Refuting Richard Dawkins on evolution
A powerful new book (by the author of the world’s topselling creationist book,
Refuting
Evolution1)
picks up the gauntlet thrown down by the world’s most prominent anti-Christian.
by Carl Wieland
Perhaps the best-known and most vocal opponent of all forms of theistic religion
(but especially biblical Christianity) is Dr Richard Dawkins. Probably hundreds
of thousands of people have been turned away from any vestige of a belief
in God through his writings.
His early books, like The Blind Watchmaker, all assumed the truth of evolution,
and were more to show people its implications—a purposeless, meaningless process,
with no room for a Creator.
Then recently came his million-selling The God Delusion, an all-out assault
on the very notion of God. It has emboldened atheists everywhere as never before.2
Dawkins and others like him make it clear that the logical foundation of their militant
atheism is their belief in evolution, that molecules did turn into people over millions
of years. Thus, belief in God (or at least, most certainly the Bible and its Gospel,
logically founded in Genesis) makes no sense.
Despite his success, Dawkins seemed frustrated by the fact that polls in the US
show that a large portion of the population still believes in some form of divine
creation. So he wrote what is meant to be his ultimate challenge to creationists.
It is, he says, the first time he has presented the actual evidence for evolution
in its full array. Called The Greatest Show on Earth: the evidence for evolution,
it is clearly meant to inflict fatal damage on all remaining belief in creation.
For CMI’s Dr Jonathan Sarfati—chessmaster, scientist, logician, Christ ian
apologist and creationist writer extraordinaire—the challenge was too much
to resist.3 His response
text, titled The Greatest Hoax on
Earth? Refuting Dawkins on evolution, tackles the Dawkins book head-on,
right in the arena of the scientific evidence. In the process of
powerfully refuting Dawkins’ claims in biology, geology, fossils, radiometric
dating, and more, he deftly exposes the fallacies—and the tactics employed.
These include equivocation (bait-and-switch)—and strawmen. This is a major
tactic by Dawkins. He spends a huge amount of space and effort demonstrating things,
such as natural selection and speciation, that creationists have believed for many
decades. Such facts fit beautifully within biblical creation.
Why “hoax”?
It seems hard to believe that globally savvy evolutionists can be ignorant about
the core teachings on the websites of major creationist organizations. So spending
chapter after chapter misrepresenting the creation position seems inexcusable, even
if Dawkins should claim reliance on some self-styled creation-defenders with a poor
grasp of the science. It is this sort of thing that has triggered the Sarfati book’s
provocative title.4
The Greatest Hoax on Earth? pulls together the most up-to-date evidences
and arguments against evolution and defending Genesis creation—quite possibly
including some you may have missed along the way. We trust that Christians everywhere
can use Dawkins’ huge public profile to challenge their evolution-believing
friends to read it. This exciting new cutting-edge creationist tool is available
(with bulk prices for giveaway) at creation.com/store.
References
- Over ½ million in print. Return
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- For a critical review, see creation.com/delusion.
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- See creation.com/sarfati
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- Of course, CMI does not claim that those teaching and promoting
evolution do not themselves believe it. But it can be shown that evolution’s
high-profile promoters often employ tactics that seem designed to mislead.
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| Ken E. wrote: “I just wanted to drop a note to express my gratitude for the kind of information you supply at the CMI web-site. I love science and find it thrilling to see how it may be used to glorify God and build faith in Him.” Glorify God in His creation.  | | |
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