CREATION VERSUS EVOLUTION,
FACT VERSUS FALLACY
When the Creation Science movement made its appearance in the U.S.A.
some three decades ago, it was a purely scientific endeavor, a backlash against
the evolutionary theory, which after more than a century of scientific
investigation was still without any tangible proof to justify its
adoption. So successful have the
creation scientists been in exposing its weaknesses that in the relatively
short time since they published their first treatises, they have virtually
demolished this once impregnable theory.
Nowadays, buoyed by their success in the scientific field, the movement
has transformed itself into a pseudo-evangelistic organization, but with far
less impressive results. Nevertheless,
they still carry the legacy of brilliant scientific research that has proven
beyond doubt that:
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The dating methods used by traditional science are completely off the mark;
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The long 'ages' prior to Adam are figments of imagination;
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The biblical record of creation is both historical and accurate;
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There is no conflict between true science and the Word of God.
The Creation Science movement
rocked the scientific world to its foundation; it spread among the educated and
lay people alike, and continued to expand at a prodigious rate in many
countries of the world. Even in
The remarkable thing about the
success of this movement is that it has not been orchestrated by the churches,
but by the scientists themselves. In
fact many times they faced considerable opposition from church people who
regard any newcomer to their field with suspicion if not downright
hostility. To their credit, the main
organizers behind this movement have remained undaunted by the occasional
setbacks, surging ahead with a string of publications that bring further proof
to the bankruptcy of the evolutionary theory and credence to the account of
creation from the book of Revelation. It
is beyond the scope of this paper to go into many scientific details,
nevertheless a few examples will give you an idea of the strength of the
creationists' case:
1. It is a well-known fact that the earth is enveloped by a
magnetic field and that in its core there is a strong electric current. Scientists have discovered that this magnetic
field is decaying rapidly at a known rate.
If this rate had always been the same (the evolutionists believe in uniformitarian
geology, that is, what we observe in the world today is the way things have
always developed), then 8 000 years ago, the earth's magnetic field would have
equaled that of a magnetic star, a clear impossibility. 20 000 years ago, the
heat generated by the interaction between the magnetic field and the electric
current would have dissolved the earth.
One million years ago, the figures for the magnetic field would have
reached impossibly high levels.
2. A steady stream of cosmic dust
is falling on the earth and the moon at a measurable rate. If this had been going on for 4.5 billion
years – the age of the earth according to the evolutionists – large deposits
should have accumulated by now, but they have not. American scientists were worried that their
moon craft would submerge in a layer of dust as deep as 30 meters, so they
built it with long legs and pancake type landings capable of keeping it on top
of this layer. But when the astronauts
landed on the moon, they found less than 1 centimetre
of dust. This could have accumulated in
less than 10 000 years.
3. Every year about 27 billion tons of sediments
are being deposited on the ocean floor.
If this rate had been maintained for one billion years, the length of
time evolutionists say it took life to evolve from the chemicals in the sea,
this sediment would be about 30 kilometres deep. The actual sediment is less than one
kilometre, nowhere near the amount expected according to the “geological” time.
”. (Points 1-3 were taken from Sylvia Baker’s,
Bone of Contention, Is Evolution True? p.23, Creation Science Foundation, P.O. Box 302, Sunnybank, Qld., Australia,
4109).
4. The sun is burning about one
billion tons of its mass every second.
Scientists have been suspecting for some time that the sun is in fact
shrinking. Recently, a Chinese
scientist, Professor Wan Lai of Shanghai Observatory of Chinese Academy of
Sciences, has confirmed this. He said
that the sun has shrunk 410 kilometres in 273 years, from 1715 to 1987. This means that the sun is shrinking at a
rate of about 1.5 kilometres per year.
At this rate, a million years ago, the sun would have been double its
present diameter.
Ten million years ago, its size
would have made it impossible for life to exist on earth. 210 million years ago, the surface of the sun
would have reached the earth. (The Australian, April 14, 1990, quoted by
Creation Ex Nihilo, Vol. 12, No. 3, p.7, June - August,
1990;
5. Galaxies rotate about their
galactic center at different speeds - the stars at the center rotating faster
than those in the outer layers. The
speed with which these stars rotate indicate that if the galaxies were more
than a few hundred million years old they would have become an amorphous mass
instead of their present distinguishable spiral shape. Yet our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is
supposed to be at least 10 billion years old.
