“WHERE DID THE DINOSAURS GO?!”

TEXT:  Genesis 6:17,18

INTRO.:	A.  The “scientific” answers to the question of “WHERE DID
	THE DINOSAURS GO? are almost as _______ as the various theories of
	evolution.  Some say that disease wiped them out, others famine, predators,
	inability to adapt to changing conditions (anti-evolution!), astral cataclysm,
	etc.  Disney’s classic “Fantasia” graphically depicts their demise owing to some
	sort of cataclysmic weather change which brought about famine and
	death and a great flood to form the ________ paleontologists dig up today.

B.	The Bible’s answer to the question of the dinosaurs disappearance is much more plausible and absolutely infallible!  Let’s weigh the evidence in support of the evolutionist’s claims and the Biblical record…

I.	THE ARK & THE ANIMALS:  GENESIS 7:21-24

A.	All the _____________ Creatures:

	1.  The _____ creatures were obviously excluded from the Ark.
		2.  The ___________ creatures:  animals, insects, and birds were included.

ILLUS.:  Evolutionists estimate about a million species of animals living on the earth today.
	Can we put them all in the ark?  Obviously not.  But it is not ________.  Excluding the sea-
	creatures:  fish, echinoderms, brachiopods, etc. whose natural habitat is water, but including
	the amphibians we narrow down the number of species to about 17,500.  Taking 17,500
	males and 17,500 females we have about 35,000 animals in the ark.  The average size is
	about that of a _____ or large ___.  You can place 35,000 sheep in 146 boxcars with three
	tiers.  There are about 850,000 species of insects so we need to take about 1,700,000
	species and allowing about two inches of flying or crawling space for each, we would need
	another 21 railroad cars or a total of 167.
		The Ark, figuring the cubit conservatively at 17.5 inches, had the capacity of ________
	railroad cars!  We could put all the animals on the bottom story, Noah and his family on the
	second story, and have plenty of space left for ____, water, and recreation in an area larger
	than a football field!  (437’ long, 73’ wide and 44’ high – the largest vessel built till the 19th
	century!)

a.	God may have used the “_____________” in the animals to bring them to the ark, causing mass migration.
b.	He could have kept them in a state of ________________ during the year long voyage, reducing their food intake, etc.

ILLUS.:  Someone says wait a minute!  How are you going to put a 60 ton ___________ into
	the ark?  Very carefully!  However it is reasonable to assume that very ________ creatures
	were taken for reasons of space, manageability, reproduction of the species, etc.

	B.  ______________ & Dogs:

1.	If God created ALL the dry-land animals on the 6th day – that included the _____________ as well as dogs.

2.	Just as Noah didn’t have to take all the ________ of dogs on the ark (a Chihuahua
and a St. Bernard), so too he didn’t have to take a Brontosaur and an Allosaur; the
gene pool in the various “kinds” would supply the variety after the flood.

ILLUS.:  Evolutionists claim that dinosaurs lived 70 million years ago and that ______ evolved
	millions of years later.  But footprints of ___________ and dinosaurs have been preserved
	overlapping each other in the Paluxy river bed in Texas and in other places.  Also dinosaur
	pictures have been found on cave walls in Rhodesia and other places.  Since the artists who
	painted them lived only about 3,500 years ago and only painted from things they actually
	_____, dinosaurs and man were ______________!  Maybe the Flintstones and Alley Oop
	aren't so wrong after all!
		One “scientist” invited to inspect such paintings, without ever leaving his office,
	concluded the pictures were not ____________, but an ant bear (aardvark) or a giraffe.  A
	paleontologist who cannot tell the difference between an aardvark and a giraffe wouldn’t
	know a brontosaurus if he tripped over one!  But because of his ____________ regarding
	evolution, he did not want to consider facts which didn’t fit his ______________.

a.	Job testified to a creature called “______” whose description fits a powerful reptile obviously extinct today.  (cf. Job 41)
b.	Job also spoke of a creature he labeled “____________” which was almost certainly a brontosaurus or supersaurus.  (Job 40)

ILLUS.:  According to the evolutionist’s “survival of the fittest” theory, the dinosaurs should
	have outlived man or any other creature.  The ___ provides a much more viable solution to
	the demise of the dinosaurs than any evolutionary hypothesis.

