Life!

Which came first 3 The chicken or the egg? 4 The lungs or the breath? 5 Gravity or matter? 6 Water or fire? 7 The optic nerve or the retina? 8 Sleep or being awake? 9 The planets balancing act 10 The tides and the moon 11 The soil and worms for plants 12 Plants and bees for reproduction 13 Which came first - the plant or seed? 14 What is beyond the stars? 15 The sun does move after all 16 Who put precision in space? 17 Fish breathe straight through 18 Whales breathe in and out 19 Birds breathe round about 20 Feathers have to be complete for flight 21 Reproduction had to work at once 22 The first umbilical cord had to be whole 23 We cannot be alive without Dad 24 Dragonflies - three stages to reproduce 25 Butterflies - four stages to reproduce 26 Frogs - three stages to reproduce 27 Change in a group - not across 28 People and monkeys dont mix 29 Which came first blood or the heart? 30 Mutations do not create 31 Zona Pellucida stops cross breeding 32 Our computer-like cells 33 Who made emotion? 34 Natural selection does not create 35 Male and female had to match 36 Birth - it all had to work first time 37 Things to do to keep you busy 38 / 39 Credits and References

The Creation account is awesome, and is bedrock to the rest of the Bible.
His Honour Judge M. Courtney-Stewart. Winchester, England.

Which came first the chicken or the egg? The chicken!

Hens go broody and sit on eggs. Eggs are warmed for 21 days. Without the mother how could the eggs hatch? Scientists say the chicken came first. They say that it is a protein only found in the mothers body that makes the shell.*
(For * references see p 39)

What about Dad? Didnt there have to be a father too? Hens lay eggs, but only a cockerel and a hen together can make a chick.
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What is life? We all took our first breath. Living things eat, grow and breathe. How could something that is not alive make an airway to breathe all by itself? Where did life begin? Some people think it came from a pond, or from space, or from the earth. If so - how did it get there? Other people believe God made a father and a mother grown-up so that they could have babies straight away.

Bees and trees would we be alive without them? Bees pollinate plants for us to eat. Trees clean the air for us to breathe.
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

The Bible says that everything was ready to work straight away.

Which came first matter or the law of gravity? How could gravity exist without matter? How could matter exist without gravity? Didnt they have to be made together at once?

If male and female had taken millions of years to evolve how did life go on? How soon was the first baby born? Did pregnancy work first time? If not, the baby is dead.
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God said; Let there be light and there was light.

God spoke and it was done.

It needs a miracle to make something from nothing. The so-called big-bang defies science and common sense. It is impossible for nothing to make something by itself. Only an Almighty God could have made the universe. Something can not get bigger by itself. It needs something else to make it grow. Fire and water could not have evolved from the same thing as they would have cancelled each other out.

Moses told us about Creation perhaps using earlier records. Some say this is only poetry but a six day creation using 24 hours is implied in the Ten Commandments. That is not poetry.*
An early Hebrew Bible

Eyes develop in different ways. The eye of a backboned creature grows from the brain towards the skins surface. The eye of a non-backboned creature grows from the skins surface towards the brain. As one sort could not have reversed into the other sort they must have had a different start.

To see light we have eyes

Mammal and reptile eyes are organized in different ways. Mammal optic nerves take images from each eye to both sides of the brain.*1 Reptile optic nerves take images from each eye to only the opposite side of the brain. Some eyes have one lid going from top to bottom. Others have eyelids that meet halfway. Others have membranes that move from side to side.*2 We all have two eyes - not one. Didnt the nerves have to be complete to work together in the first pair of eyes?
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Why supposedly evolve eyes before knowing there was anything to see?

If all the different sorts of eyes were evolving for millions of years, during that time, was each creature blind? Fossils in the lowest rock layer have complete eyes. To focus eyes need working muscles, lenses, irises, fluid, sclera, pupils, corneas, retinas, optic nerves, a heart for blood, lungs for oxygen, and a brain to interpret sight. Eyes are formed in the embryo before having seen light. Sleep: we close our eyes to sleep. If the first living thing did not sleep, why invent it? It makes creatures easy to attack so does not help survival. If the first living thing was asleep - how did wakefulness arrive?

Koalas sleep a lot. Babies - the size of jelly beans crawl up into their mothers pouch. The pouch opening is at the bottom. A kangaroos pouch opens at the top.

