“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, 
which is proof against all argument,
and which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance. 
That principle is condemnation without investigation.”
– William Paley (1743-1805)

• Who are we?
  
• Where did we come from?
  
• What are we doing here?
  
• And where are we going when this life is over?
  

Four more fundamental questions cannot be imagined, questions each of us will ask ourselves at some stage in our lives. At the birth of our child. At the funeral of a loved one. When we become seriously ill or scared, wondering what will become of us. What has it all been about?

There’s a war going on and control over the public mind is the prize. The purpose of this book is not to pick a fight, it’s an attempt to get some of the hard questions answered through science, observation and intelligence. Like you, I am an end-user of all this civilisation and justifiably concerned about the truth of the science, politics, economics, commerce and medicine daily squirted at us through the newspapers, magazines and TV. If I’m sick, I want to know doctors can fix me. If we’re to march off to war, I’d like to be settled that the reasons given are just and there is no other way.

Most of what we learn comes through the mass communications media, which sculpts the public psyche with information. It’s not that the media lies, it’s just selective about the information it gives us. Richard M Cohen, senior producer of CBS political news, remarked:

“We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with.”

Richard Salant, former president of CBS News, believes:

“Our job is not to give people what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.”

Intellectual gerrymandering. You brainy scientist, me thick member of the public. Yet unprejudiced review reveals that we thick members of the public are the ones scientists, politicians, captains of industry, doctors, professors and chemists ultimately depend upon to maintain their station and bank balance. Many of these professionals are well-meaning and honest, while an ever-growing percentage are, as we’ll discover, utter carbuncles on the backside of 21st century humanity. Don’t misunderstand me. I have tremendous respect for those who have dedicated their lives to a particular cause in all honesty, but as I’m oft fond of saying, you can be sincere, and you can be sincerely wrong.

This book will expose just how far we’ve been bamboozled by ‘the experts’, who have robbed us of our faith, sold us a shoddy bill of goods and even killed us. Such ‘experts’ have by their greed and unassailable sense of right eschewed the passion for going where the evidence led them and finished up snake-oil charlatans posing as men of learning, dreaming up their own fairy-tales and flogging them to the public as fact.

I am not anti-capitalist, anti-science, anti-politics, anti-religion, anti-medicine or one of those slipper-wearing, tree-hugging potato-heads trying to bust us back to the Wind Age. I’m an ordinary citizen and I’m fed up. In fact, I’ve been fed up for quite a while now, so I’m taking you on this little excursion so you can consider to what extent we’ve been sold down the river by intellectual prostitutes who mock the public’s intelligence, pontificate absurdities and expect us to believe them. I’ve always wanted to do a book like this.

No area of science and religion, no zone of society has been immune from their brutality. Overarching the lot is the quackery of evolution, which I studied for years in one of Britain’s great learning institutions, Charterhouse, before realising I’d been had. Evolution is the idea that we’re nothing but a piece of pond slime that washed up on a beach four million years ago, then began evolving through a series of blind, random mistakes into the splendid creatures we are today. All this in spite of the Second Law of Thermodynamics which, author Wendy Wallace takes haste to remind us, holds that we’re actually devolving back into pond scum and our minds are so far along in the process we can’t figure it out.1

Most of us know something of the creation/evolution debate. It’s joked about on Friends and The Daily Show, though taken more seriously in the hallowed halls of academia. In the liberal establishment, the debate is misunderstood to be between quiet, rational men of science on the one hand, and wild-eyed ‘Sarah Palin clones’ frothing scripture on the other. Notwithstanding the absurd degree to which evolution is promoted in schools, universities and the media as ‘established science’, a whopping 92% of Americans believe in God or a universal spirit.2 The world certainly looks ordered, but is it? A shark surely looks like a designed killing machine, but is it? And if Darwin’s right and there is no design - no God, Jesus, Mohammed or Allah - are we free to toss out the Ten Commandments, kill whomever we want, rape, cheat and steal, for tomorrow we die? Author Sean McDowell believes there is no greater question than the ultimate secret to why we are here. What meaning, if any, can we attach to this miraculous journey we make to the day of our deaths? What’s life all about? And after death, then what?

“Evolution raises fundamental questions about what it means to be human. Are we accidental by-products of blind forces in nature? Or are we the pinnacle of creation intended by a personal and loving God? Can all the beauty, complexity and diversity of life be explained by random variation and natural selection? Or is the natural world best explained as the workings of a designer?”3

The evolution/creation debate is not a new one and even pre-existed Darwin, but it has fully raged since the 1859 publication of Charlie’s On the Origin of Species. Successive generations on both sides of the battlefront have duked it out, the debate essentially for or against design, the existence or denial of purpose in the universe. The ramifications of evolution as a belief system are extremely far-reaching. If we are nothing but by-products of accidental biogenesis, then life is essentially meaningless. Why bother getting out of bed in the morning? Why not toss the alarm clock into the laundry basket for a few more hours of sleep? Live on the dole? Who cares?