II.  THE FLOOD & THE FOOLS:	PSALM 14:1; 53:1

A.	__________________ Conditions:

1.	Unbelievable climatic and geographical changes would have taken place as a result of a cataclysm of such _______________ proportions.
2.	Since only two of each creature would have survived the flood, it would be easy to understand why some creatures would not ______________.

NOTE:  After the flood God permitted something not allowed before, viz., the eating of _____
	by man.  (Genesis 9:1-4)  Man became a ______.  Man is the great threat to any species
	good for food or that stands in the way of expanding his own habitat.

a.	As a result of the collapse of the _____ canopy which surrounded our planet before the flood, the sun’s radiation bombarded the globe shortening the __ expectancy of every creature including man.
b.	Many __________ creatures with voracious appetites would have found the post-flood world hostile indeed and vegetation initially very scarce.
c.	The ________ of the post-flood world would explain the extinction of many creatures unable to adapt from their pre-flood tropical or sub-tropical climates.  (e.g. Mammoths frozen in ice in Siberia in the tens of thousands.)

1)	Some dinosaurs apparently exist ____________.

ILLUS.:  Reports of dinosaur sightings or giant reptiles continue to circulate from the
	rain-forests of the world where pre-flood conditions are approximated.

	A newspaper report of a snake 150 feet long with a head so large 10 men were needed to
	support it appeared several years ago.  (Reptiles continue to grow as long as they live.
	Increase their life span, increase their size.)  In Africa creatures resembling the
	___________ are said to live.  The scientific journal “Argosy” printed a story of a ship that
	detected on their sonar a 150 foot long marine creature with a long slender neck, unlike any
	known whales or other living sea creatures.
		Fossils of rhinoceroses, camels, bears, panthers, pigs, elephants, tigers, wolves, and
	birds ________ the size of their modern counterparts have been found.  Insects also were
	larger.  Dragon flies with 20 and 30 inch wingspans, plants much larger than anything
	presently surviving on the planet are known to have existed.  Ten thousand pound sloths
	once roamed the forests!		Patten, “The Biblical Flood & The Ice Epoch”

2)	Crocodiles, kimodo dragons, giant lizards, etc. may be _______ from the dinosaur age which adapted to the environment.

3.	Since the flood was world-wide we would expect to find the very conditions we do find in the __________ record.  (Genesis 7:17-20)
4.	In fact __________ the flood can account for the fossil record.

a.	No appreciable numbers of fossils are being _________ today.
b.	The requirements of lime, sand, etc. and the proper amount of _________, some type of catastrophic event, and suitable fossilizing chemicals in the water do not exist.
c.	Hydrologic ________ explains the fossils much better than any evolutionary model.

ILLUS.:  What we find in the fossil record is that certain creatures are buried ________.  The
	sea creatures together, amphibians together, herding animals together, etc.  The creatures
	which would have been able to move to higher ground did so and are nearest the surface.
	Man therefore would be at the ___ of the geological heap!  That’s why the evolutionist says
	man appeared very late in history.  He was the last to _____!  His fossils would be found in
	the “youngest strata”.

d.	Rapid ________ is necessary for the formation of fossils revealing soft body parts, scales, feathers, etc. and the forty day flood of Noah’s day with tidal waves, rock thrusting, earth movement, huge silt deposits, etc. would be consistent with the requirements.
e.	Coal and oil deposits can also be accounted for in this scenario.

ILLUS.:  Coal requires large quantities of compressed ________ without heat loss.  Oil needs
	large quantities of compressed _____________.  (There may be some truth to that slogan
	about putting a tiger in your tank.)  Some of the very high pressures necessary to contain
	the gas and oil deposits slowly escape and finally reach the surface.  “It has been estimated
	that the high pressures could not be contained for longer than about ___________ before
	they were dissipated.  Yet petroleum is still present under those tremendously high
	pressures.  IS IT NOT EVIDENT THAT THE ANIMAL LIFE WHICH PRODUCED THE
	PETROLEUM WAS TRAPPED SUDDENLY ONLY A FEW THOUSAND YEARS AGO?  (emphasis
	mine)  The evidence is consistent with the biblical record of a global flood just a few
	_______ years ago, not with the evolutionary picture of slow burial over periods of millions
	of years.”  -Seagraves; “The Great Dinosaur Mistake”

