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I am forever grateful to scientists like yourself who recognize the authorship of God in all His creation.

Darwin was part and parcel of his times -- a product of the eugenicists, Fabians and assorted occultists who hoped to control men by denying God. Same as it ever was.

From Pastor Colin Maxwell of the Cork Free Presbyterian Church, Cork, Ireland...

THE HUMAN EYE:

AN UNANSWERABLE TESTIMONY FOR CREATION AND AGAINST EVOLUTION:

The human eye is an awesome piece of machinery. It is more wonderful than the most intricate man made device. Although the human eyeball measures only about 1" (25 mm) in diameter, yet it can see objects as far away as a star and as small as a grain of sand. It can quickly adjust its focus between a distant point and a near one and can be accurately directed toward an object even while the head is moving.

The eye is made up of a number of different parts, each in turn causing us to wonder. The eyelid serves to protect the eye, often by reflex action when danger is sensed. The eyelash on the lid screens out some of the dust and other particles which could enter and damage the eye. The conjunctiva is the membrane which lines the inside of the eyelid and extends over the white part of the eye. Part of its job is to keep the keep the eyeball lubricated (think of the number of times you blink each day) and also produces some tears which help keep the eye clean. The retina makes up the innermost layer of the wall of the eyeball. Although as fragile as a piece of wet tissue paper, it has light sensitive cells which absorb light rays and changes them into electrical signals. There are 2 types of these light sensitive cells - rods and cones, so named after their shapes. The eye has about 120 million rods and around 6 million cones. These enable us to see shades of grey and in dim light and also to distinguish more than 200 colours. Nerve fibres attached to the rods and cones join at the centre of the retina and form the optic nerve. This nerve has around 1 million fibres and it serves as a flexible cable that connects the eyeball to the brain. In fact the optic nerve and the retina are actually extensions of the brain. The optic nerve carries the electrical signals produced in the retina to the brain, which interprets them as visual images. Every second, one billion electrical impulses are thus transmitted to the brain.

Although the above details are only really a fraction of what could be said about the human eye, it must be admitted that it is a truly wonderful contraption indeed! For the purposes of this article, it will do two things:

1) IT SHOWS THE SHAM OF EVOLUTION WHICH TEACHES US THAT THE EYE EVOLVED FROM A VERY SIMPLE BASIS TO WHAT IT IS TODAY:

Some who hold to evolutionist faith tell us that the whole human body evolved through what they call mutations i.e. slight changes from one generation to another. Here they have two main problems because first of all, the vast majority of mutations are either lethal, harmful or just plain useless. But some evolutionists claim that every so often (once in a million years! Has been suggested) there is a positive mutation (i.e. is beneficial) and this increases the generally usefulness of the organism. We might ask, what about the other mutations which are either lethal or harmful? What about the net result? A football team which manages to score a goal now and again but concedes goals by the dozen every game will hardly succeed. This is evidently a non starter. Secondly, with all the details listed above, even if we were to forget about the bad mutations (which could well undo any previous advances), how long do we need to produce all those rods and cones and nerve fibres? These evolutionist tells us that all this took place over billions of years, but even with all this vast expanse, he simply runs out of time. Not only must these mutations actually take place, but to be of any use they must co-ordinate together. To go back to our football illustration again, what is the use having a brilliant winger who can pass brilliant balls into the opponent’s penalty box, if there is no one there to convert them into goals? One failure will effectively destroy the whole. An animal with half developed eyesight is effectively blind and therefore unlikely to survive in the evolutionists survival of the fittest scenario.

DARWIN’S STARTLING CONFESSION

Is it any wonder that Darwin, the apostle of evolutionary thinking, in his book Origin of the Species wrote the following: "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have formed by natural selection, seems I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." In a letter in February 1860 to his evolutionary friend, Asa Gray, Darwin lamented: "To this day the eye makes me shudder." This is because it completely smashes his notion to smithereens. However, Darwin foolishly pushed on with his doctrine of evolution.

2) IT SHOWS THE WONDERFUL POWER OF OUR CREATOR GOD:

In Proverbs 20:12, we read: "The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has made even both of them." It is more rational to believe that a Designer designed the eye than to believe that it came about by blind random chance. Truly, each of us can say, like David: "I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works: and that my soul knoweth right well." (Psalm 139:14) We cannot run away from the thought of a Creator God. Our own bodies bare testimony to His existence and power. One day we must meet Him. His is the hand that graciously feeds us. "He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye shall he not see?"(Psalm 94:9)

THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST:

Best of all this great Creator God has provided for us a wonderful and eternal salvation from sin. God loves His creation (John 3:16) He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 33:11) He would have all men be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4) He has made salvation to be a free gift (Romans 6:23) - without money and without price (Isaiah 55:1) - and also without works of any kind (Ephesians 2:8-9) Evolution can offer nothing like this! It's message panders to man's lowest instincts - encouraging men to pursue sin - but God says: "Thou shalt call his name Jesus…for He shall save from their sins" (Matthew 1:21)