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- WHAT ABOUT THE PAST?
-
- Actually, there is no evidence at all that evolution ever took place
- in the [past either. In all recorded history, extending back nearly
- five thousand years, no one has ever recorded the natural evolution of
- any kind of creature (living or non-living) into a more complex kind.
-
- Furthermore, all known verticle changes seem to go in the WRONG
- direction. An average of at least one species has become extinct everyday
- since records have been kept, but no new species have evolved into
- higher complexity.
-
- But how about prehistoric changes? The only real records we have of
- this period are presumably to be found in the sedimentary rocks of
- the earth's crust, where billions of fossil remains of former living
- creatures have been preserved for our observation. Again, however, the
- story is one of extinction, not evolution.
-
- Numerous kinds of extinct
- animals are found (e.g. dinosaurs), but never, in all of these billions
- of fossils, is a truly incipient or transitional form found. No fossil
- has ever been found with halfscales/half feathers, half legs/half/wings,
- half-developed heart, half-developed eye, or any other such thing.
-
- If evolution were true, there should be millions of transitional types
- among these multiplied billions of fossils--infact, everything should
- show transitional features. But they do not! If one were to rely
- strickly on the observed evidence, he would have to agree that past
- evolution has also been falsified.
-
- THE NECESSITY OF CREATION
-
- If evolution dod not occur in the past, and does not occur at present,
- then it is entirely imaginary--not part of the real world at all. This
- leaves creation as the necessary explanation of origins.
-
- This fact is also confirmed by the best-proved laws of science--the
- law of conservation in quantity and the law of decay in complexity,
- or the famous First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics.
-
- The First Law notes that, in all real processes, the total quantity of
- matter and/or energy stays constant, even though it frequently changes
- form. A parallel principle in biology notes that "like begets like"--
- dogs are always dogs, for example, though they occur in many varieties.
-
- The Second Law notes that the quality of any system--it's usefulness,
- it's complexity, its information value--always tends to decrease. In
- living organisms, true verticle changes go down , not up--mutations
- cause deterioration, in dividuals die, species become extinct. In
- fact, everything in the universe seems to be headed downhill toward ultimate
- cosmic death.
-
- The First Law notes that NOTHING is being either "created" or "evolved"
- by present processes. The Second Law notes that there is, instead,
-