Creationism As A Viable Model Of
Origins In Today's Scientific World
By David Concidine © 2014
Creationism is a viable model of
origins in today's scientific world. In reality, when the facts are
plainly reviewed, Creationism is the only viable model of origin,
providing answers that agree with scientific knowledge, while
Evolution fails to provide scientific answers to basic origin's
questions.
The Need For A Model Of Origins
Man finds himself here on this planet.
A variety of explanations are available about the origins of the
planet and man. Man lacks perfect knowledge. And man's ability to
acquire knowledge are limited. Man can observe the planet and make
guesses. And man can read the oldest historical documents that tell
the account of the origins. Is not a truthful account of the origins
by those who witnessed it better than making guesses thousands of
years after the fact?
Since man lacks knowledge, he makes up
models to try to explain the origins. The Creationist model draws on
the historical documents, as well as assimilating what is observed by
scientists today. The Evolutionist model starts the assertion that
there was no Higher Intelligence (God) involved in the origins (which
cannot be proved), denies the Creation account of the Bible, and
tries to explain the origins by some other means. Evolutionists
search for some forces in nature that made the planet and life upon
it.
Freedom of Belief and Speech
Because all US citizens are protected
in the right of belief and the right of free speech (thanks to the
Bill of Rights), citizens are able to get knowledge freely (as long
as others are not injured thereby), and they are free to believe in
Creationism or Evolutionism, and to speak of these two differing
models to other people. In the school setting, the teaching of
Creationism does not constitute forcing a religion on students.
Creationism does not seek to quash other models and institute a
religion, though it may draw from a religious historical document.
Creationism seeks to win minds by the superiority and reasonableness
of its discoveries.
But Evolutionism very often seeks to
stop all teaching of Creationism, and to prevent any other views from
being discussed. In this respect, Evolutionism tries to establish a
evolutionary belief system on students, and so, violates the right
of free belief and speech. One main reason for this is because the
Evolutionism fails to answer basic scientific questions, and to help
bolster its case, it resorts to coercion and violating rights of
students in the classroom.
Creationism Is a Viable Model of
Origins
Creationism utilizes both the
historical documents and the most accurate scientific knowledge of
today. First, we should understand better the historical documents.
The historical documents begin with the Bible, which is a compilation
of records kept by truthful observers from the beginning of the human
race down to the last Apostle, John, circa 100 AD. The first book,
Genesis means “Origin”. In this book is described a brief account
of the making of this earth into a habitable planet, and the placing
of life upon it by God, a vastly advanced Intelligent Being, who
communicated this account to Moses in approx. 1475 BC. Moses' account
of the Creation is reliable because 70 elders of Israel also saw God
upon the Mount (Ex. 24: 9,10), and because other prophets (Abraham,
Enoch, the brother of Jared, Joseph Smith) have been shown the
Creation by God, and all these accounts by numerous witnesses agree.
With multiple witnesses, from many times and places agreeing, the
authenticity of the record is proved. Other recently found records
(The Book of Mormon, the Book of Ether, The Book of Abraham) confirm
the Genesis Creation account, and agree with its message. (In fact,
with the addition of new scripture, no significant change was made to
the Creation account, except the stripping away of changes to the
account made by persons biased towards Platonic philosophy in the 4th
Cent. AD.)
In addition, the knowledge of God was
well preserved in the beginning ages of the world because the
longevity of the patriarchs, from Adam down to Abraham, many of them
lived with each other. (see Note 1 at the end of the article) In
addition to all this, the patriarchs kept records, which began with
Adam, father of the entire race, who was taught to write by God, and
these records were passed down from Adam down to Noah, and from Noah
down to Abraham, and Abraham to Joseph, whose bones and records Moses
took out of Egypt at the Exodus. With these records, and the
revelations Moses received in his day, Moses wrote Genesis, the
“Origin”.
The Genesis Creation account is a
short sketch of the construction process of this earth. The main
point of the account is that God organized this earth with its
heavens, for his own purposes. God took a void or empty planet, made
of pre-existing materials, and modified it in seven “days” or
periods, until it became habitable and filled with life.
