From Evolution to Creation
(Testimony of a former Evolutionist)
by Dr. Gary Parker
A respected biology professor explains his gradual conversion from belief in evolution to biblical creation. Warm, humble and humorous. Dr. Gary Parker shows how, step by step, the Lord helped him to see the false assumptions behind modern evolutionary belief, and how the Bible’s account of origins is confirmed by science.
Rating 5+ 60 min.
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Dr. Gary Parker begins by describing evolution as he was taught, taught to his students, and believed for years. He now believes that what he taught is the biggest lie he ever told.
God inspired a book in which he said what he meant and meant what he said.
As a young Christian Dr. Parker was unsure of what to do with the mountain of so called evidence he had learned. He thought that he could just modify his beliefs to say evolution is true, but God did it. The more he thought about this concept, the more he felt it did not reconcile to the God of the Bible.
A colleague at the seminary shared a book with him, The Genesis Flood by John Whitcomb and Henry Morris. After reading the book he began to feel cheated that nobody had ever showed him the evidence of creation. Recognizing evidence of creation requires only the simple tools – logic & observation.
Evolutionists see evidence for creation all around them, but they knowingly suppress the truth.
Madalyn Murray O’Hair, best known for the Murray v. Curlett lawsuit, which led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling ending government sponsored prayer in American public schools, is no exception. She may have hated God with every fiber of her being, but she knew God existed.
Like gravity, you can’t see it, feel it, or taste it, but we know it exists by the effect it has on things. So it is with some of the evidence for creation.
Two basic units of living things are DNA and protein molecules. They have a relationship in that the amino acids take instructions from the DNA when forming protein molecules for structure and function.
An airplane is a collection of non-flying parts. The only way it flies is by creative design and organization. A cell is more complex than any airplane. The cell is a collection of non-living molecules. What does it take to make a living cell alive? Creative design and organization.
Woodpecker as an example of evidence of creation.
Great Debate – Science Department defending creation, the Bible Department defending evolution.
Nebular hypothesis whereby gasses form new spherical bodies in stellar creation, has a big problem. The calculations show the gas cloud pressure created by condensing gasses is 60-100 thousand times the pressure of the gravity claimed to pull it in.
Charles Darwin wrote that, the Origin of plants is an abominable mystery.
Lessons from Blue-Green Algae?
Evolution – Simple beginnings, change over time? NO!
Creation – Complex beginnings, well designed, multiply after their kind? YES!
Much more plants in the past than there are today.
To the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of Special Creation – Prof. Corner, evolutionist at Cambridge University.
At the lowest level of the fossil record clams are still clams, snails are still snails, corals are still corals.
Rock Layers – Quick formation of rock layers, not millions of years. Mount St Helens’ recent observations. Polystratic fossils are fossils found in multiple layers of strata, and are quite common.
Stalactites & Stalagmites – By observation these can form quickly, and don’t require a lot of time.
Six Ordinary Days and the Age of the Earth – Rubidium-Strontium dating is one of the best methods of dating. Yet the dates produced from it are very inaccurate in cases of known age. In dating Lucy, the lab provided Donald Johanson with a date of less than 3 million years. The age was disappointing to Johanson. Three months later the lab reported a new date of 3.5 million years. Another scientist got involved and came up with a younger date than the first one. Media headline – “Lucy, the trouble with dating an older woman.” In dating lava flows from the top and bottom of canyon layers, the dates given for the top layers were shown to be older than those for the bottom layers.
It is obvious that radiometric techniques may not be the absolute dating methods that they are claimed to be. Age estimates on a given geological stratum by different radiometric methods are often quite different (sometimes by hundreds of millions of years). There is no absolutely reliable long-term radiological “clock”. Stansfield, the Science of Evolution, P. 84 He goes on to describe the many evidences for a young earth – the amount of helium in the atmosphere, oil pressure in wells, only enough carbon 14 in the atmosphere for an earth less than 30,000 years, in fact closer to 10,000 years old. Carbon 14 should have reached the balance point in the atmosphere in 30,000 years, yet it is still out of balance. According to Stansfield (evolutionist) this could have been caused by the biblical flood about 5000 years ago. The list of assumptions for evolution require evolutionists to “Keep The Faith”.
Evolution is a Faith the Facts have Failed.
The Bible represents a Faith that Fits the Facts.
Biblical references:
Romans 1:20 – For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.
Romans 1:18 – For the wrath of god is revealed from the heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness.
Hebrews 1:10-11 – And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they shall wax old as doth a garment.
Psalm 19:1 – The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
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