Perhaps one of the worst problems for evolutionists in their thinking is how horribly it makes sense historically. What is the history of the world?
When I first began my research, the idea of an Earth that is less than 10,000 years old seemed unbelievable to me. Again, not because of any amount of science or evidence I had encountered, but simply I had been told “millions and billions of years” repeatedly throughout my public education. If a lie is told often enough it eventually becomes believable; it’s called propaganda. Evolutionists don’t have proof that the Earth is billions of years old, but a huge number of years is required for their religion to have validity. So, with beliefs and flawed dating systems at their sides, they tell everyone to believe what they do. But you can’t fool all the people all of the time.
Creationists believe that the Earth is roughly 6,000 to 10,000 years old, and that we all descended from the first two people, Adam and Eve. The funny thing about this is, scientists have been spending lots of time researching DNA for proof of evolution, but guess what they discovered! They discovered that mitochondrial DNA suggests that all living humans did indeed descend from a single human female. Evolutionists and Creationists actually agree on this one. Darwin wasn’t aware of this during the founding of his religion, which is probably why he though he was part of a superior race of humans. However there were not just a bunch of random monkeys around the world that all evolved together into people. Evolutionists call this female “mitochondrial Eve,” and Creationists just call her Eve. Evolutionists were obviously freaked out by this. They can’t have the Bible gaining factual credibility now, can they? People might believe in God! So they put the date of this female’s lifetime to be hundreds of thousands of years ago, based on their belief in evolution. Creationists, on the other hand, put the age of this female at 6,000 to 10,000 years ago, based not only on the detailed genealogy account in the Bible, but also on the actual rate of change in mitochondrial DNA. Whoah, is scientific fact actually siding with the Bible?
Let’s ignore common sense for a minute, and actually entertain the evolutionist belief that humans have been around anywhere from 200,000 to a million years. That means that modern humans, like us, would’ve been walking the Earth for (at least) hundreds of thousands of years leading up to today. Evolution is a slow and gradual process, right? Now to comprehend this, think about how much technology has changed over just the past 1,000 years, or even the past 200 years. Technology and innovation is moving ahead at a torrid pace. Think about how much the population has exploded over the past 1,000 years. In just the past 200 years, the population has increased about six fold, from 1 billion to 6.5 billion. Think about how civilization has changed over the past 1,000 years. Almost everything has dramatically changed over the past 1,000 years relating to population, technology, and civilization! Now imagine 200,000 years, 200 times longer than the time period between 1000 A.D. and today. Imagine modern humans, as smart as we are today, roaming the Earth for hundreds of thousands of years, with no technological advancements, no agricultural advancements, almost non-existent population expansion, and absolutely no signs of civilization until just a few thousand years ago. Do you really think that is possible?
If you paid attention in history class, you’ll remember that the first civilization came together in southeastern Mesopotamia. This first civilization formed around 3500 B.C., and this is the time period in which the first pictographic writing systems were developed, first system of laws were formed, and the first document describing the wheel was created. Isn’t it an astonishing coincidence that the Bible corresponds so accurately with actual, recorded history? In the evolutionist sense, you’d have to pretend that it took modern, intelligent humans 200,000+ years to learn how to form a society, write, and invent the wheel. How could modern humans, smart like us, roam the Earth for thousands of centuries years before they started leaving any evidence of their existence? Maybe the Bible is more factual than people seem to give it credit for.
What about Dinosaurs?
This question is where shock started to set in for me, as I have always found dinosaurs fascinating. I used to have dinosaur books, dinosaur toys, and have many interesting dinosaur facts memorized for no particular reason. So when I started researching this aspect of history, it was quite a shocker. Many people reading this will find it hard to believe because they’ve been told the opposite their whole lives, but if you think logically, factually, and objectively without a preconceived notion that evolutionists are correct, you may be surprised.
