever norm society of tolerance has shifted; try telling Bible also clearly and repeatedly decides is acceptable. As we are your co-workers that homosexuality states that homosexuality is a no longer basing right and wrong is a sin or that abortion is the sinful perversion of God’s creation. on the absolute truth of the Bible, execution of an innocent human However, in recent years, both it will not be long before every being. You will be labeled the authority of the Bible and organization from the Boy Scouts intolerant so fast it will make your the acknowledgment of creation to churches is forced to accept head spin. It doesn’t matter that has been rejected by our society. homosexuals as leaders. After all, this is clearly what the Word of Therefore, upon what basis can how dare such organizations be God states. It doesn’t matter that anyone argue that there is anything allowed to be intolerant. the scientific evidence supports that wrong with homosexuality? Once Part of the problem is that the homosexuality is an unhealthy life- a source of absolute truth outside working definition of tolerance style and that abortion is the killing of ourselves (such as the Bible) has been distorted. Today, the of another human being. Since is rejected, there is no logical opinions must all be given equal validity in the name of tolerance, stating that someone else’s opinion 127 Why Should the Innocent Pay? By Bruce Malone This article examines More life, many people have had to bear really became popular after that of the numerous excuses used to different burdens. Fortunately, promise failed.1 “Have sex, take justify abortion. God promises comfort and help a pill, be happy” seems to be the sex education will end in bearing these burdens if we theme surrounding the the need for abortions will only turn toward Him instead morning after This line of reasoning assumes of away from Him. Why should abortion pill. These chemicals that teaching children how to the baby resulting from rape pay are designed to cause a woman’s have sex, without having children, the death penalty while the man body to kill and spew out the baby will prevent abortions. However, responsible for the violent act gets which is growing inside her or to like many abortion prevent the baby from justifications, this flies attaching to the mother’s in the face of reality. womb. In widespread Experience has shown use, they are likely to that morally neutral or cause the deaths of valueless sex education many women from increases experimentation, uncontrolled vaginal 2 pregnancy, and sexually bleeding. In addition, transmitted diseases. they are only 80% to Since 1970, when our 95% effective so many government started major women end up with later contraceptive programs, term surgical abortions teenage pregnancy has to finish the job the increased 87% and teenage abortion pill botched. abortions are up 67%.1 Taking an abortion pill “Safe sex” is a farce... does nothing to quell the Scientific studies have shown that off with a lesser penalty? What did guilt which often accompanies the even under properly controlled the baby do wrong? Should a child killing of an unborn child. Perhaps situations condoms fail to prevent conceived in an act of violence it should be marketed in a twin pack pregnancy as much as 15% of the have to pay the price for that sin? along with a conscience killing pill. time.2 Giving them to teenagers If so, why? For those who insist One final fact: The abortion and implying they allow for “safe on absolute fairness, what is fair pill will not protect women from sex” is ridiculously irresponsible. about ending the life of the unborn the more than 20 incurable and Human beings, including teenagers, child because of what a sinful man potentially deadly venereal diseases are not animals controlled purely has done to an innocent women? which run rampant among the by hormones. Pregnancies can be Furthermore, it will do nothing to general population. Once marketed, prevented much more successfully remove the agony which the woman it will be relied upon to the by teaching young people the has already endured and often detriment of the users. The abortion important and logical reasons just piles guilt on top of the pain. pill is yet another subtle evil which why it is preferable to wait until Two wrongs never... ever, make a will bring harm to the women marriage to have sex. right. Encouraging adoption is the whom it is supposed to help. more compassionate response for rape or incest victims 1. Elise F. Jones, “Contraceptive victimized women. should get abortions Failure in the United States,” Life isn’t fair. We have not lived The Abortion Pill will Family Planning Perspectives, in a paradise since Adam and Eve end need for abortions 21:103 (May /June 1989). chose rebellion over obedience. We Similar promises were made when 2. Lamsey, Lauie, “Abortion Made do not even have the right to expect “THE PILL” was developed in perfection or fairness. Throughout the 50’s with the promise of sex without consequences. Abortions

128 Death with Dignity By Bruce Malone Evil often masquerades as the government to sanction and Dutch system which has allowed good. There is no more fitting promote assisted suicide. Modern the practice for decades should be example than the righteous facade examples of the speed with which enough to chill the effort in other of the “right to die” movement. legitimization takes place can countries. The disposal of people The organizers of this movement be found in both the abortion is so common in Holland that many sound so caring and elderly are afraid to compassionate that many drink their orange people find themselves juice in hospital for unwittingly supporting fear they may be the concept without “helped along” in their comprehending its deaths. As many as consequences. They do 25% of all deaths in not realize, or perhaps that country are now refuse to acknowledge, assisted.1 the effect of legitimized Few deaths are suicide on society. without pain or The crux of the “right discomfort. As to die” discussion is not our bodies wear whether any person has out, discomfort is the right to end his/her inevitable. One life. The real argument person’s unbearable is about whether our pain is another government should person’s testimony sanction the killing of one person “rights” and homosexual “rights” to character. I have witnessed the by another. The right to die crowd movements. Who would have painful and slow death of loved never speaks of the issue in these believed that only a few decades ones. Had those individuals been terms because it is so much easier after legalizing abortion, over pressured to opt for the easy way to sell the idea of “death with 40 MILLION babies would be out, hundreds of others would dignity” or not “forcing” a person to disposed of before birth? have missed living testimonies live in pain. In this day of rights for The inevitable result of a society of courage and faith. Death with everything, the right to be killed by which accepts assisted suicide as a dignity is trusting your Creator the physician of your choice seems social norm will be the subtle (and rather than pretending that you to be the latest in an ever growing later not so subtle) pressure on older don’t have one. list. Americans to allow themselves to We live in an age where there The fact remains that people be killed. Assisted suicide laws are more drugs for pain suppression can kill themselves any time they start with many limitations, but than at any other time in history, yet want to. No government on earth history has shown the limitations we are on the verge of legalizing can prevent its citizens from killing are soon ignored. As the massive murder as the compassionate themselves. From drug overdoses group of baby boomers head toward solution to stopping pain! Death to carbon monoxide poisoning, retirement, the pressure on older is a door through which each of us there are dozens of ways people Americans to commit suicide will must pass. Let us leave the handle end their lives. What the right mushroom. By pushing to legalize of that door in the hand of Jesus, to die advocates are really after murder and make the act of suicide who knows what we have left to is the legitimization of suicide. easier, we are creating our own hell accomplish for Him on this side of By making an activity legal, it on earth. the door. quickly becomes legitimate in Rather than speculating on the 1. Rita Marker, The International the eyes of many. Euthanasia cultural effect of legalizing doctor- Anti-euthanasia Task Force, from an advocates ultimately wish to use assisted suicide, a look at the interview with James Dobson broadcast

