Let me begin by clarifying something first and foremost: I am a young earth, seven day creationist. I do not now, nor have I ever thought that the Biblical account of creation was fantasy or mythology. I actually used to think that this was not that big of a deal, but time has a way of changing how you think. I see now that the way you view the universe can affect the way you look at other people.
Ok, having said all that, now I'll get back to the real point of this blog. I read a blog a few days that was talking about how all homeschoolers are religious nuts that are anti-science. Ok, I admit, I am nuts. That has nothing to with homeschool. I was a nutcase before. I am a Christian. Some people translate that into I am religious. I think of Christian as more of a lifestyle than a religion. Anti-Science is something I do not consider myself. I feel like we can learn more about God by studying His creation.
Evolution is not simply a theory that is going to go away on its own. It is something that is never going to be able to be proven, however there are many in the scientific community who believe it and stand by it fiercely. we have reached a point where if someone admits to NOT believing it they are looked at as the village idiot. And let's face it, nobody wants to be the idiot. So, rather than be called an idiot they just agree to what the mainstream says. Reminds me of a verse: Romans 1:22Professing to be wise, they became fools. Let's look at a few reasons why evolution can not be true.
The very basis of evolution is not scientifically possible. Yes, I understand that there are people right now who are thinking I am stupid and have no idea what I am talking about. Let me explain: years and years before Charles Darwin came up with his ideas people wondered how life came into being. There were some scientists who believed that life that had to come from other forms of life. There were others who believed that life could just spontaneously happen. So this big debate we have is nothing new. We are still arguing the same thing, just using different components. Francesco Redi used maggots to make a point. (Ewww) He took meat in jars and left some open. Others he covered up with gauze, allowing the meat to get air. Open jars ended up getting covered in maggotts. Gauzed jars had maggots on top but not in. He then kept some of the maggots to see what they would turn into to. Obviously, they grew into flies. He then placed dead flies into a jar with meat. Nothing happened.
Take Luis Pasteur. His germ theory was that germs did not just appear out of thin air. They spread from one thing to another. He used broth in his experiments. (I like that much better than Redi's work thankyouverymuch) He put his boiled broth into these containers with long tubes to filter the air and keep out any dust particles. No germs grew in the broth on its own. Germs get into things that are not protected from the outside. They don't just appear out of nowhere. This was at the time perceived as the final conclusion to disproving spontaneous generation.
Then we have to fast forward to Darwin. Never mind that other people before have proven that mice did not appear out of dirty hay. We know that crocodiles are not formed from rotting logs at the bottom of the water. Yet he says that all we see, hear, smell, touch, taste and are evolved from one piece of small piece of pond scum blowing up in eternity past. He has no real explanation for how we get from one species to another. (nice little missing links). He offers no explanation for why we have no record of a species evolving in history. He gives us no reason for why we have not evolved into anything higher. And to be quite honest he can get offensive in the way he talks about humans. His own words: "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausaun has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between in a more civilized state, as we may hope, than even the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla." (Charles Darwin-The Descent of Man) Uhm... kind of different than what the Bible says about people being made inn God's image and all people having value and worth.
This blog has gotten a lot longer than I had intended. I had planned to point out the fact that the Biblical account of creation speaks about each plant and animal reproducing after its own kind. I am pretty sure that my tomato seeds I plan to plant in a few days are going to grow tomatoes. I also planned to point out the fact that evolution takes its order in the same sequence as the Biblical creation (light, sun, stars, planets and moons, water, plants, animals, humans) Maybe another blog on another day.