Creationism draws on the account of
the Creation in Genesis. It also assimilates today's scientific
knowledge. In comparing Genesis to scientific findings, we find these
points in agreement: 1) the second law of physics (entropy), all
things are going from higher states of energy and order to lower
states of energy and to chaos. Only by addition of energy can chaos
be reversed. This law of entropy agrees with the change that occurred
at the Fall of Adam, when change, decay and death were introduced
into the entire world. All physical things break down, and it is only
by work that man can make order and improvement.
Only by work and planning is order
achieved—because, left to itself, the law of entropy prevails, and
all things are running down, breaking down, and moving towards chaos.
Only by intelligent plan and work (energy) is a habitation made. A
bird builds a nest following its instinct's plan. A man builds a
house by following a plan. It is reasonable to believe that a vastly
advanced Intelligent Being planned and worked to organize this earth,
which is a vast and complex habitation for many forms of life. In
observing this planet and its life-forms we find such amazing order
and complexity, on such a vast scale, we know that it is beyond the
minute capacity of man or of all men to have organized such a world
as this one. We are left to draw the inevitable conclusion that the
origin of this planet and its life came by some very great
Intelligence and higher Power. For we know from observing nature that
accidents/random events do not construct nests, houses or habitable
planets. Accidents or random activity making complex order is “Not
Observed In Nature” (NOIN). Furthermore, this planet has been
carefully prepared for the life-forms that are upon it—it's
distance from the sun just right, its times and seasons, its climates
and environments, it's protective and breathable atmosphere; the
sufficient quantity of salt and fresh water; the ample distribution
of necessary elements and minerals, etc. We explore the moon and
other planets in our solar system and find them not like our planet
at all, totally desolate, too hot or too cold, lacking oxygen and
conditions necessary to support plant and animal life. This agrees
with Gen. 1 which states that God prepared this earth and
placed life on it.
But Evolutionism says that all life
happened randomly, and that there was no Higher Being. First, they
say that entropy is not destructive, entropy is creative! How
novel—but what nonsense. Second, how can evolutionists prove that
there is no God (they can't) just because they can't see God doesn't
mean that he isn't in some place that they can't see (and
evolutionists can't see everywhere). How is it that this earth can be
so perfectly habitable, and so filled with life, while all around us
in space is no planet that is habitable or containing life at all?
Why aren't evolutionary forces making loads of planets all around
ours, full of living things like this earth? Why doesn't life
spontaneously generate today? (Because such contradicts the laws of
nature!) In reality, the desolate, dead moon and planets that
surround us are the perfect picture of evolution and its random
forces! The earth we live on is a total anomaly to evolution—it is
a perfect example of planning and work by a vastly advanced Higher
Being.
Endless time: 1a) Time marches on
without stopping. One moment follows another, and another shall
follow it. One moment preceded the present, and another moment
preceded that. Past, present, future. Men are born, men live, and men
die; but still time and events go on. So we observe in nature, no end
to the passing of time. And so also says the scriptures. God existed
before this earth was framed. God is eternal: “Before
the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth
and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art
God.” (Psalms
90:2)
But Evolutionism says that the
universe began with a Big Bang. It says there was some starting time
for the universe, when all the matter in the universe was gathered
into a single point. What was happening before the moment before the
Big Bang? Such contradicts the nature of time, and the unending
sequence of events that we see in nature. A starting time of the
universe that had nothing before it is inconceivable and “not
observed in nature.”
