We read these verses, did we,
last week? Anyway, let's look at verse 24
and 25 of Genesis chapter 1. And God said, Let the earth bring
forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, creeping things,
the beast of the earth after his kind, and it was so. God made the beast of the earth
after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that
creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and God saw that it
was very good. Now, in our last study we considered
the fact that God made each original living creature with a specific
and a special DNA makeup. which DNA molecular structure
determines the character, the feature, the heredity of each
species of life or of creature, so that they reproduce only after
their own kind, exactly as the Bible said. Now, we also said
in that study, I believe, that each species, after their own
kind, and that it is necessary and it requires a specific enzyme
to produce one of the great testimonies under creation. At least it is
a powerful, powerful testimony against the dogma of evolution. For rather than one species jumping
ahead to another, each species as we see and have learned, resist
becoming something else, obeying instead God's creative order
to multiply and replenish the earth, and to do so, each one
of them, after his or their own kind. And by the way, just for
what it might be worth, I consider our last study one of the most
important in overthrowing the dogma or the notion of evolution. And that is that living creatures,
rather than having a tendency to evolve ahead or evolve into
something else, have a tendency, rather, to do exactly the opposite,
and that is not to evolve. They steadfastly resist becoming
a different species on their own. And when they are artificially
crossed, which by the way is the only way usually that they
will, they have a tendency, even after that artificial crossing
then, to revert back to their original species. When mutations
occur, that is, changes do occur, they almost always weaken rather
than strengthen the line, and more often than not, they also
fail to survive. Now, there were no scientists
way back then when we had the Scriptures written and this great
record for us. But my point in all of this is
to say that what the Scriptures say, what we read in the Word
of God, what God has inspired to be included in the Word of
the Lord, is indeed holding true. And that is that every living
species is continuing to remain of the same kind. not just a
few hundred years, but from the testimony of the fossil record
itself, we can see that this is so. Now, in this particular
study, we will examine the claims of evolution and look at some
of what they call, quote, their proofs for it. To do that, we
must be sure that we understand the premise of evolution upon
which it stands, or upon which it is based. Now, as we saw earlier,
they begin by assuming the existence of some prior matter and also
assuming the existence of some prior energy that then moved
or acted or worked upon the matter to start the process of evolution. And somehow this, they say, worked
and exploded into the Big Bang Theory, bringing the universe
into being as we see it now. Now as to the matter of the origin
of life, evolution contends, if I misunderstand them not,
that the first forms of life on earth appeared as a microscopic
single-celled organism, which evolved then into a multi-cellular
organism. And yet even Darwin said this,
and I'm quoting, Spontaneous generation is inconceivable,
he said. Still, going on, evolution requires
its disciples to believe that all life as we have known it
and as we have seen it throughout history, evolved from an inorganic
or a non-living form of matter. In spite of some facts, such
as number one, There is a deep, deep chasm between living and
non-living with no way conceivable to pass from one to the other. That a non-living entity could
pass over and become a living entity. Secondly, we remember
that non-living matter, that is things like the rock and mineral
and matter and living growing plants neither show Any tendency
to evolve, nor does anything in the sea show the slightest
tendency or propensity for it to crawl up out of the sea onto
the beach and turn into a higher form of life. Yet the theory
of evolution states that all living creatures had a common
origin. By a slow process of innate force
gradually changing them, they reached then the many forms and
the many species that have come into existence and that exists
today. The highest one, they say, being
man, the human family. Thus beginning with an amoeba,
or a blob of protoplasm, evolutionists theorize that it evolved into
a higher form of life more complicated, more intelligent as it went on
its way up. So that they say, marine life
slowly developed from some blob, and then reptilians, and then
birds, and mammals, and monkeys, and apes, and the last leap was
that of man or the human family. Now, if this were true, if this
were truly the order of things as they have their existence,
then it should be evident of such as a process of evolution,
especially in the fossil finds where millions upon millions
of fossils have been found all over our earth or world. What are fossils? Well, sometimes
the word It's used to describe a cranky old man, that he is
an old fossil, an old dinosaur, an old fossil, something that
is old or that is obsolete, a person considered old-fashioned and
