References:
(1) Einstein’s theory of general relativity is the BASIS for some of the strongest EVIDENCE that there is a CREATOR, an AGENT OF CREATION. The Big Bang, a consequence of general relativity, demonstrates the universe had a BEGINNING. Kalam’s argument uses the Law of Causality to CONCLUDE therefore that the universe had a CAUSE. If the universe had a BEGINNINNG, then it follows there is a BEGINNER. Therefore, the universe is NOT AN ACCIDENT nor is the universe caused by CHANCE entirely CONTRARY to evolutionary claims.
(2) All of these attributes of the Beginner are IDENTICAL to the God of the Bible. I have said several times that I have a philosophical proof that the first cause of the universe is, in fact, the God of the Bible, Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
(3) The COBE satellite probe in 1992 sent back our first “view” of the edges of the universe. Essentially, its data was another confirmation of general relativity AND the existence of a Creator.
(4) While the discovery of pre-Cambrian life has FILLED MANY GAPS, scientists still investigate the mechanisms behind the RAPID DIVERSIFICATION of body plans during the Cambrian Explosion. Factors such as environmental changes, genetic innovations, and ecological interactions are now considered KEY DRIVERS of this BURST of activity. Nevertheless, the Cambrian Explosion remains a CENTRAL TOPIC in understanding the history of life on Earth.
(5) Another evidence against Darwin’s theory is the 2024 book Darwin’s Bluff with the subtitle The Mystery of the Book Darwin Never Finished by Robert F. Shedinger. A review of the book in Kindle reveals that tucked away in Darwin’s surviving papers is a manuscript of almost 300,000 words of a book that Darwin NEVER COMPLETED even though Darwin repeatedly promised its forthcoming.
(6) This book was his SEQUEL of The Origin of Species. It was the book he had promised would finally SUPPLY SOLID EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE for the creative power of natural selection, evidence he admitted was ABSENT from the Origin of Species, which he REPEATEDLY DESCRIBED as a “MERE ABSTRACT.” Darwin soon ABANDONED his sequel, though he NEVER REVEALED that decision to those who awaited its appearance. The MYSTERY of why Darwin DIDN’T FINISH HIS SEQUEL has never been SATISFACTORYLY RESOLVED.
(7) In this fascinating piece of historical detective work, Robert Shedinger draws on Darwin’s letters, private notebooks, and the unfinished manuscript itself to piece together the PUZZLE and reveal an EMBARASSING TRUTH: Darwin NEVER FINISHED HIS SEQUEL BECAUSE IN THE END HE COULD NOT DELIVER THE PROMISED GOODS. His book, begun in earnest, devolved into a colossal BLUFF.
(8) At the beginning of the book Darwin’s Bluff, Michael N. Keas, author of Unbelievable: 7 Myths about the History and Future of Science and Religion, said this: “Historians of Charles Darwin have largely OVERLOOKED what Shedinger here demonstrates: The theoretical success of Darwin’s book The Origin of Species owed much to the early readers IMAGINING MOUNTAINS OF EVIDENCE FORTHCOMING in the much larger book that Darwin PROMISED would soon be finalized and published. The evasiveness of this MANEUVER is well documented in Shedinger’s analysis of Darwin’s FOREVER UNFINISHED — and EVIDENTIALLY DISAPPOINTING — ‘big book’ and his collegial correspondence.”
(9) Examples of what Shedinger calls a mythological figure but what I call Darwin’s Mania.
(a) Daniel Dennett’s famous assertion that Darwin had the BEST IDEA ANYONE HAS EVER HAD.
(b) Janet Browne calling “The Origin of Species”“one of the GREATEST SCIENTIFIC BOOKS EVER WRITTEN.”
(c) Darwin continues to be HALED TODAY in both scientific and popular circles as perhaps THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL SCIENTISTS of ALL TIME.
This is episode 299.