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Unmasking The False Religion of Evolution


Two Basic World Views

The creationist world-view says that God made the universe about six thousand years ago. The evolutionist world-view teaches that the universe made itself from nothing about twenty million years ago. One of these opposing world-views obviously is wrong.

These time-line charts show the time difference presented. If the evolution chart were drawn to the same scale as the creation chart (1 inch = 1000 years), the evolution chart would have to be 315 miles long! The entire theory of evolution is built upon the faulty assumption that the origin of the universe was "billions of years ago" (bya). The human mind cannot grasp "billions of years." As with most fairy tales, evolution relies on "long ago" and "far away" to make the impossible seem true. My advice: Don't bet your life on evolution!

Ten years is a long time. On the creation chart it would be .01 inch (the thickness of a piece of paper); on the evolution chart it would be invisible.

Few people will live 100 years. Lincoln was President 130 years ago which is only .13 inch on the creation chart and invisible on the evolution chart.

Columbus sailed 500 years ago. The entire creation chart of 6,000 years would be less than 2 millionths of an inch (still invisible) on the evolution chart! The entire fictitious geologic column of 600 million years would be only .18 inch (less than 3/16 inch on the evolution chart at the scale it is drawn here.

Questions to ask evolutionist (see the list of questions on page A-11)

  1. 1. In the big bang, what exploded? And where did it come from?
    • When they admit they don't know, ask, "Which is easier to believe: 'In the beginning God,' or 'In the beginning Dirt'?"
  2. 2. Do you believe in spontaneous generation (life coming from non-living matter)?

The theory of evolution is something people chooses to believe. They do not and cannot know that it is true. Real science deals with things that are observable and testable, and neither creation nor evolution are scientifically provable. Both views are religious in nature. Yet, all US taxpayers are forced to pay for the religion of evolution to be promoted in our school system - a clear violation of the First Amendment.

Indoctrination in Evolution

Those who believe in the theory of evolution often complain that public school science textbooks do not present enough information on their theory. They say that students' science test scores are falling because of this lack of teaching evolution.

I believe the opposite is true. Teaching the theory of evolution is a waste of time and textbook space. It has nothing to do with science and is anti-science. Students should spend the time learning science, not religious world views like evolution.

The theory if found in nearly all subjects and grades in one form or another. Why? I believe one major reason is as follows: When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I in 1957, some Americans panicked at the thought of losing the space race. A few dedicated humanist decided that the reason we were behind was that we were not teaching evolution as the Soviets were. The government got involved in producing public school textbooks in the late 1950's (a clear violation of the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution).

Sorces:
c. 1948 Rand, Dynamic Biology Today
c. 1959 Harcourt, Exploring Biology, 5th
c. 1960 Holt, Modern Biology
c. 1961 Trial Ver. BSCS Green
c. 1961 Trial Ver. BSCS Blue
c. 1973 Houghton, BSCS Blue
c. 1980 Harcourt, BSCS Yellow
c. 1978 Rand, Dynamic Biology Today
c. 1980 Heath, BSCS Blue

Carbon 14 Calibration Curve

How Carbon Dating is Supposed to Work

Radiocarbon dating was invented by Willard Libby in the early 1950s at the University of Chicago. While not totally useless, dating methods are overrated. Willard Libby said that carbon dating was only accurate for objects a few thousand years old.

Cosmic radiation strikes our atmosphere, changing the element Nitrogen (N14) to Carbon 14 (C14). The C14 is radioactive (can be detected by a Geiger counter). This radioactive carbon is mixed in with the normal carbon in the atmosphere, generally in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2).

Plants breathe in carbon dioxide and make it part of their tissue. Animals eat the plants and the CO2 becomes part of their body tissue. When the plant or animal dies it stops taking in new CO2.

Radioactive carbon is very rare in the atmosphere (only .0000765%) today and becomes even more rare as it decays into simpler components. About half of the C14 will break down (decay) into simpler components in about 5,730 years. This is called the half-life of C14. In two "half-lives" (11,460 years) only one fourth of the original C14 will still be in the object. By using the number of "clicks" on the Geiger counter as a guide, we should be able to determine the age of the object. Since the atmosphere today will give us about 16 clicks per minute for each gram of carbon, we should hear about 8 clicks per minute if the sample is 5,730 years old and only 4 clicks per minute if it is 11,460 years old.