behind the time might be called a fossil in our day. But a fossil
in the scientific sense of the word is that hardened, and preserve
remains of a plant or of an animal or even of a human. And they
will be found in such things as rocks and certain earth strata,
strata of the earth, even in coal, C-O-A-L, that we dig out
of the earth. In fact, the word in Latin means
to dig. Now what is amazing about the
fossils of such things as animals is that they are found often,
frequently, in many places in their full-bodied form. They are found in their full
figures, fossilized, and remain there in that condition for centuries
after century after century, embedded in a rock or in a strata
or a bed of coal, as we might say, not decomposed and therefore
gone to nothing, as happens when something dies today. Now today,
if a fish or a bird, a frog, a cat, a dog, or whatever dies
and is buried, it does not fossilize and harden and is not preserved
in that for centuries. It corrupts and it decomposes
by the bacterial action that sets in upon it so that it actually
decomposes. To fossilize, it must be buried,
and buried very quickly, and hardened the same, and be immune
from any attack by bacteria. Thus, instead of decomposing
by bacterial action, they are hardened, and fossilized, and
preserved so that they may be seen with the eye. Now to be
found by the mad professor who goes out and digs him up in this
place or that. This is how things become fossils
or fossilized. Now in another study or another
study of that series of how and when these things happened and
occurred. We do not have time to look at
it today, but we need to factor in the flood, that great cataclysmic
work of God in the flood. Now suffice it to say, fossils
are very critical to the case of evolution. Because if evolution
is true, the fossil record will reflect that to be true. Over
all these centuries, if there were a process of evolution,
it should be reflected in the fossil record. I read somewhere
that there are over 250,000 different fossils of specimens in our museums and places with literally millions
of fossilized plants and animals, each identified, each cataloged
as to their species or their group. Now surely, if such creatures
evolved as evolution said they did, this ought then to be reflected
in the fossilized record. There will be many cases of fossils
of animals and plants and such like in their transitional form
if evolution were true. Or they would be half one species
and have another species. There should be, in the fossil
record, I got a book by a man named Scott Hughes, Against Evolution
and Far Creation, or HUSS, H-U-S-S-E, and Scott Huss said in that book
that if evolution were true, in the fossil record, there should
be found amphotiles, there should be found fishabins, There should
be fine rep birds and such creatures as that, half one and half of
another. There should be cases of the
fossil record, therefore, able to substantiate the process of
evolution if it has been going on all of the time. In fact,
if evolution were true, it should be well now impossible to identify
and classify certain specific definite species. But this is
not the case. There are clear, distinct species
in the fossil record. Now what is definitely missing? Not even a single fossil in transition. Not one. Not a single fossil
in the transition of evolution. Not a one in some intermediate
stage between one species and another. not one in the process
of becoming another or a higher species. And this is a very fatal
blow, I think, to the theory of evolution. Even Darwin, I
was reading, the brain behind evolution, said in his book of
work, The Origin of the Species, Volume 2, 6th printing, page
49. Quote, as by this theory innumerable
transitional forms must have existed. Why do we not find them
then embedded in the crust of the earth? Why is in all nature
not a confusion, instead of being, as we see them, well-defined
species." There is the dilemma that even Darwin had to face. Now, rather than admit, however,
that it is fatal to their theory, he simply says that the fossil
record is incomplete. that we don't have all of the
fossils that there are available or that we might have. And yet,
thank brothers and sisters, we have millions and not one, by
Darwin's own admission, supports the theory of evolution. Evolution has no explanation. for the formation of fossil,
for they are a distinct species, and no fossils are forming now
before our very eye. Because you see, there are certain
conditions that are necessary to cause fossilization, whether
it be a plant or an animal or whatever. William J. Miller wrote
in his book, Introduction to Historical Geology, pages 12
through page 16. that there are six ways to fossilize,
for fossilization to occur. Six ways in which it might occur,
to have living plants or living animals preserved as having been
entombed in rock, encrusted or coal, or whatever. Number one,
quick freezing. Many animals which are now extinct
have been frozen, found frozen in the top of the world in Siberia
and in Alaska. Some with their hair yet still
in mint condition. I read that some have been found
with food yet in their mouth that they were chewing, and the
food nor the body or the flesh of that animal was spoiled. One creature that you find like
this is what we call the mammoth, that little small midget looking
elephant sort of a thing, hairy looking elephant like creature.
