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Evangelism: Section 7, Chapter 5 Absolutely Reliable Page 12, Back to Page 11, Back to Content Page Those who treated the segregated patient were also given instruction to change their clothes and wash in running water and then expose both themselves and their clothes to to the sun’s light. It is only because of our modern technology which has made us aware of germs and infection that we have come to understand how right Moses’ instruction to the Israelites was to avoid infectious disease. How could Moses, who had only been trained in the way of the Egyptians, come to have this knowledge and understanding? Only through a divine revelation of God. The Bible truly is the Word of God. In the Middle Ages, man throughout Europe was plagued with many diseases. The worst of these was the Bubonic plague known as the Black Death. This disease destroyed entire towns and villages. The medical advice given to try and stop the plague was to stop eating pepper or garlic.288/148 Others thought the position of the planets and stars was causing the disease. All the doctors could do was comfort their patients while they themselves contracted the disease. How was this dreaded disease finally brought to a halt? Some Church leaders in Vienna got together and begin to search the Scriptures for an answer.288/148-149 They decided to follow Moses’ strict laws of sanitation, handling of the dead, cleaning with running water and quarantine practices. Those who cared for the sick outside the city were not allowed back into the city. They were to stay with the sick until it was over or they themselves were overcome by the plague. Those who died in the city were instantly removed and buried outside the city limits. Only as a result of their following God’s commands through Moses recorded 3,400 years earlier were they able to bring the plague to a stop. Concerning human waste God commanded the Israelites to do the following: "You shall also have a place outside the camp and go out there, and you shall have a spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn to cover up your excrement." (Deuteronomy 23:12-13) This is basic to us but that is because we take this for granted, but our understanding of this kind of sanitation is because of our knowledge of disease and germs which knowledge no civilization had until the past century. Moses did not know about germs or disease, but God did. The fact that Moses would give this kind of instruction to the Israelites was just as Moses said: a divine revelation from God. Evolutionists claim that our known solar system is 4.5 billion years old. Their explanation for the complexity of life is time plus chance, millions of accidents of nature taking place over billions of years. If one considers the science of Mathematical Probability, 4.5 billion years is not enough time even to produce the simplest one celled living organism. Mathematical Probability deals with the possibility of order coming out of random processes. To understand the kind of numbers this deals with, first understand that in the known universe there are only 1080 electrons. That is 1 with 80 zeros after it. The probability of getting hit by lighting, for example, is 1 in 600,000. That is 1 chance in 6 x 105. The possibility of winning a typical lottery is 1 chance in 5.2 x 106. As you add more and more factors the numbers get higher and higher. For example, the chance development of a mechanism consisting of 200 integrated parts is 1 chance in 10375. NASA tells us that the simplest protein molecule that we can call living is composed of 400 linked amino acids. Each amino acid is made up of a specific arrangement of four or five chemical elements, and each chemical element is itself a unique combination of protons, neutrons, and electrons.196/277 The chance formation of the simplest replicating protein is 1 in 10450 The probability of forming the proteins and DNA for the smallest self-replicating living organism such as a single cell is 1 in 10167,626. What does all this mean? Evolutionists say the universe is 30 billion years old. This comes to 1018 seconds. This figure is 25 times smaller than the time needed for the chance development of the simplest protein if each step of its evolution were to take place once every second. It is 9,312 times too short for the chance formation of DNA. There is not enough energy in the universe for either of these two chance processes to take place in time before the known energy runs out. Chance evolution is an absolute impossibility. Scott M. Huse writes, "The world in which we live is truly an amazing and fascinating place. It houses a cheetah cat which can run 70 mph; insects which sleep for 17 years; Weddell seals that can remain under water for 45 minutes, diving to depths of 1500 feet; eight armed, ink-shooting octopuses that can eat their own arms and grow new ones; archerfish that can shoot water 15 feet into the air and hit a bug; peregrine hawks that can swoop down on their pray at 150 mph; and so on."191/70 The Mathematical Probability of these few examples happening by chance are many times greater than the formation of the simplest DNA molecule. To ignore the impossibility of these things happening by chance is to deliberately defraud oneself and one’s fellow man. It is to be absolutely and completely unscientific as well. The human eye is so complex and sophisticated that scientists are still unable to fully understand how it functions. Charles Darwin himself acknowledged the impossibility of evolution to bring about the eye through natural selection. He wrote, "To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and Chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree... The belief that an organ as perfect as the eye could have formed by natural selection is more than enough to stagger anyone."199/468 Wysong puts the probability for the chance formation of an eye at 1 in 10266.146/455 If each step of the evolutionary natural selection process of the eye took place once every second it would take 270 billions years to develop. This is fourteen times longer then what the evolutionist claim to be the age of the universe. This Figure for the chance probability of two eyes doubles. Sturmius wrote, "Examination of the eye is a cure for atheism."198/163 THE
FOSSILS *Evolutionists Geological Chart Evolutionary Geological Illustration Evolutionists developed a geological chart which they use to illustrate the evolution of life up to man dating back 600 million years. This geologic column was founded and built on the assumption that organic evolution was a fact, not through scientific investigation and observation of the fossil layers themselves. Nowhere in the world does the geologic column exist in the fossil record. It exists only in the minds of evolutionary geologists. It is not an actual fact in tangible scientific observable reality anywhere. The only evidence for evolutionary fact is the assumption of evolution. It is all based on an assumption and the proofs given totally contradict the observable tangible evidence of the fossil layers themselves.178/267 Professor N. Heribert Nilsson of London University, Sweden stated: "It is not even possible to make a caricature of evolution out of paleobiological facts. The fossil material is now so complete that the lack of transitional series cannot be explained by the scarcity of the material. The deficiencies are real, they will never be filled."190/220 What is created and filled in exists only in the imaginations of the Scientists. A well known Evolutionary Paleontologist, Dr. Colin Patterson of London who has thoroughly studied the fossil record, knowing that no transitions between the species exist in the fossil record chose to be honest enough in his textbook to not create diagrams illustrating transitions that did not exist. When asked why he did not his reply was the following: "I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. You suggest that an artist should be used to visualize such transformations, but where would he get the information from? I could not, honestly, provide it, and if I were to leave it to artistic license, would that not mislead the reader?"149/89 Dr. Carl E. Baugh and Dr. Clifford A. Wilson document through their own archaeological work in their book, Dinosaur, Scientific Evidence that Man and Dinosaur Walked Together, that human and dinosaur prints exist together in the fossil record.374 Also found are cave paintings of both man and dinosaurs together. This contradicts the teaching of evolutionist which teach that the dinosaurs died out millions of years before man came on the seen. A discovery of great significance was made by William Meister on June 1, 1968 in Utah. He found the fossils of several trilobites in the fossilized, sandaled footprint of a man. According to the evolutionary geological table, trilobites became extinct 230 million years before man’s existence. Evidently not.156/26 The fossil record does not support the teachings or assumptions of Evolution. Fossilization presents another serious problem among Evolutionists. No where in the world today can the process of gradual fossilization be observed. What happens when a fish dies and falls to the ocean floor? It does not turn into a fossil. It is eaten by scavengers. In contrast, in the past a huge amount of fossilization took place all at once everywhere. This is evidence of some kind of major world wide cataclysmic, hydraulic event. Fossil layers are evidence of sudden mass extermination of life.191/46 Fossils of animals found have their heads arched back with their mouths open in a state of terror. There are caves, fissures and mass burial sites throughout the world that are packed with fossils. The animals found come from widely separated and differing climatic zones, thrown together in disorderly masses. Everything points to instant catastrophe, not gradual fossilization.192/159 Next Page
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