From:
The
Evolution
Cruncher
by
Vance
Ferrell, B.A., M.A.
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It
is a remarkable fact that the basis of evolutionary theory
was destroyed by seven scientific research findings,—before
*Charles Darwin
first published the theory.
Carl
Linn (Carolus Linnaeus,
1707-1778) was a scientist who classified immense numbers of
living organisms. An earnest creationist, he clearly saw that there
were no
halfway species. All plant and animal species were definite categories,
separate from one another. Variation was possible within a
species, and there
were many sub-species. But there were no cross-overs from one
species to
another (*R. Milner, Encyclopedia of Evolution, 1990, p. 276).
First
Law of Thermodynamics (1847).
Heinrich von Helmholtz stated the law of
conservation of energy: The sum total of all matter will always
remain
the same. This law refutes several aspects of evolutionary theory. *Isaac
Asimov calls it “the most fundamental generalization about the
universe that
scientists have ever been able to make” (*Isaac Asimov,
“In the Game of Energy
and Thermodynamics You Can’t Even Break Even,” Journal of
Smithsonian
Institute, June 1970, p. 6). Second Law of Thermodynamics (1850).
R.J.E. Clausius stated the law of entropy: All
systems
will tend toward the most mathematically probable state, and eventually
become
totally random and disorganized (*Harold Blum, Time’s Arrow
and Evolution,
1968, p. 201). In other words, everything runs down, wears
out, and goes
to pieces (*R.R. Kindsay, “Physics: to What Extent is it
Deterministic,”
American Scientist 56, 1968, p. 100). This law totally
eliminates the
basic evolutionary theory that simple evolves into complex. *Einstein
said
the two laws were the most enduring laws he knew of (*Jeremy
Rifkin, Entropy:
A New World View, 1980, p. 6).
Guadeloupe
Woman Found (1812).
This is a well authenticated discovery which has been in the British
Museum for
over a century. A fully modern human skeleton was found in the French
Caribbean
island of Guadeloupe inside an immense slab of limestone, dated by
modern
geologists at 28 million years old. (More examples could be cited.) Human
beings, just like those living today (but sometimes larger), have been
found in
very deep levels of strata.
Gregor
Mendel (1822-1884)
was a
creationist who lived and worked near Brunn (now Brno), Czechoslovakia.
He was
a science and math teacher. Unlike the theorists, Mendel was a true
scientist.
He bred garden peas and studied the results of crossing various
varieties.
Beginning his work in 1856, he concluded it within eight years. In
1865, he
reported his research in the Journal of the Brunn Society for the
Study of
Natural Science. The journal was distributed to 120 libraries in
Europe,
England, and America. Yet his research was totally ignored by the
scientific community
until it was rediscovered in 1900 (*R.A. Fisher, “Has
Mendel’s Work Been
Rediscovered?” Annals of Science, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1936). His
experiments clearly
showed that one species could not transmute into another one. A genetic
barrier
existed that could not be bridged. Mendel’s work laid the basis
for modern genetics,
and his discoveries effectively destroyed the basis for species
evolution (*Michael
Pitman, Adam and Evolution, 1984, pp. 63-64).
Louis
Pasteur (1822-1895)
was another
genuine scientist. In the process of studying fermentation, he
performed his
famous 1861 experiment, in which he disproved the theory of
spontaneous
generation. Life cannot arise from non-living materials. This
experiment
was very important; for, up to that time, a majority of scientists
believed in
spontaneous generation. (They thought that if a pile of old clothes
were left
in a corner, it would breed mice! The proof was that, upon later
returning to
the clothes, mice would frequently be found there.) Pasteur
concluded from
his experiment that only God could create living creatures. But modern
evolutionary theory continues to be based on that out-dated theory
disproved by
Pasteur: spontaneous generation (life arises from non-life). Why?
Because it is
the only basis on which evolution could occur. As *Adams notes,
“With
spontaneous generation discredited [by Pasteur], biologists were left
with no
theory of the origin of life at all” (*J. Edison Adams,
Plants: An
Introduction to Modern Biology, 1967, p. 585).
August
Friedrich Leopold Weismann (1834-1914)
was a German biologist who disproved *Lamarck’s
notion of “the inheritance of acquired characteristics.” He
is primarily
remembered as the scientist who cut off the tails of 901 young white
mice in 19
successive generations, yet each new generation was born with a
full-length tail.
The final generation, he reported, had tails as long as those
originally measured
on the first. Weismann also carried out other experiments that
buttressed his
refutation of Lamarckism. His discoveries, along with the fact that
circumcision of Jewish males for 4,000 years had not affected the
foreskin,
doomed the theory (*Jean Rostand, Orion Book of Evolution, 1960, p.
64). Yet
Lamarckism continues today as the disguised basis of evolutionary
biology. For
example, evolutionists still teach that giraffes kept stretching their
necks to
reach higher branches, so their necks became longer! In a later book, *Darwin
abandoned natural selection as unworkable, and returned to Lamarckism
as the
cause of the never-observed change from one species to another (*Randall
Hedtke, The Secret of the Sixth Edition, 1984).
I
can recommend his book Science versus Evolution
as
being amongst the best and most comprehensive book on the subject.
Neville
Salvetti