And I've read that they've been found, their flesh still good,
food still in their mouth, because it happened so quickly. Secondly,
fossilization of the firmer parts of the body, like the bones and
the shells, though the soft parts of many creatures have also been
fossilized. But the hard part, the crusty
part, Thirdly, fossilization by carbonization and in such
coal bed where untold plants were uprooted, upheveled and
compressed and fossilized forming the huge strata of coal found
in various parts of our world. Fourthly, the leaving of a mold
or a form or a cast which leaves a cavity of the form of the creature. Now this requires sudden entombment
for it to work and be successful. Number five, the casting of tracks
which harden leaving a clear visible footprint. Some of human
giant. Henry Mars said this is a very
common thing today as he wrote for creation and against evolution,
that there are many even in our country. Some of you may have
been. We have been to the dinosaur
museum in Glen Rose, Texas, I believe. It is outside. And there he took
us and showed us the footprint in the riverbed. But six, petrification
by which trees were suddenly buried and perhaps some universal
or mineral reaction upon them, therefore, therefore petrifying
them and they lay there on and on. We found a lot of that on
our piece of land up in Grime County. But for now, let's sum
up what the fossil record tells us. Number one, that many varieties
of creatures existed in full maturity that many species were
very diverse from tiny insects to the mammal, the dinosaur. There are thousands of species
of insects, of fish, of birds, of mammals and such like. Secondly, that many found in
fossil forms are now extinct. There are none of their species
in now. There are no such creatures or
critters that are with us today to match some of the fossils. Thus we know that many species
are totally extinct in our day. Animal rights activists would
have gone bonkers if they could have seen the result of the flood
and what God did in that day when whole species evidently
or likely became extinct at once and were buried by the great
upheaval of the flood, fossilized by the flood that God sent upon
the earth. And yet there they are in fossil
form a clear and present witness against evolution, but a witness
that these forms once existed as life forms upon the earth. Thirdly, the fossils reveal great
gaps. You hear evolutionists talk about
the gap, this gap and that gap. There are many missing links,
if you will, between the species, not just between the ape and
the man, that there is a missing link, but there are great guffs
between the lower and the higher species as well. And yet each
species is fully developed and was functional and that evolution
was not at work informing any of these creatures or any of
these forms of life. That each degree of life, each
species existed and they existed at the same time and they existed
side by side. And yet with great guffs between
each of the species, separated by a wall great and too high
to leap over or to find out the mystery of our Almighty God. Here are some missing links. Number one, how dead, inert,
inanimate matter was given life. Number two, how a one-cell microorganism
changed into a metazoan invertebrates. Number three, how invertebrates
changed into vertebrates. Number four, how fish turned
into amphibians. Number five, how amphibians then
became reptiles. Number six, how reptiles advanced
to mammals. And number seven, how monkeys
and apes advanced to or turned into human beings. And in each
case, there's not a single fossil find of any of these forms of
transition that evolution claims has existed. Plus the fact no
evolution has occurred during the history of man. No carbonization
of new coal strata, no petrification of trees, no one has ever observed
evolution taking place, just as no one beheld creation. No one saw creation as it came
into being, but the mighty eye of God only. Now, let's consider
another question for evolution, and that is how to account our
subject today, how to account for the amazing instincts and
natural action of various creatures. We look at birds and insects
and ants and bees and beavers, just to name a few, at the amazing
action and instinct of these and other creatures. How did
these instincts develop by a process of evolution. How long did it
take to develop in them, if evolution be true, the innate instincts
that are necessary to their survival? They cannot survive without these
instincts being innate in them. How long did it take evolution
to bring that into being. Now without a question, there
are great observable instincts in every single form of life. These are not learned, they are
present, I'll use the word innately, they are present at birth. Some little creatures can swim
as soon as they come out of the egg and such like, which begins
immediately to operate in them. It's necessary, again, for their
survival and the survival of the species. Now, if evolution
be true, it would follow that they should be very slow in developing
these instincts that are necessary for their survival. How long
did it take a fish, for example, to learn how to swim and to eat
in the ocean? How long did it take for a bird? to learn how to fly, or a mammal
to suck its mama that it might receive the necessary nutrient? How long to equip certain organs
and traits with the instincts necessary for their surviving
and continuing in that instinct? That is, evolution cannot account
for both the mechanism and the instincts to survive in each
one's case, each species. For without question, they go
together. For example, a spider must have
both the ability to spin a web and the instinct to do it in
order that he might catch something, that he have something to eat.