Astronomy and chemistry: 2) it is
observed that the stars seem to stay in the same places in relation
to each other, and the movement of sun, earth, moon and stars are
regular; yet astronomers make measurements and find that the universe
is expanding gradually. The regular position and movements of the
earth in relation to the sun, moon and stars, also agrees with
Genesis 1: God set this earth in this solar system, and set the sun
to give light to the day, and set the moon (which is the same size
in the sky as the sun) to give light at night, and the stars in the
night sky, and God set their movements to be regular and ordered. As
for the gradual expansion of the universe, God also said that his
works never end, and they are numberless (Moses 1), that his heavenly
curtains are stretched out still (Isa. 40:22). Thus the universe
expands because it is “under construction” by God. In contrast,
Evolutionism believes that all the matter in the universe was
compressed into a single point, (which is contrary to chemistry which
has learned that there is much space between particles in atoms
because there are great forces of repulsion to keep them apart).
Evolutionism says that when all matter was in a single point, it
exploded—but instead of scattering matter and chaotic debris
farther and farther apart, evolutionism says that this matter cooled
down, organized itself into suns, habitable planets and moons
orbiting in regular fashion, and then spontaneously generated life
thereon! How could all the matter in the universe be gathered and
compressed into a single point? Since when has an explosion caused
order, habitation and life? Such things are “Not Observed In
Nature”.
Laws of biology: 3) life comes from
life, not from inanimate, inorganic matter. It is observed in nature
that plants grow from seeds, and animals grow from eggs produced by
similar animals. No animal or plant has ever been observed to
spontaneously generate from dirt or rocks. This agrees with Genesis
1, that says that God placed plants and animals on this earth. The
source of life comes from a living Being, God, who is the God of the
living. God made living things, made to act; and God made non-living
things, made to be acted upon. Living things come from other
living things. Evolutionism however, posits that life, at some
point, evolved from inanimate materials. Since, Evolutionism
decrees, there was no God, at some magical moment, too far in the
past for us to see and witness, a living thing popped into existence
from inanimate, non-living materials. At some magical moment,
consciousness and awareness gradually “happened” in some piece of
previously inanimate material, and life began! Such is contrary to
the laws of biology today. Living things do not generate themselves
from non-living materials. NOIN
Laws of heredity: 4) each kind of life
brings forth after its own kind. It is observed in nature that each
main group of animals or plants brings forth new life (seeds or
offspring) after its own kind. While there are no two animals
or plants are exactly alike, yet small differences in a specific kind
occur, yet they are still that specific kind of plant or animal. No
major “kind” of animal changes into, or brings forth progeny of,
another kind. There are many varieties of apples, but apples bring
forth only apples, and they do not bring forth thistles. There are
many breeds of dogs, but still dogs bring forth only dogs and not
cats. Zoos exist all around the world, and chimpanzees bring forth
chimpanzees, but never do they bring forth an ape-man or a human born
to a set of chimps. And the Genesis record agrees with heredity and
nature as it is observed: God declared that each kind of life
(grasses, trees, fish, fowl, animals, and man) was to bring forth
after its own kind.
The Evolutionist model contradicts the
known laws of heredity. Evolutionism says that kinds of life change
or evolve into other kinds of life! Evolutionism says ALL life
originated from one lower kind of life, that itself came from
inanimate matter! Evolutionism supposes that over vast amounts of
time, somehow, life popped into being one day from dead minerals and
molecules; fish were born from lower sea life-forms; birds were born
to fish; reptiles were born to birds; animals were born to reptiles;
and man was born to apes. Such is Not Observed In Nature. And in
nature, when an animal makes a mutation with some big change, it
cannot reproduce, and dies off. Evolution tries to explain the broad
array of plants and animal species by a law of mutation (change)
which does not happen in nature, and is contrary to laws of heredity.
Population growth rates: 5) Population
grows rapidly. If two parents have two boys and two girls, then those
four children could pair off and make two couples. If those two
couples had four children each, then there would be eight children.
Four more sets of parents could be paired up. Four sets of parents
could then have four children each, then there would be sixteen
children. So the population can double in every generation or two.
Today's population is nearly 7 billion people. To reach 7 billion
people would require about 113 generations, putting the start of
today's population about 4,300 years ago, which agrees with the
Biblical chronology, when Noah's three sons disembarked from the ark,
and the re-population of the earth began after the Flood. Today's
population number agrees with known average rate of population
growth, and the time that the Bible says that the Flood occurred
(2344 BC).