Our planet has balancing systems with air, water, gravity, and nuclear and magnetic fields. Take one away and life is disturbed. Some dating methods use ideas we cannot prove. Perhaps decay rates and oxygen levels changed. Perhaps the world started with an inbuilt age. Air found in amber fossil bubbles has more oxygen than that which is in the air now.*1 Fossilized trees lie across more than one rock or coal layer showing that all the layers got there in the life time of only one tree.*2

God said: Let there be an expanse called sky.

An insect in amber. Amber is fossilized sap from trees

Was Noahs Flood world-wide? If not - why bother to take animals into the Ark? Fish fossils and salt are found in the middle of every continent.*3 Most fossils are in sedimentary rock which is put there by water. Fossils do not show evolution as they looked the same then as they do now.

God said: Let the water be gathered to one place...

We appear to be the only planet mostly covered in water :salt-water, river-water, underground water, rain, steam, snow, sleet, dew, hail, ice. Melted icebergs do not raise the sea level as the larger underwater base melts too. Melted ice flowing from the land does. The moon's gravitational pull is just right. Its strength gives us the moving tides. Without the moon oceans would be stagnant and there would be no plankton to put oxygen into the sea. Our moon moves away from us slightly each year. Tides would have swamped the earth if the moon had been nearer the earth millions of years ago. Would we be here if there were no tides?
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God said: ...and let dry land appear.

Each day was a miracle. Plants and trees already had seeds. These copy themselves and do not change.

Would we be here without worms? Beetles and ants scurry around. The soil needs the bugs. The bugs need the soil. Worms soften the soil with spit, making a hole to push through. They pass it out as little heaps of earth putting air in the soil. How did the soil grow plants unless the bugs were already there? What gave life to the first bug? Even if scientists could make life, they cannot make the cells, water or oxygen that is needed to make it. They can not make something from nothing.

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Which came first the plant or plant-breathing?

Plants grow from light reacting on them. Didn't they have to be already there before this reaction could begin?

If plants evolved for new sites why do they grapple for the same soil? Where did the scent of flowers come from? If it was to attract insects, how did a plant know that an insect could smell? Bees need plants for food. Plants need bees to reproduce. How did plants needing insects for pollination live, if insects had not yet been made?

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Which came first - the plant or the seed?

Didn't the whole cycle of seeds, seedlings, plants, buds, flowers, and fruit have to happen in one complete go? If not, how did more plants grow?

How did an acorn get into its cup or a chestnut into its prickly husk? How did liquid get inside a coconut? People say flowers are beautiful to attract insects but insects see differently to us. Seeds and fruit are also beautiful. They dont need to attract insects.*

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God said: Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky

We cannot comprehend the magnitude of endless space. Rolling planets, blazing suns and swirling orbs dazzle in design. The expanse, the sparkle, and sheer number blow our minds.

What is infinity? Isnt it the biggest number we can think of, and then we go on adding noughts? What is true, and what is not? We can only see as far as telescopes can take us. Science is observable, testable and repeatable. Ideas that we cant prove are not true science. Who knows what happens beyond the stars?
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He made the stars also *

Calendars reflect movement in space. The earths path around the sun gives us years. The moons path around the earth gives us months. The spinning of the earth gives us night and day. The tilt of the earth makes different seasons. But our week comes from the six day creation and not from the stars. We, on earth, move in three ways at once. We twirl around as it rotates on its axis. We whizz as it swirls around the sun. We hurtle with the sun as we gallop around the centre of our galaxy. The sun moves at 135 miles per second around the centre of the Milky Way! We, with our moon and planets, go with it. Are you dizzy?

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There is order in the universe.

We launch rockets knowing they will reach their target. Astronomers can predict the eclipse of the sun by the moon.*1 They can work out the next appearance of some comets.*2

The distance of the sun from us is just right. This means we do not freeze or fry. There is order in the oceans too. Regular tides mean sailors can depend on their predictability. Some planets rotate in the opposite way to the earth. Some moons rotate in the opposite way to their planets.*3 How could these alternative routes have happened by chance? Dont they show a planned design?
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What beauty, what wonder, what majesty beneath the waves. Fish have a watery paradise in which to play. They can swim at 30 miles per hour within a second from being still. Fish take oxygen from water - not air. They gulp water and oxygen is absorbed through fan-like blood vessels in their gills. The water then flows out of slits in their gills. If fish really came out of water onto the land how could they breathe with gills in water one day and then breathe air with lungs the next day? How could they evolve lungs before being out in the air?

