Last week we watched Illustra Media’s newest film Darwin’s Dilemma where scientists have taken a look at the Cambrian Explosion, the fossil record and the theory of evolution. In general the film took a look at Darwin’s statement regarding the fossil record: what is contains and what it should contain. In 1859, according to Darwin, the fossil record posed a problem to his theory because it was incomplete; the fossils simply hadn’t been found yet. Now, over 200 years later, with all the tremendous advancements we’ve made in archaeology and the trillions of fossils we have on record- we have even fewer fossils to support his theory than we did then!
Furthermore, the video explained the non-existence of pre-Cambrian life prior to the discovery of trilobites and other early life forms as well as the complicated structure of DNA and how it screams in opposition to Darwin’s theory of purposeless chance and matter plus time to explain the origin of life.
Afterwards, Tyler Geffeney from the CS Lewis society spoke a bit on using the fossil record as a witnessing tool. He answered questions about intelligent design and it’s efficacy in reaching out to lost souls.
Next week (tomorrow) we are watching our final film- Icons of Evolution- a film based on the best selling book by Jonathan Wells of the Discovery Institute. This film will cover the “icons” of evolution: Darwin’s tree of life, the ape-into-man evolutionary picture, the Finches, and so on from a scientific perspective. In the film, we will see how much (or how little) truth applies to these assertions.
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The Apologetic 
August 6, 2010 at 10:26 pm
The fossil record supports the creation account rather than the Darwinian evoltionary theory. There are no transitional species in the fossil record. If evolution is a fact, there should be thousands, maybe millions of transitional species in the record. Also, in the Cambrian layer, there is massive evidence of creation of life forms in a very short period of time, in direct opposition to what we would expect if life advanced over millions of years from simple to complex. Also, if natural selection is true, why do we still have animals at every level of the food chain, why did they not become extinct by natural selection or survival of the fittest? Also, finding fish fossils at the top of a mountain is what one would expect as a result of a world wide flood. And that is what we do find.
November 13, 2021 at 1:28 am
After just hearing those words about Darwin being right,
“Oh! That is…wow! You must be really excited! So, exactly how did this come about? I mean, what…uh, what were the ideas or how was theory cemented into Law, as it were? What ‘sealed the deal,’ as is often said?”
Something along those lines. I would very kindly, but adamantly-persuasive (not sure those words can go together like that, but this is not English Lit., either–I think I conveyed my meaning clearly) try to find out all that I could. Not quite a grilling as having a negative connotation, because if I get that person on the defensive, they may clam right up, and so sounding excited without declaring either “us” or “them” but certainly, if asked, I would gladly and without hesitation say, “Yes, I am a Born-Again Christian. Yeah, definitely. Still, I would like to hear the rest of what you had learned or found out. I am, clearly, not taking an oppositional stance, by any means. Anyway, putting that aside, what was that you were saying about…?” and try to continue on from there. He/She does not necessarily need to know that I would fiercely defend Jesus and His saving my life before I even knew or decided I wanted to know Him. I would, as well, defend intelligent design, creationism, and pointing out the trick I learned from either Kent Hovind or Ken Ham about taking apart a clickable ball-point pen that consists of anywhere from 4 to 10 pieces on average, taking an empty coffee can (in my mind I am picturing a small can about 13-16 ounce size) of coffee and since you already have it out, brew a pot of said coffee that has to go somewhere else for later enjoyment. Put all the pieces of the pen into the empty coffee can and put the lid back on. You can tape it up but what is the point since you can get the can open again no matter how much you tape it up, and you do have to check from time to time (this is the next step) and probably pass down to great-great-grandkids with options to check all you want, and see if all the pieces have put themselves back together ensuring it is not a miracle but a random chance happening that is one more thing that has randomly put itself together, all (random chances) happening together on the same planet…so on. The chance of the pen getting back together or any other life or non-life form randomly assembling into the exact, correct configuration on the first try is the same as a tornado tearing through a junkyard and leaving in its wake a perfectly-assembled Boeing 747 airplane. Oh, and all from the correct ingredients that were, some of them, randomly extracted from rocks that did not decide to become a water buffalo or a fly, or even a piece of chocolate. Well, you get my point. I would, out of respect, try very hard not to laugh during any part of our conversation (or argument, nobody can tell, it is all random chance, you know). Things randomly being assembled such as a sunflower that randomly-every-single-time has its seeds arranged in a mathematically perfect Fibonacci sequence, or any of a thousand other fractals, patterns, etc., that seem, but are not, random. Anyway, sorry for the long comment.
Respectfully,
Michael Car***