WHY I REJECTED EVOLUTION

Michael T. Griffith

2002

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Second Edition

 

I used to be a devout theistic evolutionist. I was absolutely convinced that evolution was the mechanism God used to create life on earth. This is one reason I hesitate to question evolutionists' motives, since I know that I genuinely believed evolution was factual and I saw no conflict between it and my religious faith.

 

My first doubts about evolution came as I read the short creationist book entitled Fossils In Focus written by two highly qualified creation scientists. I had a friend at the time who was a professor of biology at a local community college. It seemed to me he had no real answers for the objections raised in the book. This led me to read more creationist literature. Several books later, I came away highly skeptical of the theory of evolution. My doubts only increased as the years went by and as I read more literature on the creation-evolution debate. It seemed to me--and still does--that evolution has no conceivable way of answering the following questions:

 

  • What is the origin of life? At least theistic evolution has a plausible answer, namely, that life came from an omnipotent eternal life. Secular evolution can only posit life from non-life and something from nothing. Evolutionary scientists still haven't even come close to producing even the "simplest" living cell from non-living matter, despite repeated attempts to do so in sophisticated laboratory experiments.

 

  • What is the origin of intellect?

 

  • What is the origin of conscience?

 

  • How could a lowly, single-cell animal have elevated itself into a higher life form?

 

  • How could life have changed itself from cold-blooded to warm-blooded?

 

  • How would the eye have evolved when so many of the components necessary for vision are useless unless combined with other components to form an incredibly complex machine? To this day I have yet to see a logical, credible theory of how even a "primitive" eye could have developed by random processes.

 

  • How could sexless life, in the beginning, have created sex and why?

 

  • How could a single cell have evolved into cells of fish, fowl, animal, and man, all of which are different?

 

  • How would natural selection have "known" to preserve or select the components necessary for flight when the very concept of flight would have been unknown and when most of the those components would have been useless in and of themselves?

 

Atheistic evolution has no credible, rational answers to these questions, in my opinion.

 

These are some of the reasons I rejected evolution.

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:  Michael T. Griffith holds a Master’s degree in Theology from The Catholic Distance University, a Graduate Certificate in Ancient and Classical History from American Military University, a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from Excelsior College, and two Associate in Applied Science degrees from the Community College of the Air Force.  He also holds an Advanced Certificate of Civil War Studies and a Certificate of Civil War Studies from Carroll College.  He is a graduate in Arabic and Hebrew of the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and of the U.S. Air Force Technical Training School in San Angelo, Texas.  In addition, he has completed an Advanced Hebrew program at Haifa University in Israel.  He is the author of five books on Mormonism and ancient texts, including How Firm A Foundation, A Ready Reply, and One Lord, One Faith.