This “winding-up dilemma” is resolved by evolutionists with a complex
“density waves” theory which is neither conceptually sound nor borne out of
scientific observation. .
More recently however, other
scientists have postulated that the stars near the center of the galaxy are
rotating at the same speed as those in the outer layers. Which means that the stars
near the center should have completed many more rotations than those that are
further out. Yet scientists say
that they cannot detect more than 1 or 2 rotations at the most, which means
that the universe in nowhere near as old as evolutionists would have us
believe.
Another puzzle about the age of
the universe comes from the red shift observations that determine the distance
of the galaxies from the earth. The
galaxies that are further out near the edge of the universe should be younger
and have a less developed spiral form.
Yet scientists find they are just as formed and as old as those near the
center of the galaxy. No problems arise
if the universe has been recently created, and all stars were created at the
same time.
(This point has been compiled
from Malcolm Bowden, True Science Agrees With The
Bible, The Berean Call,
6. Comets are supposed to be of the same age as
the solar system, but the rate at which they disintegrate when their orbit
nears the sun indicates that they should have disappeared long ago. But since they are still around it means that
they are of a much younger age than the evolutionists would have us
believe. Of course, there are no
problems if we accept the biblical account of creation.
7. Every year more than 450
million tones of salt are being deposited in the world’s oceans. Of this, only about a
quarter are being recycled out of the sea. Assuming that no sodium was present to begin
with, the amount currently found in the oceans would have accumulated in a few
million years rather than the three billion years imagined by the
evolutionists.
8. According to the evolutionary
theory, top geological strata were deposited millions of years after the bottom
strata. But fossils found in many parts
of the world penetrate several strata, invalidating this theory.
Fossils require rapid burial in
order to prevent decay. In
9. Helium is produced
continuously by decaying radioactive elements.
But the amount found in the atmosphere is nowhere near what would be
expected if the evolutionary time scale of billions of years were true.
10. If human populations existed
in Stone Age conditions for 100 000 years, their number would have reached into
the billions. These primitive people
were supposed to have buried their dead accompanied by religious accoutrements
and artifacts. Yet the number of
skeletons found in the ground in such conditions is a tiny fraction of what
would normally be the case. This indicates that the Stone Age was much shorter
than the evolutionary scientists would have us believe. (Points 6-10 quoted
from, Russell Humphreys, Evidence For a young world, Creation Science
Foundation, Qld.)
These examples, and there are
many more in creationist publications, clearly show that the case for a recent
creation is overwhelming, while the case for evolution is virtually
non-existent. Yet how many people who
believe in evolution know these facts? The theory of evolution continues to be
taught in Schools and Universities throughout the world as if it were a fact,
while any attempt to introduce a balance into the educational system by
presenting facts about creation is vehemently opposed by educational
departments, by government officials, and even by churches and religious
organizations.
Such is the moral rectitude of
our society, that in the face of all evidence, it clings on to fables simply
because it does not wish to acknowledge a Creator God. But a Creator God it will acknowledge soon,
because it no longer has a choice. The
problems this world is facing are beyond the human resolve. Either God will step in soon to save humanity
from its own destructive bent, or the slide towards oblivion
cannot not be stopped.
The greenhouse effect, the acid
rain, the depletion of the ozone layer, the changing weather pattern, the
pollution of water, land and air, the epidemics of old and new diseases, the
population increase amidst decreasing resources, and the ever present danger of
nuclear war, have created the conditions that can set the world, if it hasn't
already done so, on the road to extinction of all life on earth.
The world needs to wake up and
realize what traditional science has done to it, and the precipice to which it
has been brought. Above all, human
beings need to turn their hearts to their Creator God in worship, supplication
and prayer, so that He may turn His heart to us and look upon us once more as
His children worthy of salvation.
In the conclusion to the Old
Testament, God inspired the prophet Malachi to record a dire warning to the
world if a proper relationship between human beings and their heavenly Father
is not restored.
