“Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a phantasy.” -- Charles Darwin
I’m sure everyone in this room has heard that science proves evolution, and that people who believe that God created everything in six days about six thousand years ago have succumbed to a myth. However, when you take the real data and study it using scientific methods, you make a significant discovery - science proves creation! Today, we will explore some of the most mind-blowing aspects of God’s creation that disprove the Theory of Evolution. First, we will study the woodpecker, which will show us that if evolution were true, the woodpecker would be extinct because of the evolutionary rule “survival of the fittest.” Next, we’ll take a step into the world of astrophysics and look at how “the heavens declare the glory of God; and the skies proclaim the work of His hands” (Bible: The New International Version, Psalms 19.1) Finally, we will apply math to creation and see how the Fibonacci Sequence and Phi show how we must have been designed by an infinitely wise God.
To begin, the woodpecker is an amazing example of how the universe must have been created by God and could not have come about by random chance. Speaker and author Dr. Jobe Martin, in his book The Evolution of a Creationist, depicts a Darwinian scenario in which a bird is trying to evolve into a woodpecker. Martin illustrates, Quote...
Let’s suppose some bird decided that there must be all kinds of little critters, which would be good for lunch, hidden beneath the bark of trees. This bird decided to peck through the bark and into the hardwood tree. On first peck, this bird discovered problems with the way it was...
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In conclusion, it is possible for science and religion to overlap. Although Gould’s non-overlapping magisterial claims that creationism doesn’t conflict with evolution, it doesn’t hold with a religion that takes the biblical stories literally. Moreover, I defended my thesis, there is some overlap between science and religion and these overlaps cause conflict that make it necessary to reject either science or religion, by using Dawkins’ and Plantinga’s arguments. I said earlier that I agree with Dawkins that both science and religion provide explanation, consolation, and uplift to society. However, there is only conflict when science and religion attempt to explain human existence. Lastly, I use Plantinga’s argument for exclusivists to show that such conflict means that science and religion are not compatible. It demands a rejection t either science or religion.
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The husband ordered his servant to set out traps to capture the bird. So, his servant catches the bird and returns it back to him. “The husband takes the bird to his wife and before her eyes he killed it out of spite breaking its neck with his hands.” (Sutton 171) The blood from the bird splatters over her chest (Sutton 172).
would then walk in the middle of the bird that had been cut into two
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The broken bird cage was a vital clue for whoever killed Mr. Wright. In the text, the author says how, “Mrs. Peters was examining the bird-cage. “Look at this door,” she said slowly. “It’s broke. Someone pulled apart the cage hinge.” Bird cages are pretty easy
Keith Henson a writer in evolutionary psychology once said that “Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.” Evolution was first introduced by a naturalist by the name of Charles Darwin. Darwin had written an autobiography, at the age of 50, On the Origin of Species (1859) explaining how species evolve through time by natural selection; this theory became known as Darwinism. “Verlyn Klinkenborg, who writes editorials and vignettes on science and nature for the “New York Times”” (Muller 706) questions Darwin’s theory in one of his essays he wrote called Darwin at 200: The Ongoing Force of His Unconventional Idea. Both articles talk about the theory of Darwinism, but the authors’ use different writing techniques and were written in different time periods. Darwin himself writes to inform us on what the theory is, where as Klinkenborg goes on to explain why Darwinism is just a theory. Today, evolution is still a very controversial topic among many. It comes up in several topics that are discussed everyday such as in politics, religion and education.
These questions are given a possible answer in The Great Silence when the bird explains his
John Polkinghorne’s The Universe as Creation does its best to not convince the reader of Intelligent Design, but rather to dissuade the reader from the notion that although the is intelligently designed, but in this way, it has made science possible.
Regarding the finches on the islands, their beak mutations ranged from a beak made to crush and break through hard nuts to a small and soft beak that eats insects (Rands 2013). These mutations helped to further the understanding of the theory of evolution. The discovery of the many mutations that went on in just the small area of the Galapagos made scientist realize that there are still many new mutations that they have never encountered.
The information presented in evolution studies must be viewed with an open mind since there is no definite proof or law of evolution. The dilemma boils down to science vs. religion. God has been our creator since beginning of time, but the discoveries of recent science are sudde...
Many atheists have used science as a way to disapprove the existence of God. Science is not an accurate way of disapproving the existence of God(2). Scient...
For instance, it is clear between both creation and evolution that an intelligent creator cannot be proven or denied. In a scientific aspect, the existence of an intelligent designer cannot be denied, due to the lack of evidence that contradicts otherwise. On the other hand, creationists cannot prove the existence of an intelligent designer but indefinitely believes through a concept called faith. In addition, both concepts agree that microevolution occurs. For example, since the arrival of sparrows to North America, mutations have occurred from different locations. The northern sparrows have adapted to a larger body than the southern sparrows, in order to survive lower temperatures. Along with these similarities, evolution and creation both acknowledges that apes and humans show
In this essay I discuss why there is proof that there is a supernatural being known as God, who has created everything we know and experience. The mere claim, that there could be a "Proof for the Existence of God," seems to invite ridicule. But not always are those who laugh first and think later. Remember how all-knowing doctors/scientists laughed at every new discovery?