“Why I am Not an Evolutionist
…”
The Science
Lecture Class Handout
By Andy Carmichael ©
2003
Creation School Online
with Andy Carmichael is hosted
at the website www.SloppyNoodle.com/ev.html
Andy_Ally@hotmail.com
1. Introduction
“The evolutionary record leaks like a sieve … The general scientific
world has been bamboozled into believing that evolution
has been proved. Nothing could be further from the truth.”
(Sir Fred Hoyle, evolutionist, atheist, astronomer, cosmologist, mathematician
and Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University
[1] )
“One of the reasons evolution continues to survive is that paleontologists
believe geneticists have the real evidence [for evolution],
and geneticists believe that paleontologists have the
evidence, and so on around the various specialties within
biology, each man passing the buck for evidence to the
next man. Since professionals in different disciplines
rarely talk with one another about such matters, the myth
of overwhelming support for evolution continues. …
Sometimes people ask me how virtually all the evolutionists in the world
could be so wrong about such an important issue as human
origins. Answer : it wouldn’t be the first time.”
(Dr Gary Parker, PhD in biology, creationist scientist, biologist
and palaeontologist, former university lecturer in evolution,
Science Faculty Fellow of the US National Science Foundation,
Creation Facts of Life, 1997
[2] )
“Regardless of how robustly
dogmatic assertions to the contrary may be, even if they
are made by the American Association for the Advancement
of Science and endorsed by fifty thousand scientists,
human evolution is simply not proven.”
(William Fix, evolutionist,
1984 [3] )
“I really do think that people have been so brainwashed into believing
that evolution is a proven fact rather than one possible
interpretation of the facts (which is a very different
matter), that they are extremely surprised to find a practising
scientist who at least appears to be intelligent espousing
the cause of the Biblical account. … It is possible to
be wholly scientific and at the same time to accept the
opening chapters of Genesis as sober history. I think
that what’s required is that we recognise that science
has its limitations.”
(Professor E.H. Andrews,
PhD, creationist scientist and Professor of Material Science
at Queen Mary College, London University [4] )
“A person may choose any
group of animals or plants, large or small, or pick one
at random. He may then go to a library and with some patience
he will be able to find a qualified author who says that
the evolutionary origin of that form is not known.”
(Dr Bolton Davidheiser,
zoologist and creationist scientist, 1969 [5] )
“Science does not claim a 10 billion year history of
the world. Such a claim is beyond its scope. It only claims
that, if we assume that the present laws of nature were
always in force, then the world is that old. But, according
to the simple meaning of the Torah’s narrative, the world
– and the laws of nature with it – were created 5,740
years ago. This denies the non-scientific assumption of
the scientists and does not quarrel with their scientific
reasoning. In other words, the Torah does not at all contradict
the claims of science, but only the hypothesis of scientists,
which is not science at all.”
(Leo Levi, Jewish scholar,
1983 [6] )
“I know of no finding in
archaeology that’s properly confirmed which is in opposition
to the Scriptures. The Bible is the most accurate history
textbook the world has ever seen.”
(Dr Clifford Wilson, former
Director of the Australian Institute of Archaeology
[7] )
“There is no evidence based
solely on solar observations that the Sun is 4.5-5 x 109
[i.e. 4.5 to 5 billion] years old. I suspect that the
sun is 4.5 billion years old. However, given some new
and unexpected results to the contrary, and some time
for frantic recalculation and theoretical readjustment,
I suspect that we could live with Bishop Ussher’s value
for the age of the earth and sun [i.e. 6,000 years old].
I don’t think we have much in the way of observational
evidence in astronomy to conflict with that.”
(Dr John Eddy, PhD in Astrogeophysics, Solar Astronomer
at the High Altitude Observatory at Boulder, Colorado,
Geotimes, 1978 [8] )