It's no secret that atheists have a different standard of evidence for things they want to be true than for things they don't. Most atheists, for example, are Evolutionists, yet Evolution is one of the weakest religions on the face of God's green Earth. Meanwhile, they continue to scream "there's no evidence" for Christianity, no matter how much evidence they are shown.
But it's one thing to have a different standard of evidence. After all, we all have that. The issue with Evolutionists is they have a double standard. Arguments that are shared between the two religions are accepted for Evolution, but rejected for Christianity. What's ironic is, most of the time, these arguments are significantly stronger for Christianity than for Evolution.
As an example, take the argument from predictions. One of the strongest arguments for Christianity is the accuracy of its prophecies. Indeed, this is one of the arguments the Bible itself makes for Christianity. No Biblical prophecy has ever failed, and only those which are not yet due to be fulfilled have not been fulfilled.
Some biblical prophecies, such as the ones found in Daniel, are actually so accurate, it has become popular among sloppy scholars to revise the dates the books were written. This is very telling. First, it tells us that they know that if these books were indeed written before the events they describe, they would count as a fulfilled prophecy. Second, because these books were indeed written before the events they describe, it tells us that these people don't want them to be fulfilled prophecy.
Prophecy is such a powerful evidence for Christianity that on this evidence alone, it is irrational to scoff at it. No other religion even comes close. Evolutionists, however, contend that theirs does. Just like Christianity, one of Evolution's chief arguments is its predictions. If you gathered a group of just 10 Evolutionists and asked them to give their best argument for Evolution, at least 1 of them, likely well above 5 of them, would mention Evolution's ability to make successful predictions.
However, if you were to take a group of 10 million Evolutionists and asked them to defend that claim, the number who would succeed would immediately drop to 0. When it comes to predictions, Evolution is about as successful as Astrology. Indeed, the methods Evolution uses to make its predictions often mirror that of such religions.
Furthermore, Evolution has made several major predictions over the course of its history that have demonstrably failed. To give 3 examples, Darwin predicted:
1. If his theory was true, there would be innumerable transitional forms in the fossil record.
2. As time went on, white men would exterminate the other 4 races.
3. If any feature could be discovered that couldn't form by numerous successive modifications, his theory would "absolutely break down". (In other words... irreducible complexity).
All three of these major predictions has failed miserably.
First, the innumerable transitional forms are so famously absent that even an amateur Christian apologist can use it to take on a highly trained Evolutionary scientist and win. In fact, the irony of this particular argument against Evolution is that modern Evolutionists can't seem to understand it. They think that all they have to do is find one or two fossils that kind of look like they might bridge the gap between two supposedly related organisms, and they have refuted it. This is a straw man.
In reality, Darwin predicted that there would be innumerable transitional forms, and blamed the incompleteness of the fossil record for their absence. This explanation barely held up even in Darwin's day, but as palaeontological research has advanced, 97.7% of living orders of land vertebrates have now been identified in the fossil record. 79.1% of living families of land vertebrates have also been identified, which jumps to 87.8% if we exclude the birds. Many of these are even found in the "wrong" place, causing an even greater migraine for Evolutionists. With the fossil record being so unbelievably detailed, the only real reason to assume it is too incomplete to expect the innumerable transitional forms is precisely because they do not exist. This is circular reasoning.
Now, that's not to say that Evolutionists don't have a few candidates they claim are transitional forms. Indeed, some of them are glorified placeholders. Take, for example, Tiktaalik, an alleged transition between fish and tetrapods. Aside from the fact there is nothing about this well-designed fish that suggests it could walk on land, or that its descendants would magically gain this ability, there are actually fossilised tetrapod footprints from Poland that are, allegedly, 18 million years older than Tiktaalik. Of course, as we all know, you can't be 18 million years older than your grandfather. This renders Tiktaalik memes as dead as the fish itself. But of course, internet atheists don't often keep up with the "science" they claim to love so much. So, Evolutionists do not have the innumerable transitional forms Darwin predicted, and the few alleged examples they do have turn out to be rather embarrassingly weak.
But things get worse than that, because another prediction Darwin made is particularly morally repugnant. You would think in our culture, where the BLM organisation is rioting in the streets, and cancel culture runs rampant, that an actual racist like Charles Darwin would swiftly become unpopular. Apparently, however, statements like the following just slip under the radar: "At some future period the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla."
These days, even the very word "negro" is considered so astonishingly racist that I often fear publishing that quote, simply because I worry the potential backlash will distract from the point I am trying to make. But back in Darwin's day, there genuinely was the belief that there were 5 different human races. Conveniently, the caucasian (i.e. the white man) was thought to be the highest.
These days, however, we know that this claim is complete and utter twaddle! Not only is it ridiculous to believe white people are superior to non-white people, but we now know scientifically what we have always known theologically: there is only one human race. In other words, not only can we not expect that whites will somehow exterminate everyone else, but to actually hope for it, as Darwin did, is nothing short of despicable!
To address the last example of Darwin's failed predictions, we're actually going to bring in another Darwinist. In the 1940s, J.B.S. Haldane, using similar logic, specifically predicted that Evolution could produce neither a wheel nor a magnet, since, in his words, these things would be "useless until fairly perfect."
He isn't wrong. The fact is, irreducible complexity is undeniable. So much so that until it became such a popular argument against Evolution, even Evolutionists stood by it. Of course, these days, both natural motors and natural magnets have been discovered. The bacterial flagellum alone is such an excellent example of something that could not possibly have evolved gradually that Evolution becomes unsustainable. Other living organisms, from turtles to cows to butterflies, have been found to use Earth's magnetic field to navigate and orient themselves.
These are just 3 examples of major Evolutionary failures when it comes to predictions. There are a great many more, so much so that it could fill a book series greater than Encyclopaedia Britannica. For a religion whose followers boast so much about its predictions, Evolution really is terrible at making them.
The same cannot be said about Christianity, however. Of course, as history and archaeology are still imperfect fields, it is possible to try to attack the prophetic accuracy of the Bible, but generally speaking, it is very hard to contend with it. Indeed, some of the clearest prophecies in Scripture were fulfilled in Christ. As an example, take Isaiah 53:
"Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. And they made His grave with the wicked— But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors."
This prophecy is so clearly about the Lord Jesus Christ that many people, not knowing where the passage is found, often immediately attribute it to Him. Yet, it was written 700 years before He was born. Long before Jesus was born of the virgin Mary, God foretold His prophets of His arrival, as well as His death for sin, and even His resurrection. All of this so that you may be forgiven for your sins, and granted eternal life. All you have to do is believe.
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An attempted response from an Evolutionist
When this article was originally published as a post on the God Squad Apologetics Facebook page, an Evolutionist attempted to respond with the following:
"I think the problem here is a common one amongst anti evolution people in that they think everything stopped with Darwin. That was 150 years ago. A lot has happened since then. He got the ball rolling and scientists, biologists, archeologists, geneticists, etc have taken it from there"
First off, given that I even brought up Haldane, I obviously don't believe Evolution stopped with Darwin. He is, however, a key figure in Evolution. Islam didn't stop with Muhammad. Mormonism didn't stop with Joseph Smith. The Watchtower didn't stop with Charles Taze Russell. It's irrelevant; they all started their religions, and those religions can't escape the gravity of their founders. Evolution is the same. You can't get around Darwin's failed predictions, especially since Evolutionists so frequently argue from "successful" predictions. Attempting to do so is the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy. The fact that Evolutionists keep making up ad hoc explanations for why they're wrong more often than a broken clock doesn't solve the problem. Would you buy a car that failed so often?