Author: Joel Henderson

by Philip J. Lesko

As some of you know, this is one of my favorite subjects, not only because I taught science at the Jersey Shore Jr. High School, but because there is such a wealth of evidence for the Bible and such a paucity of evidence (if any does exist) for evolution and its child higher criticism. The Scripture records that God made the heavens and the earth and all that is in and on them in six literal (count ’em) days. The order and complexity of the chemicals of life preclude any synthesis by chance from some primordial ooze. The simplest virus or cell contains information in the DNA code that could never have come about except by and intelligent creator.

The rocks show life suddenly appearing in great variety and complexity. The Encyclopedia Britannica says of brachiopods: “Articulate and inarticulate brachiopods appeared at the same time in a relatively advanced state of development” with the evidence for any evolutionary history “apparently lost or unrecorded.” That’s because there wasn’t any. God made ’em! The horse is often cited as an evidence of evolution, but the National Geographic (Jan. 1981 p. 74) shows two fossil feet, one from a three-toed horse and the other from a one-toed horse both from the same rock. Although this proves that neither evolved from the other they say it supports evolution! Life was created just like God said.

Paul MacCready, the pioneer of human-powered flight, is trying to make a flying replica of a pterosaur. the original weighed 200 lbs. and had a 50-ft wing span. the replica is 35 lbs. because anything heavier cannot fly with the power that the dinosaur must have had. Why? The atmosphere was different before the flood just like the Bible says, “God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament.” (Gen. 1:7) The heavy, humid, pre-flood atmosphere explains many things, such as the abundance of dinosaurs and the forests which were tuned into coal (from great floating mats of debris). God was accurate when he said that Adam would earn his living by the sweat of his brow!

The presence of people on the earth in that ancient pre-flood time is attested to by footprints in stone alongside dinosaur tracks at a site near Glen Rose, Texas, and else where. Skeletons have been found fossilized in limestone and many relics have been taken out of rocks “millions” of years old. A doll or image was taken from a rock 320 feet down as a well was being drilled in Nampa, Idaho, on August 1, 1889. A spark-plug like object was discovered in a geode on February 13, 1961, by three rock hunters near Olancha, California. On June 9, 1981 a gold chain was found in a lump of coal by Mrs. S.W.Culp of Morriosonville, Illinois. Many more such artifacts could be cited, but let’s look at the flood itself.

There have been many eyewitness reports of seeing the ark on Mt. Ararat. There is great abundant evidence that water covered the earth and deposited the sedimentary rocks. Every fossil that is found is a testimony to the rapid burial or that animal or plant. Today no fossils are being formed because even if an animal is covered by sand the worms and germs in the soil quickly reduce it to nothing. Only a great cataclysmic flood like the Bible describes would be enough to produce the fossils which cover the earth. The highest mountains have limestone with fossil shells in it as their capstone. The Grand Canyon shows every evidence of being cut rapidly by rushing water and not slowly by small river. The west is full of spectacular formations formed by water. Mesas are left high on plateaus as monuments to God’s work in changing the face of the earth.
In Yellowstone Park there is an exposure showing twenty-seven layers of tree stumps and broken sections of trunks, all petrified. The stumps are mostly roots down, which makes it look at first like they were buried as they grew, but study of the debris from Mt. St. Helens shows that waterlogged flood debris settles in just this way. The petrified wood is debris from the great flood, as are the coal and oil deposits. No such things are forming today. Neither do we find limestone or salt beds forming today. Limestone and dolomite formations have baffled geologists from day one, but the changing pressures and conditions of the flood could have formed them. Salt in great layers (and pure) is not forming today either.
At Babel people sinned and God confused their languages. Every evidence indicates that languages have been devolving, not evolving. Words have been getting shorter and the grammar filled with more exceptions to the rules. Besides this there are isolated people speaking totally different languages in the remote parts of the world. Babel explains it.
The place names, personal names and descriptions of the Bible are accurate. Abraham (Gen. 23:11) speaks “barter talk” with Ephron the Hittite. The words and method used are confirmed by clay tablets dug up by archaeologists. The Hittite people, once thought to be a Bible fable, had a great empire now known through digs at Boghazkoy in Turkey. The idols, practices and religious high places mentioned in the Bible have been confirmed by the archaeologists’ spade time and time again. The land is covered with figurines nude women used for worship purposes. The kings mentioned in the Scripture have appeared in the inscriptions on monuments and stellas from Egypt to Persia. Mesha, Sargon, Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar have been found. Pictures by the way of bas—reliefs show Israelites being led captive just as the Bible says.
Not only do we have great evidence, such as finding Pilate’s name on a stone tablet, but we have many very old and reliable copies of the Bible. At Qumran there were hundreds of scrolls found of Old Testament books; confirming the accuracy of modern editions and showing that Daniel couldn’t have been written after the fact, but had to be prophecy! Truly 2 Peter 3:5 is fulfilled today, “For this they willingly forget …” But let us be ones who trust and obey the Word of the only true and living God. Let us take the message to the ends of the earth and preach the truth because, the Lord “is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance”. Rejoice in the Bible, study it and preach it. There is no more sure word of prophecy, no more accurate history, no fuller look into the world of spirits or any more complete description of men’s hearts. Lastly, there is no more glorious story of so great a salvation as Jesus’ blood provides for all men.