Charles Darwin was not trained in The
Sciences he was not a scientist he was
not trained in human anatomy and he even
admitted not only in his Publications
but even to colleagues that he wrote to
that his lack of knowledge was a loss in
his own understanding of what he was
observing well today we're going to be
diving into the galopus islands often
claimed to be the birthplace of
evolution So today we're going to take a
look at some important highlights of
this we're going to look at well what is
the history of the gpus islands and
we're going to see about the year that
was actually discovered what they found
there we're also going to look at well
what is natural selection because we
often hear natural selection and the
term evolution used synomous together so
it's important for us to break down well
what are the roots of natural selection
and how do we look at this through God's
perfect word because is natural
selection Evolution and does natural
selection contradict biblical creation
we're going to wrap up with that today
so it's important we talk about this
because we're actually going to be
taking a group of people down to the
gpic Asylum for the very first time this
is the first trip like this by Answers
in Genesis it is going to be next summer
May 28th through June 7th so if you want
to join us down there as we actually get
handson in the environment where Darwin
visited as well but looking at it
through the lens of God's perfect word I
encourage you to sign up and join us
down there I will be hosting this event
and speaking down there as well and I am
very excited about this so this is
definitely for The Adventurous at heart
uh but you can get more information
online now the galopus island is what is
called a volcanic archipelago so what is
an archipelago well it's basically a
chain of islands and they were created
by all volcanic activity now what
happens is as volcanic rock solidifies
right it doesn't take very long for life
to take root and we can see that all
throughout the gpus islands now the
highest point in the gpus islands is
Wolf volcano that you see here on
Isabella Island it's about 5600 ft so
the galopus islands this archipelago is
off the coast of Ecuador in South
America in the Pacific
Ocean and it is actually made up of
127 Islands eyelets little tiny islands
and rocks and when we look at this we
see there's actually 1 what we call
major islands and if we measure the
entire length of the gpus island it's
about
267 miles which is about the size of
Yellowstone National Park if you visited
there it kind of gives you an idea now
the gpus islands actually runs through
the equator which is pretty neat so keto
Ecuador which is not you know right off
the coast there of galopus islands the
equator runs through keto and then
actually runs through the galopus
islands one of the things we hope to do
when we're in the galopagos island is
actually stand on the equator line and
you can put your foot in both the
northern and southern hemisphere right
that's like on my bucket list cuz I
think that'll be pretty
amazing now an A Point important
location I'd like to point out here is
btra you can see here it's on the island
of Santa Cruise this is important
because this was actually a US military
base in World War II that was
established after the Pearl Harbor
attack so very important to the US
especially during that period of History
located right there in the golop islands
and thank you to all those who serve um
in our military or have served we
appreciate you so much for your
sacrifice now if we look at the galopus
islands we can actually see the very
first recorded visit to there now could
people have been there before that yes
right but this is the first recorded
document that we do have in
1535 we have records by a Dominican
frier whose name was berlanga he was the
bishop of Panama and what happened is is
he was traveling from Panama to Peru and
while he was traveling there currents
accidentally swept him to the galopus
islands so he was the first one to
actually record these giant tortoises
that he saw there and cacti and other
living
organisms now not long after that we're
looking a little over a hundred years we
had an important visit by two Englishmen
named William dampier and William
Crawley and they were the first you
could say explorers to record what they
saw at the Gap Islands in English and
while they were there they actually
coined the word sea lion right CU they
saw these Marine creatures right that
hadn't really been recorded before and
they actually created that word for them
and 1,000 other English words were added
to the language at that time based on
their discoveries that they did see
there now in the 1600 and early 1700s in
the gpus islands we had a lot of pirate
activity as well going on there and they
when uh the damp year was there and
crawly they also were writing things
down from that naturalist perspective
now in 1720 we had the very last pirate
that's known to visit the island now I
will say though um my daughter lived
there for about five months last year
and she said while she was there the
pirate ship pulled up in the bay and all
