Written by S. Mann

Brethren Of Christ Articles - Creation Vs Evolution

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The shifting sands of the theory of Evolution, its inability to explain the mystery of life, and the absence of grounds for the faith of evolutionists have been clearly demonstrated in a series of articles in the "Observer" coloured supplements for February 1970. One article entitled "The evolution of evolution” outlined the changes, which had had to be made to Darwin's theory as the result of increased knowledge, and indicated that these changes were themselves in the process of change.

The articles began with the admission that even the tips of our fingers contain an organisation, which has several hundred thousand working parts, and concluded, "Nothing that man has ever built was like this, even with several million super -transistorised parts." It is consequently admitted that "highly organised pattern and structures can only come from intelligent effort." "This points to a genesis of much greater organisation and purpose than had previously been imagined."

If "purpose" is thus admitted, there must logically be a "purposer" - and so it is said, "The biologists' problem is to find a ‘designer’.” Immediately after this statement there was an admission, which reveals the unscientific state of mind of the protagonists of evolution: "There is no desire to introduce a supernatural Designer which would solve the problem only by making it inaccessible to science.” This recalls the earlier admission of Professor D. M. S. Watson: "The theory of evolution is widely accepted, not because it can be proved to be true, but because the only alternative is special creation, which is clearly incredible" (British Association Meeting, 1920). The "Observer" added:" the idea (evolution) caught on, especially among materialist philosophers, who saw it as the only escape from a Biblical genesis." What is all this but an acknowledgement that “evolution” is a matter of "faith" and not of fact: indeed, the "Observer" articles said, "the origin of life is still the battleground for opposing faiths."

Perhaps a few more quotations will show the bankruptcy of theories of evolution. It has now been shown that every living cell has two essential components - nucleic acids and proteins. The nucleic acids (DNA and RNA are the abbreviations used) contain the "instructions," which determine when and how the proteins are put together. It has been estimated that a human being contains "instructions" equivalent to five thousand million "letters" and the conclusion is "with such phenomenal odds against any kind of living organism appearing merely by chance, there must be some other factors helping chance along.” So unwilling are evolutionists to admit of a supernatural Creator that they have to resort to "unblind chance" - whatever that contradiction in terms means.

Dealing with the formation of viruses (which, apparently are relatively "simple" structures), the article says: "Isn't it only a short jump to imagine that somewhere, sometime, after lots of trials and failures, a bit of DNA popped up that could assemble the amino - acid soup around it into a virus? NO. The short jump turns out to be a YAWNING GAP, which you can only cross with unbounded faith. For viruses can only assemble themselves and multiply inside a living cell - in surroundings much more highly organised than themselves. And, of course, there were no such surroundings around at the time!" "Faced with this impasse, biologists have taken on a different task but at present the answer is "We just don't know."