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Reaching Children Through God’s Creatures Formed by Evolution OR Created by God? Dr. Heinz Lycklama [email protected] www.osta.com “The world in which we live is truly an amazing and wondrous place.” Scott Huse, The Collapse of Evolution Reaching Children Questions children ask: The facts: Conflict between Science and the Bible? Is Evolution really true? The Bible teaches “kinds” of Creatures No credible transitional fossils in support of evolution Looking at Creatures – Evolved? Created? Reaching children with the truth Education on Creation vs. Evolution, Christian Apologetics, Christian Worldview Resources available @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 2 Creation of Distinct Kinds Gen. 1: 11(1), 12(2), 21(2), 24(2), 25(3) Ten major categories of organic life created “after its kind” Plant kingdom - grass, herbs, fruit trees Animal kingdom - sea monsters, other marine animals, birds, beasts, cattle, crawling animals Man “kind” One kind cannot transform itself into another kind Definite and distinct categories There is variation within a kind These “kinds” are still recognized today @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 3 NO Transitional Fossils The “Cambrian Explosion” “Inverted” fossil orders Lack of empirical evidence for transitions The archaeopteryx was a bird, not a transitional fossil between reptile and bird Whale “evolution” debunked Horse “evolution debunked “Living fossils”, e.g. coelacanth fish Polystrate fossils No credible ape-to-human fossil identified @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 4 “Hominid” Fossils Neanderthal Man – accepted as homo sapiens Java Man – artificial construct Piltdown Man – proven to be a hoax Nebraska Man – an extinct pig Ramapithecus – an orangutan Lucy – make-believe creature NO credible “ape ->human” fossil found! @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 5 Lord Zuckerman Chimes In “For example, no scientist could logically dispute the proposition that man, without having been involved in any act of divine creation, evolved from some ape-like creature in a very short space of time – speaking in geological terms – without leaving any fossil traces of the steps of the transformation.” Zuckerman, Solly. 1971. Beyond the ivory tower: The frontiers of public and private science. New York: Taplinger Publishing Company. p. 64. @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 6 The Fossil Record Darwin admitted in 1859: “Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain.” Paul Moody wrote in a standard textbook: “So far as we can judge from the geologic record, large changes seem usually to have arisen suddenly. ... fossil forms, intermediate between large subdivisions of classification, such as orders and classes, are seldom [read never] found.” @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 7 Quote From Raup [Evolutionist] “The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky and, ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin’s time. By this I mean that some of the classic cases of darwinian change in the fossil record, such as the evolution of the horse in North America, have had to be discarded or modified as a result of more detailed information— what appeared to be a nice simple progression when relatively few data were available now appears to be much more complex...” [Raup, David M. (evolutionist), “Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology,” Bulletin, Field Museum of Natural History, vol. 50 (January 1979), p.25.] @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 8 Quote from Simpson [Evolutionist] "...Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences.” [George Gaylord Simpson (evolutionist), The Major Features of Evolution, New York, Columbia University Press, 1953 p. 360.] @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 9 Quote From West [Evolutionist] “Contrary to what most scientists write, the fossil record does not support the Darwinian theory of evolution because it is this theory (there are several) which we use to interpret the fossil record. By doing so, we are guilty of circular reasoning if we then say the fossil record supports this theory.” [Ronald R. West (evolutionist), “Paleontology and Uniformitariansim.” Compass, Vol. 45 (May 1968), p. 216.] @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 10 Evolution: The Fossils Still Say No! “In the preceding chapters, we have cited example after example of failure to find transitional forms where evolutionary theory predicts such forms should have been found. … The examples cited in this book are in no way exceptions, but serve to illustrate what is characteristic of the fossil record.” [Duane T. Gish (Creationist), Evolution: The Fossils Still Say NO!, page 333.] @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 11 Chance, Necessity (Law) or Design? @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 12 Incredible Creatures Some amazing creatures The living cell Human eye, Trilobite eye Giraffe Symbiotic relationships Migratory feats Incredible insects Butterfly, Woodpecker, Bombardier beetle @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 13 The Cheetah Cheetah cat can run at up to 70 mph over a distance of 700 yards or more Cheetah can reach 45 mph in 2 seconds! Cheetah is the fastest land animal @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 14 Cicada Insect About 2500 species exist One (magicicada) can live underground for 13 to 17 years Do not bite or sting and not a pest Make a real racket when they emerge @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 15 The Weddell Seal Weddell seals that can remain underwater for 45 minutes Dive to depths of 1500 feet @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 16 The Archerfish Archerfish that can shoot water 15 feet into the air and hit a bug Mouth at surface Eyes underwater @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 17 Eight-Armed Octopus