Questions, Questions . . .

When did God create the world?

How old is the solar system?

How old is the universe?

Is there physical evidence for the Biblical age of creation?

MANY PEOPLE believe that evolution explains the origin of the universe. If we examine evolution closely, however, we find that it is a philosophy -- a faith -- because it makes claims that actually have no scientific backing. Evolution is a system of belief rather than a system of scientific data (see Note 1).

For example, evolutionary philosophy claims that living things vary without limit. On the other hand, if creation is true, then we would expect that there would be lines of demarcation between different groups of organisms. We might expect that regardless of the range of variation in a group, there would always be some limit, so the group would be distinct from other groups.

Another claim that evolution makes is that life can come from dead matter. Yet if creation is true, we would expect that life cannot naturally come from dead substances. Life would require some kind of creative act to exist. Evolution also claims that living things spontaneously evolve -- they naturally experience upward change -- with time. But again, if creation were true, we might expect that any change would be away from the perfection of creation. Any change would be downward toward imperfection and chaos, not upward toward more complexity.

A fourth claim of evolution is that transitional forms exist, that there ought to be "links" representing the evolution of one group of organisms into another. If creation were true, we would expect that the alleged transitional forms never existed. The "links" are all missing links!

At this point we can see that the world as we see it is actually the world that creation leads us to expect. In the world as we see it, variation in living things really is limited, life cannot be made from dead material, there is not upward change but change downward toward decay and imperfection, and there are no true transitional forms. We believe creation by faith, but we see that it is a reasonable faith, because creation generates expectations that agree with the world as we see it. Evolution leads to expectations that are different from the world around us. Evolution is believed despite the evidence. It is therefore a blind faith.

How is it, then, that people continue to believe in evolution? How can evolutionary philosophy continue to maintain its plausibility? Evolutionary philosophy maintains its plausibility mainly by claiming that there has been so much time for evolution to occur that anything, no matter how improbable it might seem, has been possible because of the eons of time available for the slow process of evolution. In evolutionary philosophy time replaces God: "With time all things are possible."