"Behold, I will send you
Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the
Lord. And he will turn the hearts of the
fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest
I come and strike the earth with a curse" (utter destruction)
(Mal.4: 5,6).
If the world continues to believe
in those evolutionary fallacies, how can it ever turn to God if it doesn't even
believe that there is a God? For without
love and proper relationship between the Creator and His children there could
never be love and proper relationship between human parents and their
children. God alone is the source of
true love, and human beings would do well to always remember that. Therefore those who want to enrich their
life, and improve this loveless world for the better, and give it a chance of
salvation, must tap into the source of true love and keep it flowing through an
intimate relationship with their heavenly Father and Creator God. As Jesus Christ also said:
John
John
John
John 15:15 "No longer do I call you servants, for a
servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends,
for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
John 15:16 "You did not choose Me, but I chose you
and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should
remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.
John
Postscript.
Some theologians and biblical scholars believe that they can reconcile
the two irreconcilable positions by adopting the notion of “theistic evolution”
as a means of creation. For this, they use those scientific arguments that give
a probable age for the world in the millions, ignoring the other equally sound
arguments that place that age merely in the thousands of years.
This is a new theory that was
unknown to the ancient people, to the Apostles, and even to Jesus Christ
Himself, all of whom believed in the Genesis week of creation. Since the Bible enjoins us to have the mind
that was a Christ Jesus, it means that one cannot think differently and still
be a Christian.
Phil 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was also
in Christ Jesus,
Phil 2:6 who, being in the form of God, did not
consider it robbery to be equal with God,
Phil 2:7 but made Himself of no reputation,
taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.
Phil 2:8 And being found in appearance as a
man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the
death of the cross.
Phil 2:9 Therefore God also has highly exalted
Him and given Him the name which is above every
Phil 2:10 name, that at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the
earth,
Phil
Therefore, if we have the mind of
God and of Christ, we avoid those theories that discredit the Scriptures, and
bow our knees to God the Father and to Jesus Christ His Son, confessing that He
is Lord, to the glory of the Creator God.
If God could crate this awesome universe
in the first place, He could do so just as well in a week as in a few billion
years. It is not the creation itself
that is the problem, but the planning for it, and that
may well have taken an eternity. It certainly did not happen in a week, but since
God did not think that this is a matter of concern to us, He did not tell us
about it. Therefore any speculation on
this matter is not helpful; it is not from Him, and not impinging on our
salvation. All we know is that when the
creation took place, the angels of God shouted for joy.
Job 38:1 Then
the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:
Job 38:2 "Who
is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge?
Job 38:3 Now
prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me.
Job 38:4 "Where
were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me,
if you have understanding.
Job 38:5 Who
determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon
it?
Job 38:6 To
what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,
Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang
together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Job 38:8 "Or who shut in the sea with
doors, When it burst forth and issued from the womb;
Job 38:9 When
I made the clouds its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling band;
Job 38:10 When
I fixed My limit for it, And set bars and doors;
Job 38:11 When
I said, 'This far you may come, but no farther, And here your proud waves must
stop!'
Job 38:12
"Have you commanded the morning since your days began, And
caused the dawn to know its place,
Job 38:13 That
it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of
it?
Job 38:14 It
takes on form like clay under a seal, And stands out like a garment.
Job 38:15 From
the wicked their light is withheld, And the upraised arm is broken.
Job 38:16
"Have you entered the springs of the sea? Or have you walked
in search of the depths?
Job 38:17 Have
the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the doors of the shadow
of death?
Job 38:18 Have
you comprehended the breadth of the earth? Tell Me, if
you know all this.
Job 38:19
"Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And darkness,
where is its place,
Job 38:20 That
you may take it to its territory, That you may know the paths to its home?
Job 38:21 Do
you know it, because you were born then, Or because the number of your days is
great?
Job 38:22
"Have you entered the treasury of snow, Or have you seen the
treasury of hail,
Job 38:23 Which
I have reserved for the time of trouble, For the day of battle and war?
Job 38:24 By
what way is light diffused, Or the east wind scattered over the earth?
