The Three Pillars of Evolution Demolished

This book focuses in on our God's amazing ability to bring things from death to life. He's raised people in Bible stories; he does it all the time in nature; he has our loved ones; and we can be confident that someday he will raise each of us. This book highlights resurrection and is a great book to read during Easter. It can also bring comfort and confidence in our God during times of grief from the loss of loved ones. The major problem with reliance on natural selection for evolution is that while it may help to explain the survival-of-the-fittest, it cannot explain the arrival-of-the-fittest. Natural selection cannot create, it can only eliminate. Several scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals were summarized that support this conclusion. Darwin’s natural selection theory is limited to a conserving effect of the genome and cannot account for what is commonly called macroevolution. The postulated source of variation, mutations, fails because the vast majority of mutations, up to 99 percent, are either slightly deleterious or lethal. As a result, if evolution is actually occurring, it is going backwards, a process called devolution.

The belief in spontaneous generation of life is traced from the early Greeks to today. Until fairly recently this idea was almost universally accepted in the West, at least for so-called lower life-forms. The experiments of Pasteur, Redi, and others were critical in demonstrating that spontaneous generation cannot occur. Nonetheless, Darwinists today assume that some form of spontaneous generation must have occurred in the far distant past, even though they agree that it does not occur today. A review of this history is important in understanding how critical values and belief structures are in influencing what is accepted as “scientific” or true. Even though there exists no empirical evidence that spontaneous generation can occur today, or could have ever occurred, the debate still continues today, albeit in a different form.

Abiogenesis is the theory that, under the proper conditions, life can arise spontaneously from non-living molecules. One of the most widely cited research studies used to support this conclusion is the now-famous Miller-Urey experiments. Textbook surveys reveal that these studies are the major research cited to prove abiogenesis. Although widely heralded for decades in textbooks and the popular press, “proving” that life originated on the early Earth solely by natural conditions, it is now documented that the 1953 Miller-Urey experiments provide compelling evidence for exactly the opposite conclusion. This research has done more to document that abiogenesis on Earth is not possible than to indicate how it could be possible. This chapter reviews some of the many major problems with this and other research that has attempted to demonstrate a feasible abiogenesis method on the early Earth.