5.	Only the biblical record of the _____ can account for the present population growth.

ILLUS.:  The evolutionist postulates that man has been on the planet for approximately one
	million years.  If we start with Mr. & Mrs. Zinjanthropus or Mr. & Mrs. Australopithecine and
	they had 2.4 children per generation and lived 43 years each generation and died, the
	present population ought to be 10 to the 1800th power or 1 followed by 1800 zeros.  That
	would fill all the land mass on the ______ and all the ocean beds, stacking people on top of
	each other out to a distance of 10 billion light years.
		But if we start with Mr. & Mrs. Noah, using the same formula, we come up with
	approximately 3½ billion, much closer to what is actually so.  (Source for above statistics,
	IBID.)

6.	What about ____________ methods for “pre-historic fossils”?

a.	The evolutionist uses circular reasoning, not scientific reasoning to reach the fantastic dates given to _____________ evidence.

ILLUS.:  You find a genuine dinosaur bone and you take it to a paleontologist.  He asks his
	geologist friend what strata of rock the bone was located in.  He says 70 million year old
	rock.  Ask the geologist how he knows it is 70 million year old rock and he will say because
	the paleontologist told him it was a dinosaur bone and dinosaurs lived 70 million years ago!
		The _____ was dated by the (index) fossil it contained and the ____ was dated by the
	rock it was found in.  Potassium-argon, Carbon 14, or some other radioactive methods were
	not used because “there is not a single dating method that can be used to determine the age
	of (these) fossils.”  IBID
		Examples:  Using the Carbon 14 dating method on _________ Antarctic penguins have
	yielded ages of 3,000 years.  Seals recently killed gave ages of 1,000 years!

b.	The problem stems from a _______ in uniformitarianism, i.e., the present is the key to the past.
c.	Evolutionists _______ that all the processes presently in effect have always been in effect.

B.	Present Day Conditions:

1.	Just like in Noah’s day men are __________ and refuse to believe the truth.
2.	Noah stood pleading for 120 years for men to get in the ark with him to ______ the coming judgment.

ILLUS.:  No doubt the professors, scientists, and religionists scoffed at Noah and told him
	“_____” was impossible because it had never happened before!  (Uniformitarianism)  There
	was no God or He would have intervened centuries before to stop all the killing, disease, etc.
	(Evolution, Liberalism)  God will not intervene, even if there is a God, for He must be a God
	of love.

II Peter 3:3-9:	3)  Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,
				     walking after their own lusts,
4)	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.
5)	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:
6)	Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7)	But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8)	But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9)	The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

3.	These ____ rejected Noah’s (& God’s) warnings and up to three billion men, women, and children died in the Flood!  Only eight people were saved!
4.	The present day fools who reject God also ignore God’s warnings of a future judgment by _____________.

II Peter 3:10-11:	10)  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which
				       the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements
				       shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are
				       therein shall be burned up.
11)	 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,…?

5.	In addition to the judgment by fire of the heavens and the earth, there is another more personal judgment:  “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:”  (Hebrews 9:27)

CONCL.:  Today there is another ark of safety.  It too only has _________.  Jesus said; “I am
	the door:  by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, …”  (John 10:9)  Better get on
	board!!!

F.H. - 12/8/91                                            

“WHERE DID THE DINOSAURS GO?!”

TEXT:  Genesis 6:17,18

INTRO.:	A.  The “scientific” answers to the question of “WHERE DID
	THE DINOSAURS GO? are almost as varied as the various theories of
	evolution.  Some say that disease wiped them out, others famine, predators,
	inability to adapt to changing conditions (anti-evolution!), astral cataclysm,
	etc.  Disney’s classic “Fantasia” graphically depicts their demise owing to some
	sort of cataclysmic weather change which brought about famine and
	death and a great flood to form the fossils paleontologists dig up today.

C.	The Bible’s answer to the question of the dinosaurs disappearance is much more plausible and absolutely infallible!  Let’s weigh the evidence in support of the evolutionist’s claims and the Biblical record…

J.	THE ARK & THE ANIMALS:  GENESIS 7:21-24

B.	All the Dry-Land Creatures:

	1.  The sea creatures were obviously excluded from the Ark.
		2.  The dry-land creatures:  animals, insects, and birds were included.

