Darwin Day
Good morning dearly beloved by God and highly favored in His sight. I woke up this morning, turned on the computer, and it said, “Welcome to Darwin Day.”
When a man critiques God’s supernatural handiwork by his limited natural intellectual ability, he puts himself in a precarious position. The fool says in his heart there is no God. What does God say?
Genesis 1:20-23 AV
“And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.”
The Hebrew word for “life” in verse 20 is “nephesh,” which is soul life, breath-life. Each of the moving creatures having soul life were to bring forth abundantly after their kind, or genus.
These verses teach that all life comes from life, and secondly, that like kinds always produce after their kind.
Scientists have never found a violation of this law. In fact, scientist Louis Pasteur, credited with the discovery of the Law of Biogenesis, proved that life only comes from life. His experiments invalidated the idea of the spontaneous generation of life from non-living matter (abiogenesis).
Every living thing produces after its kind, its genus. To this day, we do not find birdy pigs or fishy men (at least not in this sense). Birds produce birds, reptiles produce reptiles, animals produce animals, etc. All life came from God.
Genesis 1:24 and 25 AV
“And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
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.”
Every living creature – winged foul, sea creature, cattle, creeping thing, and beast – was to bring forth after its kind, or genus. This truth is repeated three times in verses 11-13, and six times in verses 20-25.
Mendel’s laws explain the variations we find in species due to different genetic combinations that occur in breeding.
Scientists have identified the extinction of certain species, but they have never observed a new species forming in nature.
Variations in species also occur due to "natural selection". Nature is not capable of independent thought, or making its own decisions; it does not have a will of its own. Variation within species is the result of complex genetic combinations.
The true wonder of natural selection involves the Genius that planned, and provided the ability within a given species to adapt to a changing environment so that it could survive.
Both plants and animals generate progeny that may differ from the parents in some way. Genetics, chance, circumstances, and the environment are involved in this process. Thus, some of the progeny may reproduce more than others, and survive.
This is the only way that nature can "select" genetic characteristics well matched to a certain environment.
The natural selection process is not capable of producing new genes.
How are the different genera preserved? All living things have vast amounts of information stored in their cells. The information is stored in DNA. DNA is an information code. DNA passes the information on to RNA. RNA then reads the information, decodes it, and then utilizes it to make proteins.
Where did the information in the DNA code come from? How did it get there? Who organized it?
Scientists do not know of a process, or a sequence of events, or a law of nature that can cause information to originate by itself in matter. They cannot explain where it comes from, nor how it gets there. They are clueless, yet it is in every living cell.
God is the supreme intelligence that designed the informational code. He “wrote” the complex program stored in the genetic information that every living creature requires for the physical processes of life.
Dr. Walt Brown, a scientist who previously accepted the theory of evolution, after years of extensive research to resolve questions he had due to the theory, arrived at the conclusion that the only possible explanation for the origin of the heaven and the earth, and the origin of life is that God created them as the Word of God reveals.
Dealing with the subject of DNA, Dr. Brown wrote:
“DNA cannot function without hundreds of preexisting proteins, but proteins are produced only at the direction of DNA. Because each needs the other, a satisfactory explanation for the origin of one must also explain the origin of the other. Therefore, the components of these manufacturing systems must have come into existence simultaneously. This implies creation.
Some of these necessary proteins decode the DNA, store DNA (histone spools), transcribe DNA into messenger RNA, and assemble proteins (ribosomes). These systems, present in each cell, are extremely complex.
One of the most studied proteins in mammals, including humans, is called p53. It binds to thousands of DNA sites and influences cell growth, death, and structure. It is involved in fertility and early embryonic development. It also stifles cancers by repairing DNA, suppressing tumors, and killing genetically damaged cells. How could DNA have survived unless p53 and its many functions already existed?
In each human, tens of thousands of genes are damaged daily! Also, when a cell divides, its DNA at times is copied with errors. Every organism has machinery that identifies and repairs damaged and mistranslated DNA. Without such repair systems, the organism would quickly deteriorate and die.
If evolution had happened, each organism would have become extinct before these DNA repair mechanisms could evolve.
Life’s complexity is mind boggling - not something that random processes could ever produce.
If the many instructions that direct an animal’s or plant’s immune system had not been preprogrammed in the organism’s genetic system when it first appeared on earth, the first of thousands of potential infections would have killed the organism. This would have nullified any rare genetic improvements that might have accumulated.
In other words, the large amount of genetic information governing the immune system could not have accumulated in a slow, evolutionary sense. Obviously, for each organism to have survived, all this information must have been there from the beginning. Again, creation.
To claim that life evolved is to demand a miracle. The simplest conceivable form of single-celled life should have at least 600 different protein molecules. The mathematical probability that even one typical protein could form by chance arrangements of amino acid sequences is essentially zero - far less than 1 in 10 to the 450th power. To appreciate the magnitude of 10 to the 450th, realize that the visible universe is about 10 to the 28th power inches in diameter.
From another perspective, suppose we packed the entire visible universe with a “simple” form of life, such as bacteria. Next, suppose we broke all their chemical bonds, mixed all their atoms, then let them form new links. If this were repeated a billion times a second for 20 billion years under the most favorable temperature and pressure conditions throughout the visible universe, would even one bacterium of any type reemerge? The chances are much less than one in 1,099,999,999,873. Your chances of randomly drawing one preselected atom out of a universe packed with atoms are about one chance in 10 to the 112th power - much better.”
Dearly beloved, God’s exquisite handiwork is astonishing, isn’t it? God created life and He gave us the revelation knowledge of His Word. When God's Word is rightly divided, His Word and true proven science will always agree. Truth is truth.
I think we ought to have a “God Day” and celebrate His handiwork; it is very good indeed.