Fast Facts about… 20 Great Creation-Evolution Questions This “Fast Fact” sheet provides 20 questions you can use for starting dialogue with your friends, family, and classmates regarding creation-evolution topics. Be sure they are presented “in love and respect”—these are not for starting or ending arguments; but rather for opening dialogue. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. When it comes to evolution theory, how do you know it’s true? Has evolution ever been observed (i.e., “macro” evolution where one “kind” turns into another)? What assumptions are being made when someone asserts that evolution is true? Can you show me any observable evidence for evolution that doesn’t require faith? Are there any examples showing when non-life started life? (life from non-life in contradiction to the law of biogenesis) 6. How did life originate? 7. How did the DNA code originate? 8. Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists know that they were not designed? 9. How did sex originate and evolve? When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself? 10. Where are the millions of transitional fossils that should exist if evolution theory is true? Why don't we see a reasonably smooth continuum among all living creatures, or in the fossil record, or both? For example, Darwin said, “… as by evolution theory, innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?" (Origin of Species, 1859) and “Why is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory?" (Origin of Species, 1872). In addition, Colin Patterson, Senior Paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History (home of the world’s largest fossil collection over 60 million specimens), stated: “If I knew of any, (evolutionary transitions) fossil or living, I would have included them in my book!”1 Other evolutionists have noted the same challenge: “The known fossil record fails to document a single example of phyletic evolution accomplishing a major morphologic transition, and hence offers no evidence that the gradualistic model can be valid.”2 11. If museums and fossil databases contain over 1,000 fossilized bats and 100,000 fossilized turtles, why haven’t they found any fossils that have been classified as “pre-bats” or “pre-turtles”? Why are they always found in complete form?3 Do you believe that after finding so many specimens in complete form that some predecessors would have been found by now? 12. How do “living fossils” remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years, if evolution has changed worms into humans in the same time frame? WWW.GENESISAPOLOGETICS.COM BECAUSE IT REALLY DOES MATTER WHAT YOU BELIEVE 20 Great Creation-Evolution Questions ed) 13. How did blind chemistry create mind/intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality? 14. Where has “macro evolution” ever been observed? What's the mechanism for getting new complexity such as new vital organs? How, for example, could a caterpillar evolve into a butterfly? 15. How could organs as complicated as the eye or the ear or the brain of even a tiny bird ever come about by chance or natural processes? How could a bacterial motor evolve? 16. Where did the space for the universe come from? 17. Where did matter come from? 18. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)? 19. How did matter get so perfectly organized? 20. Creationists and evolutionists agree that micro-evolution (i.e., change within a species over time) occurs and is scientifically verifiable. What evidence do you have for “macro-evolution” (i.e., large unobserved changes)? Sources: 1 Source: Colin Patterson, personal letter to Luther Sutherland, 10 April 1979, quoted in Luther D Sutherland, Darwin’s Enigma, 4th ed. (Santee, CA. Master Books, 1988), 89. 2 Steven M. Stanley, Macroevolution: Pattern and Process, (San Francisco: W.M. Freeman and Co.) p. 39. 3 Source: Evolution: The Grand Experiment. Volume 1, The Quest for An Answer, by Dr. Carl Werner (see more at: http://www.thegrandexperiment.com/#sthash.RjBL4QWB.dpuf). WWW.GENESISAPOLOGETICS.COM BECAUSE IT REALLY DOES MATTER WHAT YOU BELIEVE