129 From Goo to You by Way of the Zoo By Bruce Malone On June 10, 1993, President once it has been removed from the most widely accepted explanation Clinton signed a document mother’s birth canal. Therefore, one for our origin. Thus, almost a allowing for taxpayer money to abortion technique is to use forceps century after this historic trial, we fund research using aborted baby to pull everything except the baby’s have reached the point in America parts. With the stroke of a pen, head out of the mother’s body. The where our children are being taught abortion was given an appearance skull is then crushed and the brain that evolution is a fact and that we of legitimacy. In anticipation of is sucked out. After the brain has all came from simple life forms by this event, Newsweek magazine been removed, the baby’s body is natural processes. Is it any wonder devoted its February classes on self esteem 22 , 1993 cover story are now necessary? to “Cures from the As one writer aptly Womb.” Dr. Gary described the situation, Hodgen, a researcher we are teaching our at Eastern Virginia children that, Medical College, You came from goo by stated that President way of the zoo.” The Clinton’s January atrocity and injustice 23 announcement of using the most supporting fetal tissue helpless of human investigations was “the lives for research greatest day for science could be tolerated since the Scopes’ only after our society Monkey Trial.” was conditioned to Why would accept that there is these two seemingly nothing particularly unrelated events be singled out sliced open and other desired parts sacred about human life. If we are as the most significant advances are extracted. just highly evolved animals; then in science in the last century? Even at 3 months, the baby why not do everything possible to Why bypass all of the incredible looks like a miniature human being. understand our biological situation scientific advances of the twentieth It has brain waves, a functioning and improve it -- even if this entails century and link the Scopes’ heart, and miniature human organs sacrificing a few million babies in monkey trial to the legitimization of (which is why the researcher is the process? As the great Christian research on aborted babies? interested in extracting them). philosopher, Francis Schaeffer, To answer this, the reader must What events have led our society predicted, once a source of absolute understand both the reality of fetal down this immoral, barbaric, low truth is denied, we will increasingly research and the significance of road? ignore injustice and tragedy in the Scopes’ monkey trial. Some In 1925, the ACLU set in order to maintain personal peace fetal research is most effectively motion the events leading to and affluence.1 Complacency has carried out on fetal parts which are one of the most famous trials in replaced the striving for truth and as fresh as possible. Brain cells and history - the Scopes’ monkey trial. freedom upon which this country organs of a baby deteriorate rapidly There has been both inaccurate was founded. The right for an once deprived of oxygen so they and biased reporting of the events unborn child to live has already are more valuable for research if surrounding this trial, but the result been removed. We should carefully they are extracted while the baby is undeniable. The Scopes’ trial ponder whose rights and lives will is still alive. However, this is a was a turning point in American be curtailed next. complication for the abortionist education. The accuracy of the because legally every effort must be Bible was openly ridiculed and 1. Francis Schaeffer, How Should We made to keep a breathing baby alive evolution replaced creation as the Then Live?, Crossway Books, 1976.

130 Trust is Faith Acted out in Obedience By Bruce Malone Two words summarize most itself unsatisfying and we will 3. Since God is outside time, of the teaching of the Bible, and look for some other source of He instantly sees the past, the if followed, lead to an incredibly meaning, purpose, and peace. present, and the future. Even fulfilling life. Yet, few people Only a real relationship with the before the first molecule was succeed in implementing this One who created each of us can created and time began, God knew simple Biblical principle. every person, action, Obeying these two words tear, and tragedy that will save you from would ever happen. countless hours of mental Nothing surprises and physical anguish and God. sleepless nights. These When the reality words are simply, of these three Trust Me truths really sinks . in, you become God values two things free to completely above all else in our trust God. You lives faith and obedience. understand that He is These two things together in absolute control. are what define Even though He Trust chooses not to . Without faith, we violate our free will, can never please God and His ultimate plan obedience is the action fully satisfy our deep desire for cannot be thwarted and He has which demonstrates that our faith meaning in life. So how do we promised that He will not allow is real. Trust is simply faith acted hold onto this trust in God? One anything in our lives without out in obedience. way is to maintain an unshakable giving us the ability to endure it. Mankind’s natural tendency is understanding of who God is as (I Cor. 10:13) to trust the world and ourselves our Creator. Furthermore, we are promised rather than God. That is why we that all trials and tribulations will 1. God is not part of the are told to, ultimately be for our own good created universe any more than Die [to yourself] daily. and for His glory. (Romans 8:28). a painter is a part of his painting. Finally, God has the ability to take God made the universe, He (I Corinthians 15:31) care of our financial, physical, actively holds it together, and He Furthermore, we are locked in an emotional, and spiritual needs entered into it as Jesus Christ… invisible spiritual battle of which (Matt. 10:28 - 31). If He chooses but He is not trapped inside what most people are not even aware. not to give us what we think we He created. We have an enemy who longs need, this too is for our own good 2. Time is a part of the physical to destroy us and his primary (Jn 16:33). universe. Time is not constant but weapon is to deceive us into If you only trust Jesus with varies with mass and acceleration. putting our trust into something your heart; you will live on an God is not trapped inside time other than our Maker. Throughout emotional roller coaster waiting our lives, we will be tempted to anymore than a chef is trapped transfer our trust away from God inside his souffle. As one prophet and into material wealth, friends, stated, our own accomplishments, or God inhabits eternity. religion. Yet each will prove (Isaiah 57:15).

