What was the key argument that convinced you evolution was false?
Is it the same argument still? What would you bring forth to falsify evolution nowadays?
The first aspect of evolution Dankward is the time, billions of years, necessary for it to occur. It is the first thing that needs to be falsified:It was Charles Lyell (1797-1875), Adam Sedgwick, Sir Roderick Murchison and many other like-minded men of the Geological Society of London, founded in 1807, who first proposed the Earth itself was formed over long ages.
‘Sedimentary rocks form by an accuмulation of layers in a variety of environments such as the sea floor, lake or desert. The sediment will eventually consolidate to become rock strata (layers). Generally, the lowest layers are older than the upper layers and any plant or animal remains they contain will be older [and more evolved?], as will any minerals that formed during or soon after the deposition.’ (GNS science website)
Well, experiments conducted at the University of Colorado by sedimentologist Guy Berthault between 1985 and 1990 have shattered all conceived assertions that sediments were laid down one layer on top of another throughout time. In fact, Berthault, testing sedimentation with sediments in moving waters, found sediments are laid down in a sideways motion, so that the bottom strata of deposits, always considered the oldest according to that ‘science,’ can well be younger than the top strata further back along the path of any deposit. Berthault’s tests offered scientific evidence that showed the long-age sedimentation geology of Lyell and others used by Darwin for his evolution is no longer feasible. The sedimentologist’s sideway findings were published in his book Principles of geologic dating in question and then in the French scientific review Fusion.
The final rejection of Berthault’s evidence came from the Galilean Catholic hierarchy as might be expected. They placed a letter in the Geological Society’s half-yearly newsletter and, giving no heed at all to the empirical evidence supplied by Berthault, they accused the scientist of ‘pseudoscience and creationism.’ ‘By attacking his personal credibility, they knew that most geologists would not take his work seriously.’
‘Sedimentary rocks form by an accuмulation of layers in a variety of environments such as the sea floor, lake or desert. The sediment will eventually consolidate to become rock strata (layers). Generally, the lowest layers are older than the upper layers and any plant or animal remains they contain will be older [and more evolved?], as will any minerals that formed during or soon after the deposition.’ (GNS science website)
Now consider examples of sedimentation found worldwide, some over and under the lie of the land, especially the mountains of deposits. How in the name of reason did such mountains of sediments form after ‘local’ floods? For this to occur, the waters had to be higher than these mountains worldwide. How could local-floods, river sediments, sea sediments etc., result in such fossil-containing layers at such heights in many countries of the Earth? ‘Local’ waters could not reach such heights as common sense will tell you. But God’s global flood as depicted in Genesis and Chinese history could have caused such mountains of sediments found worldwide. It tells of a deluge of rain covering mountains and waters bursting from under the Earth, separating lands and mountains to form world-wide, before receding and leaving the mountain-high sediments and deep valleys as we now find them.
Then there is the Mount St Helens volcano eruption in Washington State in 1980. In a matter of days, layer after layer of lava lairs formed in front of the scientists studying the explosion, resulting in the depths of sediment left behind. This volcano showed that millions of years is not necessary to lay down such formations of sediments.
Finally watch this: www.halos.com Its about finding an instant halos that prove certain rocks were created instantly.
I will write up more tomorrow.