While it all sounds good so far, it must be pointed out that several faulty assumptions are used in the procedure. They are listed in the back of this book. Most of the other radiometric dating methods use

Faulty Assumptions Used in all Radiometric Dating

  1. Atmospheric C14 is equilibrium.
    • This assumption is wrong. It has been shown that the amount of C14 in the atmosphere is still increasing. It has been estimated that the C14 in the earth's atmosphere would reach equilibrium (the formation rate would be equal to the decay rate) in about 30,000 years. Research indicates that the amount of C14 is still increasing and has not yet reached equilibrium. This indicates a young earth (less than 10,000 years). This also modifies all dates obtained by C14 decay. As the earth's magnetic field decays, more cosmic radiation is allowed to penetrate into our atmosphere, 16 clicks (on a Geiger counter) per minute per gram (16 DPM/Gc) is typical in living objects today. Plants and animals that lived on the earth four thousand years ago would have had much less C14 in their body to start with. This would make them appear to be thousands of years older than they really are.

  2. Decay rate remains constant.
    • This assumption has been shown to be uncertain many times. Several factors can effect the rate of C14 decay. The 11 year solar sun spot cycle is one such factor. Since the rate of decay may not be constant, dates obtained by C14 must be accepted only with caution.

  3. Initial amount of C14 can be known.
    • This assumption has been demonstrated to be wrong many times. Different parts of the same sample often yield different ratios. Various living samples give very different ratios. Some items cannot be tested with carbon dating even though they contain carbon.

  4. The sample being tested has not been contaminated.
    • This assumption is very difficult, if not impossible to prove. Parent of daughter products may have leached in or out of the sample. Many lab test have confirmed that this can happen.

  5. The amount of C14 is assumed to be constant.
    • This assumption is not rational. The oldest sample of independently known age is Hemaka, the Egyptian mummy from 2700 - 3100 BC. To base such an assumption on such a small section of the curve is not wise. (Secular writers of antiquity tend to exaggerate ages so even these dates are suspect.)

  6. The geologic column can be used as a base to calibrate the C14 dates.
    • This assumption is not wise. The ages applied to the geologic column are based on the assumption that evolution is true. This fictitious column (invented in the 1800's to discredit the Bible) does not exist anywhere in the world except in textbooks. Poly-strata fossils, missing layers, layers out of order, misplaced fossils, and layers in reverse order all invalidate the geologic column. (More information can be obtained on this subject in chapters four through six.) the assumed age of the sample will dictate which dating method is used since each will give a very different result.

Points to Ponder

About the Great Flood and Noah's Ark

II Peter 3:3-8 tells us that people who scoff at the Bible are "willingly ignorant" of the Creation and the Flood. In order to understand science and the Bible, we must not be ignorant of those two great events in Earth's history.

  1. Over 250 Flood legends from all parts of the world have been found. Most have similarities to the Genesis story.
  2. Noah's ark was only built to float, not to sail anywhere. Many ark scholars believe that the ark was a "barge" shape, not a pointed "boat" shape. This would greatly increase the cargo capacity.
  3. Even using the small 18-inch cubit (my height is 6-ft. 1-in. and have a 21-in. cubit) the ark was large enough to hold all the required animals, people, and food with room to spare.
  4. The length-to-width ratio of 6 to 1 is what shipbuilders today often use. This is the best ratio for stability in stormy weather. (God thinks of everything!)
  5. The ark may have had a "moon-pool" (sometimes called moon-pull) in the center. The larger ships would have a hole in the center of the bottom of the boat with walls extending up into the ship. There are several reasons for this feature.
    1. It allowed water to go up into the hole as the ship crested waves. This would be needed to relieve strain on longer ships
    2. The rising and lowering water acted as a piston to pump fresh air in and out of the ship. This would prevent the buildup of dangerous gasses from all the animals on board.
    3. The hole was a great place to dump garbage into the ocean without going outside.
  6. The ark may have had large stones suspended over the sides to keep it more stable in rough weather. Many of these stones have been found in the region where the ark landed.
  7. Noah lived 950 years! Many Bible scholars believe the pre-Flood people were much larger Than modern man. Skeletons over 11 feet tall have been found! If Noah were taller, his cubit (elbow to fingertip) would have been much larger also. This would make The ark larger by the same ratio.
  8. God told Noah to bring two of each kind, not of each species or variety. Noah only had two of the dog kind which would include the wolves, coyotes, foxes, mutts, etc. The kind grouping is probably closer to our modern family division in taxonomy. This would greatly reduce the number of animals on the ark. Animals have diversified into many varieties in the last 4,400 years since the Flood. This is not anything similar to great claims that the evolutionists teach. (They teach that "kelp can turn into Kent," given enough time!)
  9. Noah did not have to get the animals. God brought them to him (Gen. 6:20, "shall come to thee").
  10. Only land-dwelling, air-breathing animals had to be included on the ark> (Gen. 7:15, "in which is the breath of life").
  11. Many animals sleep, hibernate, or become very inactive during bad weather.
  12. All animals (and people) were vegetarians before and during the Flood according to Gen. 1:20-30 with Gen. 9:3.
  13. The pre-Flood people were probably much smarter and more advanced than people today. The longer life-spans, Adam's direct contact with God, and the fact that they could glean the wisdom of many generations that were still alive would greatly expand their knowledge base.
  14. The Bible says that the highest mountains were covered by 15 cubits of water. This is half the height of the ark. The ark was safe from scraping bottom at all times.
  15. The mountains, as we have them today, did not exist until after the Flood when "the mountains arose and the valleys sank down" (Ps. 104:5-9, Gen. 8:3-8).
  16. There is enough water in the oceans right now to cover the earth 8,000 feet deep if the surface of the earth were smooth.
  17. Many claim to have seen the ark> in recent times in the area the Bible says it landed. There are two primary schools of thought about the actual site of the ark (see chapter 2 for more on this.) Much energy and time has been expended to try to prove each view. Some believe the ark is on Mt. Ararat, covered by snow (CBS showed a one-hour special in 1993 about this site). The other group believes the ark is 17 miles south of Mt. Ararat in a valley called "the valley of eight" (8 souls on the ark). The Bible says the ark landed in the "mountains"
  18. The continents were not separated until 100-300 years after the Flood (Gen. 10:25). The people and animals had time to migrate anywhere on earth by then.
  19. The top 3,000 feet of Mt. Everest (from 26,000-29,000 feet) is made up of sedimentary rock packed with seashells and other ocean-dwelling animals.
  20. Sedimentary rock is found all over the world. Sedimentary rock is laid down in water.
  21. Petrified clams in the closed position (found all over the world) testify to their rapid burial while they were still alive.
  22. Bent rock layers, fossil graveyards, and poly-strata fossils are best explained by a Flood.
  23. People choose to not believe in the Flood because it speaks of the judgment of God on sin (II Peter 3:3-8).