131 Appendix I: Original Creation Class Notice

132 Only one view of human origins is currently taught in our public schools and colleges. As a result, many people are not aware of how well the scientific evidence supports a different view.

Human Origins: Scientific Evidence for Creation will be the topic of a ten-week seminar held on Sunday mornings at the First Presbyterian Church, 65 N. Third St., Newark. All sessions are free, open to the public and start at 9:15 a.m. Child care will be

133 Appendix II: Typical Letters to the Editor

134 This letter to the editor is typical of hundreds that I have Some facts a reader wants taught collected over the years. Notice how authoritatively it states that evolution is science (always connecting the two as if they (Midland Daily News 12/29/99) are synonymous) and uses the term “creationism” (equat- To the Editor, ing creation with stories and myths). The letter twists reality There have been several items in the MDN lately backwards as the current situation (where students are not discussing the origin of the universe and the human species. allowed to view the evidence for creation from any area of Unfortunately, much of the discussion has focused on the science) is called “free thinking” while the idea of showing religious aspects of the arguments, while the facts have been students the evidence for creation is called “authoritarian, ignored. religious, and deprivational.” As is usual, there is no discussion of the problems with As a father, I hope our schools can get beyond the blind evolution nor mention of the evidence from various areas of dogma and teach our kids the facts and how to think about science supporting the Biblical model of origins. Note the them critically. I would like to see my children taught in the difference in factual presentation and tone of the other letter Midland Public Schools: which happened to be published on the same day. No scientist has experimentally created life out of lifeless chemicals, nor has anyone demonstrated the mutation of one kind of creature into another. No one has detected life Creationism has no place in science anywhere but on Earth. education (Midland Daily News 12/29/99) ...In 1842, coal miners in Germany found an obviously To the Editor, human skull in the middle of a coal seam. In 1958 coal ...It is my opinion that the study of a science education miners in Italy found a human jawbone in what was thought program should remain pure, relying on scientific theories, to be “20-million-year-old rock”. In 1975, a rock collector facts, and methods. It should remain free from all creation in Utah found the lower halves of two human skeletons in myths, religious doctrines, and political authority decisions. “100-million-year old rock”. [Malone and others] would like to accomplish in Midland ...The moon perfectly blocks out the sun during a solar what creationists have been advocating in America for years eclipse. If its diameter were just 140 miles smaller, we would - the inclusion of the Biblical story of Genesis in the teaching never see the sun’s beautiful corona. The moon is 400 times of evolution science. If incorporated into the Midland public closer to us than the sun and its diameter is exactly 400 times schools’ science program; this would deprive Midland students smaller. The chance of even this one design feature happening from getting a sound science education. Students should be by accident is remotely small. given the opportunity and support to develop free minds and ...The present world population on Earth would have learn unadulterated science, free from religious doctrines, developed from a single family in just 4,000 years if the supernaturalism, and political authority decisions. growth rate were 0.5%, or an average of only 2.5 children per [As explained in certain popular evolution books] it couple. That is 1/4 of the current world population growth rate would truly be a wonderful experience for students to learn and easily accounts for long periods of no growth due to wars the scientific theories of nuclear, chemical, biological, and and famine. anthropological evolution. However, with the interjection of It is unfortunate that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in creationism into the science education program, the excitement 1987 that states cannot provide a presentation of a creation of learning these theories would be diminished. Alternatively, alternative to the theory of evolution in the public schools... for those students who are interested in creation mythologies, For many years, I subscribed to the mandated view. I they should be given the opportunity to study mythical religiously watched PBS programs and read Discover and creation stories in comparative religion or mythology couses. Scientific American, all of which chanted the evolution As a free thinker, I would be incensed, deeply troubled mantra. But they never really answered the questions with and feel denied of my human rights to a science education; if hard facts -- they just told stories. a political authority decided that I would not be tested on my I finally asked God to help me understand the truth. He knowledge of the theory of evolution and I would be denied did. I found lesser known books highlighting the kind of facts the opportunity to learn the Big Bang theory. Further, the stated above. I went and looked for myself -- the American interjection of the story of creation as told in Genesis into the Southwest is full of evidence of a massive flood and rapid study of evolution science would deprive me of developing mountain building -- not millions of years old as commonly a free and open mind. The Kansas Board of Education and preached. Anyone who goes there with open eyes will see it Creationism smack of authoritarianism... too. Your readers should ask God to open their eyes. He will - Richard Maltby, Midland, MI happily oblige. - Richard Worden, Midland, MI

