It’s been called one of the most powerful and
influential scientific theories in history: the
theory of evolution by natural selection, first
published well more than a century ago by Charles
Darwin.
And its powerful influence on life--in virtually
every realm of understanding--would
indeed be hard to overestimate.
But is it true?
Many would respond--Of course.
Evolution has been proven true a thousand times
over!
All the evidence we have says evolution is a fact
of nature.
But is the evidence really that solid?
Is the theory of evolution really indisputable?
No, it is not.
And today, we'll pull back the curtain on some of the
evidence that many evolutionists would prefer
you not see.
Join us for this episode of Tomorrow’s World where we
will expose some of Evolution’s Dirty Little Secrets.
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Welcome to Tomorrow’s World, where we help you
understand your world through the pages of the
Bible.
And our topic today might seem far removed from
those pages: the theory of evolution.
It is, perhaps, one of the single most influential
scientific theories in history--with immeasurable
impact on science, philosophy, education,
politics, and religion.
And we are assured by many that it is undoubtedly
true--that no one of any intelligence or education
would even dare to question it.
Well, today we will dare to question it.
Because while evolution puts up a good front, it
has a long list of dirty little secrets that you
don't tend to hear about in your classrooms or
television programming.
And the more you learn about what evolution has
to hide, the more you wonder why so many put
faith in an idea that remains unproven.
It’s a big topic, and we'll only scratch the
surface today.
But we'll also offer absolutely free our
resource Evolution and Creation: What Both Sides Miss.
This unique guide is a must for anyone
interested in understanding where the
theory of evolution falls short and how even Bible
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Now, before we begin, let’s understand what we
mean by “evolution.” Claiming that life began
in a vastly simpler form--similar, perhaps, to
a microscopic bacterium--the theory of
evolution says that over billions of years, life
changed slowly...
That the struggle for survival rewarded slight,
random variations in the descendants of that life
form that gave them an edge...
perhaps allowing them to find food faster or
reproduce more successfully...
and, similarly, it punished those descendants whose
random adaptions were less favorable for
survival.
In this way and through this unintelligent,
unguided process, evolution says those
microscopic bacteria-like organisms a few billion
years ago have been able to turn into the
astonishing variety of lifeforms we see today,
including us--no divine Designer or Creator
necessary.
Not long ago, Sotheby’s, the famous auction house,
offered a first edition of Charles Darwin’s book
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection, or The Preservation of Favored
Races in the Struggle for Life, published in
1859--the book in which he first published the theory
of evolution.
And at least when I saw it, Sotheby’s recommended
estimate for the book was 250 to 300 thousand
dollars.
You might think, why so high?
It’s just a book.
There are numerous factors, but the book’s
role in human history is perhaps the greatest.
Sotheby’s calls the book “one of the greatest
achievements of scientific discovery.” Referring to
Darwin’s book, science historian Bern Dibner once
wrote, “This, the most important single work in
science, brought man to his true place in nature.”
High-sounding praise to be sure.
But is it accurate?
That depends, of course, on whether the theory is true.
If all life as we know it today is the result of
nothing but mindless processes, then, yes,
Darwin’s book is a towering achievement in
human history...
a monumental discovery that does, truly, put man
in his place as nothing special, nothing
remarkable--just a random lifeform on a random
planet.
And life, it turns out, has no real meaning at all...
Again...
if that theory is true.
Now of course, many claim it is true--and claim so very
loudly.
Evolutionary apologist Jerry Coyne writes in his
popular book, Why Evolution Is True,
“Evolution is a fact.
And far from casting doubt on Darwinism, the evidence
gathered by scientists over the past century and
a half supports it completely, showing that
evolution happened, and that it happened largely
as Darwin proposed, through the workings of
natural selection."
Of course, many want it to be true.
Evolution has become an “escape hatch” for those
who want to explain away the beautiful diversity
and complexity of life without a Creator.
