One often hears the statement made, “Evolution is a fact, not a theory!” Nothing could be further from the truth! To be perfectly blunt, evolution is not even a theory, but a hypothesis – an educated (?) guess on the part of some people as to how things came to be as they are. Evolution is always spoken of in positive terms, that is, that men “came up” from lower animal forms that came from lower, etc., in a sort of infinite regression. In other words, according to the various hypotheses, and there are many of them, men are getting better and better all the time. We are evolving, not devolving! If that is true, would one not expect to observe it in some area of human life? Observation of empirical phenomenon is true science; guesses about how the phenomenon came to be are guesses.
National Geographic Magazine is an interesting publication that touts organic evolution with all its might. However, their own reporting of phenomenon in history disproves their theory. For example, some months back we read of the discovery of some Egyptian mummies that were some 4,000 or 5,000 years old. They X-rayed the mummies and learned that many of them had advanced arthritis, a crippling disease that afflicts thousands of Americans 5,000 years later. Now, would you not think that in 5,000 years something in the human evolution process would have triggered a decrease in such a disease rather than an increase? If we are evolving, why not less arthritis rather than more, especially in people who did not descend from those found in the tombs?
In X-raying the heads of the mummies, they found that many of them suffered from painfully decayed teeth. If we have been evolving any at all in the last 5,000 years, why is there greater need to care for the teeth? Did the Egyptians eat too much processed sugar, chocolate and chew too much bubble gum, which is so frequently charged as the cause of tooth decay today? Maybe they did not brush twice a day and see their dentists twice a year. They had dentists because the X-rayed teeth showed efforts to remove decay and replace it with another substance, as well as teeth extractions! Then there was evidence of brain surgery, or at least the surgical opening of skulls, and on and on one could go. So, if we are evolving, why have none of these things changed in the observable history of mankind? Could it be that we are not evolving at all? Could it be that life on earth is much more static than we have dreamed?
Then, if we are evolving, why are we still murdering? Should we not have learned in the last 10,000 or 10,000,000 years, or in some other number of years, that if we murder we will be caught, executed or imprisoned for the rest of our lives? Has none of that information gotten into our DNA so that with every coming generation there is less and less of that sort of thing? Well, it appears not to have done so, since there is more and more. If we are not evolving physically, naturally, and if we are not evolving morally in learned behavior, maybe – just maybe, we are not evolving at all, and we never have been!
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God. They have all turned aside, They have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, No, not one. (Psalm 14:1-3 NKJV)