135 This letter assumes that macroevolution is a fact and, Evidence Suppressed therefore, must be taught to the exclusion of all other pos- (Midland Daily News 6/14/01) sibilities. It ignores evidence from numerous Ph.D. scientists who reject evolution and who provide a logical alternative To the Editor, explanation for the “intricate tapestry of life.” In reality “equal It never ceases to amaze me the extent to which people will time” is a joke -- absolutely no time is devoted to the intel- suppress evidence that contradicts their beliefs. On May 18, ligent design or the Biblical creation model in classrooms. a letter was published which stated that the scientific evidence This letter also ignores that the definition of science pre- for creation should not be shown to students because creation cludes that the evidence for intelligent design be openly de- was religion - yet no attempt was made to refute the factual bated in scientific forums. It ignores the fact that naturalistic nature of the evidence. A second letter stated that creation evolution is mandated by law to be taught evidence should be suppressed because it does not fit the in schools (via standardized proficiency testing.) current narrow definition of science yet “science” has been arbitrarily redefined in the twentieth century to specifically Intelligent Design not Really About exclude the conclusion that an intelligent designer was Science (Midland Daily News 5/25/01) involved. A third letter on May 25 stated that students should To the Editor, not be allowed to see the scientific evidence for creation The claim that “intelligent design,” as an alternative to because the majority of scientists don’t support it. The evolution, is just another scientific theory, raises a question: If same poor logic was used to suppress the truth of Galileo’s only a tiny minority of practicing scientists subscribes to this observations that the earth revolved around the sun in 1633. viewpoint; why does it deserve equal time in the classroom? The battle against Galileo was not started by Catholic officials, Scientific progress inevitably involves conflicts between but by Galileo’s colleagues and scientists, who were afraid rival interpretations of observations. Disagreements can of losing position and influence. They used the power of the be acrimonious, and sometimes endure for generations. church to do their dirty work. Today the majority scientific Nevertheless, I can’t recall another field in which a dissenting opinion (using a definition of science which excludes the camp of scientists sought to promote its viewpoint by consideration of evidence pointing to an intelligent designer) sponsoring laws to force its presentation in pubic schools. uses our public education system (instead of the church) to Scientists don’t operate this way. The battle between accomplish the same suppression of truth. How little human competing hypotheses is carried out in professional meetings nature has changed in 400 years. and journals, not in state legislatures. Scientists proposing Dr. Michael Behe, professor of biochemistry at Lehiegh new ideas focus on selling them to their peers, and assume that University, makes the following concluding statement textbooks will be revised appropriately, if they succeed. after filling his 250 page book,Darwin’s Black Box, with The fact that “creation science” advocates (who are mainly scientific evidence for intelligent design,“The results of non-scientists) have sought to short-circuit the normal peer the cumulative efforts to investigate life at the molecular review process is a dead giveaway that their real agenda level is a loud, clear, piercing cry of ‘design!’…this has little to do with science. Rather, they are continuing a triumph of science should evoke cries of ‘Eureka’ from more than 30-year-old campaign to modify the presentation ten thousand throats…Instead, a curious, embarrassed of biology in the public schools to remove conflicts with silence surrounds the stark complexity of the cell.” The the tenets of fundamentalist protestant Christianity. This reason for this embarrassed silence when confronted with the movement has been forced to alter its tactics several times intelligent design of the cell is threefold. 1) Allegiance to the when previous approaches were invalidated by the courts. The relatively recent redefinition of science which eliminates the current strategy, which involves down playing the religious consideration of intelligent design. 2) Fear that if God is ever motivation behind the legislation and invoking intellectual acknowledged, “intervention by god” will be used to explain freedom, is disingenuous. everything. 3) Unwillingness to ever acknowledge that an The harm in reducing the emphasis given to evolution in intelligent creator exists because this implies accountability. education is that without this unifying framework, the facts of Not one of the recent letters, defending the current one- biology lose much of their relevance, as well as much of their sided teaching of only evolutionary evidence, had the goal of fascination. The intricate tapestry of life’s history is reduced to encouraging students to seek the truth. Let’s make searching a jumble of unrelated threads. This would be a disservice not for the truth the real goal of science education by allowing only to students with the potential for careers in bioscience and students to see all of the evidence for both creation and medicine, but also to society at large. In the coming century, evolution. issues related to advances in biology are likely to assume a - Bruce Malone, Midland, MI prominence in public policy... A society whose members are better educated in matters biological will be better equipped to face these challenges. - Alan Wolfe, San Francisco, CA

