Evidence, please

This is the last time I want to hear an evolutionist say that evolution is scientific fact and not provide any proof to back up the claim.

I don’t want to hear any more confusion of adaptation and evolution. I don’t want to hear any more skipping over of the lack of fossil evidence for transitional species. Evolution is evolution: a gradual change over time. There should be no leaps in the fossil record.

I don’t want to hear anything else like, “apes look like humans, so we must have had a common ancestor.” The reasoning here is working backwards. If I start with the number 20 and I want to find out how we got to that number, I could say, “well, it’s obvious: 10+10=20.” Well, what about 15+5? Or 4·5? Or 60/3? You can’t simply come up with a theory to explain what you see, and then say the theory is proven by what you see. Someone could say, “lightning is caused by the wrath of Zeus. Isn’t it obvious? Lightning is deadly and destructive, it comes out of the sky, and it has pinpoint accuracy.” That is not proof. That is a hypothesis. This is just like seeing shapes in the clouds.

The evolutionist would say, “it shouldn’t be surprising that apes and humans look alike. They have the same ancestor.” But I would respond, “it shouldn’t be surprising that apes and humans look alike. They have the same Creator.”

Beyond similar attempts to prove evolution, I have heard nothing. Surely, if some scientist somewhere observed evolution (on the scale of an ape becoming a man, not a mosquito becoming another mosquito) in the laboratory, that would make the news, even FOX News. Surely, I would get a news alert on my cell phone. Surely, the media would jump at a chance to make the “Christian right” squirm. But, alas, as I write this my cell phone is quiet, and FOX News is only playing their weekend Business Block.

If anyone out there would like to offer me real proof, or even just evidence, for evolution, I would be glad to read it. I’ll even help tell the media about it, since it seems to be hard to get the word out. We’ll do a Texian Party press release.

One more thing. You may notice that I don’t offer any evidence for creation. That’s because I don’t claim to be able to prove it. I accept the concept that life and the universe were created by God on faith. Since it is the evolutionist that claims to be able to prove his position, this is just a request to hear that proof.

I’ll probably regret this later, because I’m sure that all I’ll get is a bunch of emails that don’t offer what I’m asking for, and instead just call me names.

–J.E. Heath
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