Creation
Let us consider the concept of Creation and ask ourselves how much evidence for Intelligent Design actually exists in the universe.
10:12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Jeremiah 10:12
Jeremiah 10:12
Is the universe simply a universal mess where nothingness randomly exploded into everything or is there something more? Well imagine making your own world of time and space and matter and then choosing your own avatar to live within it.
I challenge you to come up with any vehicle that's more convenient for existing in three dimensional space than the human body. Wings could come in handy and they are even hinted at as a possible future reward in Isaiah 40:31, but even when it comes to wings there might be gravitational fields and density levels that would theoretically allow us to fly even without them.
Would you choose to exist as a sphere? How cold of an existence would that be if the only contact that occured with others was through a simple bump or touch on the edge of your person? Would you choose to exist as a quadruped? What benefit would that bring if you think about trying to travel from one place to another with something in your hand? You might desire a third or a fourth arm, but imagine trying to sleep like that?
Now look around the world and notice how convenient the world around you is for a humanoid presence. Would you choose to make a comfortable environment? Imagine if we were just a little closer to solar light if the equator is just about too hot and the poles are too cold for most humans with how things are currently. Would you choose to have convenient food and convenient vehicles? Think also about how convenient fruit is for humanoid eating and think about how convenient equines are for humanoid riding.
Consider cats and how convenient they are for introverted companionship.
Consider dogs and how convenient they are for extroverted companionship.
Consider precious gems and precious metals and how convenient they are for adding extra beauty to our person and our environment.
Now consider eyes for a moment. Are we supposed to think that light-sensitive photon-recepting forerunning pigments just happened to mutate on some ancient ancestor of ourselves and that this happened in a general area where noses and mouths and ears would later branch from as well?
"'That a mindless, purposeless, chance process such as natural selection, acting on the sequels of recombinant DNA or random mutation, most of which are injurious or fatal, could fabricate such complexity and organisation as the vertebrate eye, where each component part must carry out its own distinctive task in a harmoniously functioning optical unit, is inconceivable. The absence of transitional forms between the invertebrates retina and that of the vertebrates poses another difficulty... The total picture speaks of intelligent creative design of an infinitely high order.' (H.S.Hamilton (MD) The Retina of the Eye - An Evolutionary Road Block.)"
If our eyes are a product of millions of years of evolution through a process in which a succession of creatures slowly grasped one rung higher at a time on a ladder of beneficial mutations, then should we expect for something as ancient as a trilobite to already have extremely advanced vision? And where is fossil evidence showing a slow progression between them and ancestors of them? "One of the most complex parts of the trilobite is its eyes. As humans only have one lens in each eye, some trilobites had over 15,000 hexagonal-shaped lenses in each eye. Mainstream scientists label the trilobite eye as the oldest eye in the fossil record and the most complex of any animal species. How could one of the oldest fossil species have the most complex eyes in history?"
Now consider sexual organs and ask yourself if RNA transcription errors at individual levels explain the male and female sexual organs and how compatible they are with each other. Was there a first of each that happened to come about at about a same moment in time and meet up? Would that not be evidence for a Creator? Did more than one of each come to be at about the same moment in time and two or more of them met up after that? Would that not be even more evidence for a Creator? Were there individuals who wielded both male organs and female organs who later evolved offspring with one or the other? Is there anything in the fossil record that suggests that's the case?
Now consider symbiosis in general if there's actually one example after another in nature where it seems two or more things are essentially made for the other. Fungi provides vital protection and moisture to algae and algae also nourishes fungi with photosynthetic nutrients. And what does pollination not help keep alive? And if there are plants in the world that carry on with help of pollination then what did they do before pollinating insects if we are supposed to believe that they existed long prior to them existing? There are sophisticated relationships among diverse creatures across the world that hint of underlying intelligent design and forethought at work.
Now consider also how many foods there are that actually look like what they are useful for health-wise. Whether we are talking about walnuts for the brain or tomatoes for the heart or kidney beans for kidneys or any other similar combination, one might claim that the world seems to be made around us.
Consider celery and rhubarb and bok-choy if they look much like bone structure and they all specifically target bone strength. "Here's an astonishing fact: bones are 23% sodium, and celery is also 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet the body pulls it from the bones, making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body."
Consider avocados and pears if they are good for the health of the womb and cervix of the female and look like these organs. "Modern research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances the birth hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight and can even prevent cervical cancer. It even takes exactly nine months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit, just like a human baby!"