As famous biologist Richard Dawkins once said,
“Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually
fulfilled atheist.”
Is he right?
Again, only if evolution has been proven true.
And, in fact, it has not.
Despite claims that all the evidence supports it
completely, the truth is that evolution has a whole
host of dirty little secrets that our
classrooms and popular science programs don't
talk about too loudly.
And we will examine just a handful of those dirty
secrets on the remainder of today’s program.
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Welcome back.
The first dirty little secret of evolution is
this: Even the simplest living cell is devastating
to the theory of evolution.
In Darwin’s day, little was known about cells.
Single-celled organisms like amoebas were
described by Charles Darwin’s contemporary
George Henry Lewes as simply “a microscopic lump
of jelly-like substance, or protoplasm.... entirely
destitute of texture, and consequently destitute of
organs.” In other cells, such as
those in our body, a nucleus could be seen,
but its purpose was a mystery, and the cell
seemed otherwise generally featureless.
In such days, when the smallest, simplest unit of
life seemed that simple--just a bit of
jelly with a few boring features--it was easy to
imagine somehow, within that mysterious
“life-giving” jelly, anything could happen.
But as microscopes improved and techniques
were developed to tease out the secrets of the
inner world of the cell, we have discovered that
this supposedly simple, “jelly-like substance” is
filled with machinery of astonishing complexity,
ingenuity, and design.
The world of the human cell, for instance, is one
in which approximately one billion chemical reactions
take place every single second.
And these are not random chemical reactions...
A human cell is filled with thousands upon
thousands of proteins of 10,000 different
varieties--molecular machines designed to work
together to achieve specific purposes,
manipulating their surroundings, creating new
structures and dismantling old ones, in a dynamic
dance of complexity that would make the Space
Shuttle seem simple.
In today’s free resource, we include a diagram of a
motor protein
used by some bacteria to help them move.
Built out of 78,216 different atoms, it is
merely one example of the world of complex cellular
machinery that Darwin and his contemporaries could
have no idea existed.
Life is impossible without these complex machines,
and even small changes to organisms, as hypothesized
by evolution, requires changes to these
machines--even the design of new machines.
And that is as unlikely as it sounds.
Biochemist Douglas Axe has examined the probability
of even one protein--of any significant functionality at
all--forming by chance, and estimated it to be 1
in 10-to-the-64.
That is, 1 out of a number that is a “1” followed by
64 zeros.
Along with colleague Ann Gauger, Axe explored the possibility
that one protein could evolve from
another, similar one, based on just a handful of
necessary changes to DNA, and found that--at
currently understood rates of mutation--it would take
10-to-the-27 years for such a change to take place...
again, that's a “1” followed by 27 zeros.
Impressive, given that scientists think our
universe is only 13
billion years old--or
about a “1” followed
by ten zeros.
In other words, it’s just not going to happen apart
from intelligent intervention.
Again, even the simplest living cell is devastating
to the theory of evolution.
We mentioned DNA a moment ago--and the nature of DNA
is another of evolution’s dirty little secrets.
Because DNA represents an abstract coding system
that points to intelligence.
Deoxyribonucleic Acid, or DNA for short, was unknown
in Darwin’s day and is the molecule responsible for
carrying the information needed to build all of the
proteins that make life possible.
Each nucleus in each individual, normal cell in your body
contains about two meters of DNA,
packed into a microscopic dot--all of it containing
the information needed to build you.
DNA uses base pairs combining four different
compounds that act like the 1’s and 0’s in
computer code, detailing to the cellular machinery
the information needed to build all of the complex
proteins life requires.
Information from the DNA is carried from place to
place, where proteins read the code and assemble new
proteins from precisely sequenced amino acids,
based on that information--making every
one of your cells a complex chemical factory,
creating purposefully arranged nanoscopic
machinery and some of the most complicated chemical
compounds found anywhere in the universe.
But where did this abstract programming code
originate?
Evolution can't take credit.
