The Life Foundations
Nexus
CONFESSIONS OF A
DIE-HARD EVOLUTIONIST
Before you read this
article, keep in mind that Dr. Engermund sometimes uses hard-to-understand language
but then immediately follows his hard language with simpler, easy-to-understand
explanations.
The following article is
from EON
(Evolution Out Now!):
My name is William
Engermund. I used to be an evolutionist. I was an evolutionist for fifty years…that
is, until my eyes were opened. First,
let me talk about evolutionists, God, and the Bible. Then, I will talk about evolution itself.
Evolutionists can be
passionate about evolution. But where does
this passion come from? After all, if
evolution were true, so what? What good
would it do? So where does this passion
come from? The passion comes not from
what evolution will do for a person but from what evolution will not do
for a person. Evolution will not enable
a person to believe that the God of the Bible is the God of the universe. Oh, yes, most evolutionists will claim that
they believe in God but, when you ask them about this God, he is nothing like
the God of the Bible.
Regarding the Bible
itself, many evolutionists do not believe the Bible and those that do only give
it lip service. I did once meet an
evolutionist who claimed that they really believed the Bible but their life
certainly didn’t show it. Then, there
are the theistic evolutionists, who try to follow both evolution and the
Bible. These people also do not believe
in the God of the Bible, though they do claim to believe in the Bible. On close examination of their belief, I have
learned that, and this will sound a bit…strange, their Bible belief is not the
Bible belief of the Bible. In other
words, they make the Bible mean whatever they want.
Now, what about evolution
itself. The key problem with evolution
is that evolution is not science.
Evolution is phenomenology. Phenomenology
is the typological classification of a class of phenomena. In other words, phenomenology is taking a
bunch of things and organizing them into groups. That is all that evolutionists do. Evolutionists will collect a thousand insects and then organize
them into types and subtypes. But that
is all they do. Regarding the so-called
“Theory of Evolution,” the Theory of Evolution is not even a theory. In fact, it is not even a hypothesis, which
is, so to speak, a “theory that leads to a theory.” Evolution is simply “a way of organizing one’s thinking” and
nothing more.
Well, some will ask,
“What about all the evidence supporting evolution?” The simple answer is that there is no evidence supporting
evolution. However, if it were that
simple, evolution would have been thrown on the dust heap of history a long
time ago. What has happened for more
than a hundred years is that evolutionists have been turning nonevidence
into evidence. They have accomplished
this in a variety of ways. One way is through
the use of obfuscation. In plain
English, evolutionists use big words that the average person does not
understand. They also combine short
sentences into long sentences that are harder for the average person to
understand.
Another way evolutionists
turn nonevidence into evidence is, very simply, by lying. Now, many will ask, “How is this
possible? Evolutionists are scientists
and they have to have proof. Also,
their work is checked by other scientists; so they would be caught in any
lies.” Well, first, about the proof,
evolutionists have artifacts, not evidence.
An artifact could be a fossil, a bone, or a tool, to name a few
things. These artifacts are owned by everyone. They are owned by evolutionists,
antievolutionists, creationists, unificationists, etc., etc. They are not the sole property of the
evolutionists. Now, the evolutionists
come to these artifacts with a bias.
Their bias is “this artifact will prove evolution is true.” (A scientist, on the other hand, thinks,
“This artifact will prove, neither prove nor disprove, or disprove
evolution.”) Evolutionists, then, take
the artifact and go to the Book of Evolutionist Tricks. Now, this is not a real book. It is simply all of the tricks evolutionists
have developed over the past more than 100 years to dupe people into believing
that evolution is true…and, boy, have they done a good job!
One of my favorite tricks
was getting people to believe that paleontological excavations, which are
sometimes deep holes dug into the ground…that these deep holes in the ground
proved that living things started out simple at the bottom of these holes then
got increasingly complex as you moved toward the top of the holes. The fact is THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED! Yet, you can go to textbooks on evolution
and they will show you diagrams of such holes.
Now, you may wonder how evolutionists have been able to get away with
this. Enter “implicit
justification.” Here is how implicit
justification works. In the earlier
textbooks, pictures of holes showing simple organisms at the bottom and complex
organisms at the top WERE ARTISTS’ CONCEPTIONS. Over time, evolutionists argued, “Well, everyone knows these are
artists’ conceptions; so we don’t have to explain that anymore.” Unfortunately…for well over half a century,
children, adolescents, and young adults HAVE NOT KNOWN THAT…and
evolutionists AREN’T ABOUT TO TELL THEM!
You may wonder how the
ARTISTS’ CONCEPTIONS were able, in the past, to persuade people. After all, they were only conceptions, not
photographs of actual, paleontological discoveries. Well, this brings us to another evolutionist trick, the
“evolutionist sleight of hand.” We
could also call this trick the “evolutionist ‘quarter behind the ear’
trick.” Remember, in a sleight of hand
you misdirect your audience; that is, you get them to look one place while you
do something in another place (a child watches your left hand while your right
hand cups the quarter). The older
textbooks would present mountains of information (the same information used by
antievolutionists, creationists, unificationists, etc., etc.) and then say, “We
infer from these facts that the fossil evidence tells us that organisms evolved
from simple to complex as we move from the bottom of the excavation to the top
of the excavation.” At that point, a
wonderfully drawn, almost hypnotic ARTIST’S CONCEPTION is presented to the
reader. The reader, usually hungry for
knowledge and not well-versed in evolutionary thought would, of course, embrace
the evolutionist doctrine (teaching) and then go running to their friends to
tell them about the amazing discoveries made by evolutionists. Note the trick:
The textbook would get
the reader to concentrate on the mountains of information and then the HYPNOTIC
ARTIST’S CONCEPTION and, then, while the reader was not looking, slip in a
“magical inference.”
The fact is that this
magical inference, “…simple to complex,” WAS NO INFERENCE AT ALL. IT WAS SIMPLY THE PRODUCT OF THE
EVOLUTIONIST, TEXTBOOK WRITER’S IMAGINATION!
Well, I could go on for
thousands of pages but I believe you have already become wise to the ways of
the evolutionists. This brings us to
“the checking of evolutionist research by other scientists.” Well, these “other scientists” are also
evolutionists. Need I say more?