Evolutionists cling to Darwin Day
Atheists in Manchester are clinging on to Charles Darwin as if he were the fount of all wisdom.
Each year, says an email, ‘Greater Manchester Humanists put on a Darwin Day event as a major meeting where we invite noted academics to give lectures on cutting edge advances or new insights into the world of science that has been informed by Darwin’s discoveries.’
Two professors
They have found two professors to speak at the meeting. The meeting will be held on Monday 12th February, Darwin’s birthday, designated ‘Darwin Day’.
Guy Otten, a ‘humanist celebrant’, chairs the Manchester God-deniers. He is also a trustee of the British Humanist Association. He said: ‘Darwin’s insights are still (amazingly) being denied in the 21st century by people motivated by anti-science founded on religious belief. Supporting and promoting Darwin Day is thus an important step and statement.’
This is almost a self-parody of the atheist position. So shaky is their confidence, they have to denigrate their opponents as ‘anti-science’. Actually, it was religious belief that prompted science in the first place. Scientists from the fifteenth century to the present day were, and still are, Christians. (Although the term ‘scientist’ was not coined until 1833.) Here are just some of them. But there is a longer list here.
Where did ‘laws of nature’ come from?
Inquisitive believers wanted to know how God’s creation worked. We still do. What laws did the Almighty put in place to govern creation? In Proverbs chapter eight his law is characterised as ‘wisdom’. It declares:
Prov 8:23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
If the laws of physics, chemistry, biology, thermodynamics and so on were not put in place in the beginning, where did they come from? What wisdom created them? Because, make no mistake, they had to be there or the universe would blow apart.
One of those is the law of biogenesis: Life comes only from life. Indeed, scientists have only observed life coming from the same kind of life, just as the word of God states in the first chapter of the Bible:
Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Gen 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Australopithecus
One of the speakers at the Darwin Day event is scheduled to be Professor John Gowlett. Prof Gowlett holds the degrees of MA PhD FSA FRAI. He is Professor of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. The other speaker is zooarchaeologist Prof Keith Dobney BA; MSc; PhD.
The subject will be: ‘HUMAN EVOLUTION: from Australopithecus to Archaeological Science.’
‘Australopithecus’ refers to ‘Lucy’. Evolutionists have hailed her as the elusive ‘missing link’ between apes and men. However, others point out Lucy was actually a extinct ape. Moreover, they do this from a scientific mindset, evaluating the evidence.
Dr Gowlett says: ‘My research interests in human evolution focus especially on the middle times between the ape-like australopithecines and the appearance of Homo sapiens within the last half million years.’
Anyone with an evolutionary axe to grind must ignore the evidence that Lucy was really an ape. Above all, we see that evolutionism is a quasi-religious view. It’s a belief’. People ‘believe’ Darwin’s Theory, despite modern advances in DNA and molecular biology. Biologists defend evolution not because it is true, but because tens of thousands of jobs and reputations depend on it. This is blind faith, if anything is.
The witness of yeast
But what of Professor’s Gowlett’s idea that Lucy ‘evolved’ into people ‘within the last half million years’? Evolution depends on massive time-scales. Any baker or brewer knows about yeast. Yeast reproduces every fifteen minutes. In broad terms, it goes through 35,000 generations in a year. That is the equivalent of 1,000,000 years of human generations. But at the end of all that time, it is still yeast. It has shown no inclination to become anything else.
The Carlsberg Brewery in Denmark still uses the Saccharomyces Carlsbergensis which Emil Hansen purified in 1883. Yeast fits into God’s creation just fine as it is. In fact, ecologists are only now showing how inter-dependent is the whole of God’s eco-system. This BBC webpage shows some of the intricate links. It all had to be in place ‘in the beginning’.
Or as the Bible puts it:
Psalm 104:14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
Indeed, sometimes we just have to stand in awe of the whole of creation:
Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
And to those who purport to know it all, God still asks, as he demanded of Job:
Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Darwin knew nothing of DNA
Darwin himself lived from 1809 to 1882. He puiblished ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life’ in 1859.
In the same year, as this website shows, Louis Pasteur disproved the theory of ‘spontaneous generation’, popular during Darwin’s lifetime. But just-so stories endure. Eleven years later, in 1870, Thomas Huxley, ‘Darwin’s bulldog’, proclaimed the ability of life to come from non-life. Furthermore, evolutionists still believe in abiogenesis today. They seriously believe life arose from non-life.
Then ignoring Information Theory they maintain that more complex organisms ‘evolved’ from less complex ones. However, molecular biologists have shot down this idea at first post. Bacteria do not have the power to evolve into cells with a nucleus. And with 1,000 times the DNA of bacteria, those are the building blocks of life. We reported on this study here. Now then, how have evolutionists reacted to this evidence? They have ignored it.
Speaking of blind faith, Darwin not only knew nothing of DNA and molecular biology. He was also ignorant of microbes. Robert Kock only isolated them in 1881. He published his research on tuberculosis in the year of Darwin’s death. Before that, people believed the disease was inherited.
Evolutionists are anti-science
Despite their bluster, it is the evolutionists who are ‘anti-science’ if anyone is. They ignore real scientific advances post-1859. They try constantly to force annoying evidence into an evolutionary grid. We all do this, because we are fallible human beings. But at least we Christians admit it, and frankly, the evidence increasingly supports our position than theirs in any case.
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is shaking. That’s why Mr Otten speaks despairingly of ‘the need to affirm evolutionary science among your family and friends by inviting them along. This is important in this day and age.’ In 2009, the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth, a poll found half of all Britons do not believe his theory. Only 25% went wholeheartedly with Darwin. Just last year, according to another poll, despite 38% of Americans believing equally in creation and some form of God-guided evolution, a mere 19% accepted the atheist position. Nevertheless, that figure has doubled in thirty-five years.
Evangelism
Luke 10:2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
Romans 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
The event will be held from 7.30pm, with doors open at 5.30. The venue is Manchester Conference Centre, 78, Sackville Street, Manchester, M1 3BB. Tickets are priced on the eventbrite website at £8 and £5 for the unwaged. Christians are unlikely to attend and pour any money into atheist coffers. Nevertheless, we should pray. Holding prayer at the venue would be useful.
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