The Miracles of Evolution

In a debate I watched on Creation vs. Evolution, the evolutionist Micheal Shermer, used the argument that Creationism is a "God of the Gaps" argument: wherever we can't explain something, we throw God in there and He must've done a miracle. I disagree strongly and believe Kent Hovind, the Creatonist, did a great job proving the Biblical account. The naturalistic explanation for how the world came to be is just another religion whose god is nothing. It eliminates the obvious answer for the incredible design of the universe: a Designer must've done it all! Dr. Hovind put it nicely when he gave the example of a computer. He asks us to explain how computers were invented without allowing the answer to be Man. The answer would be a step-by-step, naturalistic explanation for computers existing. Not only is that silly but impossible. Anyway, I strongly believe Evolution is a "God of the Gaps" argument concealed under a veil of science. Before I list the miracles involved in Evolution, let me first define a few terms.

The Six Meanings of Evolution:

(1) Cosmic evolution (The Big Bang)
(2) Chemical evolution (Hydrogen evolving into other elements)
(3) Stellar and planetary evolution (Self-explanitory)
(4) Organic evolution (Life from non-life)
(5) Macro evolution (Change from one kind of animal to another, such as the change from reptiles to birds)
(6) Micro evolution (Change within a kind of animal, such as Pitbull, German Shepard, and Golden Retriever)

The only scientific definition is the 6th one. It is the only one that has ever been seen, observed and tested. The first five are purely religious and based on huge amounts of faith. Now, let's list the miracles involved:

1- The matter from the Big Bang was always there or created itself from literally nothing (no protons, no neutrons, no atoms, nothing)
2- All the matter in the Universe was squeezed into something smaller than a period.
3- Nothing caused it to spin and then explode.
4- All of the elements evolved from helium.
5- The stars formed from the elements but wait, what came first? The stars or the elements? (We've never seen one single star form.)
6- Our own Milky Way gracefully allowed Earth to form safely within a safe zone of its spiral arms.
7- Laws of physics evolved and then stopped. They were finetuned by nothing and allowed for life to be suitable on earth.
8- Earth was amazingly set the exact distance from the sun it needed to be in order for life.
9- The moon formed at a friendly distance and at the same time as earth by itself.
10- The earth's hot molten mass cooled down and formed a rocky crust. Well, how? Theres evidence that it wasn't hot but cool. Check out Dr. Gentry's radium palonium halos in granite rocks. www.halos.com
11- The clouds, however they were formed, became so full and millions of years of rain created great oceans.
12- This pre-biotic soup had the necessary ingredients for life, somehow. Something non-living coming to life is called spontaneous generation and was scientifically disproven over a hundred years ago by Louis Pasteur and others.
13- Once the single celled orginisms came alive, they found food and shelter and flourished for the next 2 billion years. "Suddenly those single celled organisms began to evolve into multicellular organisms (What kept the cells together and safe? Who did they marry? What did they eat? Why not stay asexual creatures and evolve the ability to live forever). Then an unprecedented profusion (Big words to confuse the student) of life in incredibly complex forms began to fill the oceans (MIRACLE). Some crawled from the seas and took residence on land (Who'd they marry? How'd they reproduce?), perhaps to escape predators in the ocean. (Miracle)
14- Macro-evolution has never been observed but given time (Miracle) it can happen with mutations and natural selection.
15- For some reason, the past yielded all the beneficial mutations needed for... (at the same time, for the same creatures, both male and female in the same part of the planet so they were able to reproduce. Miracle) ...macro-evolution even though what we can see and test today shows no evidence of any beneficial mutations. All are harmful and are a loss or misplacement of existing genetic information.
16- Somehow, natural selection had creative properties in the past.(Miracle) Nature can only select from what is already is in an animals gene pool.

I grew up in public education and the theory of evolution was always a hindrance to my faith. It caused me to doubt God and His majesty. As I delved deeper into studying the theory, I now find it increasing my faith in Jesus Christ. Either the world created itself or God did it. I know God did it and I know He has a plan for my life and yours. If you're reading this please know that you're not some mishap mistakenly developed over billions of years of accidents and death. You are a person. A member of the human race which has all fallen from God's grace because of sin. We all, even ELIEM deserve hell because of our sin but Jesus took our place when He died on the cross. He bore our sin because He loves His creation. Ask for His forgiveness. Talk to Him today. Walk with Him the rest of your life.

- Joey, co-founder of ELIE