EXPOSING THE UNSCIENTIFIC

CULT OF EVOLUTIONISM

 

By

Gary Ray Branscome

 

O fools, and slow of heart to believe everything the prophets have said: // It is impossible for God to lie.(Luke 24:25, Hebrews 6:18).

 

          The great mass of humanity is blind to the truth of God. If they think of God at all they fail to see Him as anything more than “The Man upstairs,” or someone they can call upon for goodies. Yet nothing could be further from the truth! The God whom we worship not only has numbered the hairs of your head, but has designed every atom, assigning to every element the characteristics that it displays. Every molecule, every subatomic particle, is known to Him. And, He is the one who determines what is TRUE and what is not true. For that reason, it is impossible for any fact known to science to contradict what God has clearly and explicitly said in His Word.

          There are NO “facts” of science that contradict God’s Word, only facts that sin blinded little men, in their ignorance, interpret to contract God’s Word when they could just as well be interpreted to agree with God’s Word.

 

          In past centuries, both the Greeks and the Chinese developed a rudimentary science. However, in both cases their science was limited in its development by the fact that they failed to discern the mathematical basis underlying all of creation. In contrast, because the founders of modern science were Christians, they expected to find intelligent design in every detail of creation. And, that is what sets modern science apart! Because all of creation has a mathematical basis, things as different as the curvature of a snail shell or the placement of seeds in a sunflower follow a mathematical pattern, and scientists can use sign, cosign and tangent to determine vectors and thrust while insurance companies use pi to determine probability.

 

          However, during that period of mental-darkening that is wrongly called, “The enlightenment” certain bloated egotists rejected the truth of God’s Word in a vain attempt to create a religion that consisted of “pure reason”. What they failed to realize was that all of their reasoning rested on assumptions that were only perceived as true at the time because of their ignorance. Assumptions like the idea that single celled organisms are just jelly-like masses (an assumption that is ridiculous in the light what we now know about the complicated inner workings of every cell): Or the assumption that there is no limit to little variations that we see between one generation and another (again, an assumption that seems ridiculous in the light of modern genetic science).

 

          The supernatural explanations that the founders of modern science rejected had nothing to do with the Bible. They accepted the Bible! On the contrary, what they rejected were pagan fantasies: such as the claim that the planet Mars was a god riding around the sun in his chariot, or the claim that the gods put things that look like fish into the rocks to trick us. And, the atheists who twisted that rejection of man-made fantasies to exclude a Biblical worldview have not improved science one bit. On the contrary, they have instead filled many textbooks with their own man-made fantasies; atheistic fantasies that undermine morality and could destroy civilization itself.

          All cults will appeal to some authority in order to make their views seem credible. And, just as some cults will seize on ambiguous statements of Scripture while claiming that their explanation is the only possible explanation; the cult we are looking at seizes on ambiguous observable facts while claiming that their explanation of those facts is the only possible explanation.

          For example: In the last century scientists observing the stars discovered evidence that the universe was expanding – indicating that the universe could not be infinitely old. All that the evidence indicated was that the universe is expanding. That fact does not say a thing about the age of the universe or how it came into existence. However, because their pseudo-scientific worldview needed an explanation for the universe that excludes God as the creator, they made up a story about the universe popping into existence popularly known as the “Big Bang”. Although, as with every cult, its supporters will twist facts to support this story and explain away any that do not, the evidence against the “Big Bang” as a viable explanation is growing. In truth, it is just a made-up story, nothing more.

          As another example, consider the claim that life came from non life. Because Charles Darwin needed some explanation for the origin of life, he went with the idea that life originated in a warm little pond. He had no evidence! He did not conduct any experiments to see if that was even possible! Because some people back then believed that it was possible, he simply assumed that it happened without any evidence. And, because he wanted an explanation of the origin of life that left out God as the Creator he just made up a story about the first life originating from non-life, and slowly through many minute changes gradually morphing into all other life forms. There is no evidence that this happened! It is just a story that leaves out God.

Since the time of Darwin, so many experiments have shown Darwin’s assumption to be false, that the proposition, “Life comes only from pre-existing life,” is regarded as a law of science – The Law of Biogenesis. However, instead of admitting that they are wrong, the disciples of Darwin try to find some way around the evidence. Some have asserted that space aliens may have seeded life on earth (Richard Dawkins among them). Others have argued that all the experiments prove is that life cannot come from non-life quickly. Here they invoke the magic phrase, “over millions of years”. In their minds that phrase means “abracadabra”. And, they believe that any impossible thing can happen given “millions of years”. Again, that is just wishful thinking and story telling, not science.