136 Once again the well worn stategy of this letter is to claim strategy is repeatedly used by those who advocate “evolution evolution is a proven fact of science and the evidence for cre- only” education: 1) Define science to exclude the possibility ation is ignored rather than discussed. Notice how science is of a creator. 2) Claim that all the evidence for our designer is defined to eliminate the consideration of creation. “not science” and therefore cannot be shown. 3) Repeat, like a mantra, statements such as “evolution is the basis of [science]” that imply that microbes to man evolution is a proven fact. What Science Is and Isn’t Then give examples of minor changes within organisms (Midland Daily News 11/30/05) as “proof” that one organism can change into a completely To the Editor, different type, while using the same word, ‘evolution’, for both Science is the understanding of how the natural world the small and the enormous changes. operates through verifiable experiment, and the use of that The actual scientific evidence for major evolutionary knowledge to predict future actions. This understanding is transformation is non-existent. No experiment ever gained through observation, hypothesis, and experiment... preformed has come remotely close to showing how life could The reliance of science on natural laws not changing is form from chemicals. Major problems with origin of life not based on one’s “worldview.” The concept of gravity is experiments are systematically hidden from students after all, not true because Sir Isaac Newton put his “faith and trust in we can’t have students considering the only other alternative science,” but because it has been proven valid and has led to (creation), can we? No experiment has shown how useful the explanation of many natural phenomena (the tides of the functioning information can be added to the DNA molecule by ocean, the rotation of the planets around the sun). random changes. Yet it can be experimentally demonstrated The Kansas State Board of Education recently voted to that every known mutation results in a net loss of original remove the statement that science is the study of “natural functioning information. Why aren’t we training students to explanations for the world around us,” which means that, in ask the big question - where did all of this original functional the State of Kansas, science can also include the study of the information come from? Acknowledgment of a designer gives supernatural. There are two objections to this action. First, a mechanism that agrees with known scientific observations; what is scientifically valid is not determined by the vote of a evolution relies on faith that denies experimental reality. political body. Secondly, the definition of the supernatural is Evolution believers say creation is not science because it that which cannot be defined by natural laws , i.e., science. is not testable or repeatable. In actuality, the creation model is Scientists and engineers...do not rely on the supernatural far more testable than the concept that microbes have turned to prevent chemical reaction from running out of control in into man by random mutational changes. Any sequence their everyday operations; they rely on tried and true scientific pattern even remotely similar in form or function to the DNA concepts that do not change at the whim of the supernatural. code, beamed to earth from outer space, would immediately There also seems to be a misconception among religious be acknowledged as evidence of an intelligent originator. fundamentalists that if one accepts science, then one must Yet the same evidence for a designer, found in every DNA disavow God. This is absolutely not true. Science is used molecule, cannot be acknowledged as such in classrooms! to explore and understand how the world works; it does not Mutation rates have been accelerated by a million-fold with explain how it began, why we are here, or why only humans fruit flies, yet no new creature or even any new functioning have a moral conscience - a soul. However, such discussions feature has ever developed. Fossils are an undeniable record are outside the realm of science, as the arguments to these of the sudden appearance of distinctly different animal questions cannot be tested by experiment. They are best forms with huge gaps between distinctly different kinds of left to the fields of theology and philosophy, not the science creatures. Creation theory explains the fossil record as a classroom. consequence of a real worldwide flood and the reality of this As to the debate over evolution, it has been tested over ancient global flood has been repeatedly confirmed by careful time and is the basis of large fields of biology and modern scientific observations. Yet, these evidences are systematically medicine (genetics, molecular biology, virus research on aids, suppressed because of a dogmatic faith in evolution. and influenza). Intelligent design (creationism) is based on Those setting the standards for our public school beliefs that cannot be tested by experiment. What experiment science curriculum have merely replaced the acknowledgment can prove, or disprove, that all things were designed by of our Creator’s existence with a definition of “science” that some unknown entity? There isn’t one. Intelligent design is excludes the possibility of God’s existence. Their belief theology masquerading as science. system cannot survive if all of the evidence is allowed to be - Scott G. Gaynor, Midland, MI viewed. Therefore, evolution continues to be promoted by suppressing the evidence for creation and redefining “science”. Our culture has sadly replaced what science should be a tool No Proof for searching for the truth. God, who desires for us to have (Midland Daily News 12/21/05) a personal relationship with Him, must be crying over our Scott Gaynor’s letter of 11/30/05 is typical of the litany stupidity. of logistical errors promoted by those who wish to keep the - Bruce Malone, Midland, MI evidence for creation out of our schools. The following

137 Appendix III: Resources for Further Study Introductory Books with Evidence for Creation: A Closer Look at the Evidence, Richard and Tina Kleiss, Search for the Truth Publications, 2005. Bones of Contention: Creation Assessment of Human Fossils, Marvin Lubenow, Baker Books, 1992. The Darwin Conspiracy, James Scott Bell, Broadman & Holman, 2002. Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds and Reason in the Balance, Phillip Johnson, Intervarsity, 1995 & 1998. Footprints in the Ash, John Morris and Steven A. Austin, Master Books, 2003. The Fossil Book, Gary and Mary Parker, Master Books, 2006. In the Minds of Men: Darwin and the New World Order, Ian Taylor, TFE Publishing Co., 1987. One Blood: The Biblical Answer to Racism, Ken Ham, Master Books, 1999. Refuting Evolution & Refuting Evolution 2, Jonathan Sarfati, Master Books, 1999, 2002. Taking Back Astronomy, Jason Lisle, Master Books, 2006. The Revised and Updated Answers Book, Don Batten (ed.), Master Books, 2002. Thousands...Not Billions, Don DeYoung, Master Books, 2005.