these people got off kind of dressed
like Pirates but I think it was more of
a tourist attraction right so there's
not really still Pirates going to the
glaus islands what's interesting about
John clipperton is that now this is
there's some uh debate over whether this
is truth or not but they claim that when
clion visited the islands he found a man
who had been marooned there and had been
there for some time and his records in
his account uh based on this gentleman
inspired the writing of Robinson Caruso
but there's not 100% verification of
that but there's a lot of story to that
so it could possibly be
true then in the late 1700s to early
1800s uh like I said we have this
wailing activity going on as well then
in
1793 we have something kind of important
there and that's when James cornet
establishes a post office box on Florina
the island of Florina which was long
used by Whalers but today it is actually
still a functioning as you could say
post office box so this is one of the
major tourist attractions there so what
tourists do is they go and leave
postcards in the mailbox here and it's
been functioning since 1793 so this is
quite some time now when you visit there
you're supposed to go to the mailbox and
you're supposed to go through the
postcards that need to be mailed and
you're supposed to look for postcards
that are going to your country and then
you're supposed to take them with you
and mail them to the address put a stamp
on it and mail it when you get to when
you get back home uh and then you're
supposed to leave some there from you
right to people all over the world uh so
they say people still do visit this and
still Exchange mail right here um at
this post office box so that's pretty
cool now in 1832 Ecuador does take
possession of the galopus islands it is
now recognized as the national park of
Ecuador now something important happens
and that is in
1831 and this is when Charles Darwin
leaves on his worldwide Adventure um on
the uh HMS Beagle and he has gone for
from 1831 to 1836 about 5 years and
during that time period he does stop at
the gpus island for a 5we period so in
September 17 1835 lands in the galopus
islands and he visits San chrisal from
September 17th through the 22nd he
visits Florina from September 24th to
the 27th he goes to Isabella from
September 29th to October 2nd and then
Santiago October 8th through the 17th
and while he's there he's collecting
geological and biological samples from
the different Islands now when he was
there and this is really important to
realize he had not yet developed his
evolutionary ideas right he's still just
kind of studying nature he's collecting
different samples many of the specimens
he did not catalog so he did not keep
like we would say detailed records on a
lot of the specimens that he did gather
while he was there and later on after he
left the islands he actually had to go
rely on seamen that he was traveling
with to get information on these
specimens because a lot of the seamen
were very interested as well and they
did keep these detailed
records now what's really interesting is
that evolutionists give such reverence
right to the galopus islands but Charles
Darwin only devotes about 1% of what is
eventually published in the Origin of
Species to his time on the galopus
islands so we need to take a look at
well then where did he get a lot of his
influence right because it wasn't
necessarily directly at the gpus islands
so we need to look at the history of
natural selection and it actually goes
back quite some time this was not a term
that Charles Darwin kind of came up with
by himself right we see it goes back to
the third and fourth Century where those
Origins are back you know actually back
to Greek
philosophy and then we have a what we
call pretty significant development that
directly influenced Darwin as well and
that was a publication by William p in
1802 that was called natural theology
now natural theology argued that the
acuts of God must be sufficient right
for his creation and William paly really
focused on the Beauty and the design of
human anatomy he was a Christian and he
recognized that we see just this
intricate um we would say complexity in
the human body as glory to the Creator
God now natural theology was actually so
important that it became what's called
Canon at Cambridge University for up to
50 years like after William py died so
we know that Charles Darwin would have
read this particular important work
because Charles Darwin was a student at
Cambridge between 1827 and
1831 now another important publication
occurs from Edward blle between 1835 and
1837 now this is the exact time that
Charles Darwin is now on the HMS Beagle
right so during that time Edward B
publishes these articles on natural
selection he publishes several now he
was an English zoologist he studied
Birds he was a scientist he was uh even
studied the breeding of domestic animals
and different genetic traits that would
come out but unlike what we see in
Charles Darwin when he eventually
publishes his ideas BL saw natural
selection as a preserving factor of
creative things not a unlimited
liberalizing one that we're going to see
Charles Darwin
