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Grandfather was a Hamster?
Lies in the
Textbook
Having taught high
school science for 15 years, I will be quick to admit that there is much good
science in most textbooks. However, there is some poison mixed in them. Did you
know that rat poison is 99.99% good food? It is that .01% that is deadly. Please
keep this in mind as you study your book;
you will learn many facts from
science that will help you for the rest of your life. I do not object to all the
good things taught in science books, but I caution readers to be aware that most
textbooks these days are filled with their authors' philosophy of
evolution.
To refute every place where evolution crops up in every
textbook would require many pages, so I will only deal with a few specific
subjects to show the reader how to separate the facts of science from the
teaching (religion) of evolutionism, and how to give the creationist
interpretation of the facts. I will also show you places where many textbooks
still present information that has been proven wrong or is grossly
exaggerated.
Naturalism?
Many scientists today approach the study of science with the idea
that nothing beyond the natural, observable world exists. To them,
everything must be explained without appealing to the supernatural.
They do not seem to be able to distinguish between the operation of
complex systems and the origin of these systems.
For example, I can explain the operation of a
complex machine such as a watch or a car in purely naturalistic
terms. Machines operate according to known laws of the natural
world. We would not need to appeal to the supernatural world to
explain how it works. This would not, however, explain the origin of
the machine! Machines do not build themselves. To explain its origin
we would have to claim there was a designer. We do not have to be
able to see the designer of the machine to believe the designer
exists. The complexity of the design demands a designer; machines
never come into being on their own.
While it is true that many of the complex living
systems in the world today are capable of being understood as far as
how they are designed and how they operate, this has nothing to do
with how they originated! There must have been an intelligent force
outside the machine that brought it into existence.
Some textbook authors will try to give you the
impression that the creation story is not "scientific" because it
involves an unseen and unprovable Creator. They do not seem to
realize (or admit) that the evolution theory is not scientific
either. They assign the attributes of God to time, space, matter,
and energy. In their mind, such forces are capable of creating,
designing, sustaining, and producing the universe and life itself.
The "god" of evolution is time and chance.
Geologic Time
Most textbooks teach the concept of what is called "geologic time."
The authors frequently promote the theory that layers (strata) of
the earth represent different time periods laid down over "billions
of years." Creationists believe that nearly all of these layers were
formed rapidly during a global flood. The general lack of erosion
between the layers and the existence of many fossilized trees that
extend straight up through many different layers indicate that these
layers were not formed slowly over billions of years. Mount St.
Helens erupted in 1980 and made great geologic changes in the
surrounding area in a few days, not billions of years. Hundreds of
feet of stratified sediment were laid down quickly. The principle of
uniform process to which authors often refer does not take into
account that many catastrophes like floods, earthquakes, or
volcanoes can make rapid changes in an area in a very short time.
(See videotape #6 of my series for much more on this.)
In the early 1800s evolutionists assumed that
evolution had occurred and they arranged the life forms from what
they thought were simple to complex forms. Next they gave an age to
each rock
layer, based on how long they thought it would take these life forms
to evolve from one kind into another.
Polystrate fossils such as this one are found all over the world.
They run through many rock layers proving the rock layers are not
different ages as the textbooks teach.
Today the evolutionists date the rock strata by
the fossils they contain, then turn around and date the fossils by
the strata they are in! This is called circular reasoning! Even if
fossils were found in order from so-called simple to complex, (and
they are not) it would not prove the evolution theory. Order of
burial does not prove any relationship.
If I was to get buried on top of a hamster, that does not prove it
is my grandfather!
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