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The so-called ‘Period of Enlightenment’, which started in the 18th Century, advocated that everything was explained by reason; therefore science was superior to any philosophy. When Charles Darwin published his Origin of the Species in 1859, atheists immediately adopted the ideas to prove the non-existence of God. This was despite the doubts that Darwin had regarding certain aspects of his ‘Theory of Evolution’ especially with regard to intermediate stages between species and also the development of new organs especially the eye.
Despite these doubts, which Darwin hoped would be answered over the years ahead, no such evidence has been forthcoming. In fact despite the vast accumulation of fossils, there is less evidence now that there was in the 19th Century mainly because some has lost it’s original authentication.
Despite being faced with these issues, today’s atheists are anxious that any possible belief in God is disproved. Therefore they go to any lengths to produced so called evidence of evolution. This has even involved the falsification of fossils and other remains to appear to be ‘missing links’.
It is quite clear that if evidence of evolution is discovered it would really prove the non-existence of God. However I am confident that that no such evidence will be discovered for two reasons. Firstly, I have personal experience of God in my life but this would never be accepted by atheists as evidence and secondly because macroevolution, the changing of one species into another is impossible.
Evolutionists claim that all life can be traced back to a common source although they cannot explain how that source came into being in the first place although many have tried. In the lowest form of life, the DNA for that creature holds the DNA for that creature alone and no other. Therefore any advance towards another species would involve the development of further DNA code to develop new cells and features. This development happens by pure chance caused by mutation and ultimately this same process will develop into other appendages such as arms and legs. It is a fact that most mutations, over 99% are detrimental to the offspring, therefore, according to the theory, the bad ones die out and the successful mutations survive to adapt to the surroundings. Because this happens with so few good mutations, the process can take many millions of years. Despite this there are no intermediate stages in the fossil record. I think it takes an extraordinary amount of faith to believe that every part of all living creatures have developed by chance. A cursory inspection of any species shows a remarkable degree of design. In some instances there would have to be a number of simultaneous mutations for example to develop an eye, the blood vessels and nerves including the optic nerve and also receptors in the brain to make sense of the image.
It is strange that after millions of years there is no sign of humans developing into anything better. The motivation behind the present support of the Theory of Evolution is to prove the non-existence of God. This is shown clearly in the recent book by Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion. No Christian should accept the teaching of evolution because it simply isn’t true but it is important that we are fully aware of the scientific arguments otherwise we have no chance of being heard.
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