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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr John G. Hartnett is an Australian physicist and cosmologist, and a Christian with a biblical creationist worldview. He received a B.Sc. (Hons) and Ph.D. (with distinction) in Physics from � e University of Western Australia, W.A., Australia. He is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA) fellow at a leading Australian university, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has published more than 200 papers in scienti� c journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. His research interests include the development of ultra-stable microwave oscillators based on sapphire resonators, ultra-stable optical cavities and tests of fundamental theories of physics such as special and general relativity using precision oscillators.

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“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) Not the Big Bang but the Creator God.

“God created man in his own image, …”—Genesis 1:27

All men are descended from Adam. In the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve sinned against God and so God cursed them and the whole universe.

“… sin came into the world through one man [Adam], and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.”—Romans 5:12

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”—Romans 6:23

All deserve death “for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,” (Romans 3:23) but Jesus fully paid the penalty on the Cross—as only a Holy God could—for those who repent of their sins.

“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the � esh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”—John 1:12 &13

“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.”—Romans 1:20

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Why Evolution is Foolish!

JOHN G. HARTNETTB.Sc (Hons), Ph.D.

Dr John G. Hartnett

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1. WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM?

Man puts all his faith in cosmology to answer this fun-damental question. But cosmology is not even science, it is just philosophy. � is has meant that man has had to invent fudge factors to make his theories work, such as the totally-just-made-up stu� called Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and In� ation. � ere isn’t a shred of any real labora-tory evidence for any of them. Not any! � ey also claim the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation as the a� erglow of the Big Bang, thus supposed to be coming from all di-rections. Yet it seems to be associated with the orbital plane of our solar system’s planets!

2. HOW DID NOTHING EXPLODE?

According to the Big Bang story � rst there was ‘nothing’ and it exploded! When I say ‘nothing,’ I mean not even vacuum, not even matter, no energy, no space, no time, not anything. Nothing!

According to Stephen Hawking, the question of the origin of the universe does not even exist. He claims it began in every way imaginable and maybe even some that aren’t. He asks, why are we here? He simply says that the Universe selects those histories that lead to these conditions.1 � at is, the Universe made itself—there was no Creator. And that just makes no sense at all.

3. HOW DID STARS AND GALAXIES FORM?

� ere is no known law of nature (physics) that allows stars to form originally from clouds of gas, which supposedly came from the Big Bang. Fundamental physics must be violated or one must invent unknown stuff—Dark Matter—with the right properties to get stars to form naturalistically.2 Without it, it just can’t happen.

1. www.nature.com/news/2006/060619/full/060619-6.html2. It has been proposed that an exploding star can compress a gas

cloud, but that hardly quali� es as an explanation for the origin of stars in the � rst place.

6. WHY HASN’T EVOLUTION BEEN OBSERVED?

You can’t do experiments, or even observe what happened, in the past. Prof. Richard Dawkins said, “Evolution has been observed. It’s just that it has not been observed while it’s happening.”3 Which, of course, makes no sense at all.

7. HOW DOES SPECIFIC COMPLEX CODED INFORMATION IN DNA ARISE BY CHANCE?

Single-celled organisms have much less information in their DNA than a human does. If the complex evolved from the less complex, in-formation had to have been added. Prof. Richard Dawkins was asked to give one such example (see: creation.com/dawkins-stumped). He couldn’t, and hasn’t because evolution does not happen. Information comes from an intelligent mind, not by random processes. When DNA is copied, information is overwhelmingly lost, not added.

Evolutionists also claim that the DNA coded informa-tion storage system itself ‘evolved’. Yet no coding system (such as written language) has ever come into existence except by intelligent design. Furthermore, DNA is the densest information storage system known in the uni-verse! Molecules cannot create a code out of themselves. Evolution is a total failure in explaining such things.

8. HOW DID LIFE ARISE FROM NON-LIVING CHEMICALS BY RANDOM CHANCE?

Finally, an even bigger problem, if that’s possible. Nobody knows how life arose from non-living chemi-cals. To say anything di� erent is just plain foolish.

3. Bill Moyers interviews Richard Dawkins, Now, 3 December 2004, PBS network

(such as written language) has ever come into existence except by intelligent design. Furthermore, DNA is the densest information storage system known in the uni-verse! Molecules cannot create a code out of themselves. Evolution is a total failure in explaining such things.

8. HOW DID LIFE ARISE FROM NON-LIVING

Finally, an even bigger problem, if that’s possible. Nobody knows how life arose from non-living chemi-cals. To say anything di� erent is just plain foolish.

4. HOW COME ALL ROCKS DATED WITH CARBON-14 GIVE ‘ABSOLUTE AGES’ LESS THAN 56,000 YRS?

Practically all carbon-bearing rocks including inorganic minerals found on Earth over the past 40 years contain Carbon-14. Why is that? None should exist a� er 100,000 years. They say the Earth is 4.5 billion years old. Coal that is assumed to be at least 30 million years old was dated with Carbon-14 to be only 45,000 years old, us-ing evolutionary assumptions. Diamonds, which are pure carbon and meant to be at least 1 billion years old, have been dated to be only 55,700 years old with Carbon-14. � e millions and billions of years must be wrong. Using biblical assumptions these ages become less than 5,000 years.

5. HOW DO YOU DETERMINE THE ABSOLUTE AGE OF A FOSSIL?

Evolutionary stories tell us that the millions of fossils in the sedimentary layers found all over the Earth give dates in line with microbes evolving into man over the past 3 billion years. But it is impossible to determine the absolute age of any fossil. It must be dated by the sedi-ments it is found in. And how are the sedimentary layers dated? By the fossils found in them—circular reasoning! And even when they use radioac-tive minerals (in associated volcanic material) to ‘date’ sediments, they must make untestable assumptions. Even so, di� erent methods commonly disagree with each other.

Professor Richard Dawkins

SO DON’T BE FOOLED. ACTUALLY WHEN WE LOOK AT THE VARIOUS ARGUMENTS SUPPORTING EVOLUTION, WE CAN SEE THAT THEY ARE JUST PLAIN FOOLISH.