Category: Evolution

NEO-DARWINISM CANNOT EXPLAIN MAN’S DISTINCTION FROM ANIMALS

The Biblical text was not intended as a precise scientific document, but it does describe essential facts that Man needs to know, including the two phases of Man’s creation.

The Biblical text was not intended as a precise scientific document, but it does describe essential facts that Man needs to know, including the two phases of Man’s creation.

These phases correspond to the scientific evidence we have.

Phase I:

“And God formed the man of dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the soul of life, and man became a living being”

(Genesis 2:7)

The term “living being” used in Genesis 2:7 is the same term used in Genesis chapter 1 to describe the animals that God created before Man.

The great rabbinic sage Sforno explains that in phase I primitive Man existed as a higher form of animal, but still an animal similar to all the other animals which are lacking the ability of speech and intellectual reasoning.

We might conclude from this that these animal like humans could have existed for hundreds of thousands of years, but they left no evidence of language, writing, civilization, or abstract thought.

Line drawings on a cave wall, with no evidence of language or abstract thought, do not really distinguish primitive Man from animals.

Phase II:

“God planted a Garden in Eden, to the East, and placed there Man whom He had formed.” (Genesis 2:8)

The rabbinic sage Sforno explains that the “Garden” is the location where Man received the “image of God” so that higher Man gained the ability for speech and intellectual reasoning that primitive Man and animals are lacking.

This second phase would have occurred less than 6000 years from the present time, IE in the year 5786 according to the Jewish calendar that counts from the creation of higher Man.

Honest scientists will admit that the oldest writing that exists is less than 6000 years old, which was the period when Man was placed in the “Garden” and received the “image of God”.

No amount of Darwinist imagination can explain Man’s ability for speech, language, writing, and intellectual reasoning. These abilities could only be granted by a supernatural Creator.

God’s Mind is Far Above Man’s Puny Mind

Could all the Neo-Darwinist scientists in the world construct even a one-celled living organism from (non-living) laboratory chemicals? I rather doubt it.


Could anything as enormously complex as a 1 celled organism have evolved from un-directed natural causes?

https://www.britannica.com/science/cell-biology

How could the cell nucleus survive before all the other components evolved?

How could the components outside the nucleus survive before the nucleus evolved?

We should have the humility to admit that God’s mind is far above Man’s puny mind.

In contrast, the pompous and intellectually dishonest New Atheists and Neo-Darwinists refuse to admit that they have no explanation for the origin of the Universe, nor can the Neo-Darwinists explain the origin of life on Earth. 

At best Neo-Darwinist theories can explain minor changes within the same species (such as the size and shape of a finch’s beak) due to un-directed natural causes. These changes do not represent any increase in the complexity of the species.

The many articles and books by Dr. Stephen Meyer teach true science within the limits of Man’s knowledge.

“the probability of producing even a single functional protein (a gene product) of modest length (150 amino acids) by chance alone stands at a “vanishingly small” 1 chance in 10^164 (10 to the 164 power)”

Signature in the Cell

Present Humans are Qualitatively Different than Neanderthals

Neanderthals and other ancient creatures possessed a hominoid body form but had no known speech, language, writing, technology, philosophy, religion, or civilization. Neanderthals should not be compared to or classified as a predecessor species of present day humans.

The friendly smiles drawn on the illustrations of Neanderthals that we see today are the pure imagination of modern humans. If we were to observe a Neanderthal creature today, we might conclude it is a vicious animal with instincts but lacking any rational intellect.

Neanderthals and other such creatures resemble animals more than they resemble present day humans.

A “qualitatively new species” refers not simply to new DNA or new physical traits, rather it refers to present day Man’s immaterial quality of being “created in the image of God” that allow Man to recognize the existence of God and speak, write, study science, create technologies and civilizations.

No amount of fake Darwinist “science” can explain the qualitative differences between ancient hominoid animals and present day humans.

Why would Darwinian “survival of the fittest” principles require a gorilla or chimpanzee to develop a rational intellect capable of abstract thought and develop the ability for speech?

A gorilla’s “survival of the fittest” in the jungle requires strong arms to pull bananas off a tree and fight off lions, a gorilla has no need for a rational intellect capable of abstract thought or the ability for speech.

Why would a gorilla require an intellect capable of creating an advanced civilization?

 

Imagining that Apes had Uniquely Human Characteristics Is Scientism

Present day humans possess “uniquely human characteristics” that were never possessed by any animals nor by ancient humans (prior to about 6000 years ago).

Examples of “uniquely human characteristics” are having a rational intellect, the ability for speech, language, and writing, the ability to understand good vs. evil, the ability to study science and create technology, and having a body designed to walk upright on two legs on a continual basis.

Human limbs and joints are not designed for humans to “knuckle walk” on all four limbs, as apes do.

