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Created on: July 12, 2008 Last Updated: September 26, 2008
It would be virtually impossible to explain the existence of anything without some physical evidence, but what makes us think that God left no physical evidence for us to examine in regard to His existence. His creation, the earth, is an amazing complexity which defies the evolutionist at every turn. In regard to humanity, Darwin himself admitted that if the single cell were found to be complex, his whole theory of evolution by natural selection would be a fallacy. We see the abundant organization of the eco-systems in God's creation, yet we naively attribute this to chance. When one discovers design, it follows then that there exists, a designer.
One of the main observations of most scientists both evolutionary and not, is that there is a distinct orderliness to the planet. The ecosystem's delicate balance attests to this.
Those who are the proponents of "chance", when confronted with the incredible instincts of plant and animals, allowing them to contribute and take from the ecosystem while leaving it's balance undisturbed attribute this phenomina to inherited memory. If this theory is true, then did the first spider acquire the knowledge to spin a web, or the first salmon to swim upstream to spawn? Once you take this question back to it's logical conclusion on any species you can see how this would be impossible. There are thousands of stunning examples of unexplained animal behavior especially in regard to symbiosis, but we will not debate them here. The more we look at the world the more we see "programming" not chance.
The mechanism of evolution, if if exists beyond simple evolution within a species, has no methodology to program such a system; it would be like saying that an assembly line was responsible for thinking up the products that it produced. This idea was first suggested by Dr. Walter Martin noted apologetist. Take DNA for example. What has always struck me about DNA, since its discovery, is that it appears as if it mimics a giant computer. Man himself is aready attempting to program it with disasterous results. But man is not equipped...only God is.
A completely mystifying example on cooperation between the plant and animal world also shows how improbable evolution (chance) is and speaks to the existance of a "creator". Dr. Harold Hill, author and former president of Curtis Engine Company in his humorous, yet pointed book "From Goo to You by Way of the Zoo" says this;
"On certain nights of the year, which just happen to be the nights when the yucca
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