Is There Any Justification For Teaching Evolution In School?

Part 4

systems are in a flux of decay, from order to disorder. Even the

evolutionist recognize the universality of these laws. Issac

Asimov, an acclaimed evolutionary author, writes, "As far as we

know, all changes are in the direction of increasing entropy, of

increasing disorder, of increasing randomness, of running down

(76).

Evolution would predict that all things are in a flux of

upward movement, and the laws of Thermodynamics contradict this

prediction. No one would ever predict these laws on the basis of

the evolution model. However, they perfectly fit the predictions

of the creation model!

Possibly, one of the strongest proposed arguments for the

evolution model is the fossil record. Therefore, the predictions

pertaining to the record will be examined next. As to the

fossils themselves, the evolution model would predict that within

the record there would be found numerous transitional

intermediates since all present complex forms of life have been

slowly developing from simpler forms.

The Creation model,

however, would predict that there would be found systematic gaps

within the record, separating all forms into categories. Again,

at this point, the creation model best fits the evidence. Within

the record there has never been observed any transitions with

which to support evolution. David Kitts, a leading

paleontologist, admits,

Despite the bright promise that paleontology provides

a means of `seeing' evolution, it has presented some

nasty difficulties for evolutionists, the most notorious

of which is the presence of `gaps' in the fossil record.

Evolution requires intermediate forms between species

and paleontology does not provide them. The gaps must

therefore be a contingent feature of the record (467).

model, how and when were the great bed of sedimentary rocks

containing the fossils formed? This question brings up a

secondary issue, the issue of uniformitarianism or catastrophism.

Uniformitarianism is the concept that every feature of the

earth's crust was formed slowly over a long time span by

continued and gradual application of the same natural processes

at work today.

Catastrophism is the concept that most of the

sedimentary deposits were formed rapidly in a relatively short

period of time by a great cataclysmic event. Evolution

fundamentally adheres to uniformitarianism, whereas, the creation

model is associated with catastrophism.

The evolution model is associated with uniformitarianism

because evolution obviously demands a immense stretch of time.

Nevertheless, this immensity of time is in no way demanded by the

actual facts of the geologic strata. This conclusion, contrary to

the evolutionary interpretation of the fossil record, is fully

warranted by a major component of the strata, the fossils

themselves!

Note the following circulatory reasoning employed to

support the evolution model. First, the fossils are the means by

which rocks are assigned a geologic age. Second, the assumption

of evolution is the basis by which fossils are dated. And lastly,

it is the fossils that provide the main evidence for evolution

(Morris,*Creationism* 95). The fossils speak of endless ages

because evolution makes them thus speak, yet it is the fossils

themselves which so clearly declare rapid formation. Fossils are