Consider ginger if it looks like the stomach and it also aids in digestion. "Gingerol, the ingredient that gives ginger it's strong scent and taste, is listed in the USDA database of phytochemicals as having the ability to prevent nausea and vomiting, Ginger also slows down the growth rate of bowel tumors."
Consider figs if they are full of seeds and are known for hanging in pairs when they grow and are very helpful when it comes to men's testicular health. "Studies have shown that Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the sperm count as well as overcoming male sterility."
"Studies have displayed that the consumption of Guarana extract helps to combat age-related eye conditions such as glaucoma and macular degeneration. In addition, studies also show that subjects who consume Guarana on a regular basis reported better vision than those who did not. As such, Guarana extract protects your eyes against potential damage and also helps to maintain good eye health for all age groups."
The list goes on and on. How about just look into the doctrine of food signatures if you are interested in learning more.
Now lets back up and consider the universe as a whole from a macro level. Consider the elements themselves. If there was a big bang that produced hydrogen and helium and yet there are well over 100 other elements, then where did the others come from?
Now consider the First Law of Thermodynamics. It tells us: Matter cannot be created or destroyed. And if both matter and energy have no natural way of coming into existence from within the universe itself, then does it not stand to reason that matter and energy came from some Force outside the universe?
Then consider the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This essentially tells us that everything tends towards disorder.
Consider the following verses if they are from thousands of years ago and science has helped discover that the universe is in fact waxing old like a garment. And if academia tells us that everything in physical spacetime is running down and wearing out as energy is becoming less and less available for use, then where did the universe itself originally come from if not somewhere higher and more complex than itself?
102:25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
102:26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
102:27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Psalm 102:25-27
102:26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
102:27 But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Psalm 102:25-27
51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Isaiah 51:6
Isaiah 51:6
Are we supposed to believe that a) particles evolved into atoms and b) atoms evolved into molecules and c) molecules evolved into worlds and stars and galaxies and d) inorganic compounds evolved into living materials and e) living materials evolved into more and more complex plants and animals and into humans who can now intelligently control future evolution and believe that this happened without entropy decreasing or order increasing in the universe as a whole? And even if you look at things from a closed system perspective and focus on an individual planet, ask yourself if entropy decreased in the world without something in the world capable on converting solar light into usable energy. When does something become more organized without usable energy coupled with a mechanism able to harness and direct the energy? Imagine leaving clumps of dirt floating in space and then coming back to them billions of years later and finding that the clumps organized themselves into spheroids with living organisms on them.
And entropy is not by any means the only scientific concept that's addressed in ancient Abrahamic scripture. Who in the ancient world outside of Hebrews wrote about entropy (see Isaiah 51:6, Psalm 102:25-27) or about the world being hung on nothing (Job 26:7) or of the world being round or wrote of outer space like it was expanding (see Isaiah 40:22, Psalm 104:2, Job 9:8) or about there being mountains in the sea or springs in the sea (see Jonah 2:5-6, Psalm 18:15, Job 38:16) or accurately described how wind works (see Ecclesiastes 1:6) or accurately described how the hydrologic cycle works (see Job 38:37-38, Job 36:27-28, Psalm 135:7, Jeremiah 10:13, Ecclesiastes 1:7)?
26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Job 26:7
Job 26:7
40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Isaiah 40:22
Isaiah 40:22
104:2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
Psalm 104:2
Psalm 104:2
9:8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
Job 9:8
Job 9:8
2:5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O YHWH my Elohim.
Jonah 2:5-2:6
2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O YHWH my Elohim.
Jonah 2:5-2:6
38:16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
Job 38:16
Job 38:16
1:6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Ecclesiastes 1:6
Ecclesiastes 1:6
135:7 He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
Psalm 135:7
Psalm 135:7
38:37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
38:38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
-Job 38:37-38
38:38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
-Job 38:37-38
36:27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
36:28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
Job 36:28
36:28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
Job 36:28
1:7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Ecclesiastes 1:7
Ecclesiastes 1:7
We could go on and add in stuff concerned with life being in the blood and the chemical nature of flesh and concepts associated with cleanliness and the correlation between mental and physical health and fluid dynamics and stars being unique and more, but let's move on and consider the brightest star in the night sky for a moment.
147:4 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
Psalm 147:4
Psalm 147:4
The so called Dog Star. It's actually a binary star with one star much larger and brighter than the other. And consider this nugget right from the top of Wikipedia's entry here: "The distance between the two varies between 8.2 and 31.5 astronomical units as they orbit every 50 years." How peculiar if scripture reveals that the Creator uses a time cycle of 50 years Himself with the Jubilee cycle?