ILLUS.:  Evolutionists estimate about a million species of animals living on the earth today.
	Can we put them all in the ark?  Obviously not.  But it is not necessary.  Excluding the sea-
	creatures:  fish, echinoderms, brachiopods, etc. whose natural habitat is water, but including
	the amphibians we narrow down the number of species to about 17,500.  Taking 17,500
	males and 17,500 females we have about 35,000 animals in the ark.  The average size is
	about that of a sheep or large dog.  You can place 35,000 sheep in 146 boxcars with three
	tiers.  There are about 850,000 species of insects so we need to take about 1,700,000
	species and allowing about two inches of flying or crawling space for each, we would need
	another 21 railroad cars or a total of 167.
		The Ark, figuring the cubit conservatively at 17.5 inches, had the capacity of 522
	railroad cars!  We could put all the animals on the bottom story, Noah and his family on the
	second story, and have plenty of space left for food, water, and recreation in an area larger
	than a football field!  (437’ long, 73’ wide and 44’ high – the largest vessel built till the 19th
	century!)

c.	God may have used the “homing instinct” in the animals to bring them to the ark, causing mass migration.
d.	He could have kept them in a state of semi-hibernation during the year long voyage, reducing their food intake, etc.

ILLUS.:  Someone says wait a minute!  How are you going to put a 60 ton brontosaurus into
	the ark?  Very carefully!  However it is reasonable to assume that very young creatures were
	taken for reasons of space, manageability, reproduction of the species, etc.

	B.  Dinosaurs & Dogs:

3.	If God created ALL the dry-land animals on the 6th day – that included the dinosaurs
     as well as dogs.

4.	Just as Noah didn’t have to take all the varieties of dogs on the ark (a Chihuahua
and a St. Bernard), so too he didn’t have to take a Brontosaur and an Allosaur; the
gene pool in the various “kinds” would supply the variety after the flood.

ILLUS.:  Evolutionists claim that dinosaurs lived 70 million years ago and that man evolved
	millions of years later.  But footprints of man and dinosaurs have been preserved
	overlapping each other in the Paluxy river bed in Texas and in other places.  Also dinosaur
	pictures have been found on cave walls in Rhodesia and other places.  Since the artists who
	painted them lived only about 3,500 years ago and only painted from things they actually
	saw, dinosaurs and man were contemporaneous!  Maybe the Flintstones and Alley Oop
	aren't so wrong after all!
		One “scientist” invited to inspect such paintings, without ever leaving his office,
	concluded the pictures were not dinosaurs, but an ant bear (aardvark) or a giraffe.  A
	paleontologist who cannot tell the difference between an aardvark and a giraffe wouldn’t
	know a brontosaurus if he tripped over one!  But because of his preconception regarding
	evolution, he did not want to consider facts which didn’t fit his theory.

c.	Job testified to a creature called “leviathan” whose description fits a powerful reptile obviously extinct today.  (cf. Job 41)
d.	Job also spoke of a creature he labeled “behemoth” which was almost certainly a brontosaurus or supersaurus.  (Job 40)

ILLUS.:  According to the evolutionist’s “survival of the fittest” theory, the dinosaurs should
	have outlived man or any other creature.  The Bible provides a much more viable solution to
	the demise of the dinosaurs than any evolutionary hypothesis.

II.  THE FLOOD & THE FOOLS:	PSALM 14:1; 53:1

C.	Post-Flood Conditions:

7.	Unbelievable climatic and geographical changes would have taken place as a result of a cataclysm of such universal proportions.
8.	Since only two of each creature would have survived the flood, it would be easy to understand why some creatures would not survive.

NOTE:  After the flood God permitted something not allowed before, viz., the eating of flesh by
	man.  (Genesis 9:1-4)  Man became a hunter.  Man is the great threat to any species good
	for food or that stands in the way of expanding his own habitat.

d.	As a result of the collapse of the vapor canopy which surrounded our planet before the flood, the sun’s radiation bombarded the globe shortening the life expectancy of every creature including man.
e.	Many vegetarian creatures with voracious appetites would have found the post-flood world hostile indeed and vegetation initially very scarce.
f.	The Ice-Age of the post-flood world would explain the extinction of many creatures unable to adapt from their pre-flood tropical or sub-tropical climates.  (e.g. Mammoths frozen in ice in Siberia in the tens of thousands.)

