2013-10-31

Evolution vs Creation

Some years ago, I debated with a brother who believed in Evolution.  Below was the discussion content, which I posted for personal notes and future reference.
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I'll never accept evolution as anything but a lie.

Let me start with a parable. If I lay down some sand, steel, quartz, jewels in the ground, given a sufficiently long time (billions of years), is it reasonable to expect these materials to evolve into a nice watch, with beautiful jewel decoration and the word "Rolex" nicely crafted atop? In the same token, given nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, etc on Earth, and given a long enough time, can I expect them to evolve into amino acid, then amoeba, then, wow, all varieties of living things including you and me?

If the watch that you're wearing calls for a designer, how much more does nature itself testify there is a grand creator, i.e. God? So it's written in the Bible, "Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?" (Rom 9:20).

Discussion on the Second Law of Thermodynamics:
Q (me): Have you heard of the law of entropy? The whole universe is in a constant state of decay - the direct opposite of evolution! This theory alone declare the death of the evolution theory.

A: Of course it can decay as well as refine itself (as in evolution); these are two opposites of the same thing (first it has to decay in order to transform/refine itself(evolution) , and there are two factors which determines or hinders true development; And that is the different parts of the universe´s ability to live/exist in congruity with God´s Will or not.
No, the 2nd law of thermodynamics on entropy only suggest that the universe is on a single path of of becoming more and more disordered. There's no return of order, refinement, or evolution. Of course, this is on the physical realm. I just want to point out that as a pure science, the theory of evolution cannot stand.

Discussion on whether Earth is 6000 years old:
Q (me): Do you believe the universe is 6000 years old? Or do you believe that it have billions of years? I've viewed a book "It's a young world after all" which account for this topic.
For the 6000 years theory, I'm only a new comer and this book was the only thing I've heard. Basically, it said that our dating method today is based on a linear decay curve of the elements, mainly carbon. This suggest that our earth / universe are billions years old. But further research showed that the decay curve itself is directly proportional to the speed of light. The key finding is that scientists have discovered that the speed of light is slowing down constantly! By extrapolation, one Australian scientist (being a Christian) found out that the speed of light tends to infinity at about 6000 years ago. That being the case, the whole universe instantly become only 6000 years old. Hence, God could indeed have created the whole universe, solar system, earth, and all living things in 6 days, literally.

From 6000-year old Earth to Einstein's Theory of Relativity:
I do not believe the universe has only 6000 years of history, from earth point of view.  Time is being used throughout the Bible in a different way that we can relate to it. This can be related to by the works of Einstein, in his relativity theory; easily explained as time is subject to variations in length ( that is the individual experience of it (both in physics as well as the mental conception of it)) accordingly to what speed the object (earth, humans as well) is traveling with. This gives also the possibility of humans looking considerably younger than others of the same age, and thus it is not only a cause of living a healthy physical life, but indeed is determined by their happiness (mental concept), or i.e. how close they are to God/living accordingly to His Will.
Yes, according to Einstein, if we can travel in the speed of light, we can reach the whole universe in no time, while at the same time, others who can't travel that fast have grown old and to them, thousands and millions of years would have passed. But, for all of us living on Earth, we're traveling in the universe at the same speed. Einstein's theory, sadly, has no practical value for us to achieve different (a slower) speed of aging. Consider this, we need to be constantly traveling at a speed of one full circle around the globe per second, only to delay our aging speed by a mere 13% (light travels 7.5 times around the Earth in 1 second, 13% = 1/7.5)! As for different speed of aging due to the mental condition, this is out of Einstein's theory and out of my understanding.