Job 38:25
"Who has divided a channel for the overflowing water, Or a
path for the thunderbolt,
Job 38:26 To
cause it to rain on a land where there is no one, A wilderness in which there
is no man;
Job 38:27 To
satisfy the desolate waste, And cause to spring forth the growth of tender
grass?
Job 38:28 Has
the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
Job 38:29 From
whose womb comes the ice? And the frost of heaven, who gives it birth?
Job 38:30 The
waters harden like stone, And the surface of the deep is frozen.
Job 38:31
"Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the belt
of Orion?
Job 38:32 Can
you bring out Mazzaroth in its season? Or can you
guide the Great Bear with its cubs?
Job 38:33 Do
you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the
earth?
Job 38:34
"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That an abundance
of water may cover you?
Job 38:35 Can
you send out lightnings, that they may go, And say to you, 'Here we are!'?
Job 38:36 Who
has put wisdom in the mind? Or who has given understanding to the heart?
Job 38:37 Who
can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,
Job 38:38 When
the dust hardens in clumps, And the clods cling together?
Job 38:39
"Can you hunt the prey for the lion, Or satisfy the appetite
of the young lions,
Job 38:40 When
they crouch in their dens, Or lurk in their lairs to lie in wait?
Job 38:41 Who
provides food for the raven, When its young ones cry to God, And wander about
for lack of food?
Job 39:1 "Do
you know the time when the wild mountain goats bear young? Or can you mark when
the deer gives birth?
Job 39:2 Can
you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they bear
young?
Job 39:3 They
bow down, They bring forth their young, They deliver their offspring.
Job 39:4 Their
young ones are healthy, They grow strong with grain; They depart and do not
return to them.
Job 39:5 "Who
set the wild donkey free? Who loosed the bonds of the onager,
Job 39:6 Whose
home I have made the wilderness, And the barren land his dwelling?
Job 39:7 He
scorns the tumult of the city; He does not heed the shouts of the driver.
Job 39:8 The
range of the mountains is his pasture, And he searches after every green thing.
Job 39:9 "Will
the wild ox be willing to serve you? Will he bed by your manger?
Job 39:10 Can
you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes? Or will he plow the valleys
behind you?
Job 39:11 Will
you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to
him?
Job 39:12 Will
you trust him to bring home your grain, And gather it to your threshing floor?
Job 39:13
"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, But are her wings
and pinions like the kindly stork's?
Job 39:14 For
she leaves her eggs on the ground, And warms them in the dust;
Job 39:15 She
forgets that a foot may crush them, Or that a wild beast may break them.
Job 39:16 She
treats her young harshly, as though they were not hers; Her labor is in vain,
without concern,
Job 39:17
Because God deprived her of wisdom, And did not endow her with
understanding.
Job 39:18 When
she lifts herself on high, She scorns the horse and its rider.
Job 39:19
"Have you given the horse strength? Have you clothed his
neck with thunder?
Job 39:20 Can
you frighten him like a locust? His majestic snorting strikes terror.
Job 39:21 He
paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength; He gallops into the clash of
arms.
Job 39:22 He
mocks at fear, and is not frightened; Nor does he turn back from the sword.
Job 39:23 The
quiver rattles against him, The glittering spear and javelin.
Job 39:24 He
devours the distance with fierceness and rage; Nor does he come to a halt
because the trumpet has sounded.
Job 39:25 At
the blast of the trumpet he says, 'Aha!' He smells the battle from afar, The thunder of captains and shouting.
Job 39:26
"Does the hawk fly by your wisdom, And spread its wings
toward the south?
Job 39:27 Does
the eagle mount up at your command, And make its nest on high?
Job 39:28 On
the rocks it dwells and resides, On the crag of the rock and the stronghold.
Job 39:29 From
there it spies out the prey; Its eyes observe from afar.
Job 39:30 Its
young ones suck up blood; And where the slain are, there it is."
Job 40:1
Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said:
Job 40:2 "Shall
the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? He
who rebukes God, let him answer it."
Job 40:3 Then
Job answered the LORD and said:
Job 40:4 "Behold,
I am vile; What shall I answer You? I lay my hand over my mouth.
Job 40:5 Once
I have spoken, but I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no
further."
