Intelligent Design

2005-2007

A Blow to the Evolution Theory?

IT SHOULD BE more difficult for evolutionists to hold to their already inadequate theory.

A new study by British researchers at the University of Cambridge (published in Nature, July 19) proves that all humans originated from a single point in Africa. This is far removed from the primordial soup + time + chance theory that humans evolved from different parts of the world. The origins of anatomically modern humans have been the focus of much heated debate.

Our genetic research shows that the further modern humans have migrated from Africa, the more genetic diversity has been lost within a population. However, some have used skull data to argue that modern humans originated in multiple spots around the world.

"We have combined our genetic data with new measurements of a large sample of skulls to show definitively that modern humans originated from a single area in sub-Saharan Africa," says Andrea Manica.

Fellow researcher Francois Balloux added: "To test the alternative theory for the origin of modern humans, we tried to find an additional, non-African origin. We found this just did not work. Our findings show that humans originated in a single area in Sub-Saharan Africa." The Garden of Eden perhaps?

ADRIAN SOBERS

The Nation Newspaper, October 2, 2007.

Main coined term 'creation science'

Henry M. Morris, whose writings describing what he saw as a divinely created world helped ignite a national debate about the origins of life on Earth, has died. He was 87.

Morris, who coined the term "creation science," had suffered a series of strokes in recent weeks. He died Feb. 25 at a hospital. The cause of death was a stroke, said his son, John Morris.

Trained as a hydraulic engineer, Henry Morris co-authored "The Genesis Flood," a 1961 book that attempted to offer scientific explanation for creationism. A longtime opponent, the late Stephen Jay Gould, acknowledged the book as "the founding document of the creationist movement."

Morris went on to found the California-based Institute for Creation Research in the San Diego suburb of Santee in 1970 and built it into a center of the creationist movement. He also helped found what is now San Diego Christian College in El Cajon that year.

Morris was born in 1918 in Dallas. He was teaching civil engineering at Rice University in the 1940s when he concluded that evolution was a major barrier for students in accepting Christ. In 1946, he wrote the first of more than 60 books, "That You Might Believe."

Morris's ideas have been roundly rejected by mainstream scientists, but they continue to hold considerable sway over millions of people around the globe.

The Associated Press, March 8, 2006

Is Intelligent Design Intelligent, or

is Darwinism a lot of Monkey Business?

Federal Judge Declares Intelligent Design Unconstitutional

With all the huge problems in the schools, a US District Court Judge John Jones has discovered the real threat to the nation’s schoolchildren. It’s called Intelligent Design or ID. Judge Jones ruled that intelligent design has no place in public school science classes because, as he said, “It’s religion in disguise.” But is I.D. religion?

The Dover PA schools weren’t even teaching ID! They just wanted students to hear a brief statement before classes on evolution began. The statement said evolution is not a fact. But one of the parents, along with the ACLU, sued the school because his daughter would suffer serious harm from just hearing the statement. He said it would usurp his authority to be the one in charge of his daughter’s religious education. Just hearing a brief statement challenging evolution would usurp his daughter’s religious education. What about the tremendous harm EVOLUTION is doing Christian students? And he’s worried about one statement.

Who is a judge to determine that Intelligent Design is not scientific? Intelligent design is not religious. The judge was wrong. But because of his pro-evolution prejudice, teachers are denied their freedom of speech and cannot present origins objectively when they can’t even mention Intelligent Design to let students decide. Not only did the judge overreach, but his decision is totally unconstitutional.

What’s different about the ID movement is it didn’t arise out of religious conviction but out of new scientific discoveries. Simply put, scientists are discovering that life is too complex and too highly ordered for the current neo-Darwin explanation. In fact, what they assert is that life on earth was DESIGNED. The ID movement shows a belief in a Creator SCIENTIFICALLY fits with the facts!” Alan Keyes.

Jones said I.D. was religion camouflaging itself as science. But it’s evolution that’s camouflaging itself as science. The ID movement exposes the fraudulent “evidence” used in high school textbooks. Darwin’s “tree of life” is inconsistent with the fossil evidence. Yet it’s presented to innocent school children as a scientific fact. Creative drawings of evidence for evolution, are still used in textbooks as proof for evolution even though they’ve been disproved for decades. Why? Evolutionists want no other viewpoint taught in science class because it makes evolution look foolish.

If I told you a frog turned into a man, you would call that a fairy tale. But evolution says billions of years ago a frog became a man. And that’s called science.

Scientist and founder of the Institute for Creation Science, Dr Henry Morris, said “+Evolution doesn’t occur in the present, it never happened in the past, and, in fact, its not even science at all...If evolution were a real process it would still be happening today.” This is a classic quote from a scientist!

Here’s what really happened. God created man out of the dust of the ground, not from another species. Jesus said, “From the beginning, God created them male and female.” Notice He said from the beginning of creation (John 1:1, Col 1:16), Darwin wasn’t. Jesus said, in John 5:46, “If you believed Moses you would believe me.” Moses wrote about Adam not evolution. Paul wrote in Rom 5:14 that “death reigned from the time of ADAM! Death didn’t exist before Adam sinned, like evolution teaches.

EVOLUTION IS a competing RELIGION! Darwin made atheism scientifically respectable by appealing to “intellectuals.” Many of us believed that the “monkey chart” was proof of evolution. We thought that scientists had unearthed actual monkeys and half-men that looked like this picture. And once you’ve seen that picture it’s so convincing that it’s hard to forget. But this chart is pure fiction. It’s an imaginative artist’s fabrication. Sure they found some bones and teeth, but you can draw whatever flesh or fur you want on those bones, it’s just an artist’s imagination- not science. Yet that chart has fooled many children, who simply believed what they were told in science and rejected the Bible.

A building is evidence there was a builder, right? A painting is evidence there was a painter, right? So creation is evidence of a , (fill in the blank). This is logical; it doesn’t require faith, just logic.

There are many who believe a car is the result of a designer. But let me tell you what really happened. Many centuries ago iron, rubber, plastic and glass came up out of the ground, and each substance fastened itself in the right place with another substance and holes found themselves at the right places. Then one day some people found one of these things and they called it an “automobile.” Incredibly these automobiles have the ability to change each year, that’s called “auto-mutations.” I would be called a raving lunatic if I believed automobiles evolved but highly intelligent people believe something far more complex just evolved. Scientists admit a car had a designer, but many reject the idea that creation has a Creator.” Pastor Chuck Swindol

“Creationism has been ruled not scientifically plausible when in fact it is the true reality.” Pastor Chuck Smith

Teaching Science Intelligently

Are science teachers trying to change the RELIGIOUS beliefs of students? If Christian students learn to believe evolution, will they eventually deny their Christian faith? Dr Terry Mortensen, of Answers in Genesis, says evolution is not a science but a philosophy. In fact, evolution is a religion. Atheism depends totally upon evolution. It takes faith to believe evolution.