In his own day, Charles Darwin’s big idea grew wings to the horror of the Victorian clergy and became the hot potato in a world restless for more. Science was blasting off, giving mankind new knowledge and comforts – what else was to be had? Darwin’s unique theory of man’s origins appealed to those tired of being pushed around by established religion. In Darwin’s world, God was conspicuously absent and little more than a fairy tale. All things evolved by natural selection acting on undirected, random processes and there was no ‘design’ beyond the survival of the fittest.

A forbidden freedom was sniffed in the air. No God meant no sin, which meant no judgment, which meant no hell, which meant ‘do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law’ since heaven was empty. The inception of reasoned science in Galileo’s day and its appalling treatment by the Papal fist probably assured the Holy See would get its comeuppance one day, yet Darwin’s book achieved something else. It birthed a challenge to matters which for centuries had been taken for granted. That the Earth was young. That God made it and saw it was good. That sin entered the world with Adam and Eve and began the process of decay. That the world was destroyed in a global flood, following which eight people survived and repopulated the Earth.

In kindergarten I had a toy ark and a selection of animals to put inside before giving it a whirl in the pool. Sunday School reinforced the Bible’s view of my origins and I was captivated by the imagery. Then years later I was taught evolution by Dr Brian Tricker at Charterhouse and all that changed. It says something of Tricker’s personal worldview that when his cat got flattened by a car one day, we dissected what was left of the poor creature in our next biology class. I remember being amazed the man could be so practical about losing the sort of pet some people treat as a child, but Tricker’s view was that one man’s two-dimensional feline was another’s anatomical prospect. Later I would study biology, geology, anthropology and embryology and, you name it, get an ‘A’. And straight after that, it was through the cloisters to Lenny Morrison’s theology sessions in C Block to tank up on God. If anyone felt at odds with the paradox, it wasn’t discussed at the time. If you wanted Oxford, you didn’t ask those questions. Unbeknownst to me at the time, my future wife, Samantha, was undergoing a similar experience at a convent in Sittingbourne. The nuns were teaching both evolution and creation to their impressionable charges and the students went along with it all.

Then one day out of the blue I became bothered. Science was supposed to be empirical, testable and demonstrable but I’d found a hole big enough to drive a Mac truck into. Tricker’s evolution denied the existence of purpose in the universe and substituted design with bare chance and necessity. Fair enough. For this, evolution requires an ancient Earth and billions of years. It denies design and replaces it with man’s haphazard ascent from the brute. Evolution denies the immortality of the soul and, in so doing, implies the beckoning of a mindless oblivion after a pointless life.

But the sheer uselessness of that program was not what bothered me. It was the population. The world was just celebrating the birth of its five billionth soul. I walked out of maths one morning and ran the numbers during tea-break. If mankind had been climbing Darwin’s tree for the thick end of three million years (standard evolutionary theory), we have a problem. Where was everyone? My calculations revealed that a population of 5 billion was consistent with mankind being in the procreation business for around 4,500 years from two common ancestors, give or take a plague or war or three. All right, I’ll give you 10,000 years. The point is, the aggregate population derived over a million years of constant sex would be unthinkably ridiculous.

What was going on? Someone was wrong. Were we wiped out? Was there an extinction-level event 4,500 years ago? Evolution holds no truck with catastrophism except for one extinction event ‘65 million years ago’ when the dinosaurs supposedly got theirs from an asteroid. Geologist Dr John Morris remarks:

“Observation of Earth’s population and population growth supports a young Earth…. Starting one million years ago, with a growth rate of 0.002% and a present population of six billion, can you guess how many people would have lived and died throughout history? …There should be 10 to the 8600th people alive today. That’s 10 with 8600 zeros following it. …The number is so large it is meaningless, and it’s approximately the number which could just fit inside the volume of the entire Earth! If all these people lived and died, where are their bones? Why are human bones so scarce?”4

Whoops.
To his credit while out collecting ants one day, Brian Tricker admitted evolution had never been proven fact but he hung his hat (and salary) on it anyway. Evolution was a belief system and a good one, he explained. Ah, but a belief system’s a religion, countered I. Wasn’t that why Darwiniacs behaved with all the ardour of the Spanish Inquisition whenever so challenged? Tricker was about to say something when some ants got into his shoes and we broke off the chat.

The following day, I was reading a magazine in which a scientist was stating that people who reject evolution are delusionally afflicted, even dangerous. Strange. You don’t find scientists defending chemotherapy with quite the same fervour. I went digging. In fact, I spent most of the weekend in Charterhouse’s library which is extensive, and the single hole I found in evolution rapidly grew into a whole cheeseboard.

