Dear Sir: Would you please direct me information about God vs. Evolution? My burning questions are as follows: 1. The stars are millions of years old-why were they here so much longer than man? 2. Where and when did God come from? 3. Who created God? 4. Why did it take millions of years from the time the stars were created before man was created? I would like answers to these questions. Can you direct me to online sites or books that address these questions? Thank you for your assistance.
It is merely an assumption that stars are millions of years old. An assumption is a theory, hypothesis, postulation, supposition, conjecture or guess. The unsubstantiated assumption that the stars are millions of years old has been foisted upon society by anti-God evolutionists who imagine that if enough time were interjected into their dilemma of origins, then the impossible may appear plausible. Likewise, the theory that mankind appeared on earth millions of years after the existence of the stars, and perhaps millions of years prior to the present, is the muse of people who vehemently deny God his rightful place as Creator, and consequently deny him to whom man is amenable now.
Appeals to logic or common sense speak to the origin of God pseudo-issue. Evolutionists scoff at and deny the concept of the eternality of God. Hence, they pose the jeering questions: “Where and when did God come from? Who created God?” Removing God from consideration, evolutionists then theorize (1) the eternality of matter and (2) that somehow and randomly lifeless matter sprung to life. Not one scientist has ever been able, even under the strictest and most favorable laboratory conditions, to motivate lifeless matter to spring to life. Why then would anyone cling to the untenable and scientifically indefensible postulation that life originated from lifeless matter through random circumstances? Talk about blind leaps of faith (for which there is no evidence)!
If one is willing out of necessity to assume the eternality of lifeless matter, why is it out of the question to embrace the concept of the eternality of God? “What is good for the goose is good for the gander!” Further, is it more reasonable to believe that lifeless matter sprung to life through random circumstances that cannot be duplicated under laboratory circumstances, or is it more reasonable to conclude that a supernatural God caused matter and life to come into being? As theories go, irrespective of any other consideration, a living God acting is more plausible than lifeless matter acting upon itself!
Still further, the apparent intelligent design of the universe is more likely attributable to an Intelligent Designer than to dumb, lifeless matter. Sometimes in order for an organism to live, it depends on another organism. Sometimes the organs in animals demand parallel, simultaneous design and immediate implementation for the animal to survive; that is, no number of years and the slowest development or even mutation could explain complex interdependent organs necessary for an animal’s survival. Let’s see; what is more plausible, the eternality of God (an Intelligent Designer) or the eternality of dumb, lifeless matter to which one can trace origins and revere as Father?
The Yucca Flower and the Pronumba Moth sustain an interdependent relationship to each other without which especially the Yucca Flower could not survive. Given the unusual design of the Yucca Flower and that only the Pronumba Moth pollinates it as the moth reproduces, neither the Yucca Flower nor the Pronumba Moth could exist without each other simultaneously. The Bombardier Beetle has two glands each of which makes and stores a different chemical. When mixed, heated to boiling and shot out a 360 degrees aiming tube the hot and burning mixture wards off would-be attackers. Evolution cannot explain the parallel development of independent bodily functions that are completely useless without their collaboration. The Venus Fly Trap lives in soils lacking sufficient nutrients for its survival and relies on a bait, capture and digestion system to ‘eat flies.’ If evolution were the procedure through which the Venus Fly Trap developed, how long would it have had to go hungry (thousands to millions of years) before the necessary and complicated machinery were in place to fend for itself in an inhospitable environment? The human heart, as complicated as it is, would do nothing and life would be impossible, without the existence of special cells that generate an electrical impulse and cause the heart muscle to contract. The many systems within a human body are interdependent on each other and must work together for life to occur. This compatibility and simultaneous development and implementation are owing to intelligent design of an Intelligent Designer (God) rather than happen chance over eons. Not even mutation can adequately explain a shorter (within one generation) fundamental redesign of a living system, because (1) mutation always produces an unfavorable, nonproductive result and (2) mutation, such as an extended neck on a giraffe stretching to reach leaves on tall trees, does not affect genes.
Appeals to scientific facts (not theories) counter the “millions of years old” reference to the stars (and the rest of the universe). There is abundant scientific evidence for a young earth (and universe in which is the earth). Population kinetics (statistics) is the computation of the world’s population based on the number of generations, life spans and number of children. Estimates of world population by interjecting one million years (of the two to three million years evolutionists guess man has been on earth) postulates a population larger than what the known universe could contain! However, computation of the world’s population based on about 10,000 years of human habitation corresponds closely to the present population of the world.
Depletion of the earth’s magnetic field occurs at a known rate. Projecting the earth’s magnetic field back in time just 10,000 years, given the rate at which the magnetic field is being depleted, attains the maximum strength of the earth’s magnetic field beyond which it could not exist (the earth would crush itself with the magnetic field).
The shrinkage of the sun speaks to a young earth. Projecting backward in time with the knowledge that sun is shrinking at five feet per hour, 100,000 years ago the sun would have been twice the size it is now. Twenty million years ago, the sun and the earth would have touched each other. The hundreds of millions of years ago or more that evolutionists claim life developed would have occurred inside the sun! A young earth of 6,000 years or so given the facts relative to the shrinkage of the sun would prove no problem for life on earth.
The unidirectional (one way) conversion of hydrogen into helium despite the abundance of hydrogen in the universe (outer space) speaks to a young universe. Atmospheric helium, the release of helium from the earth’s crust, when compared to the known rate of its release indicates that the earth is no more than 10,000 years old.
The concentrations of elements or compounds in the oceans, the amount of space dust on the moon or over 75 scientific methods attest to a young earth that is not more than 10,000 years old (Bert Thompson, Ph.D.).
Contrary to popular misrepresentation of Christians, belief in a Creator God is not merely the crutch of ignorant masses. There are many scientists who possess advanced degrees who disavow evolution and subscribe to creation and its Creator. Still other honest and courageous scientists that cannot yet bring themselves to mouth the word “God” discount evolution and acknowledge intelligent design. Some of the following URLs will provide both online references to resources as well direct one to printed matter. The material contained in this article is merely suggestive of the extensive and documented scientific evidence that supports Intelligent Design by an Intelligent Designer (i.e., creation rather than evolution).
https://www.christiancourier.com
Other resources can be found through the Internet with the aid of a search engine.
