While critics question the reliability of creation science, many bible believing Christians are convinced that creation science is both a fact and theory. Creation is a fact because this truth is revealed in God’s Holy Scriptures and supported by the weight of scientific evidence. Creation is also a theory because no man or woman was there to observe the creation of the universe and life. Therefore, the precise means or mechanism that contributed to the creative process during the primeval past is continually being debated by young and old earth creation scientists worldwide.
However, other creation scientists argue that neither Darwinism nor Biblical creationism is an observable science. The proponents for each view, without concrete evidence, must accept their chosen theory by faith alone. Biological evolutionary changes supposedly took place during a 3.5 billion year history, while the creative events in the Genesis account of creation took place less than 10,000 years ago. These religious belief systems are not observable or repeatable in any science laboratory and they do not meet the tests of the scientific method because the scientific method is a process of hypothesis, observation, experimentation, and theory. Both creation and evolution are faith based hypotheses derived from a person’s intellectual presuppositions about the subject of origins. Both creation and evolution cannot be observed because no man or woman living today was there in the beginning, according to biblical creation apologist Ken Ham.
Both creation and evolution cannot be put through any rigorous experiments because that technology does not currently exist. Both creation and evolution cannot be called scientific theories because biblical creation is based on reasonable faith in God’s word and the evolution theory is based on the philosophies of Darwinism, materialism, naturalism, and atheism, according to Dr. Henry Morris. With that said, the scientific community has a unique meaning for the word “theory.”
CREATION SCIENCE THEORY
A scientific theory is a based upon the observational and experimental results derived from the scientific method. The scientific method involves a process that begins with a general hypothesis, careful observation, meticulous experiments, and repeatable experiments before a scientific theory is established based upon the weight of scientific evidence. Thus, a scientific theory is a model that has stood up under repeated testing based upon the scientific method. Real creation science theories explain factual observational science, based on the scientific method.
CREATION SCIENCE PREDICTIONS
Because creation science is based on facts and evidences, then there must be plenty of creation science data supporting the creation theory. And there is a wealth of observational evidence for creation science decorating the natural world. As a theory, creation is expected to have predictive value; therefore, a good test would involve the making of prediction using the creation science theory, then testing the prediction. Many creation science predictions have been confirmed by scientific observations.
MICRO AND MACRO EVOLUTION
Creation theory predicts evidence supporting micro-evolution and the impossibility of macro-evolution. Micro-evolution involves minor changes within the genetic limitations of an animal kind (species). For example, horses, cats, and dogs were bigger in the primeval past, but they were still the same animals. However, macro-evolution refers to one species evolving into another distinct species. Many Darwinists have bred animals for many years to produce variations within the species, but never turned a pigeon into a cat, or a dog into cow. These transformations can only occur under genetically engineered science experiments, but never under natural environmental conditions.
Micro-evolution is simply a scientific fact because science researchers have observed variations of animal offspring through a process of natural selection and genetic mutations; but no changes have been observed beyond the genetic limitations within all animal populations. Example: dogs give birth to dogs, and all animals only give birth to the same their kind of animal, which means dogs will never give birth to rabbits, this is all that is observed. Darwinists use the science of micro-Evolution, which is a proven scientific fact, to prove the philosophy macro-Evolution, which is pure speculation and conjecture. Paleontology demonstrates prehistoric gigantism in many animal populations, but no direct evidence of one kind of animal evolving into a new type of animal. The weight of scientific evidence indicates that genetic mutations cause the duplication of genetic information and the loss of genetic information, but never the creation of new genetic information, according to Dr. Georgia Purdom. Therefore, biological macro-evolution is simply impossible.
THE THERMODYNAMIC LAWS
Creation theory predicts that the universe cannot create itself before it came into existence. This prediction has been confirmed by the first law of thermodynamics because this law demonstrates that energy and matter cannot be created or destroyed, but it can only change from one state into another state.
Second, creation theory predicts that the universe and life cannot evolve itself over billions and millions of years. This prediction has been confirmed by the second law of thermodynamics because this law demonstrates that the matter and energy in the universe moves from a state of order to disorder, which means the universe is in a state of conservation and deterioration. This law also demonstrates that life cannot evolve from death through naturalistic processes. This law predicts biological and genetic entropy because natural selection and genetic mutations causes the loss of genetic information or the duplication of the same kind of genetic information, but never the creation of brand new genetic information. This scientific observation is perfectly consistent with cosmological and biological entropy found in the thermodynamic laws of nature.
The universe is destined to reach a state of complete chaos or absolute zero, unless its direction changes because the third law of thermodynamics predicts this future. Darwinism supposes that lower forms of life evolved into more complex forms of life, but the weight of scientific evidence indicates clearly that life moves from complexity to simplicity, which is consistent with biological entropy. For example, the growth and development of an animal from an embryo or a plant from a seed is only continuation of pre-existing genetic information derived from the animal’s embryo or the plant’s seed, but never an increase in genetic information, according to Dr. Henry Morris.
THE FOSSIL RECORD GAPS
Creation theory predicts gaps in the fossil record. This prediction has been confirmed by Darwinists and creation scientists because in every major era of life beginning from the Cambrian Explosion during the paleozoic era to the Quaternary Epoch during the cenozoic era no transitional forms linking the major divisions of life together has ever been confirmed by Darwinists. Scientific observations demonstrate major gaps existing between fishes and amphibians, between amphibians and reptiles, between reptiles and mammals, between reptiles and birds throughout the fossil record. Although many evolutionists argue that the fossil record is decorated with many transitional life forms, a few Darwinists reluctantly admit that the fossil record is too incomplete to reveal a clear picture of life’s development in the primeval past, which is just another way of admitting that they don’t have the evidence for Darwinism.