Questions For People Who Believe In The Theory Of Evolution

The test of any theory is: does it provide answers to basic questions? Some well-meaning but misguided people think evolution is a reasonable theory to explain man's questions about the universe. Evolution is not a good theory, it is just a pagan religion masquerading as science. Below are a few of the questions that should be answered.

  1. Where did the space for the universe come from?
  2. Where did matter come from?
  3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)?
  4. How did matter get so perfectly organized?
  5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?
  6. When, where, why and how did life come from dead matter?
  7. When, where, why and how did life learn to reproduce itself?
  8. With whom did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?
  9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of it's kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival?
  10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.)
  11. Is it possible that similarities in design between different animals prove a common creator instead of a common ancestor?
  12. Since natural selection only works with the genetic information available and tends only to keep a species stable, how do you explain increasing complexity in the genetic code?
  13. When, where, why and how did:
    1. Single-celled plants become multicelled? (Where are the two-celled and three-celled intermediates?)
    2. Single-celled animals evolve?
    3. Fish change to amphibians?
    4. Amphibians change to reptiles?
    5. Reptiles change to birds? (Lungs, bones, eyes, reproductive organs, heart, method of locomotion, body covering, etc., are all very different!)
    6. How did the intermediate forms live?
  14. When, where, why, how and from what did:
    1. Whales evolve?
    2. Sea horses evolve?
    3. Bats evolve?
    4. Ears evolve?
    5. Eyes evolve?
    6. Hair, skin, feathers, scales, nails, claws, etc., evolve?
  15. Which evolved first (How, and how long, did it work without the others):
    1. The digestive system, the food to be digested, the appetite, the ability to find and eat the food, the digestive juices, or the body's resistance to it's own digestive juices.
    2. The drive to reproduce or the ability to reproduce?
    3. The lungs, the mucus lining to protect them, the throat or the perfect mixture of gasses to be breathed into the lungs?
    4. DNA or RNA to carry the DNA message to cell parts?
    5. The termite or the flagella in his intestines that actually digest the cellulose?
    6. The plants or the insects that live on and pollinate the plants?
    7. The bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, muscles to move the bones, nervous system, repair system, or hormone system?
    8. The immune system or the need for it?
  16. There are many thousands of examples of symbiosis that defy an evolutionary explanation. Why must we teach students that evolution is the only explanation for these relationships?
  17. How would evolution explain mimicry? Did the plants and animals develop mimicry by chance, their intelligent choice, or design?
  18. When, where, why and how did man evolve feelings? Love, mercy, guilt, etc., would never evolve in the theory of evolution.

