TOP FALLACIOUS CHALLENGES TO CREATION & ANSWERS

CLAIM #1): “The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.”  Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
“…despite 150 years of direct research, no evidence in conflict with evolution has ever been found.” Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education (Darwinian political organization)

ANSWER: Many times in history, things that are considered facts in one generation are debunked in the next. That happens now too. Every word of God proves true in time (Proverbs 30:5; Psalm 3:3). God’s says:
 “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” Ps. 19:1 NIV UK
 “Ask the wild animals,…the birds of the sky…or ask the fish in the sea…Who among all of these doesn’t know that the Lord’s hand made them.” Job 12:7-9 (ISV)
 See also: Gen. 1:31, Nehemiah 9:6,  33:6, 66:4, 104: 24-25, Isaiah 40:25-26, 42:5-7, John 1:3, Romans 1:20, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Hebrews 11:3, Rev. 4:11, 14:7.

 Many scientists deny that Darwinism is a fact and many say it’s completely failed or is pseudoscience.
  “The bottom line is that Darwinian theory fails on every level.”[1] Dr. John Sanford (former atheist and professor of genetics at Cornell University with over 100 published papers in genetics)

 Dr. David Berlinski has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton (the main business of philosophy is identifying truth) and is an agnostic, not a Christian. He reviews Darwinism
 “I disagree that Darwin’s “theory” is as `solid as any explanation in science. Disagree? I regard the claim as preposterous. Quantum electrodynamics is accurate to thirteen or so decimal places; so, too, general relativity. A leaf trembling in the wrong way would suffice to shatter either theory. What can Darwinian theory offer in comparison?” •Berlinski, D., “A Scientific Scandal?: David Berlinski & Critics,” Commentary, July 8, 2003 https://davidberlinski.org/biography/

 A proponent of Darwinism said, “The problem with those who are unable to see evolution, is that they don’t have imaginations.” (Gail E. Kennedy, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Anthropology, UCLA, Darwinian)

 Dr. Ariel Roth says, “Evolution does not even seem to be true….Our knowledge of physics, chemistry, and probability dictates that the evolutionary scenario is essentially impossible.”[2]

 “There has never been a theory of evolution.” – Cytogeneticist Antonio Lima-de-Faria

CLAIM #2) Bill Nye (BS in engineering, an engineer, comedian and TV show host) wrote a book titled “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”

 ANSWER:  Dr. Doug Axe wrote a book titled “Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed” and says that the intuitions that many people have that biological life forms in all their incredible complexity is solidly scientific. Nature does point to God. He also argues that this is more rational and scientific than the thinking of some secular scientists that start their thinking with denying that science can have any evidence for God. https://undeniabledesign.com

 The Bible is an anvil that has worn out many hammers. It’s claims have consistently proven true throughout history, including claiming that the universe was created and had a beginning (Heb. 1:2) when everyone else said it was eternal, that life was created and didn’t come into being by chance when most believed in spontaneous generation, that there was a global flood that explains the fossil layers well. It has made claims about health, marriage, economics and many other things that prove true and enormously valuable for people now!

CLAIM #3)  “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution” evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky

ANSWER: “All I’ve studied and researched over the past 30 years has only strengthened my belief that nothing makes sense in biology apart from belief in an intelligent Being who has created us. Those who do not believe in an intelligent Being must go to great extents to rationalize that what they see as design is not the product of intelligence.” Dr. Donald L. Ewert, Microbiologist, researcher at Wistar Institute

CLAIM #4): “It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid, or insane, (or wicked…).” Dr. Richard Dawkins, former Oxford professor
 “Creation has never produced any science.” Pablo

 ANSWER: Why was it Jews and Christians, many of whom believe in creation, the ones who built the foundations of science? 
 Dr. James Hannam (Ph.D. in the history of science from Cambridge) sadly isn’t a creationist, but nonetheless writes that creation inspired science:
 “…Christians believe that God created the world and ordained the laws of nature. He is the guarantor of constant and rational laws, such that investigating the world can consequently be a religious duty. It’s easy to forget that, until the 19th century, science had almost no practical applications. A religious imperative to study nature provided almost the only reason to bother doing it. It’s no surprise that so many scientific pioneers were devout men: Johannes Kepler, Sir Isaac Newton, Joseph Priestley, Michael Faraday, Georg Mendel, and James Clerk Maxwell, to name just a few.”[3]

 Did you know that Jewish people have stunningly won ~23% of the Nobel prizes from 1901-2014 even though they are only about 0.2% of the world’s population[4]. Christians have won ~65.4% of all Nobel Prizes including 78.3% of all Nobel Peace Prizes, 72.5% in Chemistry, 65.3% in Physics, 62% in Medicine, 54% in Economics and 49.5% of all Literature awards[5] even though they are just ~31.5% of the world’s population.  Did you know that Dawkins also said this about the success of Jews:
 “The number of Jews who have won Nobel Prizes is phenomenally high…Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam…I don’t know [why]. But I don’t think it is a minor thing; it is colossal…I don’t have the answer to it. I am intrigued by it…I thought it was astounding.”[6]


CLAIM #5)  99.98% of scientists agree that evolution is a scientific fact.