25:9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Leviticus 25:9-10
25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Leviticus 25:9-10
Also note that these stars (remember the expression the Dog Days of summer?) are very close to the ecliptic and it's visible in the night sky from essentially every part of the earth at one point of the year or another. And it does not end there. Consider how large the smaller of the two is according to secular academia itself if this is a size comparison with earth courtesy of NASA:
So is it some kind of outpost of angels or some kind of heavenly abode or does it possibly even contain the Throne of the Creator Himself? Who can say for sure, but it has a lot of things going for it in terms of being important and I don't think it's a coincidence.
Now consider the planets. If there's a mathematically sound organization behind the layout of several planets that is partially revealed by something called the Titius-Bode law then that hints that Someone with intelligence laid them out. Things line up very well until you get just past the asteroid belt and there's evidence that the asteroid belt is the result of a cataclasmic event in which a former planet was broken into many pieces. Also consider that there are three planets and several planetary satellites that revolve backwards and ask yourself what that says in regards to if the solar system was formed simply from a random collapse of a revolving nebula.
Now consider solar eclipses as we work back towards the world we live on. Are we supposed to believe that we are dealing with one body that's 400 times bigger than the other and also 400 times farther away than the other and this is just a pure coincidence that leads to them both looking the same size in the sky? Could there be a solar and lunar size difference any closer for providing a perfect eclipse?
Also... "The 0.5-inch layer of cosmic dust on the moon indicates the moon has not been accumulating dust for billions of years." "The moon is receding a few inches each year. Billions of years ago the moon would have been so close that the tides would have been much higher, eroding away the continents."
And what does the Earth itself tell us if we look below our feet? "Topsoil formation rates indicate only a few thousand years of formation."
45:18 For thus saith YHWH that created the heavens; Elohim himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am YHWH; and there is none else.
Isaiah 45:18
Isaiah 45:18
Also... "Etched within Earth's foundation rocks — the granites — are beautiful microspheres of coloration, halos, produced by the radioactive decay of primordial polonium, which is known to have only a fleeting existence."
"The following simple analogy will show how these polonium microspheres — or halos — contradict the evolutionary belief that granites formed as hot magma slowly cooled over millions of years. To the contrary, this analogy demonstrates how these halos provide unambiguous evidence of both an almost instantaneous creation of granites and the young age of the earth." "A speck of polonium in molten rock can be compared to an Alka-Seltzer dropped into a glass of water. The beginning of effervescence is equated to the moment that polonium atoms began to emit radiactive particles. In molten rock the traces of those radioactive particles would disappear as quickly as the Alka-Seltzer bubbles in water. But if the water were instantly frozen, the bubbles would be preserved. Likewise, polonium halos could have formed only if the rapidly "effervescing" specks of polonium had been instantly encased in solid rock."
"An exceedingly large number of polonium halos are embedded in granites around the world. Just as frozen Alka-Seltzer bubbles would be clear evidence of the quick-freezing of the water, so are these many polonium halos undeniable evidence that a sea of primordial matter quickly 'froze' into solid granite. The occurrence of these polonium halos, then, distinctly implies that our earth was formed in a very short time, in complete harmony with the biblical record of creation."
"If you melt granite, and then let it cool down, it does not turn back to granite. It turns to rhyolite. You see a picture of rhyolite here. So all the granites have these polonium halos. What does that mean? Apparently granite was the original created foundation stone. That was the original created rock. That is the only way to get these little halos in there that I know."
Also... "During the radioactive decay of [elements] contained in rocks, lots of helium is produced. Because helium is the second lightest element and a noble gas—meaning it does not combine with other atoms—it readily diffuses (leaks) out and eventually escapes into the atmosphere. Helium diffuses so rapidly that all the helium should have leaked out in less than 100,000 years. So why are these rocks still full of helium atoms?
