Be Prepared: Creation of the Earth and Life

You're watching the Discovery Channel when a reference to the absolute certainty of evolution is made. Someone asks you what you think.  How do you respond?

1) Science now confirms that the universe did have an actual beginning ... and it is pretty close to Genesis 1 which tells us God spoke and things were quickly created and that it started with light.

Nobel Prize winning Physcist Steven Weinberg describes what science says about the start of the universe: “In 3 minutes, 98% of all the matter there is or ever will be was produced. We have a universe … done in about the time it takes to make a sandwich … and it was filled with light ..."

2)  No transitional species have ever been found that would be necessary for one species to evolve into another.

Breeders know this.  They can create certain variations within existing species but there are fixed limitations. Dogs still produce dogs and cats still produce cats.  The fossil record contains not one instance of that shows a species evolving or transitioning into another.

3) The issue of irreducibility complexity.

This simply means that some organs are so complex that if reduced to a lesser form the organ would cease to function properly.  Evolution says that everything evolved over time from the simple to the complex. However, irreducible complexity says that if a complex organ became less complex it would cease to work.

Charles Darwin even admited this problem and said that the complexity of the human eye caused him to "shudder." He went on to say that “If it could ever be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”

4) The issue of consciousness.

What gives people and living things a sense of consciousness? Why aren't our brains just "meat computers"?

5) The unique ability of the earth to support life.

There are 30 different physical parameters (everything from the water molecule to gravity to the earth's tilt and rotation) that must be present for life to exist.  Did total randomness "accidentally" cause these perfect, life-supporting conditions?

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