ANSWER: 1st, God says that creation is a crucial truth in many Bible verses and if He is the Creator as the Bible says, then He knows far more than all humans combined. God also predicted deliberate deceptions rejecting creation (2 Peter 3:3-5) at the very same time that a few powerful people exploit and cause terrible times for many (2 Tim. 3:1-5, Rev. 18, etc.)

2nd, scientific truths are not decided by democratic vote. They are decided by what view has the majority of evidence. In many fields of origins, esp. origin of the universe, origin of galaxies and solar systems, origin of life, origin of phyla and new body plans, origin of sophisticated design like DNA, kinesins, ribosomes, cells with ~3 billion cooperating parts, and so much more…the vast majority of evidence and sometimes 100% of the evidence points towards an incredible and loving Creator.

3rd, Dr. Eklund has shown that even in America, the number of scientists who agree with Darwinism is far below 99%. Even with most schools in America teaching Darwinism (and failing badly to teach anything about creation), only about 85% of biologists are Darwinians..and in other fields it is sometimes far lower.**

 4th, At least 10,000 scientists in America alone support Creation science. In some countries it’s a far higher percentage.*


CLAIM #6): “There are zero creationist papers published in any respected science journals.” (Shan and many on social media)

 ANSWER: ***Dr. Jerry Bergman is a former atheist/Darwinian who converted to Creation. He has written over 800 peer reviewed papers. Dr. John Sanford is a creationist who has written over 100 peer reviewed papers. Almost all creation scientists have published peer reviewed papers.

CLAIM #7): paleontologist Niles Eldredge wrote that no author who published in the Creation Research Society Quarterly ‘has contributed a single article to any reputable scientific journal’

ANSWER: Dr.  Russell Humphreys, a physicist working for the prestigious Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico (who is involved with the laboratory’s particle beam fusion project, concerning thermonuclear fusion energy research) has about 30 published articles in mainstream technical journals https://creation.com/do-creationists-publish-in-notable-refereed-journals

CLAIM #8): “Teaching creationism is child abuse” Dr. Lawrence Krauss (and many other atheist scientists say similar things)[7]*

ANSWER:  Why was it Jews and Christians who pioneered almost all human rights movements? Why did several leading atheists like Dawkins say that Christianity might be a bullwork against a worse evil and is beneficial to the world?

 Many other scholars and researchers have also written about how creationists (esp. Jews and Christians) have pioneered almost all major human rights in history.[8]*

Dr. Woodberry from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (UNC) has shown similar results from Christianity in modern time. He has done exhaustive research on what enables the best development and thriving of nations. His research and that of many others in 1000s of research papers show decisively that Judeo-Christianity, esp. Protestant missionaries/ churches are responsible for significantly more than 50% of democracy, better health, lower infant mortality, better economic development, scientific development, higher levels of printing and literacy, better education (especially for women), organizational civil society, protection of private property, the rule of law and lower levels of corruption in modern society, more voluntary organizations, etc., more than all other factors combined.[9]**


CLAIM #9): “I’m Christian, but I believe in evolution too. Creation is just a metaphor. There’s no problem in the Bible with the world being millions of years old and God using evolution to make life evolve. It’s beautiful.”

ANSWER:  1) The Bible says that God repeatedly called everything He created good in Genesis 1. If there were millions of years of suffering before and during creation, what does that say about God’s claims?

2)  What criteria do you use to identify something as literal or a metaphor? Can you show that criteria was used in the Bible about creation?

3) The Bible doesn’t say that God used evolution anywhere. We aren’t supposed to add or subtract from God’s words. Deut. 4:2.

4) The Bible says God created the earth in 7 days and is going to recreate it again after Jesus comes. Do you want God to recreate the world in millions of years or 7 days?

5) Creation is a guided process. Evolution is unguided.  Where in the Bible does it give any indication of evolution?

CLAIM #10:  “The Big bang shows there is no need for God or a Creator.”

ANSWER: There are several types of big bangs and all have some issues. But the main claim of the Big Bang, that the universe had a beginning, decisively confirms the claims by the Bible about God creating the Universe.

