In his 1838 essay on Theology and Natural Selection, Darwin insisted that any good scientific explanation had to be capable of making predictions – which is precisely what led him to reject creationism in the first place. Since the “will of God” is not subject to any law, it is unpredictable. For this reason, Darwin regarded theological explanations of biological diversity as scientifically useless.…
How presuppositions for and against the Bible direct the evolution and creation debate through facts, evidence, interpretation, and worldview. First things first – we all have the same data. We are all surrounded by things we can observe. Christians, non-Christians, evolutionists, and creationists all have the same facts. We live in the same universe, see the same stars, and experience the same weather, on…
Evolution fails to explain several past events (retrodiction) that we have evidence of today. Below are seven of these observable phenomena showing there are problems for evolution in retrodictions. 1. How acquired beneficial mutations pass on to the descendants For a mutation to stay in a population it has to be transferred to the offspring. It is easy in single-celled organisms, but not for…
Introduction: This article deals with the Experimental criterion which is one of the early requirements for a hypothesis on the journey towards becoming an acceptable theory. So, let’s see if repeated experiments and tests have proven Evolution. In the introductory article for this series, we claimed that Evolution, in the wider definition of Darwinism—that all living creatures came from a common ancestor—is drawing unjustified…