Job 40:6 Then
the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:
Job 40:7 "Now
prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me:
Job 40:8 "Would
you indeed annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me
that you may be justified?
Job 40:9 Have
you an arm like God? Or can you thunder with a voice like His?
Job 40:10 Then
adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, and array yourself with glory and
beauty.
Job 40:11
Disperse the rage of your wrath; Look on everyone who is proud,
and humble him.
Job 40:12 Look
on everyone who is proud, and bring him low; Tread down the wicked in their
place.
Job 40:13 Hide
them in the dust together, Bind their faces in hidden darkness.
Job 40:14 Then
I will also confess to you That your own right hand can save you.
Job 40:15
"Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you; He
eats grass like an ox.
Job 40:16 See
now, his strength is in his hips, And his power is in his stomach muscles.
Job 40:17 He
moves his tail like a cedar; The sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.
Job 40:18 His
bones are like beams of bronze, His ribs like bars of iron.
Job 40:19 He
is the first of the ways of God; Only He who made him can bring near His sword.
Job 40:20
Surely the mountains yield food for him, And all the beasts of
the field play there.
Job 40:21 He
lies under the lotus trees, In a covert of reeds and marsh.
Job 40:22 The
lotus trees cover him with their shade; The willows by the brook surround him.
Job 40:23
Indeed the river may rage, Yet he is not disturbed; He is
confident, though the
Job 40:24
Though he takes it in his eyes, Or one pierces his nose with a
snare.
Job 41:1 "Can
you draw out Leviathan with a hook, Or snare his tongue with a line which you
lower?
Job 41:2 Can
you put a reed through his nose, Or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Job 41:3 Will
he make many supplications to you? Will he speak softly to you?
Job 41:4 Will
he make a covenant with you? Will you take him as a servant forever?
Job 41:5 Will
you play with him as with a bird, Or will you leash him for your maidens?
Job 41:6 Will
your companions make a banquet of him? Will they apportion him among the
merchants?
Job 41:7 Can
you fill his skin with harpoons, Or his head with fishing spears?
Job 41:8 Lay
your hand on him; Remember the battle; Never do it again!
Job 41:9 Indeed,
any hope of overcoming him is false; Shall one not be overwhelmed at the sight
of him?
Job 41:10 No
one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand
against Me?
Job 41:11 Who
has preceded Me, that I should pay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
Job 41:12
"I will not conceal his limbs, His mighty power, or his
graceful proportions.
Job 41:13 Who
can remove his outer coat? Who can approach him with a double bridle?
Job 41:14 Who
can open the doors of his face, With his terrible teeth all around?
Job 41:15 His
rows of scales are his pride, Shut up tightly as with a seal;
Job 41:16 One
is so near another That no air can come between them;
Job 41:17 They
are joined one to another, They stick together and cannot be parted.
Job 41:18 His
sneezings flash forth light, And his eyes are like
the eyelids of the morning.
Job 41:19 Out
of his mouth go burning lights;
Job 41:20 Smoke
goes out of his nostrils, As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
Job 41:21 His
breath kindles coals, And a flame goes out of his mouth.
Job 41:22
Strength dwells in his neck, And sorrow dances before him.
Job 41:23 The
folds of his flesh are joined together; They are firm on him and cannot be
moved.
Job 41:24 His
heart is as hard as stone, Even as hard as the lower millstone.
Job 41:25 When
he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; Because of his crashings
they are beside themselves.
Job 41:26
Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail; Nor does spear,
dart, or javelin.
Job 41:27 He
regards iron as straw, And bronze as rotten wood.
Job 41:28 The
arrow cannot make him flee; Slingstones become like
stubble to him.
Job 41:29 Darts
are regarded as straw; He laughs at the threat of javelins.
Job 41:30 His
undersides are like sharp potsherds; He spreads pointed marks in the mire.
Job 41:31 He
makes the deep boil like a pot; He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
Job 41:32 He
leaves a shining wake behind him; One would think the deep had white hair.
Job 41:33 On
earth there is nothing like him, Which is made without fear.
Job 41:34 He
beholds every high thing; He is king over all the children of pride."