Technical Books with Evidence for Creation: Frozen in Time: The Woolly Mammoth, The Ice Age, and the Bible, Michael Oard, Master Books, 2004. Grand Canyon - Monument to Catastrophe, Steven Austin, Editor, Master Books, 1995. Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome, John Sanford, Ivan Press, 2005. In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, Walter Brown, CSC, 2001. Proceedings of 1st,2nd,3rd,4th, 5th Conf. on Creationism, Creation Science Fellowship, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2003. Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth, Vardiman, Snelling, & Chaffin, Master Books, 2000. Starlight and Time, Russell Humphreys, Master Books, 1994. Books Acknowledging Major Problems with Evolution (written from a Secular Perspective): Darwin’s Black Box: The biochemical challenge to evolution, Michael Behe, Free Press, 1998. Darwin on Trial, Phillip Johnson; Regnery Gateway, 1991. Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Michael Denton, Adler & Adler, 1986. Icons of Evolution: Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution is Wrong, Jonathan Wells, Regnery Pub., 2000. In Six Days: Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation, edited by John Ashton, Master Books, 2001 Of Pandas and People, Percival Davis & Dean Kenyon, Haughton Publishing Company, 1993. The Mystery of Life’s Origin, C. Thaxton, W. Bradley, R. Olsen; Philosophical Library, 1988. Tornado in a Junkyard, James Perloff, Refuge Books, 2000. Chidren’s Books on Dinosaurs from a Biblical Perspective: Dinosaurs by Design, Duane Gish, Creation-Life Publishers, 1990. The Great Dinosaur Mystery, Paul S. Taylor, Chariot Publishers, 1987. Life in the Great Ice Age, Michael Oard, Master Books, 1995. Noah’s Ark and the Lost World, John Morris, Master Books, 1991. Periodicals with Evidence for Creation: Acts and Facts - Free monthly newsletter with both general and technical information Answers Magazine - A bi-monthly non-technical magazine of creation articles Bible-Science News - Monthly newsletter of current creation information, non-technical Creation Research Society Journal - Quarterly technical journal of latest creation research TJ - A tri-yearly peer reviewed technical journal of creation research Creation Organizations: Institute for Creation Research, P.O. 2667, El Cajon, CA. 92021 (619) 448-0900 www.icr.org Answers in Genesis, 7080 Industrial Rd., Florence, KY, 41042 (859)727-2222 www.answersingenesis.org Alpha Omega Institute, P.O. Box 4343, Grand Junction, CO 81502 (970) 523-9943 www.discovercreation.org Creation Research Society, P.O. Box 8263, St. Joseph, MO 64508 (816) 279-2312 www.creationresearch.org Creation Science Fellowship, P.O. Box 99303, Pittsburgh, PA. 15233 (412) 341-4908 www.cfspittsburgh.org Creation Moments, P.O. Box 260, Zimmerman, MN 55498 (763) 856-2552 www.creationmoments.tc The Ark Foundation, PO Box 33071, Dayton, OH 45433-0071, (937) 256-ARKY, www.arky.org Twin Cities Creation Science Association, www.tccsa.tc - Contains a great list of over 75 other creation organizations Northwest Creation Network, www.nwcreation.net - A good source for powerpoint creation talks and other info.

138 Index of Illistrations Illustration Source Page Evolution/Fact/Classroom Chuck Asay - personal permission for use 9 Challenger in Hand of God Chuck Asay - personal permission for use 12 Miller’s Experiment Master Books - Gary Parker, Creation: The Facts of Life , pg. 9. 13 Monkey with Typewriter Scott Muse, The Collapse of Evolution, pg. 66 16 Scientist and Telescope Russ Bradshaw - Illustration for Search Articles 18 Natives and Plane Pamela Van Noose, The Ark Foundation 19 Evolution Bigotry Chuck Asay - personal permission for use 21 Television Evolution Master Books - Wayne Peterson, The Mysteries of Creation, 2-43. 23 Useless Organs Removed Creation Magazine, Vol. 20 No. 1 27 Living Fossils Creation Magazine, Vol. 15 No. 2 & Vol. 23 No. 3, Joachim Scheven 30 Cain’s Wife Used by permission of Answers in Gensis 32 Evolution Evolves to Fact Wayne Stayskal - personal permission for use 33 Fossil Dinosaur Bones Ex Nihilo Technical Journal 18:1, 2/96, pg. 44. 39 New Toutle River Canyon ICR Personal Permission for use 40 Erosion Mechanisms Steven A. Austin, Grand Canyon: Monument to Catastrophe, pg. 104. 41 Continental Subduction Ex Nihilo Technical Journal 14:1, pg. 55. 47 Apeman Diagram Typical chart similar to Time, Newsweek, or National Geographic illustrations 51 Evolution Tree & Fruit Used by permission of Answers in Genesis, Drawn by Dan Leitha 43 Plesiosaur Cave Painting Ex Nihilo Technical Journal 12:3, 7/98, pg. 345. 45 Folded Sediment in Himalaya’s Picture by Don Slinger - used by permission 47 Noah’s Ark Illustration Master Books, John Morris, Noah’s Ark & the Lost World, pg. 14 52 Land of Ideas Chuck Asay, Asay Doodles goes to Town, pg. 50. 55 Evolution Illogic Johnny Hart - Used by permission 59 Library Censorship Answers in Genesis Newsletter 3:6, Ken Ham, June ‘96. 64 Wish they’d teach creation Wayne Stayskal, Thank Goodness it’s Not a Hate Crime, pg. . 67 Wobbly Knees Wayne Stayskal, Thank Goodness it’s Not a Hate Crime 68 School Choice is Progress Creators Syndicate and Chuck Asay 69

Now we got Him Chuck Asay - personal permission for use 73 Education in America Chuck Asay - personal permission for use 74 The Big Bang Johnny Hart - personal permission for use 77 We are Software Nick Kim Permission of Web site 80 Airplane in Junkyard Andrew Snelling, The Revised Quote Book, pg. 21. 81 Dating Method Assumptions Russ Bradshaw - Illustration for Search Articles 85 Paradise built on top of Graves? Illustration used with permission of AIG 88 Alien Visitation Len Boro - personal permission for use 89 C-14 Generation Bruce Malone - Illustration for Search Articles 90 Buried Planes Creation Magazine 19(3), June ‘97, pg. 13. 93 Religious Fanatics Wayne Stayskal - personal permission for use 97 Blame it on Something Stupid Wayne Stayskal, “...Till Euthanasia Do You Part?” 102 Monkey to Man? Master Books, Ken Ham, Evolution: The Lie 103 Splitter Splatter of Feet Chuck Asay, Asay Doodles goes to Town, pg. 109. 104 Intolerance Johnny Hart - personal permission for use 105 Survival of the Fittest Master Books, Ken Ham, Evolution: The Lie, pg. 90. 106 Evolution of the Stop Sign Sonmor 2003 108 Kills/Protects Chuck Asay - personal permission for use 109 Fetuses are People? Chuck Asay - personal permission for use 110 The First Homeless Chuck Asay, Asay Doodles goes to Town, pg. 118. 111

