are internally identical remaining the same genera and species, Biston betularia.1 Absolutely no upward progress over time toward more complexity and higher degrees of order has taken place.
Finally, the fossil record which is offered by evolutionists as physical proof of their belief is totally against them. Time and space forbid a prolonged exposition along these lines as such would be beyond the purpose of this paper, but in passing it should be noted that not only are the transitional forms missing between all the major animal and plant groups, the presence of which would be necessary to maintain such an hypothesis, the gaps are of an unimaginable magnitude. The fossil record is one of mass destruction, death, and burial (almost exclusively by water and its suspended sediments), not that of transformation of one kind into another.
Contrary and hostile to the evolutionary scenario, the fossil record not only reveals a systematic absence of transitional forms, it reveals the sudden explosive appearance of highly diverse forms of life without any preceding intermediate types. Furthermore, since all of the major phyla are found in the Cambrian, the bulk of evolutionary diversity had to have taken place before that era, yet - even granting the legitimacy of the pitifully few Pre-Cambrian supposed "microfossils" (which this author does not) - the gap between these so-called microfossils and the highly organized, diversified life forms found in the Cambrian is immense. The ancestors of the Cambrian organisms simply are not to be found. In short, the laws of thermodynamics tell us that evolution could not happen and the fossil record tells us that evolution did not happen - and that is real science.
Being un-observable, un-testable and thus un-provable, these nature myths (Big Bang etc. - there being several other plausible scientific explanations to account for the "red shift" besides that of an expanding universe) are outside the realm of science. Hence, their adherents must be seen as continuing on in faith with regard to these theories and hypotheses and moreover in so pursuing invariably violate many other well established laws and principles of real science - especially the
1 Duane T. Gish, Evolution, the Fossils Say No!, (San Diego, CA: Master Books, 1972), pp. 38-39. Normally the peppered moth is white with black spots and stripes. Although once a rarity, the dark or carbonaria form has always been known. Around 1850 A.D., the tree trunks in England were mostly light colored. Moreover, the mottled gray lichen grew on these trees. Resting on the trunks with wings outspread, the light-colored variant blended and flourished being nearly non-detectable by the predatory birds whereas the darker population (also referred to in the literature as "melanic"), lacking protection from the environment, was depressed. However with the advent of the industrial revolution and its accompanying pollution, the tree lichen died and the trunks became progressively darker due to the resultant air contamination. Having lost their protective coloration advantage, by 1895 the light colored variety had been decimated by the birds to the extent that around 95% of these moths in the Manchester area were of the carbonaria variety. As of the 1950's, the population had become about 98% of the dark moths.
The population shift was, of course, due to the fact that the darker moths were now inconspicuous against the blackened tree trunks whereas the lighter forms had become more easily detected while resting against the darker background. But is this actually an example or proof of evolution? Indeed it is not. This process has nothing to do with increasing complexity or producing anything new, therefore this interesting occurrence has nothing whatever to do with proving that the lepidopterous insects arose by a naturalistic, mechanistic evolutionary process from non-lepidopterous insects or whether the insects arose from a non-insect life. Moreover, we started with a moth and 100 years later we still had a moth and both remaining forms (light and dark) were internally identical and remained the same genera and species (Biston betularia). Again, positively no upward progress over time toward more complexity and higher degrees of order has taken place.
Furthermore, change resulting in variation within a "kind" is as much to be expected in the Creation Model as it is in the evolutionary scenario. Such variation in the created gene pool would enable the original kinds to have some leeway to adapt to environmental changes. Otherwise they would experience extinction at the slightest changes in temperature, altitude, water supply, food supply etc. This pre-designed built in safety measure was necessary due to the effect of the God imposed Curse which accompanied the Fall which had to be harmonized with the Creator's desire to also preserve (or conserve) the created life forms until they had served their God-intended purposes.
The evolutionist assumes the accumulation of many such minor advantages over time could eventually result in increased complexity and higher order generating a new species, but this is not science. It is merely a belief based solely upon assumption. To bring this to the level of science requires historical observation, experiential evidence, or a transitional series of forms in the fossil record that changes of this kind actually resulted in the production of forms of higher degrees of order and complexity. There does exist change within a kind, but the changes always remain within the kind. This is what man has observed (real science is based on that which is observable, everything else that is made out to be science actually falls into the categories of philosophy or religion) and that observation supports Creationism, for that model contains as part of its basic premise that all changes will stay within the God-established bounds of the original created kind.
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