Ideas derived from THE TWILIGHT OF EVOLUTION by Dr.
Henry Morris.
The first law of thermodynamics says energy can be
transformed in various ways, but can neither be created nor destroyed.
Evolution says that increasing organization and integration
and development is continually taking place in the present.
The second law of thermodynamics says if left to itself any
isolated system will go toward greater entropy, greater randomization, and greater
disorganization. (confirmed law)
Evolution is the exact opposite (theory). Evolution relies on uniformitarianism to
explain the geologic features of our Earth’s crust. “The processes we see at
work on the crust today are sufficient to account for all the events of the
past that have formed the Earth’s crust.”
If one truly pays attention to the two laws of
thermodynamics, it becomes obvious that evolution is impossible.
It used to be that Geologists believed that the features of
our crust were formed by a series of catastrophes. The destruction and chaos caused by a global flood would
have resulted in a certain stratified order.
There would have been a tendency for sediments and organisms
which occupied the lowest elevations at the time of the flood to have been
buried deepest by the receding flood waters. So simple marine organisms and
marine sediments would tend to be buried the deepest, followed by fish and more
complex sea creatures, on top of that reptiles, amphibians, still higher up
mammals and finally man.
Another factor would be specific gravity and hydrodynamic
drag. In plain English, each particle of material, along with the remains of
each creature would tend to fall out of the water via gravity. Organisms of
high density and simple structure would settle most quickly and be buried
deepest. Due to the hydrodynamic selectivity fossils would have been sorted
with organisms of similar shape and size sinking together.
Also organisms capable of escaping the flood waters would
have scrambled to higher ground.
Simpler, less mobile, smaller creatures would have been trapped first
and buried deepest. This would mean that most men and higher animals would have
floated on the water at death or until decomposed and never buried in the
sediment at all.
These three factors would have produced a fairly well graded
series of layers of deposits which would increase in size and complexity with
the higher elevations of burial.
This is exactly the general order found in the fossil
record.
Noah’s great world wide flood offers a highly reasonable
solution to the enigma of the fossil record. Any system of historical geology
that ignores the effects of a global flood must be a large fallacy.
I would like to add a few other little interesting tidbits that my mom left out of her article.
ReplyDeleteFirst, about the flood.
The flood saw the accumulation of water on the face of the Earth over 40 days and nights. It didn't subside in that time. They were afloat, aboard that Arc for nearly another year.
Someone put together a nice little timeline, here: https://answersingenesis.org/bible-timeline/biblical-overview-of-the-flood-timeline/
Secondly, not only was it rain from the sky, but the waters of the deep sprang forth, too. Sounds like a massive geological event. A lot of that water probably returned to the depths under the crust from which it came.
Finally, I've seen firsthand what water from a simple overnight flash flood can do to a small stream valley. Crops were covered over with fresh sediment and things were out of place.
Anyone recall the story about a couple who lived in Iowa one night, and then were in Nebraska or South Dakota the next morning? The Missouri River shifted from flash flooding overnight, changing its course.
The one fallacy that does strike me about the scientific method is that it leaves no room for one-off events that can accelerate a process in an instant. We can only assume facts from what we have observed so far. The current geological theory assumes slow and steady is the norm, and can only extrapolate that the layers deep under the earth have also been so formed. Any notion that something could have happened in such a fast, quick, catastrophic fashion, is generally ignored or frowned upon. After all, how can you back it up?
Secondly, about evolution:
ReplyDelete1) They've never found the missing link. I know they're looking, but they haven't. They can't even get the spark of life in a puddle of enzymes known to have everything needed to build living organisms of all shapes and sizes.
And, I have a lot of questions about the way evolution works that I can't rationalize via an evolutionary process.
What is the most basic form of life? When it comes right down to it, a Virus is the most basic form of life that we know. It's not even a cell. How many viruses do you know of that form together to build something bigger?
I can't think of a one, so if anyone does know of one, please, let me know.
Where are the virae that grow into cells, forming the cellular membrane and making more complex structures before completing its life cycle in some form of division?
All I know of viruses is that they're destructive in nature, attacking cells specifically, and in an ambush fashion. How is that a viable life producing tactic? Waiting around, hoping something else will come along that you can latch onto and convert into one or more copies of you?
It only really works when you're part of a mobile environment, or your prey is also mobile. Someone, please show me a mobile virus.
- Evolution should be happening as we speak.
The way evolution is described to work, we should be compatible, genetically, with pretty much everything. But, we're not. How genetically close are we to apes, really? Can someone boink a chimp and have a human/chimpanzee hybrid? As far as I know, we're incompatible. But, at some point, we were supposed to be.
More importantly, each iteration of reproduction for a species should be one more tick on the clock until something, some genetic defect, starts to become prominent in the offspring, and we should be seeing mixed batches. And, I'm not talking minor things like calicoes and tabbies in cats. After all, a calico and tabby are still both cats. I'm talking a puma giving birth to a tabby and still having a few other pumas in the litter.
That's what evolution's supposed to be.
If evolution is actually happening, then there should be significant signs: new species happening out of the blue every other 100 years or so. It should be happening in my lifetime. But, instead of seeing the new super dolphin that can survive in the polluted mires of our oceans, we're seeing them beached and dying off, instead, with no replacements.
Where's the super predator that's supposed to devour mankind to a manageable population so that nature can retain some balance, like it's fantasized to do?
Is our world really that big that such signs are hidden? Or are we really that destructive that we're simply killing these things off before they can take root?
Looking at the state of the rest of the world, I actually find both of those notions hard to believe.
So, where's the current evidence?