"While drilling deep Precambrian (pre-Flood) granitic rocks in New Mexico, geologists extracted samples of zircon (zirconium silicate) crystals from different depths. The crystals contained...large amounts of helium. The hotter the rocks, the faster the helium should escape, so researchers were surprised to find that the deepest, and therefore hottest, zircons (at 387°F or 197°C) contained far more helium than expected." "The helium leakage rate has been determined in several experiments. All measurements are in agreement. Helium diffuses so rapidly that all the helium in these zircon crystals should have leaked out in less than 100,000 years. The fact that so much helium is still there means they cannot be 1.5 billion years old...Indeed, using the measured rate of helium diffusion, these pre-Flood rocks have an average “diffusion age” of only 6,000 (± 2,000) years." "These experimentally determined and repeatable results, based on the well-understood physical process of diffusion, thus emphatically demonstrate that these zircons are only a few thousand years old. The supposed 1.5-billion-year age is based on the unverifiable assumptions of radioisotope dating that are radically wrong." [Quotes missing footnotes]
"Another evidence of a young earth is the low amount of helium in the atmosphere. The leakage rate of helium gas into the atmosphere has been measured. Even though some helium escapes into outer space, the amount still present is not nearly enough if the earth is over 4.5 billion years old." [Quote minus footnotes]
Now let's consider abiogenesis. How sad if Louis Pasteur proved spontaneous generation as false over 150 years ago and yet children are still taught that all matter is self created and that inorganic self created matter went on to create intelligence and life itself? "One of the most fundamental problems confronting adherents to the theory of abiogenesis is the chicken-and-egg paradox. DNA depends heavily on proteins for functioning, yet protein relies upon DNA for correct sequencing. Protein cannot arise apart from DNA, yet DNA requires proteins in order to function. Thus, the difficulty is: how did two independent systems -- both of which are necessary for the sustaining of life -- arise simultaneously that rely on one another for survival and function?" If there is a chicken or egg problem between protein and RNA, then what came first? If there was not an outside intelligent that put things together, then did clay or an organic broth make a whole strand of RNA or make pre-RNA that had the ability to evolve information or that had encoded information for making a cell? Talk about evidence for a directing program. Who can reasonably believe that there was an unguided, unplanned, and undirected assembly of atoms and molecules into amino acids and further into proteins, enzymes and the DNA Double Helix?
Now consider the fossil record. What does it tell us say if Stephen J. Gould of all people said The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology? Well, if there's a degree of gradualism commonly attributed to Darwin that's virtually nonexistent in the fossil record and there are glaring gaps that led to people like Gould rejecting phyletic gradualism and grasping punctuated equilibrium instead, then what are we left to believe? I propose that option C below is the gist of what is happening and that evolution occurs to an extent even if there's not universal common descent stemming back to one collection of spontaneously generating amino acids.
"There are at least six different and unrelated meanings to the word 'evolution' as used in science textbooks.
Cosmic evolution- the origin of time, space and matter. Big Bang.
Chemical evolution- the origin of higher elements from hydrogen.
Stellar and planetary evolution- Origin of stars and planets.
Organic evolution- Origin of life from inanimate matter.
Macroevolution- Origin of major kinds.
Microevolution Variations within kinds- Only this one has been observed, the first five are religious. They are believed, by faith, even though there is no empirical evidence to prove them in any way. While I admire the great faith of the evolutionists who accept the first five I object to having this religious propaganda included in with legitimate science at taxpayer’s expense.
Even a quick review of a typical public school textbook will show that students are being deceived into thinking all six types of evolution above have been proven because evidence is given for minor variations called micro-evolution. The first five are smuggled in when no one is watching.
This deception is a classic case of bait and switch. One definition of evolution (such as 'descent with modification') is given and the others are assumed to be true by association. The first five meanings are believed by faith, have never been observed and are religious. Only the last one is scientific. It is also what the Bible predicted would happen. The animals and plants would bring forth 'after their kind' in Genesis 1."
Cosmic evolution- the origin of time, space and matter. Big Bang.
Chemical evolution- the origin of higher elements from hydrogen.
Stellar and planetary evolution- Origin of stars and planets.
Organic evolution- Origin of life from inanimate matter.
Macroevolution- Origin of major kinds.
Microevolution Variations within kinds- Only this one has been observed, the first five are religious. They are believed, by faith, even though there is no empirical evidence to prove them in any way. While I admire the great faith of the evolutionists who accept the first five I object to having this religious propaganda included in with legitimate science at taxpayer’s expense.
Even a quick review of a typical public school textbook will show that students are being deceived into thinking all six types of evolution above have been proven because evidence is given for minor variations called micro-evolution. The first five are smuggled in when no one is watching.
This deception is a classic case of bait and switch. One definition of evolution (such as 'descent with modification') is given and the others are assumed to be true by association. The first five meanings are believed by faith, have never been observed and are religious. Only the last one is scientific. It is also what the Bible predicted would happen. The animals and plants would bring forth 'after their kind' in Genesis 1."
