When I was driving home from work today, I saw a run down Ford truck in front of me with a "University of Michigan - The Wolverines" bumper sticker on one side and with the logo of a fish with legs and the word "Darwin" inside (see below). I can only see the young lady who drove the car from the back when she turned away.
First, the sign above is a satirical twist to the early Christian symbol, the fish, also known as Ichthys (Greek for fish) that was formed from the initial letters of the phrase: Iesous Christos Theou Huios Sotere (Jesus Christ God's Son Saves). The fact that various fish symbols have been used for pagan gods before Jesus is not important at this point because if Jesus can sanctify me (and He has), He can sanctify anything else.
That Darwinian fish logo also stands for the acknowledgment of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
I have news for you, Darwinism is out of date!
Please consider this:
Darwinists hold the view that all species evolve from one form into the next strictly through natural mechanism-- inheritable variation operated on by natural selection.
He has got to go back further. So far, he has only dealt with life's transformation once it existed.
Darwin addressed the origin of life in 1871, more than a decade after he published The Origin of Life in late 1850s. He advanced the idea that life could have emerged on Earth through chemical processes involving ammonia, phosphates, and other inorganic materials.
A new field of biochemistry emerged at the end of 19th century. The subsequent discovery of the complex chemical system in a cell with all the enzymes and various forms of protein changed our understanding of the cell. The idea of the birth of life from non-life was abandoned. Instead, many scientists began to accept the view that life, life matter, as eternal. Like Darwinian evolution or abiogenesis (life from non-life), this new approach called panspermia does not need a creator.
In the early 20th century, scientists accepted the idea that the universe has a beginning. Panspermia was abandoned. Case in point, two days ago the largest particle collider (the Large Hadron Collider-LHC) was turned on for the first time in France to discover the "God's particle" that account for the mass of all the atoms in the universe. This is a worldwide collaboration of scientists trying to understand what happened at the "Big Bang." Apparently, those scientists at LHC hold the view that the universe has a beginning.
Furthermore, with all the ultraviolet radiation in the outer space, no bacteria could have survived the journey to seed life on earth. All scientific efforts so far have led to dead ends more often than to further pathway for exploration. Yet, we have come full circle, abiogenesis (in the new name of neo-Darwinism) was tried again, then panspermia (in the new name of neopanspermia).
Russian biochemist Alexander I. Oparin and British geneticist J.B.S. Haldane tried to bring back abiogenesis, culminating with the experiment by Stanley Miller, who performed the famous spark-discharge experiment. His experiments produced amino acids (building blocks of life) and other organics by passing an electrical discharge (simulating lightning) through a gas mixture without oxygen. This model of the atmospheric condition of the early earth was based on the theories of his doctoral advisor.
Science magazine in 1995 said that experts now dismiss Miller's experiment because 'the early atmosphere looked nothing like the Miller-Urey simulation.'" This and other rebuttal (including the Kalam cosmological argument, Cambrian explosion, DNA, irreducible complexity, etc.) are presented in the book The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel. Check it out. Highly recommended.
One can be amazed at the people who are trying their best to take God out of the creation business. They are willing to hold on to their naturalistic mechanism to explain the origin of life in spite of the mounting evidences and new knowledge that go against their currently held view.
So far, all scientific evidences and progresses point to:
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. "
(Genesis 1:1)
Your next move, Darwin ...