Eight-armed, ink-shooting octopuses Jet-propelled and fast swimmer Shoots ink to create smoke screen and dull a predator Can re-grow an arm if it loses one @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 18 Cell Structure Average human body contains 75+ trillion cells @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 19 Examining the Cell How to examine the cell? @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 20 Darwin’s Black Box Behe showed that the cell, Darwin’s Black Box, is filled with irreducibly complex molecular machines that could not be built by natural selection @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 21 Darwin’s Black Box - 2 Over 100 molecular motors are now known to exist inside the cell with very specific analogies to human designed motors. @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 22 Behe’s Insight Michael Behe contends that when we look at the protein machines that run cells, there is a point at which no parts can be removed and still have a functioning machine. He called these machines “irreducibly complex” (IC) We encounter irreducibly complex devices in everyday life. A simple mouse trap is an example of an irreducibly complex device: Staple Trigger Hammer Board Cheese Bait holder Spring Bacterial Motors Certain bacteria swim by means of rotary flagella. These are driven by reversible electric motors! @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 24 Bacterial Motors - 2 @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 25 The Human Eye Staggering complexity Can’t be explained by step-by-step random mutation and selection @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 26 The Human Eye - 2 Automatic aiming, focusing, aperture adjustment Functions from almost complete darkness to bright sunlight Can see a fine hair Makes about 100,000 separate motions per day Provides us a continuous series of color stereoscopic pictures All performed without complaint Carries out its own maintenance while we sleep @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 27 The Human Eye - 3 So complex and sophisticated that scientists do not fully understand how it functions Requires sophisticated synchronization of complex structures and mechanisms The eye would be useless unless fully developed Piecemeal evolution of the human eye is a completely unreasonable notion Probability of chance formation is 1 in 10**266 @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 28 Human Eye - 4 “To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree. … The belief that an organ as perfect as the eye could have formed by natural selection is more than enough to stagger anyone.” Charles Darwin @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 29 More Than The Human Eye “My last doubt concerns so-called parallel evolution. … Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It’s bad enough accounting for the origin of such things once, but the thought of producing them several times makes my head swim.” Frank Salisbury “Examination of the eye is a cure for atheism.” Sturmius @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 30 The Trilobite Eye Trilobite now extinct Eyes composed of inorganic calcite Double lens design [human eye is single lens] Trilobite lenses preserved in fossil record 100 to 15,000 lenses in each eye Could see underwater without distortion Implicit knowledge of Abbe’s Sine Law, Fermat’s Principle, and other principles of optics inherent in the design of these lenses Carefully designed by a knowledgeable physicist! @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 31 The Giraffe Ten ft. high at the shoulder Eight foot neck Seven neck bones Huge heart to deliver blood to the brain Large lungs (8 * human) Slow air intake @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 32 Giraffe - 2 Reinforced artery walls By-pass and antipooling valves Web of small blood vessels Pressure-sensing signals Engineered for survival Defies explanation by evolution! @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 33 Cleaning Symbiosis Certain fish feed on smaller fish and shrimp Their mouths become littered with debris and parasites Larger fish pay visit to “cleaning station” and opens its mouth and gill chambers Little “cleaner” fish and shrimp swim in and “do their job” “Win-win” for both parties Also practiced by Egyptian plover bird in cleaning out parasites from Nile river crocodile @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 34 Water Beetle Defends against enemies by secreting a detergent substance from a gland Propels beetle forward quickly out of immediate danger Detergent causes the surface tension of water to break down Pursuing insect sinks into the water O Lord, how manifold are Thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of Thy riches” Ps. 104:24. @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 35 Migratory Instincts White-throated warbler Summers in Germany Winters in Africa Parent birds take off for Africa at end of Summer as young birds become more independent Young birds take off a few weeks later, flying instinctively across 1000’s of miles of unfamiliar land and sea to rejoin their parents Brains of birds have inherited knowledge Can tell latitude, longitude and direction by the stars Have “calendar”, clock and navigational data @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 36 Alaskan Golden Plover Born in Alaska 26 days of incubation After a few months, parents fly to Hawaii 4500 Km from Alaska to Hawaii Average weight of bird is 140 grams Puts on 70 more grams of weight as fuel @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 37 Alaskan Golden Plover - 2 Takes 88 hours to fly to Hawaii At a rate of 51 Km/hour All over open water, without a break Takes 250,000 wing flaps Fly through fog, rain, sunshine, starlight, overcast skies Requires 0.6% of body weight per hour All fuel exhausted in 72 hours Flying in V-formation saves 22% of energy @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 38 Other Migratory