supports now Charles Darwin returned
from his voyages right in
1836 and when he returns he starts kind
of like meditating and think about
everything he saw he's reading Edward
bl's Publications right we know he's
influenced by these other gentlemen that
we just talked about and we can clearly
see those influences in the publication
of Origin of Species but Origin of
Species does not come out till 1859 so
just keep that in mind that's over 20
years after he returns from the gpus
islands so what we see is that Charles
Darwin starts to write down all right
his thoughts right in his journals and
we actually have documents right that we
can go back and refer to our primary
sources as we would call it and what we
see in the Origin of Species as
published in 1859 is almost verbatim a
lot of what Edward ble had published to
the point that if it was today it would
probably be considered plagiarism that's
how close the wording is that we see
taken from Edward bl's uh information
about natural selection so here we see
in the 1830s this is dated at 1837 this
is one of Charles Darwin's notebook is
referred to as notebook B and in there
we see this sketch or this very
simplistic drawing it is one of the
first First drawings you could say that
kind of refers to the evolutionary tree
of life where we have this little
starting point where you see this little
number one and then we start to see
these branches and
divisions what is so important here is
what else do you see on this page what
did Charles Darwin write at the very top
he said I think it was just a thought it
was an idea you know Charles Darin was
not trained in The Sciences he was not a
science scientist he was not trained in
human anatomy and he even admitted not
only in his Publications but even to
colleagues that he wrote to that his
lack of knowledge was a loss in his own
understanding of what he was observing
so that's just so important to realize
so he's 51 years old now and he
publishes um On the Origin of Species
almost considered to be the Bible of
evolution right many people look at it
like that and there are four main
hypotheses that you could say are
present throughout this publication and
we're going to talk briefly about each
of these but most importantly focus on
natural
selection so the first one was variation
among species he recognized Charles
Darwin that based on ideas remember in
his mind he thinks there's no limit to
variation in the living things that we
see on the
Earth but we actually do observe very
clear limitations don't we we see
limitations within created kinds uh we
don't see dogs all of a sudden sprouting
Wings do we right we see that you can
have different dog breeds but there are
clear limits to that but Charles Darwin
honestly believed there was no limit to
variation and you have to believe that
if you're going to believe in
evolutionary ideas you have to believe
that things can gain information and
turn into something else basically now
Charles Darwin knew nothing about
genetics right if he they have said so
many times that
if he even had an ounce of the
understanding of genetics that we do
today all of his ideas and his
Publications would have been considered
invalid right because we know now with
genetics uh that many of what he
proposed is not you know is not even
possible so let's take a look at
variation my species here is something
that he did see uh he did observe Birds
now he really liked mocking birds that
was actually the bird that he studied
the most even though the finches are
most often associated with him that was
actually not the case it was mocking
birds and he noticed there are four
different Mo species of Mocking Bird
across the
islands but he still recognized them all
as mocking birds right he said they're
mocking birds they just look a little
bit different then there were those
galopus finches right and the galopus
finches he noticed had different beak
sizes based on the environment that they
lived in right they had different shapes
different sizes but he still recognized
them all as finches right they were all
still that same type of bird but yes
they had this
variation now the second thing that he
really focuses on On the Origin of
Species is the inheritance of favorable
characteristics all right well what is
that mean well this largely came from
lamaran and basically what this says is
organisms acquire characteristics over
their lifetime and then they're able to
pass it on to the next Generation
imagine an organism actually be able to
gain new information and then pass that
on to their offspring well now with the
study of genetics this theory has been
completely
discredited uh because we know that is
not how organisms reproduce and pass on
genetic
information now the third one is a
struggle for existence and this was
largely influenced by someone named
Thomas malus and what he was basically
saying is Well there's an
overproduction in animals and so there's
going to be this struggle going on this
kill or be killed idea uh and because
there's this overproduction there's
going to be supply shortages related to
that and it's this eaten or beaten eaten
you know environment that we live in and
