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This whole subchapter is Optional Science: It is summarized in the next subchapter.
Although most people are familiar with the broad outlines of Darwinism and Big-Bang cosmogony—and that enough for our purposes—a quick simple review of this trash may be helpful.
According to the Big Bang theory, a massive, highly concentrated burst of energy exploded into existence. From where is a matter of ongoing debate. Eventually, this energy condensed into matter, the matter into atoms, and the atoms into stars. The stars, by nuclear fusion, created heavier elements, and over time and by chance, the earth came into being as gravity pulled clouds of gaseous elements and dust into a planet around a suitable star. The chances of this were infinitesimally small. But the theory’s proponents assume that, however improbable, it must have happened because here we are. It makes about as much sense as expecting a complete and functional jetliner (such as a Boeing Dreamliner) to condense out of the mushroom cloud of plasma and vapor generated by an atmospheric nuclear bomb test. The Bible’s creation account is simply ruled out by fiat.
Darwinian evolution also supposedly happened by time and chance as well. Supposedly random mutations occasionally create “better” organisms more fit to survive than the “previous model.” By this time-plus-chance process, chance arrangements of atoms made molecules, some of these molecules eventually, again by chance, joined together to make primitive life forms that mutated to single-celled organisms, to multicelled organisms, to higher and higher organisms, and then to human beings.
Before going further, let us make something clear. Mutations59 do happen. And, when the environment changes in a way that is detrimental to the organism, those individuals that have mutations suited to the new environment are fitter, do survive, and reproduce their kind with the mutation. This is how populations of bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, populations of bedbugs become resistant to DDT, and so on. It is God’s designed system to preserve species. In higher organisms that use sexual reproduction, their DNA generally contains enough information to produce enough diversity in the offspring to create a preservative effect. This is also a mechanism that God designed so as to preserve species. Put another way, God made organisms and ecologies fault-tolerant.
But these mechanisms that God made to produce fault tolerance do not have the horsepower, so to speak, to make highly advanced organisms out of lower organisms; chance is not some kind of creative force. This is why most mutations in the DNA of organisms are detrimental and very seldom improve the organism. Creating resistance to an antibiotic by a single gene change in fast-multiplying bacteria is one thing; creating human beings from primeval slime is quite another. The same idea applies to gas clouds condensing into habitable planets suitable for advanced life. Therefore, the life we now see on planet Earth can only be a product of God’s design and manufacture.
59In this simplification, mutations may mean either genetic or epigenetic changes.
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