God said: "Let the water teem with living creatures..."

Barnacles, limpets and mussels cling to rocks buffeted by the waves. If their suction device had not been at full-strength straight away wouldn't they have been smashed by the pounding surf?
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Whale babies are born tail first*

Most land animals are born head first. If whales came from land animals how could they be born head first on land one year and tail first in water the next year? At birth babies have no air in their lungs so the mother has to push them upwards for air. Whales mate belly to belly - other creatures do not. Both fish and animal tails go from side to side but whale tail-flukes move up and down. If this had evolved they would not have been able to swim while the muscles moved around. Whales have blubber that does not freeze, ears that adapt to the changing depths of water, and blowholes on top of their head instead of a nose. Many whales migrate thousands of miles. Some even go from Mexico to Alaska and back. Others go from the Antarctic to the Arctic and back. They keep in touch by singing songs along the way.

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Birds have hollow bones for lightness, and wings with feathers, also a special oil. Their breathing is different to other creatures air goes round their body and not in and out. It passes through open-ended lung tubes and their bones and air-sacs near their neck, tail and wings. Birds have beaks and storage crops, and some have grinding gizzards, and more red cells for height. Their rib-bones have joints. Females go broody to sit on eggs. Song-birds have a special voice-box to sing. Apart from the ostrich no bird has a bladder.* If birds evolved what gave them the idea to fly? Why evolve wings if they are no use until complete?
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God said: ... let birds fly above the earth

Feathers are a miracle of high tech engineering.

The hollow quill reduces weight. The sideways strands have hooks on one edge which latch onto the upturned edge of the next strand. Oil is kept in glands near the tail. It smoothes the strands allowing the hooks to slide up and down. When the wings are raised the trapped air gives lift in flight. Until the ridges, hooks and oil connect - no flight.*1 Each feather, when laid side by side, exactly fits. They have differently placed colours, shapes and stripes. Different yet when combined, they form a perfect match.

If scales turned into feathers, how did the creature avoid attack? A half-scale would be no use for its protection, and a half-feather no use for flight.*2
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God said: Let the land produce living creatures.

Life, life and more life! Insect eggs turn into grubs. Frog spawn turns into tadpoles. Bird chicks hatch from warm shells. Reptile babies hatch from cold shells. Fish eggs are fertilized outside the body. Mammal eggs are fertilized in the body. Unless each different way worked first time how could there be young?

Fish breathe in one direction - through their mouth and gills. Animals breathe in two directions in and out of lungs. Birds breathe in a circular route through air sacs and open tubes. Plants absorb carbon and give out oxygen. Creatures absorb oxygen and give out carbon. If one way really evolved into another, during a so-called cross-over time, how did they breathe?

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The umbilical cord takes food and oxygen from mother to child
Unless it was whole first time how could the baby live?

A baby at 8 weeks after conception

Mammals have a cord, womb, placenta, tubes and milk At birth a special jelly seals the broken ends of the umbilical cord. Unless this worked first time the baby would have bled and died.* Food and oxygen and anti-bodies go through the placenta wall from the mothers blood into the babys blood. These then go down the cord to the babys heart. During this time the baby lives in a water-sac. Unless the sac was whole first time the baby would die. Milk glands with the right strength of milk had to be right. How could the first baby have lived unless all of these things had worked together first time? How could pregnancy have evolved? Unless each stage worked properly, in the right order, the first time, the baby would have died.
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Dads reproductive input is just as important as Mums

It had to work first time. If just one stage was faulty there could be no young.

Penguin fathers keep the egg warm on their feet with a fold of skin covered by feathers. If the egg is on the ice for more than two minutes when Mum passes it to Dad, the embryo inside gets cold and dies. The parent bond is so strong they can later leave the chicks and find them again in the crowd. Penguins sift salt out of sea water through glands under their eyes.

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Dragonflies live in water, then air

They have three stages egg, nymph and dragonfly. Eggs turn into shrimp-like nymphs. Later these climb a stalk, go above water, take a deep breath and break open their skin. New bodies emerge - some male - some female. How amazing is that? - and what wonderful wings! Their muscles work at once - and away they fly. Didnt the three stages have to work at once? If not, how could they breed and multiply?

