Religion could be defined as something one holds to beyond the scope of natural reason or unprovable by natural scientific methods. And it seems that the religion known as Evolution or Darwinism is making huge evangelistic strides in our generation.
The theological and philosophical pet of the modern secular school system, this explanation of our origins has been embraced almost universally in the West as the revelation of where we came from, and how it happened.
It is somewhat of a surprise however to find out that there is actually no proof for the preposterous idea that we are merely a very advanced form of primordial slime.
The Missing Link is…missing
If, as zealots of the new religion propose, we, and indeed all living things, have ‘evolved’ from lower life forms, how many transitional fossils would you expect to find? Surely with the multitude of incremental changes required to transform a lamb to a man or a hare to a horse there would be some verifiable and undisputed proof in the darling fossil record beneath our feet.
In fact, one would expect to find millions of such fossils right? Gradualism coupled with evolutionary history should provide us with a fossil history replete with transitionary fossils (those which prove the gradual change from one form of creature to another).
So how many transitional fossils actually exist today, a hundred years after we began our search for these holy grails of the new enlightened path of humanism?
Rather than air my own opinion of something I am not schooled so well in, we turn to an expert from the schools of the enlightened.
The late Dr Colin Patterson was senior Paleontologist at the British Museum of natural History – an evolutionist and a fossil expert. He wrote a significant book on evolution- but when someone asked him why he did not show any pictures of in-between (transitional) forms in his book, he wrote the following:
“I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. You suggest that an artist should be used to visualise such transformations, but where would he get the information from? I could not, honestly, provide it, and if I were to leave it to artistic licence, would that not mislead the reader?
…you say I should at least “show a photo of the fossil from which each type of organism was derived.” I will lay it on the line – there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.”
As recorded in “Stones and Bones”, Carl Wieland p14, Published by Answers in Genesis
So here we have our somewhat surprising answer. Not one!
To put it another way – How much fossil evidence is there for the theory of gradual change from one species to another? ZERO, NILL, NADA, NOWT, A BIG FAT NOTHING.
And people call that science?
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This is obviously great news and apologetics, but did not dinosaurs etc truly exists? Evidence of their existence is available, therefore in what time? I imagine it was before man was created, so how does it all flow? Curious as although I believe by faith in my heavenly Father I have never been able to truly timeline these events as I don’t believe the Bible states this era or does it?
One of the most fascinating fossil records left for our interest are the fossils of the “terrible lizards” – the dinosaurs. What, if anything, does the Bible have to say about these great beasts? Accounts of Dinosaurs are found in the Scriptures in Job Chapter 40:15-24 which describes the awesome ‘Behemoth’, and in Job 41 where the sea creature Leviathan is described. Dragons are also mentioned in Jeremiah 14:6 and Malachi 1:3. Stories of such creatures exist in almost all cultures. Flying serpents are mentioned in Isaiah 30:6. Are these references speaking of dinosaurs? Bearing in mind a true and accurate Biblical history, where dinosaurs lived with humans, it is not unlikely.
The Dinosaurs would have been created with other sea and land creatures on days 5 and 6 of the Creation week, and would have walked with humans. Many would have perished during the flood, and afterwards would have struggled in the new environment.
The following is a proposed history of these great creatures…
Formed c. 4004 BC
God brought dinosaurs into existence on the sixth day of the
very first week in the history of the universe—about 6,000
years ago. On the same day, He made the other animals that
make their homes on land, and with Adam and Eve. It was a
perfect place in which all living things dined on the plants that
God created for them to eat.
Fallen c. 4004 BC
The universe was changed when Adam disobeyed and took a
bite of the fruit that God had forbidden him to eat. Before that
sad event, death wasn’t part of God’s beautiful creation. But
after Adam disobeyed, he and Eve immediately experienced
spiritual death and began the process of decay that would
eventually lead to physical death. Meanwhile violence and
death entered the phyiscal world as animals fought and killed
each other.
Flood c. 2500 BC
As time went on, things got so bad that God judged the
wickedness He saw with an earth-covering flood. He brought
two of every kind of land creature—including dinosaurs!—on
board Noah’s Ark, where they were safe from the storms and
waves, volcanoes and earthquakes. Those air-breathing
animals that weren’t selected to go on the Ark, perished in the
great Flood. Because of all the water and mud and minerals
that were mixed up during this time, the conditions were right,
causing the bones of many of these animals (and also many
of the sea and air creatures) to turn into the fossils that have
since been found around the world.
Faded …
After the Flood, the dinosaurs, people and the rest of the
animals left the Ark and began to refill the Earth. Some of the
animals found it increasingly difficult to survive in the new
world—the climate in some places was much colder than
before (as a result of the Ice Age that started after the Flood
finished), food sources may have been much less, people
were now allowed to kill and eat animals (Genesis 9:3), so
used them for food (and also to make clothing, weapons,
jewelry, etc.)—and eventually those animals became extinct.
As they slowly died out over the years, men began to forget
that they ever lived with the huge creatures, and all that was
left of the dinosaurs were their bones and stories about them.
Found c. AD 1800 to present
Over the years the stories about the colossal beasts turned
into legends, and were written down in various places. Of
course, since the actual word ‘dinosaur’ wasn’t invented until
1841 (by Sir Richard Owen who was studying bones of
creatures that he thought were ‘terrible lizards’), we wouldn’t
expect those ancient accounts to mention ‘dinosaurs’. But the
descriptions of the beasts, sometimes called ‘dragons’,
certainly match creatures we call, for example, Baryonyx and
Cryolophosaurus. And the Bible contains a true account of
Behemoth (Job 40)—a beast that was probably an
Apatosaurus. Scientists have also found Indian drawings on
rock walls that look remarkably like sauropods.