After you answer the questions above, please look carefully at your answers and answer these questions.

  1. Are you sure your answers are reasonable, right, and scientifically provable, or do you just believe that it may have happened the way you have answered? (Do these answers reflect your religion or your science?)
  2. Do your answers show more or less faith than the person who says "God must have designed it"?
  3. Is it possible that an unseen creator designed this universe? If God is excluded at the beginning of the discussion by our definition of science, how could it be shown that he did create the universe if he did?
  4. Is it wise and fair to only show students the theory of evolution and teach them that it is a fact?
  5. What is the end result of a belief in evolution (Lifestyle, society, attitude about others, eternal destiny, etc.)?
  6. Could it be that people accept evolution because of some of these factors:
    1. It is all they have been taught?
    2. They like the freedom from a God? (No moral absolutes, etc.)
    3. They are bound to support the theory for fear of losing their job or status or grade point averages?
    4. They are too proud to admit they are wrong?
    5. They know that evolution is the only philosophy that can be used to justify their political agenda of:
    1. Communism
    2. Racism
    3. Abortion
    4. Nazism
    5. Socialism
    6. Gay rights
    7. Women's liberation
    8. Extreme environmentalism
    9. Euthanasia
    10. Pornography
    11. Humanism
    12. New Age Movement
  7. Should we continue to use outdated, disproved, questionable, or inconclusive evidences to support the theory of evolution because we don't have a suitable substitute (Piltdown man, recapitulation theory, Archaeopteryx, Lucy, Java Man, Neanderthal Man, etc.)?
  8. Should parents be allowed to require that evolution not be taught in their school system unless equal time is given to creation?
  9. What are you risking if you are wrong?
  10. Aren't you tired of faith in a system that can't be true? Wouldn't it be great to know the God who made you and accept his love and forgiveness?
  11. If I could show you from the Bible how to have your sins forgiven, would you be interested? If so, call me.

Dr. Kent Hovind
29 Cummings Road
Pensacola, FL 32503
(850) 479-3466

I have many video and audio tapes on the subject of creation, evolution, proofs that the earth is not "Billions of years old," the geologic column, carbon dating, and dinosaurs. Call or write for information about these materials. I would also be glad to present my material in person to any group of interested people. After teaching high school science for 15 years, my deep concern for the fact that students were being deceived by the lie of evolution led me to establish Creation Science Evangelism. I now travel and speak over 700 times each year on this vital subject. Please don't hesitate to call me if I can be of help.

Flying in the Face of Evolution

"Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless."

Professor Louis Bounoure
Former President, Biological Society of Strasbourg
Director of the Strasbourg Zoological Museum

"Scientist who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con-men, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever. In explaining evolution, we do not have one iota of fact."

Dr. T. N. Tahmisian
Atomic Energy Commission, USA

"The fossils that decorate our family tree are so scarce that there are still more scientists than specimens. The remarkable fact is that all the physical evidence we have for human evolution can still be placed, with room to spare, inside a coffin!"

Dr. Lyall Watson
"The Water People," Science Digest
vol. 90 (May 1982) p.44

"I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it's been applied, will be one of great jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has."

Malcolm Muggeridge
World-famous journalist and philosopher

"This notion of species as 'natural kinds' fits splendidly with creationist tenets of pre-Darwinian age. Louis Agassiz even argued that species are God's individual thoughts, made incarnate so that we might perceive both His majesty and His message. Species, Agassiz wrote, are 'instituted by Divine Intelligence as the categories of his mode of thinking.' But how could a division of the organic world into discrete entities be justified by an evolutionary theory that proclaimed ceaseless change as the fundamental fact of nature?"

Stephen Jay Gould
Professor Geology and Paleontology
Harvard University

"The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less can we believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer."

Dr. Richard Dawkins
Department of Zoology
Oxford University

"And in Man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe."

Dr. Isaac Asimov
Former Professor
Boston School of Medicine

"The universe we see when we look out to it's furthest horizons contains a hundred billion galaxies. Each of these galaxies contains another hundred billion stars. The silent embarrassment of modern astrophysics is that we do not know how even a single one of these stars managed to form. There's no lack of ideas, of course; we just can't substantiate them."

M. Harwit
noted astrophysicist

"In fact evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils."

Stephen Jay Gould
Professor of Geology and Paleontology
Harvard University

"Contrary to what most scientist write, the fossil record does not support the Darwinian theory of evolution because it is this theory (there are several) which we use to interpret the fossil record. By doing so we are guilty of circular reasoning if we then say the fossil record supports this theory."

Ronald P. West, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Paleontology
Kansas State University

"As yet we have not been able to trace the phylogenetic history of single group of modern plants from it's beginning to the present."