Evolutionism says that mankind has
been on the earth for two or three million years, reproducing all
that time. Such a thing is impossible! The rate of increase of the
population is known, and if the human family has been reproducing for
even 1 million years, that would have produced 26,000 generations,
and a current population of 102000 people ( I with 2000
zeros after it) . Even a population of 1082 would fill the
entire known universe, packed like sardines in a can, with no
space between people!
Decay of stars: 6) Astronomers observe
the stars and our sun, and measure their sizes. They find that stars,
at some phases of their development, decay and grow smaller over long
periods of time. Our sun is in such a phase of slow decay. The Bible
agrees with a “young” earth that has known mortal life since the
fall occurred in 4,000 BC. Revelations says that the earth will have
7,000 years. Genesis states that God made the lights in the
firmament, the sun, moon and stars. This length of time agrees with
what astronomers find in the rate of decay in stars, in this case,
the size of our sun. At one time, our sun was a much larger star. A
“young” earth fits well with our present sun's size, making the
earth as a habitable planet.
Evolutionism, however, presents a
timetable that would make life on this planet impossible.
Evolutionary story says earth is millions of years old, lit by our
same sun. Impossible! The sun is shrinking 0.01% per century. 50,000
years ago, the sun would touch the earth's surface and burn it to a
crisp!
The age of the earth's materials,
despite a “young earth” since the Fall of Adam: 7) Scientists
have developed many kinds of dating systems, based upon certain
assumptions (which may render them accurate or not). Whatever the
guesses of age that these dating systems give, it is reasonable to
believe in the very old age of the materials of the earth, and the
stars in the heavens. It is also reasonable to believe in an earth
that has known mortality for only 6,000+ years since the Fall
occurred. Genesis says God took the “void” or empty earth (Gen.
1:2), and that God began the process of making it habitable. This
fact of the pre-existing materials of the earth means that the earth
can be very old, while the generations of man and animals of only
6,000+ years, since the time of the Fall of Adam.
But Evolutionism there was no God, no
Creation Period, no Garden period, no Fall of Adam, no beginning to
reproduction of life-forms on earth. Evolutionism says that
everything must be millions of years old, with thousands of
generations of plants, animals and man. Because of population growth
rates, such would be impossible, and the earth would be too small to
sustain the massive populations. By denying God and the big changes
that have occurred in the earth's progression, dating estimates fro
the age of the earth have little value.
Evidence of a universal Flood, and
separation of the continents: 8) Scientists measure the amount of
water in our oceans. If the earth's surface was all the same
elevation high, there is enough water on the planet to cover all the
earth with water 8,000 feet deep (1.5+ miles deep), leaving no dry
land. A Flood that covered the whole earth is therefore, quite
possible. Geologists notice that the continents have moved and
separated. At one time in the past, all the continents were all
connected in one land mass. It is the movement of the continents when
they separated that helped to form deep ravines in the oceans, and
high mountain ranges on the continents. The American continents have
a range of mountains that run from north all the way to the south,
creating a continental divide. When the continents were all one land
mass, the land was flatter. Geologists further discover an amazing
array of fossils of plants and animals that were rapidly buried and
heated and baked into fossils, by some cataclysmic
mudslide/flood/volcanic eruption. These facts agree with the record
in the Scriptures. The Flood account describes “all
the fountains of the great deep [possibly volcanoes] broken up, and
the windows of heaven were opened.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.”(Genesis
7:11
– 12)
Also, the earth was all one continent in those times. The separation
of the continents, with the creation of deep gorges and high
mountains did not occur until after the Flood: “And
unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was
Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided...” (Genesis
10:25)
Both historical records and geological evidence confirms the Flood
and the rapid burying of many plants and animals, baked and
solidified into fossils: fossils of trees and forests buried upright
through more than one layer of strata; the rapidly formed fossils of
animals buried while still alive; older sediments found intruding
into younger sediments; and there are dozens more evidences which
support a rapid, cataclysmic formation of strata.