It’s a mindless, purposeless process,
remember?
In fact, where did DNA come from?
You can't build proteins without DNA--and yet, DNA is,
itself assembled by proteins.
The discovery of DNA should have been a great
success for evolution.
The secret to how the characteristics of life
are passed on to our descendants was finally
unveiled.
But it has been a disaster.
The idea of a massive, information-rich molecule
containing an abstract programming code capable
of bearing the information needed to build all the
complex machinery of life is incompatible with the
idea that life has supposedly grown in
complexity through mindless, natural
processes.
Evolutionists cannot avoid the fact that DNA
represents an abstract coding system that points
to intelligence.
We'll look at another dirty little secret of
evolution in a moment.
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Welcome back.
Our next dirty secret of evolution is an
opportunity to turn the tables a bit.
In short, the gaps in the fossil record since
Darwin’s day have gotten worse, not better.
The theory of evolution depends on the slow and
steady accumulation of small variations--since
large “jumps” in changes would imply an active
designer or planner.
The result should be a smooth transition in the
fossil record, with animals gradually, almost
imperceptibly turning into new animals through
small, smooth changes.
But this is not what the fossil record shows.
Instead of a smooth, continuous transition of
creatures, the record indicates gaps between
different kinds of creatures.
As Michael Denton wrote in his seminal work,
Evolution: A Theory in Crisis,
“The overall picture of life on Earth today is so
discontinuous, the gaps between the different types
so obvious, that, as Steven Stanley reminds us
in his recent book Macroevolution, if our
knowledge of biology was restricted to those
species presently existing on earth, ‘we might wonder
whether the doctrine of evolution would qualify as
anything more than an outrageous hypothesis.’
Without intermediates or transitional forms to
bridge the enormous gaps which separate existing
species and groups of organisms, the concept of
evolution could never be taken seriously as a
scientific hypothesis."
Of course, seemingly “continuous” lines of some
animals are trotted out for display to pretend
the gaps are not nearly as damaging as they are.
For instance, you will see theoretical
sequences for whale, horse, and human evolution.
Yet, not only are these sequences themselves
deceptive and not proven lines of descent at all,
the fact remains that
if evolution is true, these sorts of sequences
should be the norm, not the rare exception.
Ironically, evolutionists often accuse believers of
having faith in a “God of the Gaps” who magically
does all the things they cannot explain.
Such a misunderstanding aside, the unexplainable
gaps in the fossil record--a thorn in Darwin’s side
that remains just as thorny more than 150 years
later--turn the tables and put evolutionists in the
place of wielding blind faith and believing in a
“Darwin of the Gaps.” For our next dirty secret, all
you need to do is look in the mirror at your
remarkable, evolution-defying eyes.
Because evolution continues to offer no good
explanation for how new organs can form.
In the Psalms King David praises God and proclaims
to His creator, “...I am fearfully and wonderfully made”.
And we see part of that wonder in the organs of
the body, such as the eye.
After all, organs represent not just
specialized “tissues,” but interwoven systems, often
systems upon systems, finely tuned and
exquisitely structured to work together.
And if one part is missing, the whole can fail.
And improving the entire organ would often involve
each piece or part evolving in conjunction
with all the other pieces in a coordinated way--a
coordination that evolution does not allow.
The problem was summarized not long ago in an article
in The Guardian.
First, the paper gives the traditional explanation
for the supposed evolution of the eye--given by
thousands of teachers over the decades to tens of
thousands of students.
Animals that have light-sensitive cells for
some reason experience a series of slight mutations
that increasingly give them survival advantages,
such as the slight cupping of the flesh around the
cells that helps to focus the light, a clear
covering of some sort eventually, to seal the
space, which slowly becomes a lens.
Then, muscles arrive to shape and focus the lens
better, etc.
The Guardian continues: “This is the basic story
of evolution, as recounted in countless
textbooks and pop-science bestsellers.