In other words, the fossil library of the primeval past reveals no transitional fossils, those of one species in the process of becoming another species, that have been discovered. There should be millions of transitional fossils according to the theory of evolution because this process would have taken at least 3.75 billion years. Since there are undeniable gaps in the fossil record, a few evolutionists go as far as to fabricate fake missing links. This was the case with “Piltdown Man” in 1912. It was presented as the most important transitional form existing between ape and man and was displayed in museums for more than 30 years. A major problem in proving the evolution theory has been the fossil record, according to intellectually honest Darwinists.
The fossil record has never revealed traces of evolution’s hypothetical intermediate variants. Instead species appear and disappear abruptly, and this anomaly has fueled alternative and competing arguments that every species was created by intelligence. Another alleged transitional form called the Coelacanth was once only known in the fossil records, and Darwinists claimed that the Coelacanth had primitive legs and primitive lungs and that it had the same characteristics as land dwelling animals. Many evolutionists were shocked when a living example of the supposed extinct Coelacanth was found in 1938. The fish showed no difference from modern fish, it did not have either legs or lungs.
DNA AND THE GENETIC ALPHABET
Creation theory predicts the discovery of a genetic alphabet, which is the blueprint for all living organisms, which shows that life was created by an omniscient Creator and Designer God. This prediction was confirmed by James Watson and Francis Crick who discovered the DNA amino-acid base pairs known as Cytosine, Thymine, Guanine, and Adenine. Random naturalistic processes cannot produce the genetic alphabet or the information system observed in a living cell. Only an Intelligent Designer and Creator God could create the complexity and specified information system observed inside a living cell, which parallels a complex computer program.
DINOSAUR SOFT TISSUES
Creation science theory predicts the discovery of dinosaurs with soft tissues preserved. This prediction was confirmed in 2005 when evolutionary scientists Dr. Jack Horner and Dr. Mary Schweitzer discovered the fossilized remains of a Tyrannosaurs Rex dinosaur with soft tissue still preserved with red blood cells. This also confirms that dinosaurs did not die out 65,000,000 years past because soft animal tissue with blood cells cannot survive beyond 100,000 years. The biblical creation theory argues that humans and dinosaurs lived during the same period; therefore, the discovery of the soft tissue T-Rex remains confirms the scientific theory of creation, which also predicts that more dinosaurs with soft tissue will be discovered in the coming years.
CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION
Creation science theory predicts that no evolution will be observed in Earth’s primeval biological history. This prediction has been confirmed by the Cambrian Explosion. The Cambrian Explosion refers to when many of the major groups of phyla of animals appeared in a geological history during a short period of time with no fossil evidence of common ancestry, which is hard evidence that many Darwinists considered to be a “serious” problem for naturalism because it is a valid scientific observation against the religious philosophy of Darwinism. “It is as though the species of the Cambrian were just planted there, without any evolutionary history,” according to Dr. Richard Dawkins.
Paleontologists observe a sudden emergence of new biological form and structure, and the suddenness of it defies the classical Darwinian mechanism to produce new structure, according to Dr. Jonathan Wells and Dr. John Morris. Many Darwinists believed that the Darwinian mechanism must act slowly through small gradual incremental changes because natural selection acts only by taking advantage of slight successive variations, while other evolutionists believe in rapid evolution, which is commonly refer to as punctuated equilibrium. Punctuated equilibrium was invented by paleontologists Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould partly because of their analysis of the Cambrian Explosion.
LIFE’S SPONTANEOUS GENERATION (ABIOGENESIS)
Finally, creation theory predicts the impossibility of naturalistic chemical evolution or life’s spontaneous generation of life because proteins and acids, which are the building blocks of living systems and the components of every living cell, work against each other in the natural world. We place a piece of steak in vinegar and it begins to disintegrate. Therefore, how can these two substances mix together naturally to create life, as we know it, without the aid of a super intelligent creator and designer? The Darwinism philosophy presumes the development of life from non-life, or otherwise known as Spontaneous Generation. Spontaneous Generation was scientifically disproved because of experiments done by Francesco Redi, and Louis Pasteur. Life cannot evolve through random naturalistic processes because life is a form of information and complex specified information systems either originate from pre-existing information systems or from mind. The fact of the matter is, all evolutionists privately know that the best explanation for the subject of origins is simply “In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth.”
ANALYSIS: CREATION SCIENCE
While skeptics argue that no God could have created a universe in six days, God of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. Skeptics were never there during the beginning to observe when and how God created the universe, planet Earth, and life. Analysis of the Holy Scriptures reveals that God is clearly capable of creating a universe in six days or with no time at all.
While skeptics argue that the God of the Holy Scriptures created the universe roughly six or seven thousand years ago by calculating the chrono-genealogy in Genesis chapters five and 11, the Bible does not give an exact date for the creation of the universe, the formation of the planet Earth, and the origination of life because the Holy Scriptures simply mentioned that God is the architect and engineer of creation without revealing any dates for these events. The chrono-genealogical record in the book of Genesis may contain significant gaps of time because the words ‘SON OF’ may involve decades, centuries, or millennia of time between ancestor and descendant. Biblical chronologists, such as Archbishop James Usher of 1650 AD, are responsible for providing the biblical genealogical date of 23 October 4004 BC, but this date cannot be found in God’s Bible. While it may be true that the first man and woman were created about 6000 or 7000 years ago, the Bible only mentions the creation event without revealing any dates.
The fact of the matter is, if creation science theory were not based on fact
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