Evolutionism's model that denies a
Flood and states that all fossils and strata were formed gradually
over millions of years, by sediment slowly burying plants, etc. Slow
sedimentation, has not been observed to make any fossils today.
Historical records of the earliest
post-Flood civilizations: 9) The oldest civilizations and writings
are found in Sumer and cities in the Fertile crescent. The spreading
of the earliest civilizations out from regions south of Mt. Ararat,
out from Sumer, Canaan and Egypt, agrees with the historical records
found by archaeologists and historians, who have found clay tablets
in Sumer, and the hieroglyphics and the pyramids in Egypt.
Furthermore, we find these records show the early civilizations were
hierocentric, competing for Priesthood authority and imitating a
patriarchal, priestly form of government. The Egyptian pyramids are
giant monuments and burying places of pharaohs, to prepare them for
the after-life. Genesis and other records depict the early
civilizations post-Flood as having descended from Noah's three sons'
descendants, after the the ark landed on Mt. Ararat. Ham's posterity
built up the cities in the land of Shinar (Gen. 10:10), which is the
land of Sumer, the Sumerian civilization; and also other of Ham's
posterity founded Egypt at the Nile river. Out from these cities in
the fertile crescent, the families and nations of the ancient world
spread abroad to possess the land.
Evolutionism however describes a story
that does not agree with archeology and history: it tells of the rise
of humans from animals, from apes and then from ape-men, lost in
millions of years of fighting for survival, arising in Africa, Europe
or China. The highest purpose of life was survival of the fittest.
Then one day, a human was born, and then he began to write, and use
tools, and then the bronze age began. In what year did humans
magically appear amongst the sub-humans? Do monkeys write? Do monkeys
make weapons, tools and records? Are monkeys concerned with
impractical purposes such as worshiping God and preparing for the
after-life? No, such is Not Observed In Nature.
Languages and families derived from a
common set of parents: 10) Students of languages notice the
similarity among languages, and the development of writing alphabets
from hieroglyphics. It is reasonable to deduce that all languages
derived from a common tongue. Genesis says Adam and Eve were our
common parents. After the Flood, the earth was populated by the
posterity of Noah's sons' families. After the Tower of Babel, the
confusion of tongues occurred and many languages resulted. But
Evolutionism does not teach a common set of parents and supposes that
humans evolved in separated places throughout the earth. Such a model
does not agree with the closely related languages and races that
sprang from one family.
Historicity of Christ and Adam: 11)
The historicity of Jesus Christ, the Apostles and prophets like
Moses, and the movements of the tribes of Israel is documented in
secular history as well as in the Bible. Jesus Christ is historically
proven, the documents written by his witnesses being published
throughout the world (the New Testament), along with other historical
documents; and the religion that they taught having spread in a way
that has been historically documented as well. Christianity should
have died when Jesus died—Peter and others were already going back
to the fishing business. But Jesus was resurrected, and he appeared
to Peter and the Apostles, proved that Jesus was resurrected, and
Jesus sent them on a mission to preach the Gospel to all the
world—which they did, against great opposition. Since Jesus was
real, then Adam was also real. Jesus came to repair the effects of
Adam's Fall, that brought sin and death into the world. Jesus would
not have been sent, and would not have arisen Adam.
But Evolutionism denies the
historicity of Adam, Moses, and Jesus Christ, and the effects of
their ministries that have changed the world. Evolutionism looks for
origins and first parents in Lady Luck, Chance, Mr. Random Happening
and in a Chimpanzee couple lost millions of years ago.
Summary
We have seen in many points that
Creationism is a viable model of origins, and that it agrees with
today's scientific knowledge. We have also seen that Evolutionism
fails over and over again to agree with basic, known and observable
laws of nature, physics, biology, heredity, astronomy, chemistry,
archeology and history. Evolutionism is a poor model of origins in
today's scientific world.