the last one was this natural selection
or synonymous with that is survival the
fittest and basically what this means is
either you leave Offspring or you don't
now a lot of people think that like
survival of the fittest is the Lions
able to kill the zebra and eat the zebra
therefore the lion is more fit and the
lion survives but that's not actually
what survival of the fittest means
survival of the fittest actually occurs
within a particular species or kind as
you could say so let's say we have a
lion who kills a zebra and is able to
eat the zebra then they may say that
lion is more fit than a lion who tries
to kill a zebra is unsuccessful and then
doesn't get food and ends up let's say
passing away or dying because of that
well the lion who was successful must be
more fit and therefore that Lion's going
to live on while the weak ones don't so
it's an important distinction that we
have to make between um when we talk
about natural selection is it's
recurring inside these what we call
species of
animals now some of these things that
Charles Darwin observed one was the
galopus tortoises all right so he
noticed there was two different shapes
in the carapus or the tortoise shell and
when we take a look at the first one the
Saddleback tortoise it actually has
what's called like a like a rise in the
front of that carop and this actually
allows the tortoise to lift its head and
eat cactus that's what it feeds on
primarily so having this indentation on
the top allows it to raise its head and
eat what it you know what it consumes
for its substances which is different
from our Dome shaped tortoise the Dome
shaped tortoise does not have
this elevation in the carrus well the
Dome shaped tortoise eats vegetation
that's close to the ground it doesn't
need to lift its head up to eat off the
cactus plants so we see a distinct
difference right in the type of shell
these tortoise have but they're still
all tortoise in fact there's only one
created kind of tortoise and all
tortoises fall under that kind and they
are in a distinctly different kind than
our turtles Right so we see a distinct
difference there but if we take a look
here right we can see on this particular
the giant tortoise of the galopus you
can see it has that raised indent on the
top above its head allowing it to lift
its head and eat vegetation at higher
levels than in the dome shaped tortoise
clear design and genetic variability
that God put in them right to live in
the environments uh that he created for
them but they're still just tortoise
that's what's important to realize so
what is natural selection so we kind of
we've been using that term but let's
break that down and we're going to look
at this through the lens of God's
perfect word and man's imperfect word
right there's only two worldviews out
there it's either God or
man and when we look at the term natural
selection and look at this through these
two lenses uh we're going to see that
there is a direct darwinian influence
right in the secular world view of
natural selection influenced by the
gentleman right who publish these uh and
you know we would say peer review
literature that Darwin read as well as
his V visit to the
galapagus: Evolution and helps to
explain the diversity of life on Earth
britanica actually says natural
selection variations in the genotype
that increase an organism's chances of
survival they say Evolution often occurs
as a consequence of this process right
they're always using them together if we
take a look at Berkeley University they
say natural selection is one of the
basic mechanisms of evolution the
Natural History Museum says natural
selection is a mechanism of
evolution and we can see in the Origin
of Species right this is what they claim
Charles Darwin offered a compelling
answer to the outstanding question of
biology which was how life on Earth had
evolved Charles Darwin himself in
chapters 6 and N said all species of
Life have evolved through a process
called natural
selection so when we go to the gpus
islands that's one of the things we're
going to be doing is we're actually
going to be visiting more Islands than
Charles Darwin did during his visits
while he was there and we're going to be
looking at these living things uh
because you know Charles Darwin said
that there was a highly logical
alternative to explain the distribution
in types of species and he termed this
natural selection this is kind of where
that term came from and here's what's so
important about this all of these
observations and they're claiming the
observations that he made on the galopus
islands ran contrary to the the
reasoning behind special creation
special creation was the dominant belief
at that time right we're talking about
the late the early 1800s even the late
1800s after the publication of Origin of
Species they believe that there was a
Biblical Creator God as described in the
Bible most scientists studied science to
give glory to the Creator to study his
creation but they were looking for
something that would explain Origins out
side of a Creator right people always
want to reject the idea there's a
Biblical Creator someone they will be
