Hi Valjean. Good afternoon. Thanks for the response. Don't you think it's rather convenient that we can't actually prove macroevolution to be true? You say some things are too slow or distant to be observed, however, the leaps that theorists have made to claim that one organism evolved in to a radically different organism by adding the sum of hundreds of thousands of years to the equation is to me laughable. I read articles like this:
From Bambi to Moby Dick: how a small deer evolved into the whale | Evolution | The Guardian and I'm laughing all the way through. It's not science. It's something that belongs to a Disney production. I have no idea how people who consider themselves intelligent could believe such absurdity.
Perhaps you feel the same way about the Bible, that it's all made-up. But historians and archaeologists use the Bible as an accurate source to explain where certain cities were located, events occurred and cultures were evident. It makes sense that what we see around us was created because there is beauty and harmony in this world. If Yahweh didn't create in this world, this world would look like that mentioned in Genesis 1:2 "2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep...". No amount of time will result in human beings evolving in to something else. What about Mendel's laws?
A logical consequence of Mendel’s laws is that there are limits to such variation. Breeding experiments and common observations also confirm these boundaries. Mendel discovered that genes (units of heredity) are merely reshuffled from one generation to another. Different combinations are formed, not different genes. The different combinations produce many variations within each kind of life, as in the dog family.
In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood - 3. Mendel’s Laws (creationscience.com)
Let's start with the DNA record. Natural processes cannot produce large amounts of information. The genetic information in the DNA of each human cell is roughly equivalent to a library of 4,000 books
In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood - 33. Genetic Information (creationscience.com) Even if matter and life somehow arose—perhaps only a bacterium—the probability that mutations and natural selection produced this vast amount of information is essentially zero. To produce just the enzymes in one organism would require more than 10 to the power of 40,000 trials.
i (To begin to understand how large 10 to the power of 40,000 is, realize that the visible universe contains fewer than 10 to the power of 80 atoms.)
What about "junk" DNA? Evolutionists out of ignorance began to call huge chunks of DNA they considered to be irrelevant and redundant aspects of our evolutionary past, yet this so called "junk" DNA was shown to contain millions of switches that regulate gene activity at specific times and in unique ways for each of thousands of different types of cells. No, DNA implies creation, it certainly doesn't imply macroevolution.
What about fossils you might ask? Fossils are proof of a global flood. If that much water sloshed over the earth for a year, many dead animals and plants would have been buried in vast amounts of mud and other sediments. This could explain how almost all fossils formed, especially those on the highest mountains. Further, in-between forms (or intermediates), which should be vast in number if macroevolution occurred, are never seen as fossils or living species.
There's a good explanation here about that of the fossil record proving rapid burial:
In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood - 21. Rapid Burial (creationscience.com)
Well, I can't speak on the Quran, or any other religious literature. I was brought up on the Bible, and the scripture says in Romans 10:16-17 "16 But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Yahweh, who has believed our message?” 17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about the Messiah." I heard the message, and I came to believe it. Actually, in my youth nearly every day I would listen to a sermon and my faith grew and the fruits in my life increased of which I give the praise to Yahweh. The Bible doesn't resonate with everyone. It did resonate with me and by Yahweh's grace He called me (see scriptures like 1 Corinthians 1:25-27,
2 Thessalonians 2:14 etc):
“But you, Israel, my servant,
Jacob, whom I have chosen,
you descendants of Abraham my friend,
9 I took you from the ends of the earth,
from its farthest corners I called you.
I said, ‘You are my servant’;
I have chosen you and have not rejected you.
10 So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your Elohim.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."
I have found that we have to be called by Yahweh and that won't happen unless Yahweh sees something in us worth salvaging. If we are worthy to have the good news dawn upon us, Yahweh will call us, but we should be seeking Him. Do you remember what happened in
Mark 10:49? The blind man wasn't healed right away, Yahshua had to call him to him. People in this world are blinded. We need Yahshua to open our eyes.
Knowing Yahshua has been the best thing that has happened in my life. He makes my life worth living and I have so much to live for, keeping the commandments, trying to please Yahweh and Yahshua and following in his footsteps.