Overview: Creation and Evolution
66 AD: Peter's prophecy
"Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,
walking after their own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of
his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue
as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they
willingly are ignorant of,
that by the word of God the heavens
were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:"
2 Peter 3:5-6
The creation and demise of the theory of evolution
| Year | Event |
|---|
| 1795 |
James Hutton publishes the doctrine of uniformity in his publication Theory of the Earth. |
| 1830 |
Sir Charles Lyell publishes The Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes now in Operation (i.e. "all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation"). Here Lyell, as Peter prophesied, willingly ignores the flood and assumes that "the present is the key to the past". |
| 1831 |
Darwin boards the HMS Beagle with his favorite book, Lyell's Principles of Geology. |
| 1859 |
Darwin publishes The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. |
| 1922 |
Evolutionists present Nebraska man, using as their evidence a single tooth. Later, the tooth was found to have come from a pig. |
| 1925 |
The Scopes Trial: Tennessee vs. John Scopes held in Dayton, Tennessee. |
| 1953 |
Piltdown man shown to be a fraud by chemical tests. Piltdown man was considered "the fraud of the century". |
| 1961 |
Creation science revival begins with Morris and Whitcomb publishing The Genesis Flood. |
| 1980 |
Mount St. Helens erupts and forms a miniature Grand Canyon, showing that geologic formations do not require millions of years, but rather can occur very rapidly -- in less than 24 hours in this case. |
| 1984 |
The intelligent design movement begins with publication of The Mystery of Life's Origin by Thaxton, Bradley, and Olson. |
| 1986 |
Professor Michael Denton publishes Evolution: A Theory in Crisis. |
| 1997 |
Haeckel's embryos are officially declared fraudulent and proved wrong by M. K. Richardson (Richardson et al., "Haeckel, embryos, and evolution", Science 280: 983-984). |
| 2003 |
Dr. John Baumgardner (revered by U.S. News and World Report as a world expert on planetary mantle dynamics) presents evidence for accelerated nuclear decay rates, showing that radiocarbon dating has been an artifact of uniformitarian assumptions. See GlobalFlood.org for more. |
Further reading
- Evolution Fraud -- an overview of many of the fraudulent evidences which were supposed to support evolution.
"Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
See, I have this day set you over the nations
and over the kingdoms,
To root out and to pull down,
To destroy and to throw down,
To build and to plant."
Jeremiah 1:9b-10