accountable to one day right we don't
need to worry about that now right
that's what they're saying we have an
explanation for what we see without a
Creator God so here's some of Darwin's
basic observations he said well species
on the islands were endemic to the
islands what that means is we see yes
variation in species but they're only
living on specific Islands well not
surprising their Islands they're
separated by water transportation
between the islands would not have been
very accessible right during the early
1800s so not surprising to see that he
said the animals on the islands
resembled Mainland animals he recognized
them as mocking birds he recognized them
as finches he recognized them as
tortoise right because they looked like
animals that lived on the
mainland he also found fossils that
resem resembled modern
animals well that's what we'd expect to
see right what we see in the fossil
record some of those animals are extinct
but a lot of the fossils look a lot like
the animals that we have today and he
also discovered sea shells in high
mountains well not surprising right we
have a global flood account that's given
to us in Genesis and we do find sea
shells all over the Earth on
mountaintops and everywhere in
between so now let's take a look at this
through a b IAL worldview what does the
Bible say about the Origin of Species
well we can go to the very first verse
of the Bible Genesis 1:1 says in the
beginning God created the heavens and
the earth and the Bible which is our
perfect history book tells us exactly
what God created about 6,000 years ago
in six literal 24-hour
days and during this creation account in
Genesis chap 1 there's a very important
phrase that is used repeatedly we can
see see this in Genesis 1:11 through2
where God says let the Earth Sprout
vegetation according to its kind the
Earth brought forth vegetation plants
yielding seed according to their own
kinds trees bearing fruit according to
its kind we can see in Genesis 120- 21
let the birds fly above the Earth across
the expanse of the heavens according to
their kinds and every Winged Bird
according to its kind and it goes on to
describe the creation of land animals
according to their kind
in fact in Genesis 1 we see this phrase
used 10 times and even in the account of
the global flood when God describes the
animals that are going to be sent to the
ark he uses the term according to its
kind well that leads us to ask the
question right this is very important to
understand is well what is a kind so we
have to go back to lenan taxonomy so I
know many of you if you go way back to
elementary school you're going to
remember this you probably remember
learning biological classification
Kingdom film class order family genus
species well when we break this
down you're going to it's important to
realize too when we talk about taxonomy
this is a man-made system and biological
taxonomy is always changing I say
especially since uh as they map out the
genomes of living things and our
understanding of the DNA code is is
becoming more clear especially all
throughout creation Things Are are
always getting moved around on this
classification system but there is a
very clear I like to say like barrier in
place here that we can see where
organisms have the ability to reproduce
and that is about at that family level
so let's take a look at an example let's
imagine that we have all these creatures
you see here they are all considered
animals so they are under kingdom
Animalia but now we need to go to philm
right Kingdom philm that's our next
Focus we're focusing down to one
organism so if we go to phm
Cordata Cordata means that these are
organisms that have a backbone you'll
notice that our starfish is dropped off
right a starfish is an in vertebrae they
do not have backbones so they can't be
in this classification so we're getting
more focused now let's move to class
mamia well mammals are warm-blooded
aren't they so our lizard that was cold
blooded is no longer here right it's no
longer in this category is classified in
a different class so now let's go to
order Carnivora well these are creatures
that are going to be meaters right they
are carnivores well squirrels are not
carnivores so our little squirrel now is
in a different order now let's go to
that family level what do you notice at
this family level if you take a look at
all three of these you would call them
all bears right we look at those we re
recognize the similarity here we say
yeah these are all
bears and they all have the ability to
reproduce at this level now if we want
to classify the brown bear let's say we
want to get more specific he's actually
falls under genus ursus and then his
species is ursus arose so that takes us
down to one specific animal but you can
see how we start with Kingdom right all
animals in this very broad category we
use that classification system to get
down to genus species but it is at this
family level where we have this
similarity where we have the ability to
reproduce where chromosomes can align
and exchange genetic information and
create Offspring and if we take a look
at that word kind the original Hebrew is
men right we see this at that kind level