Go and Sin no More” Chuck Asay - personal permission for use 112 Creation vs. Evolution Chuck Asay - personal permission for use 119 God gave us... Chuck Asay - personal permission for use 120 Prints of Peace Chuck Asay - personal permission for use 121

The Scientific View Josh McDowell Ministries, Evidence for the Resurrection 124 Famous Last Words Chuck Asay - personal permission for use 125 What do we Call It? Ken Westphal - personal permission for use 126 No Praying Here Wayne Stayskal, Till Euthanasia do You Part. 127 Sound Familiar Chuck Asay - personal permission for use 128 Euthanasia Approved Wayne Stayskal - personal permission for use 129 139 Subject Index Absolutes....24, 26, 67, 72, 105, 105, 110, 102,104, 105, 112, 122 Scientists...... ………………...... ….…………..71, 72 Abortion…...... 26, 104, 122, 126, 128, 130 Societies...... ………………....………….………….139 Adam, John...... 106 Critical thinking skills...... ………………...…...66, 68 Adaptation………...……………………...... 22, 24 Darrow,Clarence………………………...... 63, 32 Age of the earth ……...... 42, 61, 82, 84, 85, 86, 88, 90, 92, 93 Darwin,Charles…………...... 24, 29, 40, 63 Alpha-Omega Institute…...... 29, 107, 139 Dating methods....…………...... 61, 85, 86, 88, 90, 92, 93 Amino Acids………………………...... 13, 15 Design, evidence for creation…...... 20, 22, 28, 102 Apeman……………….…...... 46, 49, 51, 76, 107 Birds………………………………...... …...... 22, 50 Archaeopteryx……………………………….…...... 50, Butterfly………………………………………...... 22 76 Eyeball…………………………...... ……………...... 28 Atmosphere, early earth ……………………...... 13 Diamonds, radiocarbon containing...... 91 Australopithecus…...……………...... 49, 51 Dinosaurs Austin, Steve ……………………..………...... 42, 86 Unfossilized blood and other soft tissue found...... 53 Bacteria……...... ………………………………....21 Cause of extinction…...... ………………….…….45 Baumgardner, John………………………………...... 47 Link to birds, lack of evidence…………...... …...50 Bias, by scientists……………...... 46, 61, 66, 64 DNA...... 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 27, 28, 53, 59, 68, 69, 74, 75, 113 Behe,Michael……....………………….….……..20 Dubois,Eugene…...... ………………………………..49 Big-Bang theory ………………..…...... 82, 84, 107 Education, bias against creation…...... 70, 59, 69, 74 Biochemical evolution…...... 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20 Einstein,Albert……………...... ………….…82, 84 Bird evolution...... ………………………….……….50 Embryos, fraudulently presented...... …………....…...26 Black hole...... ……………………89, 82, 84, 80 Entropy……...... ……………………………………..81 Blind cave creatures, not evidence for evolution...27 Eternal life...... ………………………...... 80, 125, 131 Bryant, William Jennings...... ………………..63, 32 Event horizon...... ……………...……………….…..89 Butterfly, no evidence for evolution………...... …..22 Evolution model…...... ………..……12, 44, 43, 52 Cain, where he found a wife…………...... …………32 Evolutionism...... ………………….……69,74,32 Cambrian explosion……………………………...... 43, 76 Extraterrestrial life...... …………………...……18, 61 Carbon-14 dating………………...... 85, 88, 90, 91 Eyeball, design...... ……………………………….…..28 Catastrophism……………...... 38, 40, 41, 42, 39 Flood worldwide, evidence for……….29, 38, 40, 41, 42, 39 Cavitation bubbles…………...... ……………...……...... 41 Fossils………………………...... 39, 43, 45, 54, 59 Cell, living…………………...…...... ………...... 13, 16, 21 Formation………………….……...... 44, 40, 39, 53 Censorship……………………...... …...... 15, 16, 41, 64 Graveyards……………………………...... 44, 39 CETI…………………………………………….....18 Gaps in record………….……...... 43, 107, 74 Chinese language, creation account revealed…...... 65 Polystrata……………………………...... ….……41 Christianity ………….…...... 111, 120, 121, 131 Founding fathers, Christian beliefs...... …………..…62 Creation model………….…...... 12, 44, 43, 52 Fruit flies...... …………………………………23, 69 Importance of creation ………...... 103, 113, 105 Galaxy, spiral (showing age)...... …...…………….86 Cilia.…………………...... …………………………..20 Gallop poll, supporting creation teaching...... 30, 74 Citizens for the American Way, use censorship.…...... 64 Genetic Critical thinking skills…………...... ……………….66 Code...... ……………………..………...... 18, 44, 25 Coal formation………...... ………………….…...... 29, 42 Entropy...... 14, 25 Coelacanth...... 54 Load...... 14 Columbia plateau……...... ……………..………….…...... 41 Geologic Comets.……………………………….………...... 88 Column...... ………………………………..41, 107 Communism, Marxism, Facism…………...... 40, 105 Record...... ………………..………….13, 39, 43 Comparative embryology…...... ………………...…...... 26 Gill slits...... …………………………….…………….26 Computers, model for eternal soul…….....…………...... 80 Glen Canyon dam...... ……………………………….42 Conscience, why do we have one?…….....………….....106 Grand Canyon...... ………….38, 40, 41, 45, 48 Constitution, American...……...... ……………………112 Great unconformity...... ………………………….….38 Continental drift……...... ………………………..…...... 47 Gun control...... ………………………………..…..73 Cosmology Haeckel, Ernst………………...... …………………...26 Big Bang.………...... ………….…...... 82, 84, 107 Hartford rock formation, Connecticut…...... ……….44 Recent creation model.