Evolutionism rests a large part of its
case by wasting time criticizing the Bible. Because the Bible is a
very ancient document, written in unfamiliar language, does not mean
it is untrue. Disbelief at such things as the longevity of the early
patriarchs (who lived before the Flood, nearly 900 years each); the
lack of mention of dinosaurs; disbelief in the universal Flood, etc.
does not itself produce a viable model of origins. The silly ideas of
Evolutionism such as the universe beginning with a explosion, the
denial of any higher Intelligent Being, life self-generating
spontaneously from inanimate materials, and mutations causing new
kinds of plants and animals, form a model of origins that is
unscientific, unobservable in nature, contrary to scientific
knowledge, and is an unreasonable form of belief. The “religion”
system of Evolutionism takes blind faith to believe—because the
evidence of nature doesn't support it.
Evolution puts forth as evidence many
pictures and artifacts that cannot be closely inspected and tested by
common people; objects that many times have been later proved to be
frauds and fabrications. Evolutionism tries to support its notion of
man evolving from animals by many pictures, illustrations, fabricated
and manipulated fragments of bones, animated films, and CGI movies,
to tell a story of the origins of life from inanimate materials. But
students must realize that PICTURES AND OBJECTS CAN BE MANIPULATED
AND CHANGED BY EVOLUTIONISTS TO TELL LIES. Pieces of human skulls
have been altered with animal parts so as to create an object that
look like an ape-man skull—but no such race exists or has existed.
Pictures can depict impossibilities in the real world. Illustrations
can make up stories, but they do not constitute scientific evidence.
A picture of evidence that cannot be investigated and tested by many
unbiased examiners is not evidence, it is trickery. Evolution of one
life form into another different kind is not observable in nature
today. Man evolving from apes or ape-men is not observable in nature
today. So the story of man evolving from apes, by verbose
word-pictures, or by visual illustrations, is just a fiction-making,
and is not scientific, observable, testable evidence.
Creationism Is More Than Genesis
Genesis gives a short description of
the Creation, and tells the history of the earth in its early ages.
Many mighty changes happened to the earth. Creationism assimilates
historical accounts along with the best of today's scientific
knowledge. By both of these we have a much richer, more accurate view
of origins.
While Genesis may tell things that
seem hard to comprehend today, such as longevity of patriarchs, no
mention of dinosaurs, the account of the Flood, Creationists find
viable and scientific answers to these questions. The longevity of
the patriarchs may be explained by the different conditions that
existed in the pre-Flood era, with a layer of water above the
firmament to protect all things from short wave radiation (which is
what causes aging, mutation and early death). With greater protection
from this damaging radiation from the sun, all things were able to
live much longer and grow much bigger. So the patriarchs could live
900+ years; plants could grow very large; and reptiles could grow
bigger and bigger and live a long time—hence the dinosaurs may have
existed in the pre-Flood era. Fossils and many other geologic
evidences confirm a cataclysmic Flood. So the account of Genesis is
viable and useful in understanding origins.
In sum, Creationism uses the best
historical documents and the
best scientific evidence, and is the only viable scientific
model of origins. Creationism is a model that agrees with today's
scientific knowledge in physics, chemistry, time, chronology, dating
systems, astronomy, biology, heredity, geology, population growth
rates, and the earliest and most truthful historical documents. It is
reasonable to believe in accurate documents kept by truthful
Prophets/Patriarchs; to believe in a vastly advanced Higher
Intelligent Being to have prepared this planet for habitation and to
have filled it with life; to believe that life comes from life and
not from inanimate matter; that it takes work and planning to make a
habitable planet, and that order and life do not pop into existence
randomly; that each kind of life brings forth after its own kind;
that the Flood occurred and left many layers of strata and buried
things; that while the materials of the earth are old, yet the time
since generations of humans began to be on this planet has been only
about 6,000+ years; that the account of early civilizations in
Genesis agrees with what historians and archaeologists find about
Sumer, Canaan and Egypt, and that the Bible account is history, not
myth.