3)	Some dinosaurs apparently exist today.

ILLUS.:  Reports of dinosaur sightings or giant reptiles continue to circulate from the
	rain-forests of the world where pre-flood conditions are approximated.

	A newspaper report of a snake 150 feet long with a head so large 10 men were needed to
	support it appeared several years ago.  (Reptiles continue to grow as long as they live.
	Increase their life span, increase their size.)  In Africa creatures resembling the brontosaurus
	are said to live.  The scientific journal “Argosy” printed a story of a ship that detected on
	their sonar a 150 foot long marine creature with a long slender neck, unlike any known
	whales or other living sea creatures.
		Fossils of rhinoceroses, camels, bears, panthers, pigs, elephants, tigers, wolves, and
	birds twice the size of their modern counterparts have been found.  Insects also were larger. 
	Dragon flies with 20 and 30 inch wingspans, plants much larger than anything presently
	surviving on the planet are known to have existed.  Ten thousand pound sloths once roamed
	the forests!		Patten, “The Biblical Flood & The Ice Epoch”

4)	Crocodiles, kimono dragons, giant lizards, etc. may be leftovers from the dinosaur age which adapted to the environment.

9.	Since the flood was world-wide we would expect to find the very conditions we do find in the fossil record.  (Genesis 7:17-20)
10.	In fact ONLY the flood can account for the fossil record.

f.	No appreciable numbers of fossils are being formed today.
g.	The requirements of lime, sand, etc. and the proper amount of pressure, some type of catastrophic event, and suitable fossilizing chemicals in the water do not exist.
h.	Hydrologic sorting explains the fossils much better than any evolutionary model.

ILLUS.:  What we find in the fossil record is that certain creatures are buried together.  The
	sea creatures together, amphibians together, herding animals together, etc.  The creatures
	which would have been able to move to higher ground did so and are nearest the surface.
	Man therefore would be at the top of the geological heap!  That’s why the evolutionist says
	man appeared very late in history.  He was the last to drown!  His fossils would be found in
	the “youngest strata”.

i.	Rapid burial is necessary for the formation of fossils revealing soft body parts, scales, feathers, etc. and the forty day flood of Noah’s day with tidal waves, rock thrusting, earth movement, huge silt deposits, etc. would be consistent with the requirements.
j.	Coal and oil deposits can also be accounted for in this scenario.

ILLUS.:  Coal requires large quantities of compressed vegetation without heat loss.  Oil needs
	large quantities of compressed animal material.  (There may be some truth to that slogan
	about putting a tiger in your tank.)  Some of the very high pressures necessary to contain
	the gas and oil deposits slowly escape and finally reach the surface.  “It has been estimated
	that the high pressures could not be contained for longer than about 10,000 years before
	they were dissipated.  Yet petroleum is still present under those tremendously high
	pressures.  IS IT NOT EVIDENT THAT THE ANIMAL LIFE WHICH PRODUCED THE
	PETROLEUM WAS TRAPPED SUDDENLY ONLY A FEW THOUSAND YEARS AGO?  (emphasis
	mine)  The evidence is consistent with the biblical record of a global flood just a few
	thousand years ago, not with the evolutionary picture of slow burial over periods of millions
	of years.”  -Seagraves; “The Great Dinosaur Mistake”

11.	Only the biblical record of the Flood can account for the present population growth.

ILLUS.:  The evolutionist postulates that man has been on the planet for approximately one
	million years.  If we start with Mr. & Mrs. Zinjanthropus or Mr. & Mrs. Australopithecine and
	they had 2.4 children per generation and lived 43 years each generation and died, the
	present population ought to be 10 to the 1800th power or 1 followed by 1800 zeros.  That
	would fill all the land mass on the planet and all the ocean beds, stacking people on top of
	each other out to a distance of 10 billion light years.
		But if we start with Mr. & Mrs. Noah, using the same formula, we come up with
	approximately 3½ billion, much closer to what is actually so.  (Source for above statistics,
	IBID.)

12.	What about dating methods for “pre-historic fossils”?

d.	The evolutionist uses circular reasoning, not scientific reasoning to reach the fantastic dates given to fossil evidence.

