Originally posted by iowahawkeyes1986:
Originally posted by castichawk24:
Originally posted by Coach4ever:
Many non-Christians have made up their minds about Christianity based upon hearsay information. Many non-Christians would be truly surprised if they would only study the evidence for themselves. I suspect that most people don't actually reject Jesus as much as they reject a false image of Jesus.
Most non-Christians have not rejected Christianity on intellectual grounds. Most people never take the time to take a detailed look at the evidence. However, some of Christianity's greatest champions were former skeptics who sought to discredit Christianity and were compelled to believe once they had viewed the evidence. If you will only examine the evidence for yourself, you will be surprised at what you will find.
I'm still waiting for his evidence that can refute the Big Bang, evolution, quantum theory, and all other scientific theories that contradict the Bible. Me thinks he has none.
Palentology is the scientific study of fossils. The fossil record has often been cited as one of the main evidences for evolution. According to the general theory of evolution, the basic progression of life was as such:
1. Non-living matter
2. Protozoans
3. Metazoan Invertebrates
4. Vertibrate fishes
5. Amphibians
6. Reptiles
7. Birds
8. Fur-bearing quadrupeds
9. Apes
10 Man
In Darwin's day a cell was thought to be very simple, but with the advent of powerful microscopes, we know that the likelihood of evolution of single to multiple-cell organisms has been vastly overestimated. If evolution were true, one would expect to find transitional sequences from one species to another, but the mile deep fossil graveyard around the world, there are huge gaps in the fossil record. No transitional fossils have been found. Where are the millions of creatures that should be part-reptile, part-bird, part-ape, and part-human? The term "missing link" is deceiving because for evolution to be true , there should not be one inter-mediate link but thousands; consequently, the reason no such forms can be found is because such creatures never existed.
The geological record does not reveal the gradual evolution of organisms but sudden appearance of fully developed forms of life. The fossil record indicates that millions of plants and animals have lived and died on the earth. The fossil records does not support the evolution of life over many ages but the destruction of life in one age.
A century ago evolutionists promised that these gaps would be filled, but the gap remains. The study of fossilization has revealed billions and billions of fossil preserved in an abnormal way. Massive fossil graveyards have been uncovered that contain various animals from different climatic areas buried together. Such large scale fossilization does not occur today. When animals die they do not fossilize, they decompose.
The spectacular examples of fossilization point to a worldwide, hydraulic, aqueous cataclysm. This is consistent with the destruction described by the Genesis flood. This flood explains why fossils from one supposed evolutionary age are found mixed in with fossils from another age.
Evidence in the fossil record is embarrassing to the theory of evolution. The fossil record indicates that creation has occurred.