is where animals have that
ability now if we take a look and
actually observe what we see in the
world today that is what we see right we
can directly observe what we call an
orchard of life not the evolutionary
tree of life what we see is that there
is an orchard where different organisms
will reproduce according to their kind
or within their family do we see variety
within those kinds absolutely and we'll
talk a little bit more about that but
this is something that's directly
observable and you know for thousands of
years the majority of scientists
supported this world view they said the
Earth is Young about 6,000 years and it
was created by the god of the
universe so natural
selection is selecting information that
already exists in a population and
that's what's key the genetic diversity
that we observe right was placed by God
into creatures at creation and we do see
genetic change since creation so do we
believe in natural selection absolutely
it's observable we can see that it's an
observable process why where organisms
are going to get specific
characteristics to help them reproduce
in certain
environments what is really important
here though is that natural selection is
a loss of information a loss of genetic
information for evolution to be true it
requires a gain of information an
organism has to gain new information to
evolve into a brand new creature that's
what's we've never observed that
but what we do observe is a clear loss
of information so if we take a look at
dogs for example we can clearly see that
there is a loss of information from the
wolf to the fluffy Poodle right I think
we could all clearly see that and this
is a problem for evolutionists right
evolutionists if you believe in
molecules toand right if you believe
that this this that the complexity we
see today is just some random chance
processes you have to have directional
change uh but that is just not
observable so no new information is
added in natural selection but
information is lost and this is
completely opposite of what is required
for evolution for evolution to be true
we have to have a gain of information
this one cell that came to life we can't
explain how millions of years ago just
trust us it did and then it evolved into
all the living things we see today well
it had to gain information right it had
to gain information to get fins it had
to gain information to get legs it had
to to gain information to get hair and
fur and all the different features wings
and Feathers it has to gain information
that has never once been observed so do
we have observational science for
natural selection yeah we can observe
that do animals change yes they do right
we can directly observe it but are they
changing outside of their created kinds
well no so we can take dogs and we can
select for certain traits can't we so we
have over 500
different dog breeds today all different
types of dogs but can they select for
traits for a dog to all of a sudden
Sprout wings and fly
away no it's not in the genetic code
it's an impossibility so even though we
have variation we're limited to the
created kinds I always like to say in
the DNA code just imagine there's like
these invisible walls there right where
things it's impossible for things to
reproduce outside their created kind the
DNA code of life that God spoken into
existence during creation week only
allows for things to reproduce that
information has to talk and has to be
able to exchange now let's take a look
at what this may have looked like the
genetic diversity that would have
occurred after the global flood right
because we have as you can see here
there's this reset we have creation we
have living things reproducing we have
variation within kinds but then there's
a line isn't there we have a global
reset Man became exceedingly Wicked all
the time the Bible tells us that and a
righteous God had to come and past
judgment he tells Noah to build an Ark
of Salvation and the Bible tells us that
God sent two of each animal seven of
some to the Ark of
Salvation so how many dogs are on the
ark well the Bible clearly tells us two
of each kind right not two of each dog
breed not two of each species course
these words were all developed after the
Bible was written but I'm just giving
you context here the Bible says two of
each kind so imagine two at that family
level so we have two dogs on the ark
they're on the ark about a year right
the Ark Lands and then God gives them
permission to leave the ark and as the
animals left the ark they would have
started to reproduce according to their
kinds so imagine we have these two dogs
they get off the ark and they start to
reproduce creating lots and lots of dogs
fairly quickly and those dogs carry
genetic information don't they and that
genetic information and those genetic
traits are going to spread with the dog
population across the face of the Earth
so let's look at an example here and
we're going to take a look at these
two original dog kind because we do
believe that the original dog kind and
the two on the ark would have had the
genetic potential to create all the
different dog breeds we see today so
let's assume these dogs have what's an