ILLUS.:  You find a genuine dinosaur bone and you take it to a paleontologist.  He asks his
	geologist friend what strata of rock the bone was located in.  He says 70 million year old
	rock.  Ask the geologist how he knows it is 70 million year old rock and he will say because
	the paleontologist told him it was a dinosaur bone and dinosaurs lived 70 million years ago!
		The rock was dated by the (index) fossil it contained and the fossil was dated by the
	rock it was found in.  Potassium-argon, Carbon 14, or some other radioactive methods were
	not used because “there is not a single dating method that can be used to determine the age
	of (these) fossils.”  IBID
		Examples:  Using the Carbon 14 dating method on living Antarctic penguins have yielded
	ages of 3,000 years.  Seals recently killed gave ages of 1,000 years!

e.	The problem stems from a BELIEF in uniformitarianism, i.e., the present is the key to the past.
f.	Evolutionists BELIEVE that all the processes presently in effect have always been in effect.

D.	Present Day Conditions:

6.	Just like in Noah’s day men are wicked and refuse to believe the truth.
7.	Noah stood pleading for 120 years for men to get in the ark with him to avoid the coming judgment.

ILLUS.:  No doubt the professors, scientists, and religionists scoffed at Noah and told him
	“rain” was impossible because it had never happened before!  (Uniformitarianism)  There
	was no God or He would have intervened centuries before to stop all the killing, disease, etc.
	(Evolution, Liberalism)  God will not intervene, even if there is a God, for He must be a God
	of love.

II Peter 3:3-9:	3)  Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,
				     walking after their own lusts,
10)	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.
11)	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:
12)	Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
13)	But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
14)	But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
15)	The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

8.	These fools rejected Noah’s (& God’s) warnings and up to three billion men, women, and children died in the Flood!  Only eight people were saved!
9.	The present day fools who reject God also ignore God’s warnings of a future judgment by fire.

II Peter 3:10-11:	10)  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which
				       the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements
				       shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are
				       therein shall be burned up.
12)	 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,…?

10.	In addition to the judgment by fire of the heavens and the earth, there is another more personal judgment:  “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:”  (Hebrews 9:27)

CONCL.:  Today there is another ark of safety.  It too only has one door.  Jesus said; “I am the
	door:  by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, …”  (John 10:9)  Better get on board!!!

	        Just
  Arrived!				"IN THE BEGINNING..."

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female created he them."
(Genesis 1:27)

"One's beliefs concerning origins will inevitably condition his beliefs
   concerning intrinsic meanings and ultimate destinies."
Henry Morris, Evolution & the Modern Christian
INTRO.:  We do not question the sincerity of the evolutionist-scientist,
    nor his evidences...simply the interpretation of that evidence.  God
    has definitely revealed Himself in the rocks (Geology), the animals
    (Zoology), etc., but also in His Word.
    Since both the revelation in nature and the Revelation of His Word
    must agree, scientific findings must fit into this framework.
    God is consistent, men are not always so!

I.  THE EVOLUTIONIST MUST RECOGNIZE THE SCIENTIFIC ALTERNATIVES TO HIS
ONE-SIDED, SIMPLISTIC APPROACH TO THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES:

1.	He must examine all the evidence available.

ILLUS.:  One scientist, more honest than most, put it this way:  "The only alternative to Evolution is
  Special Creation, and that is unthinkable."

	2.  He must be willing to consider all the possibilities.

		a.  Organic evolution - amoeba to man.
		b.  Theistic evolution - God and evolution.
		c.  Progressive Creation - stage creation with time gaps between symbolic "days".
		d.  The Gap Theory - creation, destruction, re-creation.  (Genesis 1:1-3)
		e.  Recent Creation - six literal days, approximately 6,000 years ago.

II.  THE EVOLUTIONIST MUST EXPLAIN THE "GAPS" IN THE EVOLUTIONARY PICTURE HE
		HAS PAINTED WITHOUT RESORTING TO DECEIT:

	1.  The Gap between the non-living substance and the living creature.
	2.  The Gap between the one-celled and the multi-celled creature.
	3.  The Gap between the invertebrates and the vertebrates.
	4.  The Gap between mammals and man.

