Questions for Evolutionists
The test of any theory is whether or not it provides answers to
basic questions. Some well-meaning but misguided people think
evolution is a reasonable theory to explain man’s questions about
the universe. Evolution is not a good theory—it is just a pagan
religion masquerading as science. The following questions were
distributed to the 750-plus people who attended my debate at
Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota, on January 9, 1993.
(The videotaped debate is #6, $9.95.) Questions added since the
debate remarked with an asterisk (*).
1. Where did the space for the universe come from?
2. Where did matter come from?
3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity,
inertia, etc.)?
4. How did matter get so perfectly organized?
5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?
6. When, where, why, and how did life come from non-living
matter?
7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself?
8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction
reproduce?
9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its
kindsince this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease
the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to
survive, or the species? How do you explain this?)
10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create
any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will
never produce Chinese books.)
11. Is it possible that similarities in design between different
animals prove a common Creator instead of a common ancestor?
12. Natural selection only works with the genetic information
available and tends only to keep a species stable. How would you
explain the increasing complexity in the genetic code that must
have occurred if evolution were true?
13. When, where, why, and how did:
o Single-celled plants become multi-celled? (Where are the two and three-celled intermediates?)
o Single-celled animals evolve?
o Fish change to amphibians?
o Amphibians change to reptiles?
o Reptiles change to birds? (The lungs, bones, eyes,reproductive organs, heart, method of locomotion, body covering, etc., are all very different!)
How did the intermediate forms live?
14. When, where, why, how, and from what did:
o Whales evolve?
o Sea horses evolve?
o bats evolve?
o Eyes evolve?
o Ears evolve?
o Hair, skin, feathers, scales, nails, claws, etc., evolve?
15. Which evolved first how, and how long, did it work without
the others)?
o The digestive system, the food to be digested, the appetite, the ability to find and eat the food, the digestive juices, or the body’s resistance to its own digestive juice (stomach, intestines, etc.)?
o The drive to reproduce or the ability to reproduce?
o The lungs, the mucus lining to protect them, the throat, or the perfect mixture of gases to be breathed into the lungs?
o DNA or RNA to carry the DNA message to cell parts?
o The termite or the bacteria in its intestines that actually digest the cellulose?
o The plants or the insects that live on and pollinate the plants?
o The bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or muscles to move the bones?
o The nervous system, repair system, or hormone system?
o The immune system or the need for it?
16. There are many thousands of examples of symbiosis that defy
an evolutionary explanation. Why must we teach students that
evolution is the only explanation for these relationships?
17. How would evolution explain mimicry? Did the plants and
animals develop mimicry by chance, by their intelligent choice,
or by design?
18. When, where, why, and how did man evolve feelings? Love,
mercy, guilt, etc. would never evolve in the theory of evolution.
19. *How did photosynthesis evolve?
20. *How did thought evolve?
21. *How did flowering plants evolve, and from that?
22. *What kind of evolutionist are you? Why are you not one of
the other eight or ten kinds?
23. What would you have said fifty years ago if I told you I had
a living coelacanth in my aquarium?
24. *Is there one clear prediction of macroevolution that has
proved true?
25. *What is so scientific about the idea of hydrogen as becoming
human?
26. *Do you honestly believe that everything came from nothing?
After you have answered the preceding questions, please look
carefully at your answers and thoughtfully consider the following
questions.
1. Are you sure your answers are reasonable, right, and
scientifically provable, or do you just believe that it may have
happened the way you have answered? (Do these answers reflect
your religion or your science?)
2. Do your answers show more or less faith than the person who
says, "God must have designed it"?
3. Is it possible that an unseen Creator designed this universe?
If God is excluded at the beginning of the discussion by your
definition of science, how could it be shown that He did create
the universe if He did?
4. Is it wise and fair to present the theory of evolution to
students as fact?
5. What is the end result of a belief in evolution (lifestyle,
society, attitude about others, eternal destiny, etc.)?
6. Do people accept evolution because of the following factors?
o It is all they have been taught.
o They like the freedom from God (no moral absolutes, etc.).
o They are bound to support the theory for fear of losing their job or status or grade point average.
o They are too proud to admit they are wrong.
o Evolution is the only philosophy that can be used to justify their political agenda.
7. Should we continue to use outdated, disproved, questionable,
or inconclusive evidences to support the theory of evolution
because we don’t have a suitable substitute (Piltdown man,
recapitulation, archaeopteryx, Lucy, Java man, Neanderthal man,
horse evolution, vestigial organs, etc.)?
8. Should parents be allowed to require that evolution not be
taught as fact in their school system unless equal time is given
to other theories of origins (like divine creation)?
9. What are you risking if you are wrong? As one of my debate
opponents said, "Either there is a God or there is not. Both
possibilities are frightening."
10. Why are many evolutionists afraid of the idea of creationism
being presented in public schools? If we are not supposed to
teach religion in schools, then why not get evolution out of the
textbooks? It is just a religious worldview.
11. Aren’t you tired of faith in a system that cannot be true?
Wouldn’t it be great to know the God who made you, and to accept
His love and forgiveness?
12. Would you be interested, if I showed you from the Bible, how
to have your sins forgiven and how to know for sure that you are
going to Heaven?