Chester A. Arnold
Professor of Botany Curator of Fossil Plants
University of Michigan

"The [revolutionary] origin of birds is largely a matter of deduction. There is no fossil evidence of the stages through which the remarkable change from reptile to bird was achieved."

W. E. Swinton
British Museum of Natural History
London

"In recent years several authors have written popular books on human origins which were based more on fantasy and subjectivity than on fact and objectivity. At the moment science cannot offer a full answer on the origin of humanity..."

Dr. Robert Martin
Senior Research Fellow
Zoological Society of London

"If the C14 date supports our theories, we put it in the main text. If it does not entirely contradict them, we put it in a footnote. And if it is completely 'out of date,' we just drop it."

T. Save-Soderbergh and I. U. Olsson
Institute of Egyptology and Institute of Physics respectively
University of Uppsala, Sweden

"The Big Bang is presumed to have produced just hydrogen and helium, only 2 of the 92 elements of the earth's crust."

Dr. Robert V. Gentry
Research Physicist

Dr. Hovind's $10,000 Offer

I have a standing offer of $10,000 to anyone which can give empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution.† My $10,000 offer (made in 1990) is still valid to demonstrate that the hypothesis of evolution is nothing more than a religious belief.

People believe in evolution; they do not know that it is true. While beliefs are certainly fine to have, it is not fair to force onto the students in our public school system the teaching of one belief, at taxpayer's expense. it is my contention that evolutionism is a religious world-view that is not supported by science, Scripture, popular opinion, or common sense. The exclusive teaching of this dangerous, mind-altering philosophy in tax-supported schools, parks, museums, etc., is a clear violation of the First Amendment.

Webster's New World Dictionary, Second Collage Edition, defines empirical as "relying or based solely on experiment and observation rather than theory."

†Note: When I use the word evolution, I am not referring to the minor variations found in all of the various life forms. I am referring to the general theory of evolution which teaches these four major events took place without "God."

  1. Time, space, and matter came into existence by themselves.
  2. Matter created life by itself.
  3. Early life forms learned to reproduce themselves.
  4. Major changes occurred between these diverse life forms. (i.e., fish changed to amphibians, amphibians changed to reptiles, and reptiles changed to birds or mammals).

How to collect the $10,000

Prove, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the process of evolution (option 3 below) is the only possible way the observed phenomena could have come into existence. Only empirical evidence is acceptable. Persons wishing to collect the $10,000 may submit their evidence in writing or schedule time for a public presentation. As in any fair court of law, the accuser must also rule out any other possible explanations. To the best of my ability, I will be fair and honest in my evaluation and judgment as the validity of the evidence presented.

Evolution is presented in our public school textbooks as a process that:

  1. Brought time, space, and matter into existence from nothing.
  2. Organized that matter into the galaxies, stars, and at least nine planets around our star, the sun. (This process is often referred to as cosmic evolution.)
  3. Created the life that exists on at least one of those planets from the non-living matter.
  4. Caused the living creatures to be capable of and interested in reproducing themselves.
  5. Caused that life to spontaneously diversify into different forms of living things, such as the plants and animals on the earth today.

The observed phenomena:
Evolution has been accused of being the only process capable of causing the observed phenomena. As with any just court, the burden of proof rests on the accuser. Most thinking people will agree:

  1. A highly ordered universe exist.
  2. At least one planet in this complex universe contains an amazing variety of life.
  3. Man appears to be the most advanced form of life on this planet.

The known options:
Choices of how the observed phenomena came into being:

  1. 1. The universe was created by God.
  2. 2. The universe always existed.
  3. 3. The universe came into being by itself, by purely natural processes (known as evolution). No appeal to the supernatural is needed.

If you are convinced that evolution is an indisputable fact, may I suggest that you offer $10,000 for any empirical or historical evidence against the general theory of evolution. This might include the following:

  1. 1. The earth is not billions of years old (thus destroying the possibility of evolution having happened as it is being taught).
  2. 2. No animal has ever been observed changing into any fundamentally different kind of animal.
  3. 3. No one has ever observed life spontaneously arising from non-living matter.
  4. 4. Matter cannot make itself out of nothing.

My suggestion: proponents of the theory of evolution would do well to admit that they believe in evolution, but they do not know that it happened the way they teach. They should call evolution their "faith or religion," and stop including it in books of science. Give up faith in the silly religion of evolutionism, and trust the God of the Bible (who is the Creator of this universe and will be your Judge one day soon) to forgive you and save you from the coming judgment on man's sin.

Copyright © 1996 Robert T. Weaver
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