"What does the word kind mean?" "Since two of each kind of land animal (and seven of some) were brought aboard the Ark for the purpose of preserving their offspring upon the earth (Genesis 7:3), it seems clear that a “kind” represents the basic reproductive boundary of an organism. That is, the offspring of an organism is always the same kind as its parents, even though it may display considerable variation."
"Dogs, for example, exhibit tremendous variety. Yet diverse breeds of dogs can produce offspring with each other—indicating that all dogs are of the same kind. Dogs will not interbreed with cats, however, since they are a different kind. Modern breeding research therefore confirms the biblical concept of animal and plant kinds."
Consider what has happened with canines and ask yourself if it's reasonable to think that they have been evolving across the world for millions of years. Humans selectively breeding can add a lot of variety quickly, but if a population can quickly change into two very different groups naturally from being isolated into multiple groups in nature, are we supposed to believe that canines have been evolving for millions of years and dog breeds never occurred naturally before 4,000 years ago?
"Archaeology has revealed dog remains of various sizes but there does not appear to have been distinctive breeds until 3,000-4,000 years ago when greyhound-type dogs were depicted on pottery and paintings in Egypt and Western Asia." -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_breed
"Archaeology has revealed dog remains of various sizes but there does not appear to have been distinctive breeds until 3,000-4,000 years ago when greyhound-type dogs were depicted on pottery and paintings in Egypt and Western Asia." -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_breed
Consider how much has changed even in the very recent past and ask yourself what takes millions of years in nature.
"Creation researchers have found that 'kind' is often at the level of 'family' in our modern classification scheme. For example, zebras, horses, and donkeys all belong to the family Equidae and can mate with each other to form hybrid animals such as mules (from a horse and donkey) and zonkeys (from a zebra and donkey). However, there is no reason to assume a one-to-one correspondence between our manmade system and the biblical terminology. So 'kind' may be at a higher taxonomic level in some cases, lower in others."
I propose that things do evolve in a sense and it happens much more quickly than many realize. The world is filled with evidence that animals considered to be prehistoric actually lived with mankind. Consider historical accounts and even artwork if there's one example of another from around the globe that seems to portray prehistoric animals. Let's focus on the Nile Mosaic of Palestrina specifically for a moment. What do we have here if this is from a floor mosaic from about 2,000 years ago and we are shown a creature known as the ΚΡΟΚΟΔΙΛΟΠΑΡΔΑΛΙC or crocodile leopard?
Dinosaurs/dragons have a whole section of their own here and I will only touch on them briefly for now, but there's clearly a multitude of evidence in the form of historical accounts and artwork from the past suggesting they coexisted with mankind. And this is true despite mainstream theory holding that they died out millions of years before mankind coming into existence.
The Nile Mosaic of Palestrina portrays a number of other interesting creatures as well. Does this look like an animal that you have seen before?
Dinohyus (meaning "terrible pig") was a large, warthog-like hoofed mammal that allegedly lived during the early Miocene or roughly 24 million years ago.
Camelops is allegedly an extinct genus of camels that is said to have appeared about 45 million years ago and to have eventually migrated to Africa. Its name is derived from the Greek κάμελος (camel) + ὀψ (face), thus "camel-face."
Pliohippus is said to be ancestor of modern horses and it's said that species in this genus lived from 12-6 million years ago.
Smilodon (IPA: /smailəʊdɑn/, a bahuvrihi from Greek: σμιλη "knife" and (Ionic) οδων "tooth") is said to be an extinct genus of large machairodontine saber-toothed cats that are understood to have lived between approximately 3 million to 10,000 years ago.
Samotherium is said to be an extinct genus of Giraffidae that had a neck about 1 meter long and it's claimed to have lived in open woodlands about 7 million years ago. It's name means beast of Samos. People might be led to believe that giraffes are the product of natural selection due to creatures with longer neck being able to reach higher up on trees to get leaves, but what really took millions of years whether that's the case or not?
Also: "'Modern apes ... seem to have sprung out of nowhere. They have no yesterday, no fossil record. And the true origin of modern humans ... is, if we are to be honest with ourselves, an equally mysterious matter.' (Lyall Watson, Ph.D., Evolutionist)"
If you were to design several different types of creatures on a computer program you might end up having an artistic signature in your work. Perhaps you would find eyes and arms and more to be functionally useful and aesthetically pleasing and end up using eyes and arms on several original designs from the start. Should we look at eating utensils or limbs of living creatures and assume any similarity between either of the two groups would automatically be the result of common ancestry? Who shares common ancestry with who if similarity among creatures on even a genetic level can be seen as evidence for both common ancestry or a Common Designer? The following is a joke and still helps make a valid point related to what has happened within mainstream evolutionary biology.