……….....…...... 82, 83, 84 Helium Creation in atmosphere...... …...... …………………...…86 Model.....…………..………………………………..12 in zircon granite crystals...... 76, 87 Relevance...... ……………...... ……………….…103, 113 Hemoglobin……………...... ………………………….15 Resources...... ……………..……...……………….139 Hitler, Adolf, evolution believer...... ……...... …47 Humanism …………...... ………...67, 103, 113, 70 140 Humphreys, Russell………...... …..…....61, 82, 84 Prayer, in school ...... …………………………………..73 Ice age ……………...... ………………...... …...61, 93 Probability...... 83 Ice cores …………...... ………………………..…..93 Prophecy...... 95, 96 Isocron dating...... 94 Proteins………...... ………………………………...13, Johnson 15 Lanny & Marilyn...... 31 Public schooling, humanist bias.……...... …………...19, 59 Mark & Pam...... 114 Radiocarbon dating ……...... ………...85, 87, 88, 90 Phillip……………...... ….…....46, 66, 68 Radiometric dating methods ………...... ….…85, 86, 87, 91, 94 Hutton, James………………...... …………………….40 Red Wall Limestone...... 48 Inherit the Wind, propaganda………...... ………...63 Relativity………………………...... ……...…...82, 84 Instincts…………………...... …………………..…...31 Resurrections, evidence for…...... ……...……...124, 125 Intelligent design ……...... …………………….28, 75 RNA……………………...... Irreducible complexity…...... ………...……………..20 ...... …………………………..15 Java Man………………...... ………………………..49 RU-486……………………...... …………………….128 Johanson, Donald………...……...... ……………….…46 Salamanders, Blind Cave…………...... …….…….....27 KNM-ER 1470, apeman skull…...... ……………….51 Salt in the Ocean, earth age indicator…...... ……….86 Lamarckism…………..…………...... ………………23 Sanford, John...... 14, 25 Language, ability to recognize…...... ………...……..18 Scab Lands, formation in eastern Washington...... …....41 Leakey, Mary……………...... ……………………...51 Science Lewin, Roger………...... ………………...…..46, 51 Bias……...... …62, 18, 41, 42, 46, 51, 49 Lewis, C.S. ……...... ………………………………..123 Capabilities…………...... ……..…...…...62, Library censorship ……...... ……………………….64 42, 113 Life, formation from chemicals……..…….13, 15, 16, 18, 19,61, 74 Foundation, by creationists…….…...... ….…12, 113 Living fossils………...... ……………………..……..30 Redefined...... 14, 59, 60 Loon...... 17 Scope’s monkey trial ………...... …………...105, 130 Lubenow, Martin………...... ……………………….51 Search for extraterrestrial life……...... ………....…...18 Lucy……...... …………………………………49 Second law of thermodynamics…...... ……….…….81 Lyell, Charles……………………...... ………………40 Sedimentation………...... …….38, 40, 41, 42, 88 Macro-evolution……...... ………...... 22, 30, 44, 68 Schaeffer, Francis...... …………………..…………….12 Magnetic field of the Earth, decay rate…...... …..86 Sickle-cell anemia…………...... ………….……...….15 Mallee Fowl………………...... ………………...…..31 Sin nature of mankind ……...... …………..…..109, 103 Marsupials…………………...... ….………………..29 Specimen ridge, Yellowstone National Park...... …...42 Meteorites, age of earth indicator ...... ………...…88 Sperm…………………...... ………………………...... …20 Micro-evolution……………...... ….22, 24, 30, 68 Spiral Galaxies………………...... …….……...... 86, 88 Miller, Stanley - classic experiment………...... …...... 13, 76 Spontaneous Generation of Life………...... 13, 19, 21 Missing links………...... …………………...... 43, 69 Statistics Moral decay ………...... ………………...... 102, 103, 113 odds of prophecies of Bible occuring...... 95 Mt. St. Helens………………...... …….………..38, 42 odds of life forming….…………...... …...... 15, 16, 83 Mutations…………………….…...... …..23, 44, 59, 81 Stasis………………………………..…………...... …30 Naturalism……………………...... ……………..….26 Stereotypes………………..…………..………...... 13, 15 Natural selection…………...... ….14, 22, 24, 25, 28, 81 Subduction, continental…………………...... …….…47 Nautiloid Fossils...... 48 Supernova, as young universe indicator...... ……...92 Neanderthal man……………...... …………………49 Survival of the fittest………………………...... 24, 29 Noah’s ark.…………………...... …………………52 Tapeats sandstone……..……………………...... …..40 Nutting, Dave...... 107 Thermodynamics……………………...... …………..81 Overpopulation, hoax………...... ………………...111 Tiktaalik roseae...... 54 Origin of the Species…………...... ………………...24 Tolerance……………………………...... …………..127 Patterson, Colin………………...... ………………...30 Tonsils, needless removal……………...... …….…..27 Pasteur, Louis…………………...... ……………...…13 Toutle River canyon…………………...... ……….…40 Peking man………...... …………...... ………………....49 Transitional Fossils...... 54 Peppered moths………………...... ………………..24 Trilobites……………………………………...... …..28 Phylum, no transitional forms between...... ……….43 Uniformitarianism………………………...... …44, 38 Piltdown man……...... ………………………….……46 Vestigial Organs…………………………...... ………27 Polar ice, age of…………...... ….…………………….93 Von Braun, Wernher……………...... …………..…...22 Population,human Whitmore, John ………………...... …………...44, 45 control of……...... ……………………..………….111 Worldwide flood, evidence for...... 29, 38, 40, 41, 42, 39 rate of rise, earth age indicator ...... ……….…105 Woodpecker...... 22 Polystrate fossils………...... ……………………...…..42

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