III.  THE EVOLUTIONIST MUST ANSWER THE OFTEN AVOIDED QUESTIONS RAISED BY HIS
		OPPONENTS:

	1.  Why has evolution stopped?
	2.  Why are there no "half and half" or intermediate creatures living today?
	3.  How did the intermediate creatures survive without the high degree of complexity in
	     various specialized organs, etc. during the evolutionary process?
	4.  What about "living fossils"?  e.g. Coelacanth, crocodiles, etc.?
5.	What about man and "pre-historic" animals living contemporaneously?
6.	What about evidences of intelligence throughout creation?
7.	What about the first two laws of Thermo-dynamics?
a.	Energy Conservation – Energy is neither being created nor destroyed.  Creation is an event of the past.
b.	Entropy – All physical systems left to self wear out, run down, become disordered, die.

IV.	THE EVOLUTIONIST, TO DEMAND RESPECTABILITY FOR HIS THEORY, MUST
ABANDON THE OBVIOUSLY UNSUPPORTABLE IDEAS OF HIS PREDECESSORS:
1.	Embryonic Recapitulation is ridiculous.
2.	The Geologic Column is a myth.
3.	Blood Precipitation Tests are inconclusive.
4.	Vestigial Organs are becoming scarcer and scarcer.
5.	Comparative Anatomy reveals a Common Designer more than relationship of species.

V.	THE EVOLUTIONIST MUST ANSWER FOR THE SYSTEMS SPAWNED BY HIS
GODLESS THEORY:
1.	Humanism…  places man above God; even makes man into a god.
2.	Nazism…  the “Super Race” of Hitler was based on “the survival of the fittest.”
3.	Rationalism…  places the intellect of man above the Revelation of God.
4.	Communism…  promises man a utopia through an anti-God program.
5.	Scientism…  a pseudo-scientific approach to the problems of humanity.  Says, “Science has all the answers.”
6.	Hedonism…  We are only animals, without morals, etc., thus we should only live for the animal appetites.  This is the current “Playboy” philosophy.  “Eat, drink, and be merry,” live only for pleasure.
7.	Materialism…  “Dog eat dog” – gain is good – use any means to compete with fellow “animals”.  No God to answer to.

CONCL.:	If Evolution is correct, we are evolving in every area.  We are moving
  toward a Utopia where man, learning from the mistakes of his past, eliminates war,
  poverty, disease, exploitation of his neighbor, etc.
		If the Bible is correct, we are devolving in every area.  We are moving
  toward destruction and judgment for rejecting His revelation in nature, and more
  importantly, His Special or Supernatural Revelation; His Word.  (The Word of God takes
  two forms:  Written [the Bible] and Living [the Christ].)
Evolution is a dead end!  It says man is just a higher animal without a
  future after death.
The Bible presents hope for today and tomorrow!  But to enjoy this hope you must be
  willing to accept the Word of God in both forms.  You must accept the written Word
  (“…faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”  Romans 10:17) and
  the Living Word, the Christ.  (“I am the way, the truth, and the life:  no man cometh
  unto the Father, but by me.”, Jesus said.  John 14:6)
True science and the Bible will always agree.  There is no real
  contradiction between the two.  The apparent discrepancies are a
  result of insufficient knowledge on our part or a misinterpretation of
  the data available.  The God of nature is also the God of salvation.  He
  cannot contradict Himself!