The Bible made many specific claims about the universe between (3000 BC-100 AD). VERY briefly (more later), biblical cosmology speaks of God creating the universe (Hebrews 1:2), the movement of the stars after that beginning (Job 38:31), ~15 verses speak of an expansion stretching from that beginning (Isaiah 44:24, Isaiah 42:5; Isaiah 45:12; Isaiah 51:13, etc.)  and a number of stars comparable to the grains of sand, but finite (Psalms 147:4, Genesis 22:17) and a round/spherical earth resting/hanging on nothing (Isaiah 40:22, Job 26:7) and more.

The Bible claims that matter, energy, the universe and its natural laws were created by God and since that initial creation have been expanding. At least the initial aspects of this must have been ex nihilo. The main alternatives to ex nihilo are steady state or a dozen other ancient cosmologies (debunked and abandoned by science) and infinite regression (untestable and unanswerable scientifically or logically). Creation at present has beaten all other ancient competitors in this area and current cosmology is building on this foundation (even if they want to sweep that fact under the rug due to bias against creation science).

The weight of evidence overall determines what is true to the best of our ability and is considered proof. Creation has been decisively proven true in cosmology. Dr. Jastrow, director of the Mount Wilson observatory once led by Edwin Hubble, was personally agnostic about ‘religious matters,”. But, he reviewed some of the cosmological evidence and concluded,

“Now we see how the astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the origin of the world…the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same: the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.” God and the Astronomers, p. 14 http://www.amazon.com/God-Astronomers-Robert-Jastrow/dp/0393850056/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379220679&sr=1-2&keywords=God+and+the+Astronomers#reader_0393850056

In an interview with Christianity Today, Jastrow said,

“Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth…That there are what I or anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically proven fact.”[2] “A Scientist Caught Between Two Faiths: Interview With Robert Jastrow,” Christianity Today, August 6, 1982*

Other scientists concur that the vast majority of evidence proves the universe had a beginning, which confirms the Bible:

–“”The best data we have (concerning the big bang) are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole.” Arno Penzias, co-discoverer of the microwave background radiation and 1978 Nobel Prize recipient in physics, York Times, March 12, 1978*.

–“It is said that…proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. With the proof now in place, cosmologists can no longer hide behind the possibility of a past-eternal universe. There is no escape, they have to face the problem of a cosmic beginning.” Alexander Vilenkin

–“Astronomers sometimes speak of origin from a “quantum mechanical fluctuation within a vacuum.” However, an energy source is still needed. Actually, there is no secular origin theory, since every idea is based on preexisting matter or energy.”  Dr. DeYoung, physicist


[1] Batten, Don. “Plant geneticist: ‘Darwinian evolution is impossible.’” September 2008. creation.com/geneticist-evolution-impossible.

[2] Sarfati, Jonathan. “Millions of years’ are missing.” March 2009. https://creation.com/ariel-roth-interview-flat-gaps.

[3] Hannam, James. “Science and Christianity Can Get On Better Than You Think”. April 14, 2011. https://www.patheos.com/resources/additional-resources/2011/04/science-and-christianity-can-get-on-better-than-you-think-james-hannam-04-14-2011.

[4] “Jewish Nobel Prize Winners”, http://www.jinfo.org/Nobel_Prizes.html

[5] “100 Years of Nobel Prizes”, Baruch A. Shalev; “Nobel prize winners in physics from 1901 to 1990: Simple statistics for physics teachers”, Weijia Zhang, Robert Fuller, http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=physicsfuller, p.199, 5-1-1998  http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_thinkers_in_science

[6] “Interview: Richard Dawkins Keeps Making New Enemies”, ISAAC CHOTINER www.newrepublic.com/article/115339/richard-dawkins-interview-archbishop-atheism, October 29, 2013.

[7] “Teaching creation is child abuse?” https://creation.com/teaching-creation-child-abuse

[8] See WorldPerfect https://aish.com/part_1_key_values_for_a_perfect_world/ and https://www.aish.com/sem/wp/; “How Christianity Changed the World” by Alvin Schmidt, “The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization” by Mangalwadi, Vishal;  Taylor, Justin. “The Christian Roots of Human Rights. Aug. 1, 2016. https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/evangelical-history/the-christian-roots-of-human-rights;  “How Jews, Christians and Adventists pioneered the most crucial principles of justice for all”   http://blog.truth-is-life.org/rights/bible-rights/bible-rights2/, etc.


[9] Woodberry, Robert D. “The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy”, American Political Science Review. Volume 106, Issue 2,  May 2012 , pp. 244-274. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/missionary-roots-f-liberal-democracy/3D96CF5CB2F7FEB19B1835393D084B9A, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235503063_The_Missionary_Roots_of_Liberal_Democracy ARTICLE: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/january-february/world-missionaries-made.html  VIDEO: https://cfc.sebts.edu/faith-and-economics/robert-woodberry-world-missionaries-made/