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><font color=blue><center><b><p> >THE BASIC ARGUMENT AGAINST EVOLUTION ></font></center></b><p> >Let it first be said that we need not argue on >religious grounds. We do not need to simply stand firm >crying, ''The Bible said it; I believe it; that >settles it!" That attitude can be good, but there are >good scientific grounds to reject evolution and >believe in Creation. In fact, it is all based on the >whole idea of what science is. > >Science is based on causality; every event has a >cause. Things don't happen willy-nilly. Even if we >can't know specifically what particular cause produced >a certain event, we can say what kind of cause it must >have been because of the kinds of effects we see >today. The idea that whatever caused some effect in >the past will cause the same effect in the present is >called the principle of uniformity. All science is >based on finding causes using these two principles: >causality and uniformity. > >When scientific principles were first being developed >into the scientific method, scientists like Francis >Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Issac Newton, and William >Kelvin made a distinction between primary and >secondary causes. A primary cause was a first cause >that explained singularities—events that only happened >once and had no natural explanation. Secondary causes >were thought of as natural causes and laws that govern >the way things normally operate. Unfortunately, some >scientists began using supernatural causes to explain >natural irregularities like earthquakes and meteors. >When the truth was learned about these things, >scientists eliminated primary causes from >consideration altogether and sought to explain >everything in terms of natural causes. But just as it >was wrong for super-naturalists to explain ordinary >events using primary causes, it is also wrong for the >naturalist to explain all singularities by natural >causes. > >[From When Skeptics Ask by Geisler & Brooks]

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