The problem, according to a growing number of
scientists, is that it is absurdly crude and
misleading.
For one thing, it starts midway through the story,
taking for granted the existence of
light-sensitive cells, lenses and irises, without
explaining where they came from in the first place.
Nor does it adequately explain how such delicate
and easily disrupted components meshed together
to form a single organ.
And it isn't just eyes that the traditional
theory struggles with.
‘The first eye, the first wing, the first placenta.
How they emerge.
Explaining these is the foundational motivation of
evolutionary biology,’ says Armin Moczek, a
biologist at Indiana University.
In short, evolution promises us it can explain the
organs of our bodies and how they supposedly formed
gradually over millennia, but, in reality, it hasn't
a clue.
Our fourth dirty little secret, the fact that
evolution continues to offer no good explanation
for how new organs can form is devastating to a
theory that was developed more than 150 years ago to
explain that very fact.
Our free offer today, Evolution and Creation:
What Both Sides Miss, contains an entire chapter
devoted to how the eye, all by itself, provides a
crushing blow to the theory of evolution,
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to explain it.
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You know, let me confess something.
I know it’s considered a cinema classic, but I've
personally never been a big fan of the Wizard of Oz.
Frankly, when I first saw it, I was a little kid,
and the flying monkeys were pretty spooky.
But as I've grown older, one scene has remained
with me and has become a real favorite.
It’s close to the end of the movie, as Dorothy and
her band are confronting the terrifying Wizard for
the fact that he is failing to keep his
promises.
As they do so, flames shoot out, thunder
crashes, and the Wizard speaks to them as a giant,
green, monstrous head hovering in the air in
front of them, shouting, “Do not arouse the wrath
of the great and powerful Oz!”
Meanwhile, Dorothy’s dog Toto makes his way to a
green curtain off to the left and pulls it aside to
reveal a small, white-haired old man,
using a machine to create the illusion they're all
looking at and speaking into a microphone to
amplify his voice and make it sound terrifying.
My favorite part in that scene is when the old man
turns around, notices they can see him, and
turns back to the microphone to demand, “Pay
no attention to that man behind the curtain!”
Well, the forces arrayed to convince people not to
question the theory of evolution are very
similar.
There's a lot of thunder and flame-- impressive
proclamations about “proof” and “evidence” and
a lot of theater designed to make you think that there's
nothing to doubt.
But like the Wizard, evolution has not kept its
promises.
The theory promises an explanation of your
origins--an explanation that needs no God, no
intelligence at all...
just an initial microbe; careless natural
processes; and a few billion years.
We need to be willing to pull back the curtain--to
not be so impressed by the theater that we don't
question what we're shown, and to not be so
intimidated that we aren't willing to stand up and
call evolution out for not keeping its promises.
Or to borrow from another fiction, it might have
been a hard day when you first learned Santa Claus
wasn't real.
But that realization brought you that much
deeper into the real world and much further from
a world of make-believe.
Recognizing the dirty little secrets of
evolution can help you step away from the world
of make-believe as well.
Yet, the questions evolutionists seek to
answer remain: Where do we come from?
How did life come to be?
Is there any purpose to it all?
And if so, what might that purpose be?
Unclouded by the evolutionary theater, you
can seek the real answers to those questions.
And if you really seek with an open mind and an
open heart, with God’s help you will find your
way to the only possible starting place in the
search for those answers: The very first sentence of
the Bible,
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
I hope you will find the
courage to look behind the curtain more often.
I also hope you will request today’s free
booklet, Evolution and Creation: What Both Sides Miss.
And all of us here at Tomorrow’s
World hope you will come back next week.
Here you'll find Gerald Weston, Richard
Ames, Rod McNair, and myself waiting for you, ready to
share the truth of Scripture, the teachings
of Jesus Christ, the end-time warnings of Bible
prophecy, and the Good News of the coming reign
of the Kingdom of God in Tomorrow’s World.
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