This past weekend, the family and I visited Virginia’s
Safari Park. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s basically a large piece of
farm land where you can ride through and feed and pet roaming animals like
llamas, bison, elks, zebras, ostriches, and several types of deer. They also have a few enclosed areas with animals
like monkeys, tortoises, birds, kangaroos, and tigers. While we were looking at the monkeys, a park
employee was explaining that they have prehensile tails, which are tails that are
capable of grasping or holding objects.
She pointed out that this particular species of monkey can completely
hang from just its tail. She described their prehensile tails as “evolutionary
adaptations.” When I heard the dreaded
“E” word, I couldn’t help but think about this college-aged woman talking about
the theory of evolution as if it is cold, hard fact. I assume she was taught evolution while in
school, and like many, she doesn’t question it now as an adult.
Society has taken the theory of evolution and promoted it as
indisputable fact. I believe that science
pushes evolution on us so heavily because many believe it to be the best
alternative to the biblical view of creation. People refuse to believe in God,
so they teach the theory that seems to be the best alternative. But is the theory of evolution so
feasible? Notice the following quotes by
prominent scientists, most of whom support the theory of evolution.
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"Scientists who go about teaching that
evolution is a fact of life are great con-men, and the story they are telling
may be the greatest hoax ever. In explaining evolution, we do not have one iota
of fact." Dr. T. N. Tahmisian (Atomic
Energy Commission, USA) in "The Fresno Bee", August 20, 1959. As
quoted by N. J. Mitchell, Evolution and the Emperor's New Clothes, Roydon
Publications, UK, 1983, title page.
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"Contrary to what most scientists write,
the fossil record does not support the Darwinian theory of evolution because it
is this theory (there are several) which we use to interpret the fossil record.
By doing so we are guilty of circular reasoning if we then say the fossil
record supports this theory." Ronald R.
West, PhD (paleoecology and geology) (Assistant Professor of Paleobiology at
Kansas State University), "Paleoecology and uniformitarianism".
Compass, vol. 45, May 1968, p. 216
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"The chance that higher life forms might have
emerged in this way is comparable with the chance that 'a tornado sweeping
through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein'." Sir
Fred Hoyle (English astronomer, Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge
University), as quoted in "Hoyle on Evolution". Nature, vol. 294, 12
Nov. 1981, p. 105
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“Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling
us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our
thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its
official function as a biological theory.”
Mary
Midgley (former Sener Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Newcastle upon
Tyne, UK] “The Religion of Evolution,” in Durant J., ed., “Darwinish and
Divinity: Essays on Evolution and Religious Belief,” Basil Blackwell: Oxford
UK, 1985, p. 154.
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“It must be significant that nearly all the
evolutionary stories I learned as a student…have now been ‘debunked.’
Similarly, my own experience of more than twenty years looking for evolutionary
lineages among the Mesozoic Brachiopoda has proved them equally elusive.” Derek Ager (Professor, University at Swansea, Wales
UK).”Story Time Over” Proceedings of Geologists’ Association. 1976. Vol. 87, p.
132
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“…I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond
the bounds of true science…It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many
flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.” Charles Darwin to Asa Gray, cited by Adrian Desmond
and James Moore, “Darwin,” 1991. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. p. 456,
475.
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“I believe that one day the Darwinian mysth will be
ranked the greatest deceit in the history of science.” Soren Lovtrup. “Darwinism: The Refutation of a Myth.”
New York: Croom Helm, 1987. p. 422.
The educational system will lead you to believe that
evolution is supported by loads of evidence; however, even prominent
evolutionists, and Darwin himself, admit their doubt in the theory. So why do
many people accept evolution and refuse to believe the Bible’s account of
creation (which, by the way, is a much simpler and easier to believe
explanation)? In short, I believe it’s yet another example of Satan’s influence
on mankind. Don’t let him influence you. See the theory of evolution for what
it really is – a hoax.
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