forever in blue 'genes'

The creation story of Genesis chapter 1 is foundational in the monotheistic traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (*NB: there's a big variance with Islam's version). All three faiths firmly believe that God created the universe and everything in it. The Biblical account in Gen 1 is poetically recorded and begins with the proclamation: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth"

Unfortunately, belief in a creator God didn’t sit well with atheists, who were overjoyed when Mr. Darwin came up with his theory of evolution. With this theory atheists now had a way to remove God from the origins of life itself as they proclaimed that all life had come about by chance over a very long period of time, all just chance and happenstance.

Well, now there’s a theory if ever there was, some dirt lying about minding its own business for an awfully long time came alive! Would you get a grasp of yourself Mr. Darwin? To be honest, commenting on evolution feels almost like I’m giving it some credibility as it’s beyond me how anyone with an ounce of wit, never mind those with a university education would profess their belief in this theory at all. But here goes, let’s throw my tuppence into the proverbial quagmire.

Let’s start with Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). (Hard stuff)

Every living cell has a nucleus that contains DNA. DNA is the code or instruction that contains the blueprint of life. It gives instructions to the rest of the cell to make proteins, and it passes this same information on to the next generation…Without DNA, living organisms cannot survive. Put simply, DNA is a string of molecules that contain the human genetic code which is contained in a sequence of four molecules. guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine. These are represented by the letters A, T, G, and C, and are the primary symbols used to identify the physical molecules found in DNA. Each letter can be encoded with two bits of binary information - 00, 10, 11, 01, and when converted into bytes the entire code contains 1.5Gigabytes of data (1.5GB). 1.5GB is a lot of information, enough for the entire encyclopedia Britannica, only Mr Darwin would like us to believe DNA wrote itself! If you read the code at a rate of 3 letters per second, it would take you 31 years non-stop to reach the end. But here’s the actual hard part to accept, Mr. Darwin with his theory of evolution wants us all to believe that life in all its complexity came about as the result of some random freak accident.

After observing a few finches in the Galapagos islands with overlapping beaks, he pronounced this as demonstrable evidence of a species evolving. Not bad, you could almost be fooled into thinking, Darwin’s onto something here, until you realise that it’s not evolution, the beak is still a beak, and the finch is still a bird, this is simply “adaptation”. The DNA of the finch contains this variant for an overlapped bill, just like some people have blue eyes, some green, some brown, etc. It's just a variation that in the right conditions is deemed preferable and therefore becomes dominant. A bit like women preferring tall dark handsome men or men preferring blue eye blonds, brown-eyed brunettes, green-eyed,,, enough of that already,,, you get my point. Darwin theorised that life occurred as the result of chance happening over a period of billions of years. Most likely initiated when static electricity or lightning struck a pool of primordial quagmire, bringing to life a single molecule. Then through an immense period of time, this single molecule formed ever more complex molecules, that merged into simple organisms, then swamp creatures that eventually grew legs, crawled out of the swamp, then over another immense period of time evolved lungs so that they could breathe on the land they had crawled onto, climbed up trees that had also somehow evolved in another swamp, climbed up these trees jumping from the top of these, as they couldn’t get any higher, dying in the process until one eventually grew wings and learned to fly. (Yeah right!)Evolution, ach now come on, would you grab a hold of yourself and give yourself a shake Mr. Darwin, that’s pure unadulterated primordial quagmire! Molecules containing DNA didn’t write themselves just the same as books don’t write themselves, or buildings build themselves, their very existence tells us that there has to be a writer, a builder, a creator!

Let’s not forget Chromosomes. (more hard stuff, you’re doing well, hang in there)

Chromosomes are tiny structures inside cells made from DNA and protein. The information inside chromosomes acts like a recipe that tells cells how to function and replicate. Every form of life has its own unique set of instructions, including you. Your chromosomes help describe unique features you will develop like eye colour and height.

Every species of plant and animal has a set number of chromosomes. Fruit flies have 8, spinach has 12, dogs 39, kangaroos 16, monkeys 42, gorillas 48 and we humans have 46 chromosomes. We get our chromosomes from our parents. It is crucial that reproductive cells, such as eggs and sperm, contain the right number of chromosomes and that those chromosomes have the correct structure. If not, the resulting offspring may fail to develop properly. Changes in the number or structure of chromosomes in new cells can and do lead to serious problems such as Down’s syndrome for example. This is why there are no in-between species to be found, even in the fossil records. Creatures like ‘cogs and dats’ (half dog - half cat), and why our great, great, grandparents weren’t monkeys that came down from the trees. There is absolutely no physical evidence anywhere, even in the fossil records of inbetweeners. Simply because it’s not possible for one species to successfully cross bread with another and form an in-betweener species So, in this I’m confident when I say granny wasn’t a monkey.

Entropy. (Really hard stuff, nearly there, just this bit to slog through)

The second law of thermodynamics says, in simple terms, that entropy always increases. Entropy is simply a measure of disorder. Left unchecked disorder increases over time. Energy disperses, and systems dissolve into chaos. This principle explains why you can't unscramble an egg. Everything that exists in the entire universe decays from a high state of order to a lower state of order. If you forget to drink your hot cup of tea and come back to it later, it will be cold, because the heat from the tea will have dissipated, because everything including energy, moves from a higher state to a lower state. Your cold cup of cold tea, no matter how long you leave it will never get hot again unless an external force acts on it and zaps it in the microwave.

However, Mr. Darwin wants us all to believe that this law doesn’t apply to evolution. He professes that evolution works the other way round, I.e., your cup makes itself, water finds the cup, tea leaves, milk, sugar, and boils itself into a perfect cup of Punjana. Ach, Mr. Darwin would you quit!

The saddest thing about the theory of evolution is that it’s being taught to our children in schools and universities as fact. While at the same time the teaching of Christianity is being banned from our schools. I think it’s time for people of faith, to put our hand up and say, well actually Mr. Darwin, and Mr. Atheist, there are a few problems with the theory of evolution that science has confirmed through demonstrable and observable evidence that just so happen to professes that life can’t have evolved but has come about through creation.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. by his Word, God created everything.

When we read the creation narrative of Genesis, we see that our God created everything God tells us using the simplicity of a poem that He created everything, and in this poetic simplicity, creation stands firm, trustworthy, and true, even when faced with the ‘wisdom of man’.

Have a great day, and God bless,

Trev.