Evolutionism, as we have seen in
practically every instance, violates the findings of the laws of
nature and today's scientific knowledge, and tries to fabricate a
model of origins that is, therefore, impossible! Evolutionism denies
the law of entropy, saying that random activity creates complex order
(NOIN); it denies the endlessness of time, and says that the whole
universe began at a Big Bang, before which was nothing!; it denies
the laws of physics by saying that all matter was gathered into a
single point (a physical impossibility) and then it exploded and then
instead of scattering debris far apart, that habitable planets were
orbiting suns in ordered fashion; it denies the laws of biology by
saying that life generated by itself from inanimate matter; it denies
the laws of heredity by saying that lower forms of life spontaneously
produced higher and different kinds of plants and animals, rather
than each bringing forth after its own kind as is found in nature; it
denies the rates of population growth and insists that humans have
been on this planet for millions of years, which if such were the
case, the entire universe could not contain all the offspring; it
denies the known rates of the decay of stars, insisting this earth
has been here for millions of years, when only 50,000 years ago, our
sun was so large it would have touched the earth's surface; it denies
geology and insist there is no evidence of a Flood, of volcanic
activity, of rapid burying and compression of plants and animals,
when the earth's crust is layered with strata, fossils, oil and coal
beds that give evidence of rapid and cataclysmic movements; it denies
the oldest historical documents which all attest to the rise of
civilization in the Fertile Crescent region, which civilizations were
hierocentric, patriarchal societies—and instead tells a story of
animal-like hunter-nomads whose purpose in life was the survival of
the fittest; it denies linguistics and archeology and says that
humans evolved from many different places and that there was no
single source from which languages developed; it denies historicity
of the Bible and its chief persons/events such as Jesus Christ and
the evangelization of the world of Christianity; Adam and the Fall
whose actions brought mortality, and for whose sake Jesus Christ came
to rectify the situation; Moses and the Exodus of the Israelites, and
Moses' writing of the Creation account; Noah and the Flood—historical
events which have changed the world and left indisputable evidence
and written records.
In this situation, honest men are
compelled by the light of truth to say that Creationism is the only
viable model of origins in today's scientific world. Evolutionism is
a poor model of origins and unscientific in its assertions.
Note 1: “We can see from this that
Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah, all
lived on the earth at the same time [after they were born]; and that
Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Methuselah, and Lamech, were all
acquainted with both Adam and Noah. From the foregoing it is easily
to be seen, not only how the knowledge of God came into the world
[from Adam, the father of the race], but upon what principle it was
preserved; that from the time it was first communicated, it was
retained in the minds of righteous men, who taught not only their own
posterity but the world; so that there was no need of a new
revelation to man, after Adam's creation to Noah, to give them the
first idea or notion of the existence of a God; and not only of a
God, but the true and living God.” And after the Flood, the first
eleven patriarchs also lived at the same time later on: “ It
appears from this account, that Nahor, brother of Abraham, Terah,
Nahor, Serug, Reu, Peleg, Eber, Salah, Arphaxad, Shem, and Noah, all
lived on the earth at the same time...We have now traced the
chronology of the world agreeable to the account given in our present
Bible, from Adam to Abraham, and have clearly determined, beyond the
power of controversy, that there was no difficulty in preserving the
knowledge of God in the world from the creation of Adam, and the
manifestation made to his immediate descendants, as set forth in the
former part of this lecture; so that the students in this class need
not have any doubt resting on their minds on this subject, for they
can easily see that it is impossible for it to be otherwise, but that
the knowledge of the existence of a God must have continued from
father to son, as a matter of tradition at least; for we cannot
suppose that a knowledge of this important fact could have existed in
the mind of any of the before-mentioned individuals, without their
having made it known to their posterity. We have now shown how it was
that the first thought ever existed in the mind of any individual
that there was such a Being as a God, who had created and did uphold
all things: that it was by reason of the manifestation which he first
made to our father Adam, when he stood in his presence, and conversed
with him face to face, at the time of his creation.” (Lectures on
Faith)