Job 42:1 Then
Job answered the LORD and said:
Job 42:2 "I
know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld
from You.
Job 42:3 You
asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have
uttered what I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not
know.
Job 42:4 Listen,
please, and let me speak; You said, 'I will question you, and you shall answer
Me.'
Job 42:5 "I
have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You.
Job 42:6
Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and
ashes."
The
Inspiration of the Scriptures
Scientifically
Demonstrated
By Ivan Panin
Letter to the
In its Sunday
edition of
On that day,
the writer, who did not normally read this paper, was travelling
by train from
Sir: - In
to-day's Sun Mr. W.R.L. calls for a "champion of orthodoxy" to
"step into the arena of the Sun;' and give him some "facts."
Here are some facts:
The first 17
verses of the New Testament contain the genealogy of the Christ. It consists of
two main parts: Verses 1-11 cover the period from Abraham, the father of the
chosen people, to the Captivity, when they ceased as an independent people.
Verses 12-17 cover the period from the Captivity to the promised Deliverer, the
Christ.
Let us examine
the first part of this genealogy.
Its vocabulary
has 49 words, or 7 x 7. This number is itself seven (Feature 1) sevens (Feature
2), and the sum of its factors is 2 sevens (Feature 3). Of these 49 words 28,
or 4 sevens, begin with a vowel; and 21, or 3 sevens, begin with a consonant
(Feature 4).
Again: these 49
words of the vocabulary have 266 letters, or 7 x 2 x 19; this number is itself
38 sevens (Feature 5), and the sum of its factors is 28, or 4 sevens (Feature
6), while the sum of its figures is 14, or 2 sevens (Feature 7). Of these 266
letters, moreover, 140, or 20 sevens, are vowels, and 126, or 18 sevens, are
consonants (Feature 8).
That is to say:
Just as the number of words in the vocabulary is a multiple of seven, so is the
number of its letters a multiple of seven; just as the sum of the factors of
the number of the words is a multiple of seven, so is the sum of the factors of
the number of their letters a multiple of seven. And just as the number of
words is divided between vowel words and consonant words by sevens, so is their
number of letters divided between vowels and consonants by sevens.
Again: Of these
49 words 35, or 5 sevens, occur more than once in the passage; and 14, or 2
sevens, occur but once (Feature 9); seven occur in more than one form, and 42,
or 6 sevens, occur in only one form (Feature 10). And among the parts of speech
the 49 words are thus divided: 42, or 6 sevens, are nouns,
seven are not nouns (Feature 12). Of the nouns 35 or 5 sevens, are Proper
names, seven are common nouns (Feature 12). Of the Proper names 28 are male
ancestors of the Christ, and seven are not (Feature 13).
Moreover, these
49 words are distributed alphabetically thus: Words under A-E are 21 in number,
or 3 sevens; Z-K 14, or 2 sevens; M-X also 14. No other groups of sevens
stopping at the end of a letter are made by these 49 words, the groups of
sevens stop with these letters and no others. But the letters
A, E, Z, K, M, X, are letters 1, 5, 6, 10, 12, 22, of the Greek alphabet, and
the sum of these numbers (called their Place Values) is 56, or 8 sevens
(Feature 14).
This
enumeration of the numeric phenomena of these 11 verses does not begin to be
exhaustive, but enough has been shown to make it clear that this part of the
genealogy is constructed on an elaborate design of sevens.
Let us not turn
to the genealogy as a whole. I will not weary your readers with recounting all
the numeric phenomena thereof: pages alone would exhaust them. I will point out
only one feature: The New Testament is written in Greek. The Greeks had no
separate symbols for expressing numbers, corresponding to our Arabic figures,
but used instead the letters of their alphabet: just as the Hebrews, in whose
language the Old Testament is written, made use for the same purpose of theirs.
Accordingly, the 24 Greek letters stand for the following numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4,
5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800. Every Greek word is thus a sum in arithmetic obtained
by adding the numbers for which its letters stand, or their numeric values. Now
the vocabulary to the entire genealogy has 72 words. If we write its numeric
value over each of these 72 words, and add them, we get for their sum 42,364,
or 6,052 sevens, distributed into the following alphabetical groups only: A-B,
have 9.821, or 1,403 sevens: G-D, 1904, or 272 sevens; 3,703, or 529 sevens;
TH-R, 19,264, or 2,752 sevens; A-X 7,672, or 1,096 sevens. But the numeric
value of the 10 letters used for making these groups is 931, or 7 x 7 x 19, a
multiple not only of seven but of seven sevens.