"'In most people's minds, fossils and Evolution go hand in hand. In reality, fossils are a great embarrassment to Evolutionary theory and offer strong support for the concept of Creation. If Evolution were true, we should find literally millions of fossils that show how one kind of life slowly and gradually changed to another kind of life. But missing links are the trade secret, in a sense, of palaeontology. The point is, the links are still missing. What we really find are gaps that sharpen up the boundaries between kinds. It's those gaps which provide us with the evidence of Creation of separate kinds. As a matter of fact, there are gaps between each of the major kinds of plants and animals. Transition forms are missing by the millions. What we do find are separate and complex kinds, pointing to Creation.' (Dr Gary Parker Biologist/palaeontologist and former ardent Evolutionist.)"
And what is there in terms of molecular data to support a concept that there was gradual evolution from simple to complex stemming from a single ancestor that spontaneously generated from amino acids if there are chromosome numbers shown here?
"'Micromutations do occur, but the theory that these alone can account for evolutionary change is either falsified, or else it is an unfalsifiable, hence metaphysical theory. I suppose that nobody will deny that it is a great misfortune if an entire branch of science becomes addicted to a false theory. But this is what has happened in biology: ... I believe that one day the Darwinian myth will be ranked the greatest deceit in the history of science. When this happens many people will pose the question: How did this ever happen?' (S Lovtrup, Darwinism: The Refutation of a Myth (London:Croom Helm, p.422)"
Now consider love in light of the survival of the fittest concept. What about survival of the fittest would explain people picking up strangers hitchhiking on the highway or people donating organs to strangers or someone from the western world sending anonymous donations to strangers in Africa?
And then there is the Fibonacci Sequence. This is a powerful hint that we are inhabiting a complex directed system as opposed to a coincidental mess resulting from a purposeless explosion. There's a predictable harmonic pattern found in organic chemistry that preserves and propagates specific atomic geometries into living organisms. The physical manifestation of the Fibonacci sequence very closely matches the Golden Spiral and it shows up all over nature from flowers to seashells to cells to entire galaxies. Many storm systems follow the Fibonacci Sequence as well and the Fibonacci spiral even seems to be incorporated into the Great Pyramid of all places.
But to wrap things up, are time and space and matter all self created and composed into a Golden Ratio filled universe and was there an unguided, unplanned, and undirected explosion arising out of nothing that created hydrogen and helium (with well over a hundred other elements mysteriously appearing later on?) and did particles evolve into atoms and atoms evolve into molecules and molecules evolve into galaxies and stars and planets (including ones that revolve backwards and ones laid out in a formulated pattern or planetary sequence referred to with something called Bode's Law?) and was there an unguided, unplanned, and undirected assembly of atoms and molecules into amino acids and further into proteins, enzymes and the DNA Double Helix and did inorganic compounds create intelligence and evolve into living materials (with the Fibonacci Sequence and a predictable harmonic pattern found in organic chemistry that preserves and propagates specific atomic geometries into living organisms and with chlorophyll that could somehow harness solar light and turn it into useful energy?) and did clay or an organic broth make a whole strand of RNA or pre-RNA that had the ability to evolve information or that had encoded information for making a cell and did living materials evolve into more and more complex plants and animals (with light sensitive photon recepting forerunning pigments that eventually evolved into eyes and happened to appear in a general area where noses and mouths and ears would later branch from and with sex organs that seem made for each other and with symbiotic relationships that hint at underlying intelligent design and forethought at work and with survival of the fittest being the grand champion of progress regardless of where love for other species would fit in and with Stephen J. Gould himself saying The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology?) and did animals evolve into humans intelligent enough to control future evolution who live on a world with equines that seem made for their riding and with fruit that seem made for their eating and with solar eclipses that involve a perfect match between solar size and lunar size and did everything that happen also happen without entropy decreasing in the universe as a whole? I don't think so. Evidence points towards intelligent design and also points to ancient Israelites being in contact with the Creator.
Note: All verses from the Restored Name King James Version unless otherwise noted. I might be a simple man and be saying some stuff that is wrong. I expect to be surprised by one thing or another and welcome input with hope that I will be corrected where I'm in error. Both myself and this website are a work in process.