 

          Because the idea that life comes from non-life has failed so many scientific tests, evolutionists will often to avoid discussing it by saying something like, “The origin of life has nothing to do with evolution, evolution only has to do with the changes to living things”. But, that is totally dishonest!

          In regard to changes to living things, experiments by Gregor Mendel and many others have revealed that the minute variation that we observe from one generation to the next is the result of reshuffling genetic information, not the creation of new information. That means that change is limited to what is included in that pre-existing genetic information. So, here again, science does not support evolutionism. Nevertheless, the cult devotees of evolution ignore the evidence and try to make up more stories to get around it. For a while they claimed that the changes that morph one creature into another were caused by mutation, and many of their textbooks still make that claim. However, modern science has shown that mutations are the result of random damage to the genetic material, and are never beneficial. So they made up another story, called, “punctuated equilibrium”. According to that story, life forms will continue unchanged for generations, and then (perhaps after abracadabra, “millions of years”) a sudden radical change takes place. And such changes over time result in evolution. There is no scientific evidence for this claim! It has never been observed! Evolutionists need to explain life without God so they make up stories, and if one story doesn’t fly they make up another one. That is the way cults deal with evidence, and it should never be confused with true science. Of such scientific dishonesty Dr. Walter A. Maier once said:

 

This cutthroat criticism of the Bible has perpetually been marked by misrepresentations. The great Haeckel, who for years dominated scientific biological thought in Germany, stooped to falsehood and fraudulently used the same illustration to picture the embryo of a dog, an ape, and a man.” [From the sermon, “Back to Bible Truth!” January 1936.]

 

Pseudo-Scientific Fraud

          As that quote of Dr. Walter A. Maier says, the history of evolutionism is a history of fraud and deception, not science. To give one example: While many fossil fish can be recognized as virtually identical to species living today, when fossil Coelacanth were first discovered they not only were thought to be extinct, but appeared somewhat different in that some of their fins were at the end of little stalks. For that reason, cult thinkers jumped at the chance to make up a story about how this particular fish (the Coelacanth) did not become extinct, but instead evolved into amphibians some 60 million years ago. They had no scientific evidence for that claim, but it fit their cult doctrine so they had no qualms about talking about it as if it was absolute fact rather than fantasy.

When I was a child I was given a picture book about animals (published in the 1930s) that had a section about the Coelacanth. That section had pictures of a Coelacanth living in a swamp, and in commenting on those pictures the writers stated as matter-of-fact that the Coelacanth had lived in swamps, and evolved its fins on stalks so that as one pond in the swamp dried up it could walk on its fins to another pond. It then went on to claim that the Coelacanth later evolved into the first amphibians. They had no scientific evidence to support that story! They just made it up in the same way that the ancients made up a story about the planet Mars being a god in a chariot. It was a stupid fairytale! What the writers failed to realize is that a living Coelacanth had been caught, and contrary to their fairytale, it not only did not live in swamps, it is a deep water fish that never walks on its fins.

Did that discovery lead the evolutionists to admit that they were wrong? Not on your life! The latest claim is that there were different species of Coelacanth, and the ones that lived in swamps are now extinct. Do they have any proof? NO. It is just another fairytale that they have invented as a rescuing device. And, that is just more evidence that evolutionism is a cult, not science.

 

Another source of fraud can be found in their desperate attempts to find “ape-men”. All of the so called ape-men that appeared in text books when I was in school have been rejected as frauds, yet some evolutionists still cite them as “proofs” of their mythology. Of one of those frauds “Java man”, Dr. Walter A. Maier said, “The star witness in the defense of evolution, is the Java fossils widely hailed as the remains of the first apelike man. Now, not I nor the Church, but the Smithsonian Institution in Washington lists fifteen major points on which scientists hold contradictory opinions concerning these three bone fragments. They are not even agreed that the fossils belong to one creature. Many hold that they are ape remains. In spite of this wide-spread disagreement and the suspicious way in which these bones have been handled they are employed by imagination, not by science, to construct a slinking, brutish, apelike man, who is to demonstrate that the Bible account of creation is an exploded myth. I ask the members in this audience, entirely apart from the religious issues, whether any court in the land could admit testimony as contradictory as this.[From the sermon, “Back to Bible Truth!” January 1936.]