Let Mr. W.R.L.
try to write some 300 words intelligently like this genealogy, and reproduce
some numeric phenomena of like designs. If he does it in 6 months, he will
indeed do a wonder. Let us assume that Matthew accomplished this feat in one
month.
2. The second
part of this chapter, verses 18-25, relates the birth of Christ. It consists of
161 words, or 23 sevens; occurring in 105 forms, or 15 sevens, with a
vocabulary of 77 words or 11 sevens. Joseph is spoken to here by the angel.
Accordingly, of the 77 words the angel uses 28, or 4 sevens; of the 105 forms
he uses 35, or 5 sevens; the numeric value of the vocabulary is 52,605, or
7,515 sevens; of the forms, 65,429, or 9,347 sevens.
This
enumeration only begins as it were to barely scratch the surface of the numerics of this passage. But what is specially
noteworthy here is the fact that the angel's speech has also a scheme of sevens
making it a kind of ring within a ring, a wheel within a wheel. If Mr. L. can
write a similar passage of 161 words with the same scheme of sevens alone
(though there are several others here) in some three years, he would accomplish
a still greater wonder. Let us assume Matthew accomplished this feat in only 6
months.
3. The second
chapter of Matthew tells of the childhood of the Christ. Its vocabulary has 161
words, or 23 sevens, with 896 letters, or 128 sevens, and 238 forms, or 34
sevens; the numeric value of the vocabulary is 123,529, or 17,647 sevens; of
the forms, 166,985, or 23,855 sevens; and so on through pages of enumeration.
This chapter has at least four logical divisions, and each division shows alone
the same phenomena found in the chapter as a whole. Thus the first six verses
have a vocabulary of 56 words, or 8 sevens, etc. There are some speeches here:
Herod speaks, the Magi speak, the angel speaks. But so
pronounced are the numeric phenomena here, that though there are as it were
numerous rings within rings, and wheels within wheels, each is perfect in
itself, though forming all the while only part of the rest.
If Mr. L. can
write a chapter like this as naturally as Matthew writes, but containing in
some 500 words so many intertwined yet harmonious numeric features, in say the
rest of his days - whatever his age now, or the one to which he is to attain:
if he thus accomplish it at all, it will indeed be marvel of marvels. Let us
assume that Matthew accomplished this feat in only 3 years.
4. There is
not, however, a single paragraph of the scores in Matthew that is not
constructed in exactly the same manner. Only with each additional paragraph the
difficulty of constructing it increases not in arithmetical but in geometrical
progression. For he contrives to write numeric relations to
what goes before and after. Thus in his last chapter he contrives to use
just 7 words not used by him before. It would thus be easy to show that Mr. L.
would require some centuries to write a book like Matthew's. How long it took
Matthew the writer does not know. But how he contrived to do it between the
Crucifixion, A.D.30 (and his Gospel could not have been written earlier), and
the destruction of
Anyhow Matthew
did it, and we thus have a miracle - an unheard-of literary, mathematical
artist, unequaled, hardly even conceivable. This is the first fact for Mr. L.
to contemplate.
A second fact
is yet more important: In his very first section, the genealogy discussed
above, the words found nowhere else in the New Testament, occur 42 times, 7 x
6; and have 126 letters, 7 x 6 x 3, each number a multiple not only of seven,
but of 6 sevens, to name only two of the many numeric features of these words.
But how did Matthew know, when designing this scheme for these words (whose
sole characteristic is that they are found nowhere else in the New Testament)
that they would not be found in the other 26 books? That they would not be used
by the other 7 New Testament writers? Unless we assume the impossible
hypothesis that he had an agreement with them to that effect, he must have had
the rest of the New Testament before him when he wrote his book. The Gospel of
Matthew, then, was written last.
