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      A new poll released just in time for Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday found that only 39 percent of Americans say they “believe in the theory of evolution,” and just 24 percent of those who attend church weekly believe in that explanation for the development of life on Earth (Gallup poll of 1,018 American adults, Feb. 12, 2009, Fox News, www.foxnews.com).
     Thomas K. Grose in an article dated Feb. 12, 2009 (www.usnews.com) titled, “British Celebrate Charles Darwin but are Still Skeptical of Evolution” states, “Proud though Britian may be for having produced such a famous, pre-eminent, albeit controversial scientist, Darwin’s theory of evolution is a hard sell here–even though the United Kingdom is a rather secular society where church attendance has fallen to negligible numbers. A January ComRes poll taken for the religious think tank Theos found that 51 percent of Britons say that evolution alone can’t explain complex life, and 32 percent believe that life on Earth began within the past 10,000 years–a basic tenet of Creationism.”
     Why is it that, since 1859 when Darwin published On the Origin of the Species, the theory of evolution hasn’t been more persuasive?  The answer is that Darwinism is easily defeated on the basis of five important facts.
     First, the theory of evolution fails as an explanation for the origin of all things. The problem facing evolutionists is this: what existed to bring all things into existence?  Did everything come from nothing? (That would be logically absurd).  Or, did everything come from something?  In which case, that something would be eternal.  If not God (pure Spirit), then matter.  Science cannot prove that matter is eternal.  Instead science teaches us that the universe is running down (the Second Law of Thermodynamics) . Hence, evolutionists cannot prove their case.  The Bible affirms that God (eternal Spirit) created all things (Gen. 1:1; John 1:1-3; Col. 1:16).
     Second, the theory of evolution fails to explain the origin of life.  Evolutionists declare that all living things came from non-living things in contradiction to the law of biogenesis. The chances of this happening are astronomical.  Also, science has failed to duplicate spontaneous generation of life.  The Bible teaches that all liviing things come from a living God (Gen. 2:7). 
     Third, the theory of evolution cannot adequately explain the diversity and design of the universe. Evolutionists believe that mutations and natural selection, merely by chance, produced all of the diversity and design that we experience in the universe.  Most mutations are destructive to an organism not productive.  A living organism may adapt to its environment, but it will never change into another species of living creature.  Science proves limits to change whereas evolution theory affirms unlimited change that is design specific.  The Bible teaches that each living organism reproduces after its kind (Gen. 1:11; 1:24-25; Gen. 1:28).
     Fourth, the theory of evolution fails to explain the absence of transitional forms in the fossil record.  Geologists have not found the fossil evidence proving evolution.  Darwin, in his book, On the Origin of the Species, stated, “so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous” (1860, p. 234). He went on to admit, “Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be argued against this theory.  The explanation lies, I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record” (Darwin, p. 234).  The geological record proving evolution has not improved since Darwin.  Jerry Adler, in a November 3, 1980 Newsweek article stated, “Evidence from fossils now points overwhelmingly away from the classical Darwinism which most Americans learned in high school: that new species evolve out of existing ones by the gradual accumulation of small changes, each of which helps the organism survive and compete in the environment” (Reason and Revelation, Feb. 2009, p. 12-13–Kyle Butt and Eric Lyons, Darwin in  Light of 150 Years of Error).  The Bible teaches that like begets like and, so, no transitional forms in the fossil record (Gen. 1-2).
    Fifth, the theory of evolution fails to explain that there is no God!  If the theory of evolution is true, then there is no God!  Atheists are people who believe that they know that God does not exist.  However, in order to believe this, they must be omniscient.  They must know everything there is to know, because if there is one thing that they do not know–that one thing may be God!  No man is omniscient.  Therefore, no man living today or who has ever lived could prove that God does not exist.  Recent advertisements in Europe say, “God probably does not exist, so don’t worry, go ahead and enjoy your life.”  Why would the ads say “probably” He does not exist?  This is an admission of fallibility and ignorance.  The Bible declares that God is (Gen. 1:1). 
     The theory of evolution fails to meet the demands of proof, science, and the Bible.  “Prove all things, hold fast to that which is good” (I Thess. 5:21).  I’m not surprised that the theory of evolution is a hard sell among Americans and Britons.  Some people are still wise enough to reject that which is utterly false.