On the Smithsonian Museum website it claims that the ancient creature known as “Lucy” (Australopithecus afarensis) had “a body that stood on two legs and regularly walked upright”. That site also claims that Lucy had “apelike face proportions”.

However evidence indicates that “Lucy” had wrist joints designed for knuckle walking as apes also have.

When I personally challenged a professional paleontologist in a major museum that Lucy was an ape, not a human, the paleontologist agreed to compare Lucy’s jaw with an ape jaw. The two jaws were indistinguishable from each other.

Imagining that ancient ape like creatures had human characteristics, such as walking upright, is “scientism”, not true science.

“Scientism” seems to have an agenda to devolve Man into a lower animal.

This interesting video demonstrates that “Lucy” had the morphology of a knuckle walker who walks on all four limbs, not the morphology of a bipedal human.

Lucy the Knuckle Walker

Present Humans Only Appeared Recently

The Bible is correct – humans in their present form only appeared on Earth very recently.

The Bible is NOT intended as a detailed scientific history of the ancient Universe, it is primarily concerned with the history of Mankind as we know it now.

The Bible is not interested in telling the history of any primates (Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon, etc.) that may have existed before humans in their present form were created.

Imagining that ancient ape like creatures or ancient primates had characteristics of present day humans, such as language, writing, and abstract thought, is “scientism”, IE not true science.

How can Neo-Darwinism explain the profound metaphysical differences between Man and the animal kingdom, such as Man’s rational intellect capable of abstract thought, Man’s ability for speech, Man’s recognition of good vs. evil?

Why would Darwinian “survival of the fittest” principles require a gorilla or chimpanzee to develop a rational intellect capable of abstract thought and develop the ability for speech?

A gorilla’s “survival of the fittest” in the jungle requires strong arms to pull bananas off a tree and fight off lions, a gorilla has no need for a rational intellect capable of abstract thought or the ability for speech.

Why would a gorilla require an intellect capable of creating an advanced civilization?

The Bible does not state the age of the Universe, but it does indicate that humans in their present form (IE “created in the image of God” as per the Book of Genesis) have only existed for about 5800 years.

Man being created “in the image of God” means having Man has the ability to speak, develop languages, write, create civilizations, create technology, have intellectual apprehension, and know good vs evil. None of these capabilities have ever existed in animals or primitive “humans”, and no amount of “Darwinism” can explain their appearance in present day humans.

If mankind in its present form has allegedly existed for hundreds of thousands of years, why has writing, civilization, and technology only existed for about 5400 years?

“Sumer” was an area near the Persian Gulf mentioned in Genesis 10:10 as the “Land of Shinar”. Most secular history books or websites will agree that the first examples of human writing occurred about 3400 B.C.

“The Sumerian civilization first developed writing around 3400 B.C., when they began making markings on clay tablets in a script known as cuneiform. ”

https://www.history.com/news/what-is-the-oldest-known-piece-of-literature

Darwinism: A Rehash of Ancient Epicurus

Darwinists would have us believe that evolution is a novel, modern, sophisticated scientific theory unknown to the ancients.

Maimonides was a great rabbinic Torah sage, and a “rationalist” within Medieval thought, but he was not a modern materialist attempting to explain the Universe by recognizing only material causes. Maimonides would have sharply rejected Darwinism.

In the 12th Century C.E., Maimonides dismissed the ancient version of Darwinism.

“But it would be quite useless to mention the opinions of those who do not recognize the existence of God, but believe that the existing state of things is the result of accidental combination and separation of the elements, and that the Universe has no Ruler or Governor. Such is the theory of Epicurus and his school, and similar philosophers, as stated by Alexander [Aphrodisiensis]; it would be superfluous to repeat their views, since the existence of God has been demonstrated whilst their theory is built upon a basis proved to be untenable.”

(Maimonides, Guide to the Perplexed, 12th Century C.E.)

“some classically educated contemporaries of Darwin saw in his ideas little but a 19th-century rehash of thoughts that they had once studied in ancient Greek and Latin authors in their university days.” (evolutionnews article)

Ghost of Epicurus

Evolutionist-Atheist-Nazi Links

Replacement of Biblical monotheism with an atheist Darwinist pseudo-religion will inevitably result in tragic consequences for Mankind. These consequences include, among others, loss of any ultimate purpose to Man’s existence, loss of recognition of Man’s immaterial soul, moral relativism and loss of any objective ethics system, and subjugation and genocide of allegedly inferior races.

It is quite fascinating that many “progressives” go ballistic against religious opponents of Darwinism and religious opponents of homosexuality, when in fact these two ideologies have been shown to be fundamental components of Nazism.

There is a clear link between atheist viewpoints and Darwinist evolution viewpoints.

