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Darwin believed that life was “originally breathed by the Creator into a few
forms or into one.”
In his conclusion to The Origin of Species, he wrote of the grandeur of the
“view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the
Creator into a few forms or into one,” thus making it evident that the subject
of origins was open to further examination.
Phillip Johnson, a professor of criminal law at the University of California at
Berkeley in the United States, has long been fascinated by the way biologists
defend the theory of evolution. They seem so defensive and dogmatic on the
subject that Johnson set about finding out “what the vulnerable points were
they’re trying to protect.” The result of his research is a book, Darwin on
Trial, that The Sacramento Bee describes as “a lawyer’s examination, bit by bit,
of the logic of and evidence behind the theory of evolution.” The newspaper
summarizes: “Darwin flunks.” Johnson claims he found many scholars, including
biologists, who are afraid to speak out publicly against evolution. “One of the
things I’ve learned from this experience,” he told the San Francisco Chronicle,
“is that to establish an intellectual orthodoxy and keep it beyond criticism,
you don’t need concentration camps and secret police. All you have to do is say
that people will laugh at you and you’ll lose your prestige. This has an
enormous effect in academic life.”
It is not too difficult to find out where life came from. A Bible writer pointed
to that Source 3,000 years ago when he declared:
“How precious your loving-kindness is, O God! . . . For with you is the source
of life; by light from you we can see light.”—Psalm 36:7, 9.
Some hardened critics of the Bible have had to concede that God is the Source of
life. Even evolutionist Darwin acknowledged that originally life must have been
“breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one.” But if God could breathe
life into “a few forms,” why would he not in the same way breathe it into
hundreds of created “kinds,” each in its turn? The Bible says he did just that!
He created each living thing “according to its kind.” (Genesis 1:12, 21, 24, 25)
God’s creation of the first man is described in these words:
“And Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to
blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living
soul.”—Genesis 2:7.
According to the Bible, that is how human life got to be here, just 6,000 years
ago—by direct creation from God. It is vital that we understand that fact in
order to appreciate that there is much more to life.
In contrast with the Bible’s straightforward account of creation, some of the
explanations by evolutionists read like fantasies. For example, one evolutionary
scientist writes this way:
“Once upon a time, very long ago, perhaps two and a half billion years ago,
under a deadly sun, in an ammoniated ocean topped by a poisonous atmosphere, in
the midst of a soup of organic molecules!!!!???
The Age of the Earth Controversy:
(Separate Study)