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EMBRYONIC RECAPITULATION:  This nonsense still shows up in textbooks to brainwash students
	that the human embryo or fetus (baby!) goes through (recapitulates) all the stages of evolutionary
	development:  fish, amphibian, primate, human (what, no birds?!).  What a hoax!  With the
	development of tiny cameras which can photograph the baby in the mother’s womb, this hoax is
	exposed.
THE GEOLOGIC COLUMN:  The drawings(!) [Why no photos, Dr.?] continue to show up in textbooks to
	indoctrinate students into believing that the strata in the earth clearly depicts the evolutionary ages
	and that the fossil record is complete.  What a hoax!  There are no (zero, zip, nada, none)
	intermediate “evolutionary” (transitional) creatures in the fossil record.  Hydrologic sifting (at the time
	of Noah’s flood) is a better explanation for the increasing complexity of creatures in the earth’s
	strata.  The same phenomena occurs in local floods today.  “Go west young man” and start digging in
	strata laid down last summer and see for yourself; worms at the bottom, more complex creatures as
	you go up!  The hoax is exposed.  (No where on earth does the “geologic column” appear but in
	textbook drawings!)
VESTIGIAL ORGANS:  Old “scientific” and biology textbooks had dozens of vestigial (rudimentary or
	atrophied) organs which were supposed to be leftovers of our evolutionary development (like ear
	lobes, the “tailbone” [coccyx], tonsils, etc.).  The list has disappeared.  Everything God placed in our
	bodies is necessary and functional.  What a hoax!  This hoax too has been exposed by increased
	knowledge.  Why don’t the “scientists” apologize?  Are you kidding?!
BLOOD PRECIPITATION TESTS:  This hoax is rarely mentioned today.  It is too embarrassing!
	“Scientists”(?!) used to match blood samples to attempt to prove species relationships.  One test
	proved conclusively that bats and whales were close relatives!  (The bats were in the belfries of the
	learned scientists.)  Question:  When these scientists need a blood transfusion, why don’t they go to
	the zoo?  (Maybe they can get one from a chimpanzee – their cousin!)
MISSING LINKS:  Where are they?  Produce just one!  (“Sorry – wrong number.”)  If evolution is true
	there should be hundreds of thousands or millions of transitional creatures in the fossil record.  Alas,
	another hoax.  Look around – do you see any “cardjays” (half cardinal and half blue jay) or “lygers”
	(lions/tigers) or “doats” (dogs/cats) or “lizirds” (lizards/birds), etc.?  For the scientists out there: 
	when a mommy dog and a poppa dog get together, they only produce baby dogs – never cats, cows,
	or cowboys!  Get the picture?!  No dolphins (mammals) are crawling on the beach or climbing trees
	and no land creature is going back into the sea (as some “scientists” suggest occurred with dolphins,
	whales, etc.  Proof?  Are you kidding?!)
		The evolutionists are so determined to “prove” their theory, they occasionally “create” (dirty
	word) their own missing links:  Piltoown man, Australopithicus (Lucy), Cro-Magnon man, et.al. from
	pig’s teeth, a quarter-sized skull bone, a shin bone, here a bone – there a bone…then they pay
	artists(!) to use their imagination to “create” (I guess it’s okay when they use this word) whole races
	or civilizations!  A hoax by any other name…all the missing links are still missing!!!
BILLIONS OR MILLIONS OF YEARS:  The learned “scientists” tell us that the reason we do not see
	transitional creatures today is because evolution is veeeerry slow.  But, given enough time – anything
	can happen.  (“Dear Doc, take one of your geologic rocks and put it in a jar of water and let it sit
	there for 10 years or 10,000 years or 10,000,000 years and see if it sprouts an eyeball or a leg or
	anything!”)  All the “laws” of science are against “spontaneous generation” or life from non-life!  In
	fact, the first “missing link” is the development of life from inorganic matter.  Then there is the
	problem of the missing link between one-celled and multi-celled creatures and between vertebrates
	and invertebrates and between monkey and man!  The fact is there is not enough time for any kind
	of evolution!!  What a hoax!
P.S.		Since we are about to shift to the sublime (God’s Word), we will not stoop to the absurd, viz., the
		tragic, inaccurate, prejudiced, non-scientific, evolutionary dating methods.
GOD’S WORD SAYS:  “In the beginning God…”  (Genesis 1:1) – That’s all you need!
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GOD’S WORD SAYS:  “All flesh is not the same flesh:  but there is one kind of flesh of men, another
	flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.”  (I Corinthians 15:39)  End of argument!!!
	I like the simple song by Theron Babcock:
“I’M NO KIN TO THE MONKEY”
VERSES:
1.	It seems so unbelievable, And yet they say that it’s true;
They’re teaching our children in school now, That humans were monkeys once, too.
2.	Although it’s so ridiculous, They teach them now it is true;
The teachers that came from a monkey, Would be better off in the zoo.
3.	It’s so much more believable, And surely, surely it’s true;
That God made man in His image, No monkey story will do.
4.	This monkey business has to go, Because it just isn’t true;
It’s such a disgrace to the monkey, Disgrace to the human race, too.
CHORUS:
I’m no kin to the monkey; The monkey’s no kin to me;
I don’t know much about his ancestors, But mine didn’t swing from a tree.