Shuswap Creation Youth Group

   

Have you ever heard of the coelacanths (see-la-kanths)? For decades evolutionists taught that they became extinct about the same time dinosaurs did (supposedly 65 million years ago). It was said that these fish gradually developed legs and began to live on land, later becoming extinct. These were the 'missing link' between certain water & land animals! Evolutionists used coelacanths were used as part of their 'index fossil' system, meaning that any rocks containing their fossils were considered to be at least 65 million years old, and other fossils in those rocks assumed to be at least that old as well.

 
     Until 1938, evolutionists believed that men and coelacanths could not possibly have lived at the same time. On December 24, 1938, the scientific world was "rocked" when an unidentified fish, 5 ft long, 100 lbs was brought to shore in South Africa. It was caught in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar. The fisherman called it the great sea lizard because its pectoral fins looked more like fringed little legs. Once scientists examined the fish they found out it was a coelacanth.
 One evolutionist said that he could not have been more surprised if he had come across a living dinosaur. According to their theory coelacanths evolved before dinosaurs did.
     
     What makes the evolutionary idea about coelacanths being a missing link even more outrageous is that these fish live near the ocean floor. They are deep water fish that rarely come within less than 500 ft. of the surface.
     
   This fossil of this fish looks exactly the same as the living fish. That shouldn't surprise us at all, as the Bible says animals produce "after their kind." This fish has surely made the evolutionary dating method look very silly.

Archaeopteryx

   Among our many thousands of birds of the world, there is amazing variation. Some birds are tiny (like hummingbirds), others are very large (like ostriches). While some birds fly thousands of miles ever
y year (like arctic terns), others can't fly at all ( like kiwi bird).
 
    One of the strangest extinct birds is the Archaeopteryx, who had teeth in its beak, and claws on its wings. Because of these strange features it is considered among some evolutionists to be the 'missing link' between reptiles and birds. Actually, these characteristics do not prove it was the missing link.

Touraco

   Some modern birds have claws on their wings, but they aren't considered the missing link. The ostrich was three claws on each wing that it can used when attacked. The Hoatzin of South America has claws when it is young, which it uses to climb trees. Also the touraco of Africa has claws on its wings.

Fossil studies have shown that other true birds, which are now extinct, also had teeth. Thus just because archaeopteryx had teeth doesn't mean he was a dinosaur- bird link. It also had fully formed feathers. It didn't have half scales/ half feathers.


  Scientists have found fossilized birds in layer s of rock that they date as being older than Archaeopteryx! One evolutionist has admitted:

Hoatzin

 "Palaeontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. IT is a bird, a perching bird."

   Even with all this evidence showing that Archaeopteryx is not a missing link, it still is taught in science textbooks to be one!

   God certainly has created so many different types of birds, let's take the time to thank Him for them!

       Did you know that there are four laws that the Big Bang theory and evolution break? Here, let me show you what they are.  

     The Law of Cause & Effect, says that every material effect must have an adequate cause that happens before the effect. So far as we know natural laws have no exceptions, and this is certainly true of the law of Cause & effect.
      Causes never occur after the effect, and effects never come before a cause. In addition the effect never is greater than the cause. Some examples would be that a book did not fall from the table because a fruit fly landed on it, or an entire river didn't become muddy because you stuck your muddy boot in it.
      We can see about 3,000 stars with our eyes, and with a simple telescope we can see over 100,000 stars. We cannot count how many stars there are, but it is suggested that our Universe alone has over 25,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in it. To go across our own galaxy you would have to travel 587 quadrillion miles!
       The big bang couldn't have caused this. Scientists haven't ever seen any type of matter that could be so dense, and then explode from a teeny ball into a Universe like ours. The theory of the big bang goes against the scientific Law of Cause and Effect.
      What about Biblical Creation? Does it follow this law? God is an adequate cause, since He is all-powerful. He existed before this material world, thus fulfilling the criterion that cause has to come before the effect.

      The First Law of Thermodynamics says that matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed in nature. So how is this a problem for the evolutionary theory? If there is no natural process that can create matter or energy, how did the material universe get here in the first place? Evolutionists don't have an answer for this. But Creationists do! If God is supernatural, (above and beyond nature), then He could create matter and energy out of nothing. Belief in God is the only idea that fits in with this law.

     The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that when matter and energy do change form, they become less usable. Does this sound like it fits in with the evolutionary theory? No. Evolution says that the Universe has gotten more orderly. Life started with a single-celled amoeba and progressed over 'millions and billions' of years. That means that things aren't getting worse, but better.
     Now evolutionist may say that the Second Law only applies to "closed systems" where no energy comes from an outside source. Our Earth is an "open system" since heat energy from the Sun  hits our Earth all the time.  Every system ever studied in nature has energy going out of it and into it, and the Second Law works on every system we have ever seen. Is it true that simply by adding energy things get more complex and orderly? No.
   This law fits in perfectly with Creationism. In the beginning God said that everything was very good.

 Hebrews 1:10-11, "You Lord, in  the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands; they will perish, but You remain; and they will all grow old like a garment."

   The Law of Biogenesis says two things. One; that living things always come from living things, and two; that living things produce only more living things like themselves. Evolution is in disagreement with this law. It tells us that living things in nature came from nonliving matter. They also tell us that one kind of animal gave rise to a different kind of animal.
             Creationism fits in perfectly with this law. In Genesis 1:20-25 we read that God made things in kinds. God certainly knew what He was doing when He created the earth.

   "Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind;' and it was so."