In the first generations of people, according to the Bible, the average life span of a person was several hundred to a thousand years. Why would Moses have written that? Could that actually be true? If people were living so long, there must have been much better living conditions. And if people were living that long, wouldn’t the living conditions be beneficial to everything else as well? Guess what happens to a lizard that lives 10 times longer than a lizard does today...It gets many times larger, because lizards and reptiles grow their entire lifetimes. But of course the Bible doesn’t mention the word dinosaur anywhere, as that word wasn’t invented until recently. There are many mentions of dinosaurs in the Bible, but they don’t use that word:
Look now at the Behemoth, which I made along with you; he eats grass like an ox. See now, his strength is in his hips, and his power is in his stomach muscles. He moves his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit. His bones are like beams of bronze. His ribs like bars of iron. He is first in the ways of God; only He who made him can bring near His sword. (Job 40:15-19)
Whatever it was, it has a tail like a cedar tree, you can’t bring it down with a sword, and it’s enormous; the phrase “first in the ways of God” during that time period means it was one of the largest things on Earth. God made dinosaurs along with people and everything else, all within the first week. There are actually many mentions of creatures in the Bible that fit the description of creatures we would now call dinosaurs, and all the incidents of those creatures refer to them while they were living. Coincidentally we have found dinosaur remnants that include soft tissue, and even Tyrannosaurus Rex red blood cells. Also, consider that virtually every ancient civilization has art, stories, written accounts, and sculptures depicting various interactions with very large lizards, sometimes called “dragons.”
I am sure some people reading this would call me crazy to suggest there is truth to stories about dragons, but it’s not like an animal producing fire hasn’t been discovered before. (See bombardier beetle)
Now the fact that the Bible says people lived so long is indicative of a different environment. It doesn’t elaborate much as to why, however, so we have to use what it tells us to figure it out. First of all, you can imagine that the original humans would have the least amount of flaws. Technically speaking, all humans today are a copy off a copy off a copy, many times over. That could be one legitimate reason. Another thing to think about is the atmosphere. The first page of the Bible, Genesis 1:7, for some odd reason says God made 2 separate layers of water, one above the sky (?) and one under the sky (oceans). I find it interesting that it doesn’t say “God made the ocean, the sky, and the occasional cloud,” it actually says that there was a layer of water above the sky (referred to as “firmament” or “vault,” depending on the translation). Does it mean there was a dense layer of H2O around the Earth in either water vapor, liquid, or ice form? If it does, it certainly would explain a few things. For one, the whole Earth would probably be a more uniform temperature, almost like a giant tropical zone. It would also mean that people and animals were more protected from UV and X-Ray from the sun, which would of course contribute to longevity. There would be more air pressure, which combined with the likelihood of more atmospheric oxygen (if preserved air bubbles in amber are any indication) the environment would be ideal for fast healing. It also would explain how rainbows only formed after the flood, as rainbows need direct sunlight. When the Earth was first created, maybe there was less direct sunlight, and the flood brought this layer of H2O down to Earth, and as a consequence human life-spans got shorter in the generations following the flood. Only a theory, but interesting nonetheless.
Evolutionists make a big deal about the discovery of what they dub “neanderthals” as being primitive humans, on their way from ape to man. The funny thing is, the more these neanderthals are studied, the more similar they are in traits to modern humans. I wonder what a human would look like if he lived for almost 1,000 years, like the Bible mentions? I bet he’d have slightly different facial features than we do today, since certain parts of a person grow continually their whole lifetime. Ironically, despite the primitive tag evolutionists give neanderthals, they actually had a bigger average brain size than we do today, and evidence points to them having longer life spans. Go figure.
see also: Ancient Man
So far, using information in the Bible, we are getting a clearer picture of history that is much more plausible than the evolutionists’ “rocks accidentally morph into people” theory, as long as you don’t need to take God out of the equation.
“So, what about the flood? It’s impossible to fit all the different animals on a single boat!”