SL we call gamet information so that
means they have an S for short hair and
they're carrying the L for long hair
each of them are going to carry this
information now what you're looking at
here is information from the mother so
let's imagine the mother contributes the
short-haired information and the father
contributes the long-haired information
and these two dogs that get off the ark
carry the ability to pass on short hair
or long hair now let's say they have
Offspring and because of their genetic
potential they could produce a that has
just short hair each of the S the One S
from each of them comes together we have
a short haired dog we could also have a
mediumhair dog and then we could also
have a dog that's capital L capital L
long hair only okay everybody following
so far all right now let's imagine this
Offspring goes to a very cold
climate and because it's so cold our
dogs that have that short hair jean
what's going to happen they're going to
get real really cold and they're going
to die very sad right what's left well
our dog with only the two long-haired
information have we gained or lost
information here we have lost
information we've lost the short- haired
jeans so what is the only Offspring
these two long-haired dogs can have more
dogs with long hair and they're going to
survive in that cold climate now let's
imagine we have that Offspring and they
move to a very hot climate
and if you have really long fluffy hair
in that hot climate what's going to
happen you are not going to survive and
those traits for short hair are going to
be selected out well what is a dog that
only has short-haired gam meat
information it is only going to be able
to reproduce short-haired dogs is this a
gain or a loss of information the loss
of
information so what we see is those
those two dogs got off the ark they had
all this genetic potential but certain
traits would have been selected for
based on the environments that they
lived in and this is information and
design that the Creator God of the
universe put there at creation and we
don't only observe this in dogs we see
it in cats as well we can clearly see a
loss of genetic information from we say
the lion to the domestic house cat we
clearly have a loss of information but
yet they are still all cats horse kind
as well right animals can reproduce
according to their kind and so we have
aor and Zoni down at the ark encounter
make sure you go say hi to them while
you're down there uh but we like to have
those as examples that yes right animals
can reproduce right zebras can reproduce
with horses and create a source uh and
we see this all throughout God's
creation we even see this in the fossil
record where yes we would recognize all
of these as um we would call Triceratops
of the ceratopsian kind uh but they're
still a little bit different right we
see this variation within created kind
so how many Triceratops were on the ark
or I should say ceratopsian kind were on
the ark we would say two right God had
two go to the ark they would have had
all the genetic potential to create the
copian after the global flood so natural
selection right does not provide any
brand new information it is pulling
information that already exists
completely opposite of evolution which
requires new
information so when we take a look at
this right we always have to ask the
question and think about the two types
of Science and we have observational
Sciences where we can use the scientific
method we can directly observe we can
record we can document we can smell we
can taste we can feel we can use our
five senses and we can replicate that
experiment versus things that are
unobservable in the original form so do
we are directly observe can we observe
variation Within kind yes right we see
that today we see things only
reproducing within their kinds and we do
see variation limited to those kinds
this is directly observable but this is
opposite of what we call historical
science or things that are unobservable
in their original form and the perfect
example of that is the evolutionary tree
of life there is absolutely no
observational science to support this
idea at all it is nothing more than an
idea all right it is
become a religion in and of itself now
as well but there is no observational
science to support this as at all so
even when we look at darwinian Origins
as we have we can see that is nothing
more than historical science and
remember what did Charles Darwin write
himself I think so if you join us in the
gpus islands we're going to be looking
at some of those creatures that he
observed and yes we're going to be able
to see variation with in kind but
they're still reproducing within those
boundaries that God created one of the
things we'll be looking at as a geologic
effects of volcanic activity except the
last eruption in gpus Islands was in
2015 so some of those volcanoes on the
islands are still considered active one
of the organms we'll be looking at is
the salty Lightfoot crap do we see
variation between in just these two
photographs these two organisms yeah we
see a little bit of variation don't we
but but we still look at them and
