Creation vs. Darwinian Evolution
Joshua Gurtler will be presenting a series of 11 lectures on Creation vs. Darwinian Evolution. The first lecture was presented on Sunday March 27 and will continue every Sunday through June 12th. The lectures will be held at the Exton Chuch of Christ and consists of a 45 minute PowerPoint presentation starting at 4:30 pm and followed by a 30 minute question and answer session. MAP & DIRECTIONS »
Joshua has a PhD in Food Microbiology and currently directs a research program for the federal government investigating the inactivation of pathogenic bacteria in foods.
- Lesson 1: "Background to Darwinian Evolution (Animal Kinds)"
What We Will Learn in This Lesson - I. Fixity of Animal Kinds Precludes Darwinian Evolution.
- II. Animals Can Vary/Change Within Their Kind (Microevolution), But Not Outside Their Kind (Macroevolution).
- III. Similarities in Created Kinds Reflects an Intelligent Designer.
- Lesson 2: "Weaknesses of Darwinian Evolution"
What We Will Learn in This Lesson - I. No Utilization of the Scientific Method
- II. Use of Circular Reasoning
- III. Opposition from Experts in the Highest Tiers of Science (e.g., National Academy of Sciences, Nobel Laureates, and Ivy League Professors)
- IV. Darwinists were Previously Willing to Debate but Now Refuse to Debate Creationists Because it Weakens their Cause .
- Lesson 3: "Darwinian Evolution Debunked (Four Frauds Still Taught in Public Schools)"
What We Will Learn in This Lesson - I. The history of Darwinian evolution is composed of various frauds peddled as proof of evolution until they were debunked, by the evolutionists own admission. Some of these include:
- II. Animal Homology and Evolution
- III. Embryology Recapitulates Darwinian Evolution
- IV. Evolution of The Peppered Moth
- V. Alleged Horse Evolution
- Lesson 4: "Darwinian Evolution Debunked Part II (Three More Frauds Still Taught in Public Schools)"
What We Will Learn in This Lesson - I. Darwin's Finches Are Irrelevant
- II. Fruit Flies Disprove Macroevolution
- III. Vestigial Organs are not Vestigial
- Lesson 5: "The Geologic Column and the Fossil Record (Missing Links and the Cambrian Explosion)"
What We Will Learn in This Lesson - I. Darwinian evolution must be proved from the fossil record, or the hypothesis fails.
- II. Animals do not change throughout the fossil record - stasis prevails.
- III. Animals appear fully formed from the earliest layers of the geological column (aka, "The Cambrian Explosion").
- IV. Evolutionists admit that the fossil record provides no proof for macroevolution
- V. The fossil record reflects worldwide flood sedimentation.
- Lesson 6: "Macroevolution's Alternative to Neo-Darwinian Gradualism: Punctuated Equilibrium"
What We Will Learn in This Lesson - I. Evolutionists admit that billions of transitional fossils are inexplicably missing from the fossil record.
- II. As a rescuing mechanism, macroevolution has come up with the hypothesis of "punctuated equilibrium" (PE), which says, "animals must have evolved so quickly that they left no trace of their transitional (i.e., intermediate) forms in the fossil record." However. . .
- III. PE couldn't have happened quickly or it would lead to a "grossmutation" "saltational" evolutionary model, which all scientists admit is impossible.
- IV. But, it couldn't have happened slowly or we would find evidence in the fossil record.(!)
- Lesson 7: Uniformitarianism Versus Catastrophism
What We Will Learn in This Lesson - I. Until ~1800, all geological formations were interpreted in light of catastrophic processes in western universities such as Yale, Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge .
- II. Around 1800, the doctrine of "Uniformitarianism" was used to teach that the geological column could have only been formed by "slow and gradual" modern day processes.
- III. For 200 years, creationist geologists denied uniformitarianism and interpreted the geological strata as being formed by worldwide catastrophic processes.
- IV. Conventional modern geology (in the 1980's) finally came to the conclusion that uniformitarianism was wrong and that the majority of the geological column was formed by catastrophic processes.
- V. Instead of admitting they were wrong and that the creationist geologists had been right for the past 200 years in rejecting uniformitarianism, conventional geology simply changed the definition of uniformitarianism so as not to credit creationists (documented by their own admission).
- VI. Variability of the speed of light, radiometric dating and variability in the rate of sediment formation are also examined.
- Lesson 8: "Lines of Evidence for a Global Flood"
- Lesson 8: "Lines of Evidence for a Global Flood"
What We Will Learn in This Lesson- I. The 1980 eruption of Mt. Saint Helens provided real-time observational evidence of (A) rapid sedimentary stratification, (B) rapid canyon formation, (C) rapid polystrate tree fossil formation at the bottom of Spirit Lake, and (D) rapid sedimentary peat accumulation.
- II. Other evidences of continental scale flood deposition include (1) flood boulders within the Tapeats sandstone, (2) homologous sandstone formations around the globe, (3) faulty dating methods for Grand Canyon lava flows, (4) flood sand dune formation in the Coconino sandstone, (5) dinosaurs buried within ocean floor chalk sediment, (6) nonmetamorphic folding of pre-solidified sedimentary rock layers, (7) massive dinosaur burial pits around the world indicate massive continental scale flood deposition, etc., etc.
- To Be Determined Philosophical Fruits of Darwinism:
Erosion of Ethics, Morality, and Theism - To Be Determined Philosophical Fruits of Darwinism Part II:
Racism, Eugenics, Genocide, the Holocaust, Male Chauvinism, and Abortion - To Be Determined Young Earth Creationism vs. Old Earth Creationism:
Capitulating to Humanistic Philosophy regarding Genesis 1-11 and a Literal Interpretation of the Historical Narrative regarding the Six Days of Creation in Genesis 1 - To Be Determined Thirty Arguments to Use Against Darwinian Evolution
NOTE: We encourage the use of this material by teachers, preachers and students of science and the Bible. Original (non-PDF) PowerPoint presentations are available free of charge. To request presentations for study or teaching purposes, send an e-mail to Josh Gurtler by clicking here
(Note: Even if organs could be proven to be vestigial, this would only prove devolution and not evolution)
There will be a break in the Creation/Evolution Lecture Series for the Summer. The series will continue later this year. If you wish to be notified by email when the series picks back up please click here and submit your request.