“Why I am Not an Evolutionist
…”
The Science
Lecture Class Handout
By Andy Carmichael ©
2003
Creation School Online
with Andy Carmichael is hosted
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2. What is
evolution ?
Evolution theory is a religious
belief that fundamentally requires adherence to the
religion of atheism and/or the religion of pantheism.
“Evolution” is a hypothetical, unobserved process
(without any known scientific mechanism) by which all
things in the universe are said to have created themselves
from nothing without needing the existence of a Creator.
Evolution is a hypothetical process of onwards-and-upwards
self-improvement where all things somehow create themselves
and somehow increase their complexity of their own accord
:
“Once in a while an evolutionist
will say that any farmer who practices selective breeding
is practising evolution. But as one farmer put it, ‘Mister,
when I cross pigs, I get pigs. I don’t get dogs and cats
and horses.’ ”
(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 [9] )
“When someone asks if I believe
in evolution, I’ll often say, ‘Why, yes, no, no, yes,
no.’ The answer really depends on what the person means
by evolution. In one sense, evolution means ‘change’.
Do I believe in change ? Yes, indeed – I’ve got some in
my pocket ! But change isn’t the real question, of course.
Change is just as much a part of the creation model as
the evolution model. The question is, what kind of
change do we see : change only within kind (creation),
or change also from one kind to others (evolution) ?”
(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 [10] )
By one of the foundational
laws of logic (the “law of excluded middle”) we know that
either things were made or they were not made. Logically,
there is no third alternative. If they were made, they
were made by someone or something – this is the concept
of creation. If they were not made by someone or something,
they must have made themselves – this is the concept of
evolution :
“Creation and evolution,
between them, exhaust the possible explanations for the
origin of living things. Organisms either appeared on
the earth fully developed or not. … If they did appear
in a fully developed state, they must have been created
by some omnipotent intelligence.”
(Douglas Futuyma, evolutionist
and biologist, Science on Trial, 1983 [11] )