We have already talked about variation of existing traits, and the fact that 2 dogs can produce varieties of dogs over the course of thousands of years. Knowing this, it suddenly becomes much easier to figure out how Noah dealt with all the species of animals. He didn’t have to take a German Shepherd, a Boxer, a Beagle, a Collie, a wolf, and all the other types of dogs onto the Ark; all he needed was a couple dogs. Evolutionists and Creationists agree that all dogs today have a common ancestor, the difference is Creationists think the common ancestor was a dog. Evolutionists think the common ancestor of all dogs was an inanimate rock, devoid of any genetic information, which they coincidentally believe is the common ancestor of people, orange trees, dragonflies and elephants, as well as everything else that is alive.
The Bible specifically mentions the word “kind” many times, possibly to reiterate the fact that Noah didn’t take every single variety of animal; he just had to take each “kind.” Take a few dogs, a few cats, few kinds of lizards, and suddenly the historical account of the Ark is much, much more feasible. Of course some animals he took 7 of, possibly to increase variety of that animal. And he didn’t need any type of fish of course, no marine mammals, no marine reptiles. And of course no insects, because if there’s anything that will survive a catastrophe, it’s insects! There are currently over a million trillion (1 million times 1 trillion, or a 1 with 18 zeros) insects on Earth, and since they each lay hundreds of eggs a piece, often purposely in water, I’d say we don’t have to worry about them going extinct.
So if there was a flood, wouldn’t we find evidence of it? Of course we would.
There are sea shells embedded into the rock at the top of Mount Everest, the tallest point on Earth. Almost all fossils that have been discovered were formed by some catastrophic event that covered the animal quickly with sedimentary layers, exactly what a global flood would do. There are trees found in cliff sides in the vertical position, extending through layers of “strata.” That is precisely what a global flood would do; move huge amounts of sediment and cover up trees in their standing position, and since dirt settles in layers when mixed with water, it makes perfect sense.
see also: Problems with a Global Flood?
Getting Theoretical
Evolutionists often like to defend their religion by questioning aspects of other religions’ historical accounts. They say “well the Bible says this happened, and that is impossible. Therefore, you’re religion isn’t credible and evolution is.” Granted, that doesn’t validate their religion at all, but it is used nonetheless.
If you think about the use of this tactic, where they claim that something Biblical is impossible, they are essentially saying “I don’t know how God could do that, so it is impossible.” But they have no proof that it didn’t happen, and it is important to point out that humans do not know everything about God. Humans probably understand less than 1 one-billionth of the information available in the universe and the laws governing it, especially when you acknowledge God’s existence. For instance, scientists do not understand gravity, or why it exists, despite dealing with it on a daily basis. They realize that apparently mass is attracted to mass, but they don’t know why or how it is possible. And yet, they believe in it. Similarly, just because a human doesn’t understand how God could have done something, it doesn’t mean it’s impossible. It is ridiculous to think that humans can comprehend God’s capabilities and confine them to the laws we know of the universe.
One question that evolutionists always ask is “how can stars be billions of light years away if we can see them, and the universe is less than 10,000 years old? It would take light billions of years to reach us.” You’d think they’d have a point. How can you respond to this?
One entirely valid answer would be to point out that first of all, humans cannot expect to know or understand God’s capabilities. He is far beyond us, knowing everything about the universe while we know a minute fraction. Second, evolutionists don’t even know how evolution works, and yet they still believe in that!
Another more theoretical, scientist-at-heart answer would be acceptable as well. Granted it is a theory, but makes more sense than all the crazy theories evolutionists come up with.
It is a proven fact that time is not a universal constant, although human scientists barely understand it. What we do know to be fact, however, is that two objects in two locations can actually be experiencing different rates of time. Knowing that time actually exists, and affects different locations and objects within those locations, it can be theorized within the facts we know about time that the Earth time and the time frame of stars on the “edge” of the universe could have very well been running at different “speeds.” If the time of the stars in the universe, and the light particles emitted by them, were running on a much faster “clock” than the Earth during the week it was being created, it would allow starlight to reach Earth within the first week of its existence. If you believe in God, you know that he can control everything, and knowing that time is something means that God could have controlled it, and thus starlight could reach Earth despite its young age.
Of course that is a theory, and maybe God did something even more spectacular. After all, he did create the Universe.
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