identify them as a crab right a salty
Lightfoot crab yes how about the galopus
penguin do we see a little bit of
difference there do we see what we call
variation is this Evolution no they're
still just Penguins the galopus Land
Iguana is another example of that do we
see variation here we sure do right but
they're still just iguana how about the
infamous galopus Finch all right so
famous because it's so directly related
to Charles Darwin do we see variation
yes can we see variation limited to the
islands yes that's what he observed when
he was there but they're still just
finches right they're still just Birds
it was funny when my daughter was in the
gopas island she sends me a a picture
one day and she says hey Mom look it's
Darwin's Finch and she sent me a picture
of a finch and she goes guess what it
still looks like a fch so nothing much
has changed right we see variation but
they're still only reproducing within
their created kinds I can't wait to see
this bird of close and personal the blue
footed booby just beautiful in color but
yes once again we can take a look and
see we can see slight variations there
but they're doing nothing more than
reproducing within their created kinds
pulling from existing information that
God already put in place there now
Darwin admitted that there were problems
right with his ideas and he published
this so here's one we see in the in his
publication of On the Origin of Species
he said why if species have descended
from other species by insensibly fine
graduations do we not everywhere see
innumerable transitional forms he
expected to find evidence to support the
idea in the fossil record and guess what
it's not there there are no transitional
forms in the fossil record he went on to
say numerous species belonging to the
same genre or family have been have
really started into Life all at once
right he's referring to what here
creation the fact would be fatal to the
theory to descent with slow modification
through natural selection he went on to
say consequently if my theory be true it
is indisputable that before the lowest
saluran stratum was deposited and he's
referring to Fossil layers here long
periods elapsed as long as or probably
far longer than the whole interval from
the Ian age to the present day and that
during these vast yet quite unknown
periods of time the world swarmed with
living creatures to the question why we
do not find records of these vast
primordial periods I can give no
satisfactory
answer he goes the case at present must
remain inexplicable and may be truly
urged as a valid argument against the
views here
entertained and if he was alive today he
would have to can't pretty much
everything he published in On the Origin
of Species because genetic science has
greatly disproved a lot of the things
that he published so is natural
selection Evolution let's answer this
question right the answer is no the
definition is different this is the one
takeaway I want you to get out of this
talk today natural selection is a loss
of information and evolution is a gain
of information do we see mutations yes
right but that's nothing more than the
effect of sin on God's biblical creation
mutations are a loss of information
natural selection only occurs within the
created kinds does do we see change in
animals do we see variation yes but it's
limited to that Orchard of life that we
talked
about so does natural selection
contradict biblical
creation no right creationist view of
natural selection is supported both bibl
and scientifically we can directly
observe this today natural selection is
a god-ordained process that allows
organisms to survive right it's
observable and and we know that it
occurs in the present has occurred in
the past it takes advantage of of those
variations he put into the genetic code
within kinds to preserve that
variability in the created animals that
we do see today and this applies to the
plant kingdom as well we see genetic
variation there you know Colossians 2
2:8 says see to it that no one takes you
captive by philosophy and empty deceit
according to human tradition and
according to the elemental spirits of
the world and not according to Christ
there is no question especially if
you're kids are in public school or
grandkids or if you were in public
school as a child that you were
definitely they tried to take captive of
your minds with these evolutionary ideas
and you may have even seen some of the
diagrams that we looked at in your
science books right when you were in
school
but you are not the result of molecules
to man Evolution you are made in the
image of God right you are created for a
Divine Purpose you have value and you
have worth in the Creator God and your
relationship with him is the most
important decision you can make and if
there's one thing we want you to do
while you're here at the cre Museum
today is please make sure that you have
reconciled that relationship with the
creator of the universe so that you have
that hope and peace of knowing you're
going to spend eternity with him what a
difference it makes in our lives when we
realize that we are truly right an image
bearer of the Creator giv gifts to
glorify him