Christians have faith in God but our faith has logical, valid reasons for us to believe.
Zero Transitional Fossils
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If evolution is true, there should be multiple millions upon millions of transitional fossils…yet there is a roaring silence of evidence. Today, the only fossils we find are either existing specie or those that have gone extinct. Have you ever heard of the Cambrian Explosion? Why is it called an “explosion?” It’s because most of the present species that exist today or have ever existed are found in what is known as the Cambrian layer or explosion. This layer is consistent with creation of life as described in Genesis where all of life suddenly appeared, as if an explosion of life occurred (and it did!). You cannot find any transitional evidence in fossils of plants evolving from one plant into another, so evolution has no observable evidence from the fossil record.
Carbon Dating Flaws
There is strong evidence that fossil dating is not accurate. Carbon dating is only good through about 6,000 years and so it is not a reliable method to date matter into millions of years. All living organisms—like trees, plants, people, and animals— absorb carbon-14 into their tissue. When they die, the carbon-14 starts to change into other atoms over time. Scientists can estimate how long the organism has been dead by counting the remaining carbon-14 atoms…but….we have a huge problem with this. Cataclysmic events or great heat and pressures (underground) can speed up the release of carbon-14 atoms or…extreme cold or oceanic depths can slow the carbon-14 release way down. And carbon-14 can easily be absorbed by surrounding matter as to further complicate dating. That’s why carbon dating rocks does not work out well. It’s meant to test former living things. Some rocks from Hawaiian eruptions tested several thousands of years old, yet it was only within the past two decades that these rocks had formed.
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Evolution’s Tree of Life
Evolution teaches that we all descended from one original source, although the Bible says God make each creature after their own kind (Gen 1). It’s very interesting that geological features are consistent with a worldwide flood as described in Genesis (causing rapid fossilization, i.e. the Cambrian Explosion). The oldest known plant is the Gingko Biloba, dated to around 270 million years ago, yet it is exactly the same today as it was some “270 million years ago,” although, once again, carbon dating methods cannot be trusted. You cannot find any transitional evidence in fossils of plants or creatures evolving from one species into another. Trying to find the “missing link” is ridiculous when the entire chain is missing! Monkeys have not evolved one bit since arriving on the earth! They remain exactly the same. It’s the same for opossums, crocodiles, and even cockroaches which are classified as being from the dinosaur age. The so-called evolution Tree of Life has the T-Rex on the same branch as the chicken!! So, fish, to reptiles, to mammals and to birds….monkeys…to man….has absolutely zero fossil evidence to support any transitions from any specie to another. Zero!
Fake Fossils
Since evolutionists can’t come up with evidence to support evolution due to the missing fossil evidence, they tried something else. The “discovery” of Piltdown Man turned out to be the biggest hoaxes in the history of paleoanthropology. For one thing, the jaw and skull fragments belonged to two different species. The jaw’s teeth revealed someone had filed them down to make them appear more like human teeth. And all of the bones had been stained to make them look old. It was actually called a scientific crime. Piltdown Man was found to be a modern ape that had been bleached and artificially weathered to look like a 500,000-year-old jawbone, so they actually built a whole model out of a jawbone!
Nebraska “Man” and Lucy
[3]Then there was Nebraska Man which snowballed out of control after the 1920s announcement but it turned out to be from a pig’s tooth. Once again, they built a model out of one tooth! Then, there is “Lucy,” the renowned fossil skeleton claimed to be one of the world’s earliest known human ancestors, which was recovered in Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974, but the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History refuses to show her. Several investigators, including Richard Leakey, have now concluded that two or perhaps three species’ bones and bone fragments have been wrongly combined in Lucy so they’re not all human bones. She was not a human ancestor. She was a form of extinct ape.
Missing Links
The chance for finding transitional monkey-to-man fossils is exceedingly high given their time frame of hundreds of million years. Sample evidence for fossils should grow exponentially with greater periods of time, but they haven’t. Charles Dawson, staunch supporter of Darwin, was responsible for at least 38 fake finds during his amateur fossil-hunting career according to the Telegraph (Great Britain), so fossil evidence is missing and what they do have, they’ve created fake evidence to support a theory that cannot be proved, tested or observed (via the Scientific Method). Their only alternative is to create fake evidence.
Archeological Evidence
Archaeology is a science. It is the scientific study of material remains that authenticates the remains of human activities, civilizations, and life. The mountainous collection of artifacts show indisputable evidence that the Bible is true and what was recorded actually happened in the places and times that the Bible states that they did. Let’s look at one example: Judges 16:29-30 tells about Samson’s end (die with the Philistines). Could one man really pull down an entire temple (Samson?)? Two Philistine temples have been uncovered by archaeologists. One at Tel Qasile, in northern Tel Aviv, and one in Tel Miqne, ancient Ekron, 21 miles south of Tel Aviv. Both temples share a unique design—the roof was supported by two central pillars! The pillars were made of wood and rested on stone support bases. One appeared to have collapsed from the center!!!!