Why should any of this matter? Because evolution underpins all science and not an inconsiderable chunk of modern civilisation. What we believe of our origins. What we take as the truth. You might be different but I hate being lied to. Evolution’s the reason we use drugs instead of nutrition and continue to fail with cancer and other diseases. Evolution justifies the mass killing of the unborn with abortion - after all, it’s not human yet. Evolution justified who lived and who died in the Nazi death camps. Stalin’s evolutionary beliefs resulted in the slaughter of the entire Polish officer corps and millions of the dictator’s own countrymen, never mind the enemy. Today, evolution underpins geology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, anthropology, biology, psychiatry, eugenics and racism. When questioned, the high priests of evolution have always failed to come up with the wafers. In fact, something called ‘confirmation bias’ is used to ward off detractors in the first place so the argument never gets going. Why are you QUESTIONING me? Do you have a DEGREE? Evolution is FACT like gravity! THAT’S IT! CASE CLOSED! They just say it.

Evolution determines our worldview and how we behave. Whether we kill. Whether morality exists and where it comes from. Whether we save the weak or let them go tumble in the great wash-tub of natural selection. No-one’s ever seen evolution in action. We’ve never seen whales become cows or dinosaurs become birds. I’m a farmer’s boy and I’ll tell you for nothing, you can plant all the beans you want and you’ll not get one giraffe. And monkeys became men? Why Charlie, do you mean blacks did not evolve as far as the whites? The full title of Darwin’s magnum opus is an embarrassment. On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Did you know that Marx and Engels admired Darwin’s book to such an extent that they used it as the basis for Communism? More about that later.

In a passing sop to the nervous, evolution is described to this day as ‘consensus science’, which is rich given that consensus is politics not science. Sure, if you don’t know in science you can move to belief, but belief, alas, is not science it’s faith, so that makes evolution a religion. And from what Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot did with it, a rather lethal religion at that.

As for evolutionary science – what science? Dr Vij Sodera writes:

“Look at a speck of dust on the table in front of you. Given the timespan of a few billion years, is it possible for such a particle, being composed only of simple molecules, to re-arrange its structure, to join with other simple particles and to acquire consciousness – ultimately to peer down on another dust particle and to contemplate its origins? Yet inherent in the theory of evolution by natural selection is the assumption that not only is this possible, but that it actually happened.”5

And as we’ll see, not a shred of evidence to back it all up. They just believe it. If you want to believe grandpappy was an orangutan, you have a perfect right to believe that, but don’t call it science unless you come up with a monkey-man. And don’t point at ‘specimens’ in the Natural History Museum on Cromwell Road either. The ones they have in there were all made out the back to show what early man may have looked like. The ‘real’ ones they tried to convince us with have all been exposed as frauds. More about that later too.

It’s straightforward. If you want to convince me scientifically that rats turned into bats, then show me a rat-bat. In his day, Darwin was aware the fossil record was coming up short but believed future finds would eventually vindicate him. Good for you, Charlie, only they haven’t. But that doesn’t stop evolutionists believing. Through the glossy pages of National Geographic, Omni and Time – in museums, news reports, in science courses taught in schools and universities across the world – evolution is still packaged to look like science and sold to the world as fact. As we’ll see, evolution is a laughable cry from fact. Millions believe in evolution today simply because it is all they have ever heard. I’m like an elkhound with a string of sausages over stuff like this.

Of course there’s a wider revolution underway. Call it what you want: Science versus religion. Liberal versus conservative. Guardian versus Mail. God versus Satan. The real control is in the information. What do you believe, and on what do you base those beliefs? Faith? Science? Myth? Anything you want that doesn’t challenge your lifestyle? Personally, I think the intelligent design guys like Dembski, Behe, Missler and Meyer are being far too nice to the quacks, and for that matter to those Supreme Court judges in America who actually thought posting the Ten Commandments in the classroom was going to give the kiddies brain damage. The reality is that not long after they took the Ten Commandments out of America’s schools, they had to put the metal detectors in. More children today are on psychiatric medication in the US than ever before because they’ve started asking questions like “What’s the point?” “Why bother when life ultimately sucks?” “What if the Hokey Cokey really is what it’s all about?”

What we’re not being told is the one thing that can and will change everything for science and for us. I don’t want to convince you, I want you to make up your own mind, or what’s left of it, based on the evidence. Life does matter, especially your life, and the universe is taking notes whether we like it or not. Origins is less about religion than science, it’s how we’ve been snowed, what’s been withheld from us, and the jaw-dropping evidence uncovered in the last ten years which has started to change everything.

I think Darwin would have approved. As we’ll see, Candid Charlie was quite willing to admit his shortcomings, which is more than can be said for the zealots who carry his banner today. In fact I’ll bet Charlie, wherever he is now, is probably still asking those same four questions:
Who am I?
Where did I come from?
What am I doing here?
And where am I going now this life is over?

Perhaps he now knows.

RESOURCES
ORIGINS – THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY by Phillip Day

1.Wallace, Wendy The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, POB 3109, Prescott AZ 86302, USA

2.Washington Post, 24th June 2008, p.A02

3.Dembski, W A & Sean McDowell Understanding Intelligent Design, Harvest House, 2008, Josh McDowell foreword, p.11

4.Morris, John The Young Earth, Master Books, 1994, pp.70-71

5.Sodera, V One Small Speck to Man, Vij Sodera Productions, Bognor Regis, UK, 2003