Amazing Creation

Dr. Dan Reynolds presents evidence from a close look at the cosmos and its physical laws that the universe has been intelligently designed by an all-powerful God to support life on this earth. The four fundamental forces, quantum mechanics and the chemical properties of the elements, the laws of thermodynamics, the nature of gravity, our planet's position around the sun, composition of our atmosphere, the presence of a large moon, the nature of our sun, and so many other things all point to a creator.

Dr. Dan Reynolds continues on the topic of the origin of humans. Dr. Reynolds corrects the misstatements that our DNA is similar to that of chimpanzee DNA. He also presents the evidence that the population of the entire modern world is descended from a single human male, based on the occurrence of only a single type of Y chromosome, and from 3 females, based on the 3 basic varieties of mitochondrial DNA.

Dr. Dan Reynolds presents the recent evidence that the DNA that does not code for proteins, previously referred to as junk DNA and thus a vestigial remnant of our evolutionary history, is not junk after all. Rather, the ENCODE project has shown that more than 80% of this DNA is transcribed into RNA with regulatory and repair functions and which controls folding and maintenance of chromosomes. To quote genetics professor Dan Graur, “If ENCODE is right, then evolution is wrong.”

Dr. Gerald Van Dyke speaks on symbiotic organisms and on the lichen in particular—an example of a mutualistic relationship between an alga and an encapsulating fungus with no evolutionary explanation of how this came to be.

Mark Stephens reminds us that God made us as a single “race,” i.e., we all are descended from Adam and Eve. We are all, therefore, of the same blood. The physical characteristics we associate with the so-called “races” are merely the result of the segregation and propagation of particular sets of genes from among the diversity that was originally built into the genes of Adam and Eve and passed on from the set of genes carried by Noah and his extended family, not from any evolutionary process.

Everett Coates describes how the so-called fossil record speaks not of a continual, gradual change of one life form into another but rather to the sudden appearance of highly complex organisms of many types. And the range of supposed paleontological dates in which the fossils are located keeps getting wider because these fossils are being found “out of place” in the so-called geological record, causing evolutionists to change their theories about how these organisms evolved.

Dr. Gerald Van Dyke explains how evolutionists like to talk about survival of the fittest, missing links, and fossils as evidence of a long history of life on earth, but they avoid talking about the fundamental problem of how life began because this critical aspect of evolutionary theory has no sound scientific support.

Dr. Jeff Gift describes how the teachings of theistic evolution had caused him to doubt God and the Bible. He then tells us how a dramatic event in his life led him away from the teachings of evolution, moved him towards the more scientifically sustainable, Biblical account of our origins, and lit a fire under his walk with God.

Mel Blinson reviews many of the fossils that have been claimed at one time to be the remains of prehumans, only to be reclassified as apes. Other alleged prehuman fossils are now known to be fully human.

Dr. Jeff Gift summarizes the findings of fossilized dinosaur bones that contain soft, elastic tissue, including intact blood vessels and measurable amounts of carbon-14, compelling evidence that these fossils cannot be tens to hundreds of millions of years old but are at most only several thousand years old.Dr.

Dr. Jeff Gift continues with more fossil evidence that dinosaurs were alive several thousand years ago, and he describes how scientists are searching for an explanation of how soft tissue containing significantly intact DNA could be preserved within fossilized bones for tens of millions of years.

Mark Stephens tells us about a trip he made to the Galapagos Islands with a group of scientists from the Institute for Creation Research. Mr. Stephens comments on the fauna and flora that significantly influenced Charles Darwin to write On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

Dr. Fred Johnson presents the fundamental theological problem that arises from attempts to merge the Biblical account of creation with a belief in evolution—the origin of suffering and death. Evolution is simply incompatible with orthodox theology, and embracing it undermines the very foundation of the gospel of Christ as our suffering savior.

Mel Blinson talks about remarkable and often unique features of his favorite animals, for which evolutionists have no explanation on how they arose.

Dr. Dan Reynolds describes how the information found in the DNA/RNA/protein system of even the simplest single-celled organisms precludes natural explanations but is consistent with intelligent design.

Dr. Gerald Van Dyke continues our discussion of how there is no known naturalistic mechanism by which life on Earth could not have occurred spontaneously. Many evolutionists even admit that life must not have started on earth and must have come to Earth for elsewhere, which only brings us back to the question of how it started somewhere else.

Dr. David Plaisted, a professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tells us of how he came to believe in evolution in high school but later began to consider the creation/evolution question when someone introduced him to a book on scientific evidence for the flood and creation. Dr. Plaisted goes on to talk about major problems with evolutionary theory in the fields of paleontology, biology, and astronomy.

Mel Blinson tells us of how Christians fall into error because they do not know or will not believe the Scriptures as they are plainly written. He tells us of how he, too, had fallen into error by compromising the Scriptures with secular science and how God “cleaned house” in his life after he came to trust God and His Word as recorded for us in the Scriptures.

Professor Emeritus, Plant Biology, Dr. Gerald Van Dyke, discusses how he became convinced that the evolutionary concept of life from molecules to man is not based on science.