Evolution

Definition

The teaching that life spontaneously sprang from inanimate matter and that the higher life forms came about by gradual (or sudden) changes in lower organism; that this accounts for not only the varieties, but also for the different “kinds”. No Creator exists, ac­cording to this theory. Some evolutionists believe God created some primitive forms, but evolution, as above described, brought about changes that led to the present-day higher forms; this denies special creation of the various “kinds”.

“Kind”: A family or group of living creatures or things that are interfertile among themselves, but not fertile with others outside their family. (That is, whose sex cells will unite to form, or begin to form, an offspring; but with those of another “kind” or family are absolutely incompatible and unable to unite.)

An Evolutionist’s Description of the Theory

“The theory of evolution asserts that (1) the beings now living have descended from different beings which have lived in the past; (2) the discontinuous varia­tion observed at our time level —the gaps now existing between clusters of forms—have arisen gradually, so that if we could assemble all the individuals which have ever inhabited the earth, a fairly continuous array of forms would emerge; (3) all these changes have arisen from causes which now continue to be in operation and which therefore can be studied experimentally.” —Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ge­netics and the Origin of Species, p.7,8

Denies Great Central Principle of Bible—the Existence of Almighty God

Psalm 14:1 “The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.”

Psalm 10:4 “The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, says, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, there is no God.”

Romans 1:19-21 “What may be known about God is manifest among them, for God made it manifest to them. For His in­visible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are understood by the things made, even His eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable; because, al­though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God nor did they thank Him, but they became empty-headed in their reasonings and their unintelligent heart be­came darkened.”

Psalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firma­ment shows His handiwork.”

Psalm 8:3, 4 “When I consider thy heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained; what is man, that You are mindful of him? And the son of man, that You visit him?”

Life—in Jehovah God—Existed Before Inanimate Matter

1 Timothy 1:17 “Now to the King of eternity, incorruptible, invisi­ble, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.”

Psalm 90:2 “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.”

Jeremiah 10:10 “But Jehovah is the true God; He is the living God, and an everlasting King: at His wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide His indignation.”

God’s First Creative Work Pos­sessed Life—No Experimental Model, but Superior to Other Creatures

Revelation 3:14 “These are the things the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation by God.”

Proverbs 8:22, 23 “Jehovah pos­sessed me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was.”

Inanimate Matter and Living Things All the Result of Je­hovah’s Creative Power Through His Only- begotten Son

Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

Hebrews 11:3 “By faith we under­stand that the systems of things were put in order by God’s Word, so that what is beheld came to be out of things that do not appear.”

Revelation 4:11 “You are worthy, Je­hovah, our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because You created all things, and because of Your will they existed and were created.”

John 1:1-3, 10 “Originally the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god. This one was originally with God. All things came into exist­ence through Him, and apart from Him not even one thing came into existence. He was in the world, and the world came into existence through Him, but the world did not take note of Him.”

Colossians 1:16 “By means of Him all other things were created in the heavens and upon the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, no matter whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All other things have been created through Him and for Him.”

Isaiah 40:26 “Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, that brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name; by the greatness of His might, and for that He is strong in power, not one is lack­ing.”

Isaiah 42:5 “Thus says God Je­hovah, He that created the heav­ens, and stretched them forth; He that spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it; He that gives breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein.”

Isaiah 45:12, 18 “I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even My hands, have stretched out the heavens; and all their host have I commanded. For thus says Jehovah that created the heavens, the God that formed the earth and made it, that estab­lished it and created it not a waste, that formed it to be in­habited: I am Jehovah; and there is none else.”

Acts 17:25, 26, 28, 29 “He Him­self gives to all persons life and breath and all things. He made out of one man every nation of men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth,… For by Him we have life and move and exist, even as certain ones of the poets among you have said, ‘For we are also His progeny.’… we are the progeny of God.”

Mark 13:19  “The creation which God created.”

Revelation 10:6 “By the One who lives for ever and ever, who created the heaven and the things in it and the earth and the things in it and the sea and the things in it, he swore.”

No Evolution from One Created Kind to Another

Genesis 1:11, 12, 21, 24, 25 “God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bear­ing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good. And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moves, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. .,. And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind,… and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground after its kind.”

James 3:12 “My brothers, a fig tree cannot produce olives or a vine figs, can it? Neither can salt water produce sweet water.”

Matthew 7:16 “Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they?”

1 Corinthians 15:39 “Not all flesh is the same flesh, but there is one of mankind, and there is another flesh of cattle, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish.”