 

          The latest so called “evidence” of evolution is the skeleton of a female pigmy chimp known as “Lucy”. In spite of the fact that this skeleton is that of a creature about three and a half feet tall, lacks any foot or hand bones, has the hip joint of a chimp, and includes only a few fragments of the skull, many museums have three-dimensional representations of “Lucy” that stand at least five feet tall complete with human hands and feet, upright posture, human poses and even human eyes. That is pure fraud!

          One reason for that fraud lies in the fact that human footprints were found about one thousand miles from Lucy in a rock layer which, according to evolutionary mythology, formed long before humans were on the earth. In order to explain those footprints, evolutionists depict Lucy with human feet and hands even though the evidence says otherwise. In short, when the evidence does not fit their worldview, they just make us a story and make the evidence fit. That is self-deception, not science!

 

Glaring errors crop out on every page of scientific history. The great Huxley announced that he had found the primary living substance in slimy ooze at the bottom of the sea. Congratulations poured in upon him. The scientific world was agog for a decade or two, until it was found that this gelatine life which was to disprove divine creation and to establish brute origin was concocted when a quantity of alcohol was poured into a bottle of sea water. Medical anesthesia was denied by scientists; the action of microbes ridiculed, the telephone declared ventriloquism, railroad construction branded as an absurdity, meteors ruled out as impossible, the theory that the blood circulates through the body regarded as stupid twaddle. A lecturer at the American Academy of Science derided the idea of piping water to the upper floors of a building. A German scientist of the last century declared that nerve impulses could never be measured; yet at the recent convention in St. Louis the biology department of Washington University exhibited apparatus that, besides serving other purposes, recorded exact nerve measurements.” [Dr. Walter A. Maier, from the sermon, “Back to Bible Truth,” 1936.]

 

Conclusion

“When the Word of God is contradicted by the word of man, it does not matter how important or authoritative that man may be; his theory, even if it has the endorsement of learned societies and scientific bodies, is unprovable. Every argument ever advanced to show ape ancestry, — the argument from the similar skeletal structure of animals and men, from fossil remains, from the developing embryo, from blood tests, from geographical distribution, useless organs, transmutation of species, — these and a host of other theories, drafted for the defense of this godless doctrine, have been considered by reputable and internationally known scientists, and their repeated verdict has been decidedly negative.” [Dr Walter A. Maier, from the sermon, Creation or Evolution, 1930]

“|Professor Agassiz. in whose honor one of the largest natural history museums in the world was named unhesitatingly declared that "any man who accepted the doctrine of evolution ceased thereby to be a man of science."  Sir William Dawson, eminent geologist and one of Canada's foremost scientists, did not hesitate to say: "Evolution is a system destitute of any shadow of proof.... Man was created as the Hebrew literally reads."  Professor Fleischmann, German geologist, who at first accepted but then rejected the theory of the ape origin of man, asserted: "The Darwinian theory...has...not a single fact to confirm it.  It is...purely a product of the imagination."  Lord Kelvin, who has been called the Napoleon of science, attacked the creative theories that rule out God and declared: "The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I do not see how I can put it in words."  Edward Wallar Maunder, founder and president of the Royal Astronomical Society, wrote: "I accept the three great creeds of the Christian Church.... ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth' is the foundation of all science as well as religion."  Calvin Page, Nobel prize winner, frankly asserts that, even if there were no Bible, the inscrutable mystery of the vegetable kingdom would compel every natural and "unbiased mind to exclaim: ‘There must be a Creator!'" Dr. Austin H. Clark of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, considering the evidence presented by the great biological collection in that museum affirms; "There is no evidence which would show man developing step by step from low forms of life.  There is nothing to show that man is in any way connected with monkeys.... There are no such things as missing links."  Dr. Alexis Carrel, internationally famous scientist, whose recent book has received wide-spread attention, maintains: "Man assuredly never had an orang-outang or an ape for his ancestor."  Here, then, are a few statements of first-rank scientists, and many more could be quoted.  These men know that life cannot begin   spontaneously.  They know that in all ages, past and present (even though long years have been occupied with this issue and thousands of scientists have devoted themselves to this research and millions of dollars have been spent in this quest), no one has ever discovered a single instance of permanent change from one form of life to another.|[Dr. Walter A. Maier, from the sermon, “All Life From God!” 1937.]