James P. Gills - Darwinism Under the Microscope: How Recent Scientific Evidence Points to Divine Design

In the last few decades, every major pillar of the evolutionary faith has been collapsing all around us. And yet we have evolutionists today saying, "Evolution is a fact. It is not only a fact, it is a most thoroughly proven fact in all of science." Nonsense.

This reminds me of the note in the margin of a preacher's sermon that says, "Argument weak here. Pound pulpit."

That's like standing in the midst of a great building that's collapsed under an earthquake. There's a huge pile of rubble all around, and you say, "Is this not the most significant structure that was ever built?"

But the truth will win out, and I am sure that the day will come when evolution will be recognized to be the pernicious and harmful theory, falsehood, deceit, and fairy tale that it really is. One day people will realize that it is a great and glorious Creator, the almighty, omniscient God, who has created the world and you and me.

That is why I'm pleased to recommend this new book, Darwinism Under the Microscope: How Recent Scientific Evidence Points to Divine Design by James P. Gills, M.D. and Thomas E. Woodward, Ph.D. This book provides invaluable evidence that today's leading scientific evidence is Darwin's biggest threat.

Darwin once said that the complexity of the human eye gives him pause about his theory. Well, Dr. Gills has focused his medical studies on the human eye and provides convincing proofs that not only the eye, but also all of Creation, are so complex that the idea they just evolved from chance is impossible. This new book is an important contribution to an important debate.

-D. JAMES KENNEDY, PH.D. SENIOR MINISTER, CORAL RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA

JAMES P. GIaS, M.D. & TOM WOODWARD, PH.D.

n a book about creation and design, acknowledgment and appreciation naturally go to the beautiful mind of the Creator Himself. Too often we refuse to see the manifestation of God in the glory of the sixty trillion amazing cells that comprise each one of us and in the miracle of every being integrated into this vast universe.

This book would never have come to fruition if not for R.T. Kendall who, over a glass of tea under an afternoon sun, encouraged me to print my thoughts on the wonders of life, the travesty of evolutionary theories, and our spiritual blindness to God's majesty in nature.

Richard Swenson, medical colleague and futurist, has written a book, More Than Meets the Eye, that directly inspired our own.' His vision exceeds the myopia that is restricted to present tenses while it reaches into the intricacies of creation, leading us to ask, "Who is this Creator?"

PART ONE

THE UNRAVELING OF DARWINISM

Chapter 1 ............... 9

by James P. Gills, M.D. and Thomas E. Woodward, Ph.D.

Chapter 2 ............. 23

by Mark Hartwig, Ph.D.

Chapter 3 37

by James P Gills, M.D.

Chapter 4 ...... 63

by Charles B. Thaxton, Ph.D.

Chapter 5 ..................... 81

by Phillip Johnson, J.D.

Chapter 6 ..................... 97

by Thomas E. Woodward, Ph.D.

PART Two

IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY AND THE DETECTION OF DESIGN

Chapter 7 ............... 113

by Thomas E. Woodward, Ph.D.

Chapter 8 ........................ 131

by Michael]. Behe, Ph.D.

Chapter 9 ... 153

by George Ayoub, Ph.D.

Chapter 10 165

by Thomas E. Woodward, Ph.D.

Chapter 11 .................... 171

by William A. Dembski, Ph.D.

.................... 191

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by Lynn Vincent

.......................................... 215

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will never forget a sermon Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones preached at my old church near Oxford when I was a research student there. His text was, "What is man, that thou art mindful of him?" (Ps. 8:4, KJV). Speaking as both a minister and a physician, he proceeded to describe the eye. He demonstrated the utter incredulity of the eye being something that happened by chance or accident and that the only rational explanation for the eye was the Creator God.

When I was given the privilege of reading this book, I anticipated an even more elaborate illustration of the eye, knowing it would be described by one of the most eminent ophthalmologists of our time. What the reader will witness is astounding. You will almost certainly conclude that no unbiased, thinking seeker of truth would any longer hold to Darwinian theories of evolution or their supposed successors.

This timely book is largely a collation of monographs written by learned men who carefully bridge the gap between the arts and the sciences. Dr. James Gills and Dr. Thomas Woodward are experts in their respective fields. They have combined their knowledge, along with other brilliant minds, in order to produce an easy-to-read volume for any person who is transparently honest in his or her desire to know the difference between fact and fiction, truth and error, what is objective and what is speculation.

What this book further reveals, which may come as a surprise to many laymen, is not only how fragile the theory of evolution is, but also how insecure the scientists are who uphold such. The best of scientists are men at best, but they would prefer to camouflage their biases and fear of being questioned too far. Many of them have simply chosen to believe in evolution. For some it borders on being almost a religion! They are believers in the sense that they have faith that evolution surely must be true. As the reader will see, Darwinism is grounded in philosophical preference, not scientific-inference.

And yet this book also shows that the idea of intelligent design of the universe generally, and the human person particularly, is based on physical, empirical evidence rather than a religious idea. In this connection we are introduced to Dr. Michael J. Behe, one of the unsung heroes of our time. His careful analysis of the facts will possibly threaten some and thrill others-especially those who have hoped in the premise that one could believe in a Creator God without being an obscurantist.