Leviticus 11:13-22, 29 “The eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the os-pray, and the kite, and the falcon after its kind, every raven after its kind, and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind, and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, and the horned owl, and the pelican, and vulture, and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat. .. . even these of them ye may eat: the locust after its kind,… and the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind. And these are they which are unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind.”

Each Organ of Body Designed, Created Directly in First Man, Passed On by Heredity

Psalm 139:16 “Your eyes did see my unformed substance; and in Your book they were all written.”

Proverbs 20:12 “The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah has made both of them.”

Psalm 94:9 “He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see?”

Varieties the Result of Qualities Within Genetic Cells of Created Kind

“The number of distinct types (gene combinations) grows to more than a thousand when par­ents differ in 10 genes, to more than a million with 20, and to more than a billion with 30 gene differences. With 31 gene differ­ences it becomes about equal to the total number of humans now living in the world, which is esti­mated as close to 2,200 millions. With still greater numbers of gene differences the numbers of possible gene combinations be­come immense. With about 250 genes the number of theoretically possible gene combinations is of the same order as that of the electrons and protons in the uni­verse as estimated by some phys­icists. . .. How many genes there are in man is unknown, but it would seem reasonable to believe that man has at least as many as the vinegar-fly, Drosophila. To be sure, the number of genes is not precisely known even in that insect, which has been studied more than any other animal; but it is estimated that a Drosophila has several thousands, perhaps as many as ten thousand genes in each sex cell. . . . The variety which is characteristic of all hu­man groups is due to gene muta­tion and to recombination.”-L. C. Dunn and Th. Dobzhansky, He­redity, Race and Society, pp. 52, 53, 61.

Kinds of Plants and Trees Sprang from Directly Created Seed

Genesis 1:11, 12 “God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yield­ing seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, the trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.”

Each Living Thing Created to Fit the Element in Which It Lives, Not Evolved to Fit

Genesis 1:20, 24 “God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so.”

Harmony, Balance in Nature, Provisions for Life of All, the Work of Supreme Designer

Matthew 6:26-29 “Observe intently the birds of heaven, because they do not sow seed or reap or gather into storehouses; still your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they are? Who of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his life span? Also on the matter of clothing, why are you anxious? Take a lesson from the lilies of the field, how they are growing; they do not toil nor do they spin, but I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory was ar­rayed as one of these.”

Job 38:39, 41 “Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or sat­isfy the appetite of the young lions? Who provides for the raven his prey?”

Genesis 2:9 “Out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food.”

Psalm 65:9 “You visit the earth, and water it, You great­ly enrich it; the river of God is full of water: You provide them grain, when You have so prepared the earth.”

Limited Life Span Intended for Lower Animals—No Dread of Death for Them

Job 39:13-17, 19, 22 (mar.) “The wings of the ostrich wave proud­ly; but are they the pinions and plumage of a stork? For she leaves her eggs on the earth, and warms them in the dust, and forgets that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may trample them. She deals hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers: though her labor be in vain, she is without fear; because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has He imparted to her under­standing. Have you given the horse his might? … He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed; neither turns he back from the sword.”

Man the Highest Earthly Creation of God

Genesis 1:26-28 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have domin­ion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

Man Far Superior to Beasts, Not Belated to Them; Anyone Low­ering Self to Equality with Them or Mixing Seeds Abominable

Leviticus 18:23, 24 “And you shall not lie with any beast to defile yourself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down thereto: it is con­fusion. Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you.”

Leviticus 20:15, 16 “And if a man lies with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. And if a woman approaches unto any beast, and lies down thereto, you shall kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”

Man Created Perfect, to Live Forever

Genesis 1:27, 28, 31 “And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and re­plenish the earth,… And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good.”

Deuteronomy 32:4 “The Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice.”

Genesis 5:5, 20, 27; 9:29 “All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: … and all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: … and all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: … And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years.”

Only One Human Pair Created

Acts 17:26 “He made out of one man every nation of men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth.”

Genesis 3:20 “The man called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.”

Genesis 5:4 “The days of Adam after he begat Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters.”

No Evolution in Mankind

Genesis 5:3 “Adam lived a hun­dred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth.”

Gift of Perfect Language Given to Man by God—Not Evolved

Genesis 2:19, 20 “Out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatso­ever the man called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field.”

James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect present is from above, for it comes down from the Father of the celestial lights, and with Him there is not a varia­tion of the turning of the shad­ow.”