5. It so
happens, however, that the Gospel of Mark shows the very same phenomena. Thus
the very passage called so triumphantly in today's Sun a "forgery,"
the Last Twelve Verses of Mark, presents among some sixty features of sevens
the following phenomena: It has 175 words, or 95 sevens; a vocabulary of 98
words, or 2 sevens of sevens with 553 letters, or 79 sevens; 133 forms, or 19
sevens, and so on to the minutest detail.
Mark, then, is
another miracle, another unparalleled literary genius. And in the same way in
which it was shown that Matthew wrote last it is also shown that Mark, too,
wrote last. Thus to take an example from this very passage: It has just one
word found nowhere else in the New Testament, 'deadly'. This fact is signaled
by no less than seven features of sevens thus: Its numeric value is 581, or 83
sevens, with the sum of its figures 14, or 2 sevens, of which the letters 3, 5,
7, from both the BEGINNING and END of the word have 490, or 7 x 7 x 5 x 2: a
multiple of seven sevens, with the sum of its factors 21, or 3 sevens. In the
vocabulary it is preceded by 42 words, 7 x 6; in the passage itself
by 126 words, or 7 x 6 x 3, both numbers multiples not only of seven, but of 6
sevens. We have thus established before us this third fact for Mr. L. to
contemplate: Matthew surely wrote after Mark, and Mark just as surely wrote
after Matthew.
6. It happens,
however, to be a fourth fact, that Luke presents the same phenomena as Matthew
and Mark; and so does John, and James, and Peter, and
Jude, and Paul. And we have thus no longer two great unheard-of mathematical
literati, but eight of them and each wrote after the other.
7. And not only
this: As Luke and Peter wrote each 2 books, John 5, and Paul 14, it can in the
same way be shown that each of the 27 New Testament books was written last. In
fact, not a page of the over 500 in Westcott and Hort's
Greek edition (which the writer has used throughout) but it can be demonstrated
thus to have been written last.
The phenomena
are there and there is no human way of explaining them. Eight men cannot each
write last, 97 books, some 500 pages cannot each be written first. But once
assume that one Mind directed the whole, and the problem is solved simply
enough; but this is Verbal Inspiration - of every jot and tittle
of the New Testament.
There remains
only to be added that by precisely the same kind of evidence the Hebrew Old
Testament is proved to be equally inspired. Thus the very first verse of
Genesis has seven words, 28 letters, or 4 sevens: to name only two out of the
dozens of numeric features of this one verse of only seven words. - N.Y.
To this letter
several replies appeared in the Sun, but not a single answer. For in only three
ways can it be refuted.
·
(a) By showing
that the facts are not as here given.
·
(b) By showing
that it is possible for 8 men to write each after the other 7; for 27 hooks,
for some 500 pages to be each in its turn written last.
·
(c) By showing
that even if the facts be true, the arithmetic faultless, and the collocation
of the numerics honest, it does not follow that mere
men could not have written this without Inspiration from above.
Accordingly, as
many as nine noted rationalists (of whom Drs. Lyman Abbot and Charles W. Eliot
are still living) [now in 1927 also gone to where they may know] were
respectfully but publicly invited to refute the writer. One was not "interested"
in the writer's "arithmetical" doings; two "regretted"
that they "had no time" to give heed thereto. Another "did
not mean to be unkind," but ... The rest were silent. For the special
benefit of these the writer printed the original data with numerous details,
enabling them in the easiest manner to verify every statement made by him, if
they wished. And to the best of his ability he has for years seen to it that no
scholar whom surely these things specially concern remain
in ignorance of the facts here recounted and of like cogency.
A notable
exception to the above is a lawyer of standing [now also dead], whose books on
Law are deemed as of authority. He had intelligence enough and candor withal to
confess that the case for the Bible as made out by the writer is impregnable,
that the Bible is thus proved to be an "absolutely unique book." This
much the case itself exhorts from the but too well
equipped writer on - EVIDENCE; and accordingly he henceforth reads the writer's
Numerics with intense appreciation. And then, fresh
from this confession, he betakes himself once more to the circulation of his
anti-Christian books in the writing of which he joys to spend his leisure
hours.
In the second letter to the N. Y. Sun the author, in discussing some i