Chapter 3
Evolution - fact or theory 
I should say here I am not academic and most of my questioning came about because a group of us just liked to bug our science teachers. One of the questions that used to come up regularly in our class test was the 2nd. Law of Thermodynamics. This stuck in my brain because it was great to use when talking to girls. “Hey guess what I learned today……..”
Although I bought into this evolution thing as a fact of life there were still things that that didn’t make sense.
Thermodynamics is what they call an exact science that is based on a limited number of specific mathematical concepts. The part that stuck with me was that when a thing changes and because energy become less available that change becomes irreversible. For example metal will rust and can not return to what it once was. True, but……
If the temperature drops below freezing, the probability of water becoming ice is very high. The change from water to ice is thermodynamically irreversible. If the surrounding temperature should happen to rise above the freezing point, the probability of water becoming ice, or remaining as ice, is zero. Under these conditions the reverse change of ice to liquid water is also thermodynamically irreversible.
Other things they used to throw at us to prove that evolution was a fact was missing links like the Nebraska Man and the Piltdown man. This must be true after all there were colour pictures in our text books.
(An excerpt from one of my sermons)
“Kids, welcome to biology 101 In this class we are going to learn about all sorts of interesting stuff. We’re going to learn how to cut up a frog. We’re going to pick flowers and learn about pistols and stamens and all sorts of fun stuff. But first of all boys and girls, what you must know above all else is, that you are an accident. You have absolutely no reason for being here, there is no meaning or purpose to your life.
You’re nothing but a conglomeration of molecules that came together purely by chance billions and billions of years ago.
All the dust and the gas in the galaxy for who knows how long and then bumped into each other and said “I know let’s be organic” and so they became organic and they became these slimy things swimming around in the primordial soup, and they grew little feet and they crawled up on the land and grew all these fur and feathers, and then became these higher forms of life, and they turned into monkeys and the monkeys turned into apes and the apes decided to shave, so they shaved and they became what you are today!
You know from goo to you by way of the zoo and as such you don’t have any reason for being here, your existence is pointless and the world won’t mind a bit when you die you’ll just be so much compost.
Class dismissed kids, now make your way along to room 102 where we are running that new class on self esteem.”
The Nebraska Man was named in 1922 from a humanlike tooth which had been found in Nebraska. Evolutionists used one tooth to build an entire species of primitive man, complete with illustrations of him and his family, before further excavations revealed the tooth to belong to a peccary, an animal similar to (and closely related to) pigs.
such a drawing or 'reconstruction' would doubtless be only a figment of the imagination of no scientific value, and undoubtedly inaccurate." (quoted in Wolf and Mellett 1985)
In 1912 Charles Dawson discovered the first of two skulls found in the Piltdown quarry in Sussex, England, skulls of an apparently primitive hominid, an ancestor of man. Piltdown man, or Eoanthropus dawsoni to use his scientific name, was a sensation. He was the expected "missing link" a mixture of human and ape with the noble brow of Homo sapiens and a primitive jaw. Best of all, he was British!
In the Readers Digest in 1953, the truth came out. Piltdown man was a hoax, the most ancient of people who never were.
These hoaxes I only found out about later on after I had left school.
And finally how could an eye evolve???? It’s either an eye or it isn’t???? 
The question is that if Science was wrong about evolution what does that leave us with………………………………….To be continued
I think this is where the difference between the UK and US is most evident, in the teaching and understanding of evolution!
As a child interested in science I was always fascinated by evolution and genetics, to the point where I now teach science. However I have never once found that evolution is in contridiction to my christian beliefs. There are so many miracles of science that I know I will never comprehend, but they were designed by God in His holy wisdom. Evolution does not teach about accidents (only people who totally discount evolution talk about it in these terms), but it teaches about design for a purpose.
How could a mechinism so powerful, complicated and totally unique to the Earth as the evolutionary process have come about by any other means than our ever loving God himself?