Man Degraded Rather than Evolving Higher

Deuteronomy 32:5 “They have dealt corruptly with Him, they are not His children, it is their blemish; they are a perverse and crooked generation.”

Ecclesiastes 7:29 “Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.”

Psalm 90:10 “The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years; yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; for it is soon gone, and we fly away.”

Because of Forsaking Jehovah Man’s Mind Went Wrong, Brought Death to Organism

John 17:3 “This means ever­lasting life, their taking in knowl­edge of You, the only true God, and of the one whom You sent forth, Jesus Christ.”

James 1:14, 15 “But each one is tried by being drawn out and enticed by his own desire. Then the desire, when it has become fertile, gives birth to sin; in turn, sin, when it has been accom­plished, brings forth death.”

Hosea 4:6 “My people are de­stroyed for lack of knowledge.”

Earth’s Production Degraded by Man’s Abuses

Genesis 13:10 “And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Je­hovah destroyed Sodom and Go­morrah, like the garden of Je­hovah, like the land of Egypt, as you go unto Zoar.”

Numbers 13:23 “And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it upon a staff between two; they brought also of the pome­granates, and of the figs.”

Revelation 11:18 “Bring to ruin those ruining the earth.”

Isaiah 14:17 “That made the world as a wilderness, and over­threw the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home.”

Psalm 67:6 “The earth has yielded its increase.”

Children Affected by Corrupt­ness of Adam Their Father

Matthew 7:17, 18 “Likewise every good tree produces fine fruit, but every rotten tree produces bad fruit; a good tree cannot bear bad fruit, neither can a rotten tree produce fine fruit.”

Matthew 12:33 “Either you people make the tree fine and its fruit tine or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for by its fruit the tree is known.”

Lamentations 5:7 “Our fathers sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.”

Jeremiah 31:29, 30 “In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.”

Psalm 51:5 “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”

Deformities the Result of Man’s Imperfectly Functioning Body

Leviticus 21:17-23; 22:23 “Whosoever he be of your seed throughout their generations that has a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that has a blemish, he shall not ap­proach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that has a flat nose, or anything superfluous, or a man that is broken-footed, or broken- handed, or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or is scurvy, or scabbed, or has his stones broken; no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that has a blemish, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of Jehovah made by fire: he has a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy: only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he has a blemish; that he profane not My sanc­tuaries: …Either a bullock or a lamb that has anything super­fluous or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill- offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.”

Sickness, Infirmity, Not Natural

Genesis 3:16-19 “Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply your pain and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth chil­dren; … And unto Adam He said, . .. cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil shall you eat of it all the days of your life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to you; and you shall eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return unto the ground.”

Matthew 8:17 “He Himself took our sicknesses and carried our dis­eases.”

Luke 5:23 “Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’?”

“Brute-Type” Men Found Are Result of Degradation, False Religion; God’s Servants Were Never Such

Genesis 6:12 “And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was cor­rupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.”

Job 2:3 “Jehovah said unto Satan, Have you considered My servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God, and turns away from evil.”

Jeremiah 2:21 “Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto Me?”

Proverbs 28:18 “Whoso walks up­rightly shall be delivered; but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.”

Genesis 6:9-12 “Noah was a right­eous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God…. all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.”

Faith Without Proof or Founda­tion Required for Evolution

“The evolution doctrine is not a creed to be accepted on faith, as are religious faiths or creeds. It appeals entirely to the logical faculties, not to the spiritual, and is not to be accepted until proved.” (From H. H. Newman’s list of “What Organic Evolution Is Not”) —Evolution, Creation, and Science, by Frank Lewis Marsh.

“Professor T. L. More, Univer­sity of Cincinnati: ‘The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolu­tion is based on faith alone; ex­actly the same sort of faith which it is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion.’

“Professor Bateson stated: ‘Though we must hold to our faith in the evolution of species there is little evidence as to how it came about, and no clear proof that the process is continuing in any considerable degree at the present time.’ “

Hebrews 11:1 “Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld.”

Hostility of Evolutionists Toward Bible Based on Misunderstand­ing and Not on True Science

2 Peter 3:16 “Speaking about these things as he does also in all his other letters. In them, however, are some things hard to understand, the meaning of which the untaught and unsteady are twisting, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.”

Colossians 2:8 “Look out: perhaps there may be some man that will carry you off as his prey through the philosophy and empty decep­tion according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary things of the world and not ac­cording to Christ.”

1 Timothy 4:7 “But turn down the false stories which violate what is holy and which old women tell. On the other hand, be training yourself with godly devotion as your aim.”

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