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Stephen M. Zumbo wrote:
I used to believe in evolution, basically because in grade school and
high
school and college that's all I was taught. Because that's what is
displayed in museums as though it is a proven fact.

It would appear you were taught poorly. To learn what it really is:

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

Thanks for the link. I'll take a look at more of it in future, but I looked
at their page on radiometric dating already, and I saw no answer to the
basic unproven assumption that the rate of decay has been constant or
started at a known amount and was never altered. Without knowing these
starting points or changes, dating of rocks or fossils in the rocks is
impossible. Basically, the present is NOT the key to the past. This is
also implied in the Genesis model, since God rested from and finished
creation after six days. The processes in action today are fundamentally
different.

Also, a worldwide flood as presented in Scripture would have been caused by
processes not ocurring today, and probably caused changes that are almost
unimaginable today, but that would leave evidence: worldwide sedimentary
layers with layers bent while still fluid, rapid mountain building, fossils
laid down quickly, some flash frozen with food stll in mouths and stomachs,
fossils crossing "evolutionary" layers, canyons much bigger than the rivers
we see in them today, and more. Think about the canyons formed at mount St.
Helens due to mud flows and water that are hundreds of feet high. They were
formed in hours or days, some through solid rock. Imagine what a worldwide
Flood that took over a year to recede could do.

Evolution is visible around us daily; it's real.

Where is evolution visible daily? I see no examples of animals gradually
changing in complexity, from one distinct type into another. In fact, what
is seen is genetic variability within types (breeds of dogs, cats, horses),
with types (algae, trees, birds, dogs, people, etc.) always remaining
distinct. Which is exactly what you would expect from the Genesis model.
Mutation, which classic evolution requires, in present experience has always
been negative and usually fatal i.e fruit flies have been mutated through
many generation, but have never bred anything but fruit flies. This would
tend to keep types from changing, not the reverse.

If evolution were actually happening, there should be many transitional
forms between species, both in the fossil record and "visible around us."
Evolutionists have no answer for this, except punctuated equilibrium,i.e.
suddenly a new species appeared. Why not accept that they were suddenly
created by God then? That actually makes more sense, given an omniscient
and omnipotent God, than blind chance and vast time scales.



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