“He (Richard Dawkins) revealed that his understanding of evolution led him to atheism and is puzzled by belief in God among individuals who are sophisticated in science.”1

“The evidence in this universe for design or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by enough time is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.”2

There is strong evidence that Darwinist evolution theories had a major influence on German Nazi ideology.3 Nazi ideology emphasized a Utopian project, inspired by Darwinist thinkers, with a goal of biological improvement of the human race.

I personally do not believe Darwinian Evolution is true. But IF someone believes that Darwinian Evolution is true, isn’t that person then compelled to believe that certain (unnamed) races are lower on the evolutionary scale and therefore inferior to other races?

Religion of Darwinism

Darwinist evolution theories have morphed into a type of faith based atheist religion, a substitute for belief in a Creator and belief in Biblical creation. Regrettably many “progressive” Jewish intellectual types have become militant missionaries for the Darwinist religion. There is no real evidence in the fossil record for Darwinism, which in fact violates many scientific principles (such as the laws of entropy). For example, the fossil record clearly shows that species appear suddenly and then later disappear without any significant change. Also, Darwinist evolution is at a complete loss to explain the origin of life. Despite numerous experiments no scientist has ever produced life from non-life in a laboratory.

In the Talmud it mentions that one of man’s unique qualities not possessed by animals is the ability to speak. I believe that to prove that any ancient species of primate can be considered any type of man (as opposed to an animal), there must exist some evidence the ancient primate could speak. It would seem that the only clear evidence a creature could speak is IF we discovered any evidence the creature could write. In this case, we would have conclusive evidience the ancient creature was NOT an animal.

A few years ago I actually challenged one of the senior research scientists at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History regarding a display of “Australopithecus”, an ape-like creature that is presented as some type of ancient species that had evolved from apes to become more like man. I asked that scientist to prove that the Australopithecus had any actual human characteristics and was not simply a type of ape.

Intellectual apprehension is one of the primary characteristics that separates man from animals. I asked that scientist: Where is there the slightest evidence that the Australopithecus creature could speak, write, or that it possessed any intellectual apprehension? Without such evidence, how can the creature be considered human in any way? Perhaps that creature was only an ape?

The scientist took me into the museum’s extensive research laboratory in the basement, which contained many collections of fossils of various species. The scientist took out an Australopithecus skull, an ape skull, and a human skull. As I recall the Australopithecus skull was pretty much identical to an ape skull. The scientist attempted to provide some circumstantial evidence that “Australopithecus” walked upright, but I was not shown the slightest evidence that the creature could speak, write, or had any intellectual apprehension.

Evolution Group Think

The American academic environment has degenerated into an atmosphere of totalitarian atheist group think where all heresies against the prevailing Darwinist religion are being ruthlessly suppressed.

The excellent video documentary (produced several years ago) “Expelled: No intelligence allowed” contains a great expose of the totalitarian group think among the university evolution fundamentalists. It also exposes the connection between evolutionary theories and Nazi genocide: “… educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired for the crime of merely believing that there might be evidence of design in nature, and that perhaps life is not just the result of accidental, random chance.”

These same leftist professors who persecute their colleagues who express any heretical ideas against the Darwinist religion are often also virulent enemies of Israel. Evolution is atheist junk science that can in no way explain the origin of life, nor can it explain the origin of a speaking being with intellect such as man. I believe Darwin clearly indicated his motivations for inventing the evolution religion were to minimize the necessity for any supernatural Creator.

For those looking for an antidote to the evolution Kool-Aid, I recommend reading the essays of Dr. Georges Cuvier, a brilliant scientist who is mentioned in the “Drush Or HaChaim” treatise of the Jewish sage Tiferes Yisrael. Unlike today’s dope addled leftist professors who follow the evolution drumbeat like sheep, Dr. Cuvier was a true intellectual with a knowledge of human history and respect for the Bible. Dr. Cuvier’s brilliant discourse provides strong evidence against evolution group think and in favor of an ancient flood, but has been suppressed by the politically Darwinist liberals of recent times.

Evolution is a faith based atheist religion which violates scientific principles (such as the laws of entropy) and for which there is no real evidence in the fossil record. For example, the fossil record clearly shows that species appear suddenly and then later disappear without any significant change. Evolution is at a complete loss to explain the origin of life. Despite numerous experiments, no scientist has ever produced life from non-life in a laboratory.

Most evolution fundamentalists simply gloss over and ignore the massive scientific evidence against Darwinist evolution. The great rabbinic authority Tiferes Yisrael, whose famous “Drush Or HaChaim” sermon argues for an ancient earth, but not evolution, brings opinions of the renowned scientist Dr. Georges Cuvier. Dr. Cuvier firmly opposed evolution and believed that species appeared and disappeared in the fossil record without significant changes.

A very scholarly book released several years ago that powerfully and brilliantly refutes Darwinism is “Darwin’s Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design” by Dr. Stephen C. Meyer.