Feats Canadian Golden plover bird Barn swallow Travels 8000 miles south from Hudson Bay Crosses 2000 miles of sea from Nova Scotia to Caribbean countries Winters in Argentina Returns by way of Central America and the Mississippi Valley Migrates 9000 miles from Northern Canada to Argentina Artic tern migrates 14000 miles, pole to pole and back Others – whales, fur seals, bats, salmon, turtles, etc. @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 39 The Evolutionist is Baffled! Remarkable migratory abilities cannot evolve piecemeal through mere chance Requires directing intelligence Migratory instincts are useless unless perfect Navigating perfectly across only half of an ocean does not help These animals were carefully created and designed with these instincts @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 40 Insect Flight Insects are the only invertebrates able to fly Wing of an insect: Capable of very strong sculling action Capable of elevation, depression, fore and aft movement, pronation and supination Capable of changes in shape by folding and buckling Many insects can hover, or fly backwards or sideways, or rotate about the head or tail by using unequal wing movement @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 41 Special Insects Some insects (e.g. bees, wasps, flies) have small wing area Honeybee needs small wing for bee hive Very rapid wing beat rate of 200 per second Midge has wing beat rate of 1046 per second Amazing engineering wonders! “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.” Ps. 19:1. @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 42 Evolution Cannot Explain More features of God’s incredible creatures: Visual beauty – where from? why? Mimicry – how did it develop? One type of organism imitates/mimics another type e.g. spiders disguising as ants (8 legs vs. 6 legs) Angler fish Convergence (similar organs/structures) Exhibited by fish deep in the sea Sonar systems in bat and porpoise Wing mechanisms “evolved” separately in insects, bats, flying reptiles, birds No evolutionary mechanism can explain this! @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 43 More of God’s Incredible Creatures! Woodpecker Metamorphosis of a Butterfly Bombardier Beetle From slides [9-30] in the file called “Creation, Evolution and Biology.ppt” produced by Dr. Gish, ICR “Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us … the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.” Lord Kelvin, British physicist @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 44 Metamorphosis of the Butterfly @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 45 God’s Creatures Are Designed Creatures are Creations Creation requires a Creator God is The Creator Creatures: Cannot be explained by evolution Are designed for a purpose God created creatures for our enjoyment We are created by God To worship Him To enjoy His fellowship @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 46 More Information ICR – Institute for Creation Research Answers in Genesis www.creationresearch.org Publication of peer-reviewed creation articles Dr. Heinz Lycklama’s Lectures www.answersingenesis.org Books, seminars, articles on Creation Creation Research Society www.icr.org Acts and Facts articles on Creation www.osta.com/creation & www.osta.com/apologetics True Origin Archive www.trueorigin.org Exposing the myth of evolution @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 47 Thank you for your attention! Dr. Heinz Lycklama [email protected] www.osta.com/creation www.osta.com/apologetics @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 48 Creation Organizations ICR – Institute for Creation Research www.icr.org Books by Henry Morris (founder), e.g. The Genesis Flood The Genesis Record The Modern Creation Trilogy Acts and Facts articles on Creation Answers in Genesis www.answersingenesis.org Founded by Ken Ham Books, seminars, articles on Creation @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 49 Creation Organizations - 2 Creation Evidence Museum Creation Moments www.creationevidence.org Dinosaurs and human tracks www.creationmoments.com Radio spots Creation Research Society www.creationresearch.org Publication of peer-reviewed creation articles @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 50 Creation Organizations - 3 Center For Scientific Creation Creation Science Evangelism www.creationscience.com “In The Beginning” Book by Walt Brown, Ph.D. www.drdino.com Videos, seminars Discovery Institute www.discovery.org Intelligent Design “Think Tank” @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 51 Important Books The Genesis Record, Dr. Henry Morris The Genesis Flood, Dr. John Whitcomb & Dr. Henry Morris The Collapse of Evolution, Scott Huse The Lie: Evolution, Ken Ham Refuting Evolution, Dr. Jonathan Sarfati Evolution: The Fossils Still Say No!, Dr. Duane Gish Scientific Creationism, Dr. Henry Morris Dinosaurs by Design, Dr. Duane Gish Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome, Dr. J.C. Sanford @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 52 More Important Books The Young Earth, Dr. John Morris Science and the Bible, Dr. Henry Morris Tornado in a Junkyard, James Perloff In The Beginning, Dr. Walt Brown Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Michael Denton Darwin on Trial, Dr. Phillip Johnson Darwin’s Black Box, Dr. Michael Behe Design Inference, Dr. William Dembski Icons of Evolution, Dr. Jonathan Wells @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 53 Yet More Important Books The Battle for the Beginning, Dr. John MacArthur Total Truth, Nancy Pearcey The Design Revolution, Dr. William Demski The Origin of Species Revisited, W. R. Bird It Matters What We Believe, Mike Riddle The Evolution of a Creationist, Jobe Martin Grand Canyon (a different view), Tom Vail In Six Days, Dr. John Ashton Starlight and Time, Dr. Russell Humphreys Starlight, Time and the New Physics, De. John Hartnett @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama 54