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Archeological Findings
Well over 50,000 digs at 30,000 different locations have been excavated and these finds continue to provide substantial support of the Bible’s written record. Some of the finds include Belshazzar, King Darius, and King Cyrus’ is mentioned by name. The Hittites, once thought to be mythological empires, have been found to have existed after all. King David’s reign was found recorded on ancient Egyptian inscriptions. There is evidence of the Regal House of Nebuchadnezzar. A stone tablet bearing Pontius Pilate’s name. A piece of broken pottery at Masada had an inscription that read, “Herod the Great King of the Jews” and dated to the time that he was ruling in 19 B.C. which fit’s the time period mentioned in the Bible (Luke 1:5, Matthew 2).
The bones of Caiaphas the high priest were found in Peace Forest, just south of Jerusalem in an ossuary with the name Caiaphas on it. They dated to be around 2,000 years old, just when the Jewish historian Josephus mentioned Josephus Caiaphas, a high priest who served around A.D. 18-36. A seal with the inscription “Belonging to Abdi servant of Hoshea” was found in Israel and dated to the 8th century B.C. Hosea was the very last King of Israel before the Assyrians invaded and conquered the nation. The inscription of the seal matches the date of Hosea’s reign from 731-722 B.C. which fits perfectly with that which is recorded in the Old Testament.
A team of archaeologists headed by Dr. Avraham Biran, working in the Upper Galilee region, found written references to “The House of David” in both the Hebrew and Aramaic languages. Dr. Biran commented that, “This is the earliest archaeological mention of King David.” ……. These inscriptions also mention part of the Royal lineage of Israel and other Jewish Kings mentioned in the Old Testament and in the exact order that they are mentioned in 1 and 2 Kings and 1 and 2 Chronicles. In the 1970 the Elba Archive was discovered in Northern Syria. Contained in this archive is a listing of the patriarch’s accounts of places that they lived. An ancient column that is credited to Solomon mentions Mizoram (Hebrew name for Egypt) and the words in Hebrew of death, water, Edom, Yahweh, and Solomon. Interestingly, this column was found near the Red Sea where tradition has it was the place where Israel crossed over at.
Bible Manuscripts
[5]New Testament manuscripts are amazingly abundant. In fact, there are over 25,000 New Testament manuscripts of which 5,000 of these dated from the first century. There are about 6,000 complete or fragmented Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin manuscripts and over 9,000 manuscripts in various other ancient languages. One of the greatest supportive facts is that the evidence verifies the dating of Matthew’s Gospel as far back as A.D. 60. Most scholars agree that Mark wrote the first Gospel and places the composition of Mark to within 20 years of the events that took place and were recorded in his Gospel.
Regarding the Old Testament, the nearly 6,000 Dead Sea Scrolls are so close in agreement, contextually, that there is only 0.01% in differences and the main differences are only in the differentiation of vowels. All together there are so many manuscripts that it is impossible to ignore its historical and evidential veracity.
Summary
There is one reason most people don’t believe in God or the Bible. They suppress that knowledge (Rom 1:20-25). Same reasons a thief won’t try to find a police officer. We know God exists and the Bible is true, but it takes the Holy Spirit for unbelievers to finally get it. We cannot brag or boast about knowing God and they don’t. It is only by God’s good grace we were saved, and not of our own intellect (Eph 2:8-9). God opened our eyes, so we pray for those who believe to be bolder in their witness and pray for the lost that a person from God shares the Word of God and the Spirit of God can birth a child of God. We have absolute, concrete evidence and reasons for believing. But even that was not of our own doing (John 15:16).
Conclusion
I pray you have put your trust in our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. If that has not happened yet, my friend, you are in real danger of hell fire. And I mean, in immediate danger. You’re one breath, one heartbeat…one accident away from eternity when it will be too late to repent. Today is the best day to believe (2 Cor 6:2) since tomorrow is no guarantee. If Jesus Christ came today, here is your fate (Matt 7:21-23). This is why I plead with you as you read this, repent today…and I mean right now. Put your trust in Jesus Christ. If you do not, you will face God’s judgment after death guaranteed (Heb 9:27) or at Jesus Christ’s appearance (Rev 20:12-15), which could happen at any moment.
Here is some related reading for you: The Importance of the Creation vs Evolution Discussion. [6]
Resource – Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), Crossway Bibles. (2007). ESV: Study Bible: English standard version. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Bibles. Used by permission. All rights reserved.