How long did it take to learn the chicken to set upon an egg
in order that it might hatch out one of her offspring? How long did it take the lizard
to change color in order that it might be for his protection
and that he might survive? How long for the caterpillar
to spin, learn how, or get the instinct to spin a cocoon? How long for the water bug to
fasten her eggs on the back of the male water bug, how long
to produce the ability and the instinct to breed, to reproduce
and bring forth offspring. If evolution were true, every
species would die before It was provided the ability and the
instinct to reproduce. You should study, I believe,
the reproductive procedure for the bed bug to breed itself,
or even the mating instinct of a fish or a midwife toad. These are God's little testimonies
for His great work and creation. Just a great marvel is the bee's
ability and the bee's instinct to make honey, and the beaver's
instinct and ability to build a dam, the starfish's ability
an instinct to bring its stomach out and receive its food, and
the fiddler crab to move inland hours before a hurricane strikes
the land. How can a hunting wasp locate
a caterpillar under the ground, then sting it so as to paralyze
it that it might be found and put in his nest and saved there. How do certain creatures change
colors and camouflage themselves? How long of a process was that
for evolution? such as the walking stick insect,
which looks like a stick. How do mother hens know to turn
their eggs almost every day while they're sitting on them in the
hatching process? Scott Hughes said, evolutionists
are hard-pressed. to explain these remarkable abilities
evolve piecemeal through mere chance process apart from any
directing intelligent mind." We must recognize that such instincts
are only useful in their perfect essence. For instance, if a bird
had an instinct to migrate to the tropics but flew instead
up to the North Pole, they would freeze to death. Or if it flew
east and west, it would fly itself to death before it ever migrated
to where it would go. How does that bird, that migratory
bird, have the instinct and the ability to migrate, and that
exactly, at the right time. You know what Philip Morrill
said in his book, Evolution at the Bar? He said, quote, We have
here a case in which not in the life of the individual only,
but that of the entire community, yea species depend on the exercise
of their instincts, unquote. They depend on that for their
survival. Not education, not learn, but
innate instinct. They're performed at the very
first as they are necessary. Let me, if I might, think about
matter. How the mother how the mother
whale knows to turn on her side in order to let the young one
nurse and pumps the milk out so that the young whale can nurse
from its mother. Now, let's consider two other
marvels of instinct. How can evolution account for
these two things? Number one, hibernation. Think a moment about hibernation. We don't see much of it, we're
city folks, but can evolution explain how there is an instinct
in certain animals to hibernate? Why is it in the winter? And
how can they live so long going without food or without something
to eat? Why do the ground squirrel and
the woodchuck spend weeks in a coma-like sleep during their
hibernation? Only to waken again, none the
worse. How can this be explained? Secondly, let's think about migration. We've already mentioned it a
bit. Here is a thing impossible for evolution, the migratory
instinct, for it could not, it could not wait millions and millions
of years to come into existence, for it is necessary from the
beginning. As one said, without baggage
lunch, chart, map, compass, or guide, except instincts, The
migratory birds make unbelievably long trips, successfully, even
though they make the first trip without ever having been there
before." It is not from former experience that they make that
first trip. You know, I was reading some
birds migrate from Canada all the way down to Brazil. The black-pale warbler is one
named in that book. The wheat ear goes from Africa
to Greenland. The Pacific clover from Alaska
to Hawaii. Geese migrate in formation. How long did it take them to
learn that and for that instinct to come into being? over 100
American-based birds, if I may say that, migrate in winter to
Central and South America, including that tiny little hummingbird
that flits around our feeder in summer. Some have been reported
hummingbirds to hitchhike in and on the feathers of larger
birds to become a stowaway. What if he caught one going the
wrong way? These instincts are a testimony
for evolution. Some birds' migratory flights
are as long as seven and ten and twenty two thousand miles,
which is done strictly and absolutely on the instinct, the native innate
instinct that is in them. And evolution could never have
provided or accounted for this. It is a threat to the theory
of evolution. Have you read Proverbs 6, and
I believe it is verse 6 through verse 8? Go to the ant, thou
sluggard, and learn lessons from her. Also Proverbs 30 and 25,
the ants act out of instinct. They prepare their meat in the
summer, the proverbial writer said. You know, I have a little
book called Why We Believe in Creation Not Evolution by a man
named Mildow. It is amazing, all these little
creatures that he talks about in that book. But I learned that
there are several kinds of ants. There are carpenter ants that
can chew a house down. Carpenter ants can take down
a house if you let them. There are kidnapper ants that
steal others' ants' babies. There are slave raiding ants
that capture other ants' babies and make them their slaves. Amazon ants cannot exist without
slaves to feed them. Army ants in the tropics, though
blind, go on raids for meat that they might have to kill and form
the ball. You know, you see an ant, a group
of ant, form in a ball and go across a stream or survive a
flood. You see them all balled up on
top of water when we have our great flood. Some of them cross
streams that way. They just ball up and roll over. Where do they get the instinct
to do that? In ants, there are queens, there
are workers, there are slaves and there are cows, there are
farmers and there are warriors. You know what Darwin said, quote,
many instincts are so wonderful that their development will probably
appear to the reader a difficulty sufficient to overcome my whole
theory, unquote. Amen, Mr. Darwin. too wonderful
for evolution or all of these things. The only alternative
is specific creation for things either evolved or they were created. And evolution is an unworkable
system with no evidence whatsoever. I think God is to be praised
for the things that he has made. And the fossils and the instincts
actually deal evolution a deadly blow, from which they cannot
recover. We say to our God, thank Thee,
O Lord, for Thou hast made all of these things. The psalmist
said, Thou I am fearfully and wonderfully made. The psalmist
said, God has made us all by the sovereignty of His great
power and great grace. Thank God for the great truth
of the scripture.