Exposing the Modern Evolutionists

The Evolution Delusion: A Scientific Study of Creation & Evolution

Author: Dr. Bo Kirkwood – Published by: Truth Books, Athens, AL, 2016

As a Christian, a father, and a grandfather, watching the impact inconclusive and unproven science has on our world and loved ones, I find it very hard to resist “just one more perspective” on the issue of evolution vs. creationism. So when offered an opportunity to review Bo Kirkwood’s book on the topic, I took up the challenge.  And a challenge it was – for reasons you’d not easily guess.

Dr. Kirkwood is a Board Certified Physician and on the faculty of two medical schools. Previous to medical school, he earned a B.Sc. in Biology. He is also the author of Unveiling the Da Vinci Code as well as a co-author, with his two brothers, Ron and John, both doctors, of A Case For Life: Christian Ethics & Medical Science. Bo Kirkwood is also a Christian but that should not prevent anyone from reading his book, as he approaches this topic with extreme fairness to the “other side”.

The book is clearly not for novices in this area. Kirkwood starts it off with a historical view on the origin of species as well as material on homology, DNA and the Genome. He very carefully addresses topics like irreducible complexity; the creation of life; birds, moths, and a missing link; the human fossil record; Cambrian explosion; and entropy. One of my favorite chapters was his treatment of evolution and racism.

At the end of the first section Kirkwood gets very direct identifying what he calls the “elephant in the room”. In a chapter by the same name, the author calls it out, “. . . if evolution is so obviously philosophical and so diametrically opposed to the scientific method how can so many very smart, extremely well-educated people, accept it so easily and in most cases without question? . . .  Many, many scientists today and in the past have rejected evolution on a scientific basis . . . People like [and he lists them] do not accept molecules-to-man evolution and this list could go on and on and on.  So the question remains, why can some see the problems scientifically [sic] with evolutionary theory and others cannot? This seems to me to be the elephant in the room!”  That chapter alone is worth the price of the book.

In the second half of the book, Kirkwood offers some alternative views when he tackles cosmologies; a fine-tuned universe; the age of the earth; and beginnings. His passion though comes out strongest in his last chapter entitled “What Does It All Mean?” He then proceeds to answer that for both the evolutionist and the creationist.

Admittedly, someone with a scientific mind or background would be able to navigate the book’s pages much better than I did, but certainly having a keen interest in the topic as I do, helps one follow the arguments both for and against both sides. Even though we know what side the author lands on, he still encourages us to think for ourselves. His biggest bone of contention is the circular arguments used by evolutionists today and the fact that theory (which is what Darwin himself called his hypothesis) is today passed off as fact.

The book helped me get a better picture of the bigger “evolution vs. creation” world. It isn’t simple. Evolutionists are divided on many counts. Creationists are not all marching to the same tune. So someone who is really searching for answers has to do some homework, and more importantly, be open to both possibilities. Kirkwood isn’t so kind on those who start off with the belief of evolution and then reject all arguments against it; nor is he too accepting of creationists that do not seek to understand what science has indeed truly proven (vs. unproven theories) and try to work that into their beliefs. And it’s this open-minded perspective that makes Dr. Kirkwood’s book well worth reading for the Christian, the atheist, the scientist, and the searcher. This is a book I’d want my grandchildren to read before they embark on their post-secondary school studies.

In the process, I gained many gems of knowledge that I found not only fascinating, but helping me to both better argue for my own beliefs as well as understand the nature of the debate. Here are but a few:

·      When experimentation cannot disprove the hypothesis then that theory becomes much more relevant.

·      Both evolution and creationism require a degree of faith.

·      What must be considered, however, is that evolutionary studies already presuppose evolution.

·      Darwin was keenly aware of the biggest obstacle with his theory and that was the lack in the fossil record of transitional forms which should have been innumerable, thinking they would come later, but never did.

The book clearly gives anyone who is a creationist a sense of comfort that not all scientists (including some non-theists) are letting evolutionists get away with bad science or worse still, no science at all. And for that, Bo Kirkwood has done a great honor to the topic and the debate.

By Ken B. Godevenos, President, Accord Resolutions Services Inc., Toronto, Ontario, May 13, 2016. www.accordconsulting.com

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Why God Made The Sabbath Holy -- Exodus 20:11

“For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.”
 

In the verses preceding this one, God tells us to remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy, and that it is His Sabbath.  Here in verse 11 God arranges to record for us why He made the day holy and blessed it.

Our text says God made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything in the heavens, the earth and the sea in six days.  Now, even though this was not difficult for God, our text still implies that it was ‘work’ because it says that God rested on the seventh day that followed.   He stopped creating.

(As an aside, we pause for a moment to reflect on the fact that the Bible says in this verse that God made everything that we know to exist – everything.  Not only did He make the heavens above, the earth, and the seas below – but everything in them.  That means all the planets we can see with a telescope or without; it means all creatures that we can see with a microscope or without – everything means everything.  We either believe that or we do not.  But if we believe the Scriptures to be the true and God-inspired Word of the Almighty, then we have to believe it.  No room for flexibility on this one.)

So on the seventh day God rests, the text says.  We may well ask, “Did He rest because He was tired or does ‘rest’ have a meaning other than to catch one’s breath or to allow one’s physical body or strength to recover from some strenuous activity or illness?”  Let me suggest that God does not get tired – even after creating our universe.  So let us look at the meanings of the Hebrew word translated by us as ‘rest’.

The first and primary interpretation of the Hebrew word ‘nuwach’ means to settle down and remain; or to repose and be quiet.  No recovery from anything is implied.  The secondary interpretation means to make quiet, cause to alight, set down, lay, deposit, remain, abandon.  It is only when we get to the third and last meaning of the word that we get close to something that relates to recovery – to obtain rest, to be granted rest.  And I maintain God did not need that kind of help.  He simply stopped creating.  I cannot even bring myself to say that He stopped working because I know from other Scripture that my God is always at work; He never sleeps.

So what then are we left with?  Why did God ‘rest’ on the seventh day and why did He bless that day and made it holy?  I believe it was in celebration of what was accomplished for mankind during the week and in recognition of His very being -- the Who it was that accomplished it.  And that is what I believe our reasons should be for keeping the Sabbath and making it holy.  Each seventh day we are to celebrate what God has done for mankind, and to reflect on why He did it and Who He really is.  If we want to take it one step further, we can also celebrate the opportunities God has given us in the previous six days to serve Him through our own labor and creativity.  God wants us to stop every seven days and specifically focus on His creativity, His work in creation of the universe, His provision for our salvation through His Son, and in the opportunity He gives us for service to others.

That is why He blessed the Sabbath; that is why it is Holy; and that is why we are to remember it and keep it as such.  It is not because “if God needed to rest, so do we” – at least that can no longer be our primary rationale for turning into couch potatoes on our Sabbath.

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Hawking Has Gone Mad in My Opinion. . .

In his new book, Stephen Hawking (retired) along with co-author Mlodinow try to eliminate God by basically saying, 'gravity did it all; there was no need for a creator; everything did come from nothing'. Here's the problem with that:

First, from Sir Isaac Newton: "Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion."

Second: "The folly of Hawkings' claim is pretty obvious," E. Calvin Beisner, national spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation in suburban Washington, D.C. "The law of gravity is, of course, not nothing, and consequently the universe's spontaneous self-creation wouldn't be a creation from nothing anyway."

All this is detailed in the WND article at the link below.

Stephen Hawking takes on God

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