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They have four different stages egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly. Two caterpillars cannot make a butterfly. Two chrysalises cannot make a butterfly. Unless the stages had worked together first time, butterflies could not have grown up enough to lay eggs.

Butterflies had to be adult at the start

A caterpillar spinning a chrysalis The growth stages of a butterfly

Unless one parent was immediately male, and the other immediately female, how could they reproduce?

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Why a fish could not evolve into a frog

Bony fish do not have tears or eyelids - frogs do. If fish really came onto land their eyes would have dried out before their tear-ducts and eyelids could have had time to evolve. Fish breed outside the body as they drop the sperm and eggs into the sea. Frogs breed by being clasped together on the mothers back . The fathers legs would have to have evolved before doing this, so they could not have bred in an imaginary middle way stage. Frogs have three stages - egg, tadpole and frog. Two tadpoles cannot make a new frog. Unless each stage was completed together first time, how could they grow up enough to produce more frogs?

When tadpoles turn into frogs almost every tissue in their body is changed. Their tails get reabsorbed into their body, and does not drop off.
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Male and female could not have evolved

DNA information tells the body how to grow. It tells boys one way and girls another way. Growth instructions are in the first cell. No new information is later added in.

Is there evolution across different groups? No Change within a family group? Yes It is only sexual selection that gives variety. It re-mixes information that is already there. Natural selection does not have new information. It reduces the weak by no food, bad weather or attack. Dividing cells only repeat themselves and do not create. Mutations can only alter what is there and can not create. It is only sexual selection that shuffles existing material. But there is no mechanism to make something new. The information was in each groups original pair. Humans use their own intelligence to alter domestic breeds. They put together animals they like - but cats remain cats, dogs remain dogs and birds remain birds.

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God said: Let us make man in our own image

Human and ape cells reject each other. In transplants they cannot be joined. Ape cells have an acid that does not mix with human cells.* If the cells fight each other how could they be from the same source? God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." We are told three times that people were created and not evolved.
(Gen. Ch 1 v 27)

Only you can be you. You are unique.

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Our bodies are a wonder of design. The heart-valve, the elbow, and ear! Each part had to be whole with other whole parts before any of it will work. So how could they have slowly evolved? Which came first - the blood or the heart? The mouth or the stomach? The skin or the insides? Knee-joint bones slide and roll. If they dont fit - ouch - it hurts! Was the oil ready at the start?* Didnt the ligaments have to cross over and pull together in one go? Humans have some muscles which apes do not have. We can straighten our knees apes can not. Our thumb muscles mean we can hold a pen. We have a foot arch apes do not. Muscles hold the bones in place. Each part had to work together before being able to take weight.
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None of it works until all of it works

Creatures adapt but do not change to another creature

If bacteria mutate they are still bacteria. If a foal is a different shape it is still a horse. If a moth is a different colour it is still a moth. If a beak is a different shape it is still on a bird. Prof. Alan Linton MSc, PhD, DSc, FRCPath, Hon.ARCVS says: For 150 years innumerable populations of bacteria have been cultured in laboratories, but despite possible mutations which naturally occur, new species of bacteria have never been observed. Mutations can cause variations in existing species but do not produce different species.

Elephants udders are between the front legs; horses and cows are between the back legs; and pigs and dogs are along the middle. Each is individual to its own kind.
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This stops healthy fertilization between different animal groups. Cows do not mix with horses, nor do cats mix with dogs, nor sheep with goats. If fertilization did happen, within two generations the offspring are sterile. Unnatural mixtures become extinct. DNA only carries instructions it is not the information itself. Which came first - the information or the carrier of the information? Each would be useless without the other so they had to be made together at once. We are not descended from one common ancestor, but from two - one male and one female. If they had evolved wouldnt they need two lines of evolution - not one? How could they match?
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All female eggs have a protective membrane called Zona Pelucida*

All creatures are made of cells

A single cell is more complicated than a computer. It is like a moving, organised and changing machine. Some parts only work if other parts are also there. Cells have proteins, acids, a nucleus and DNA. Each bit is precise in order, job and place. 200 pieces are needed before it can live. It needed a whole outer cover at once. Each cell is organised for a different job. Organization needs outside intelligence. Where did that intelligence come from?

Giraffes are the only land animal normally born back feet first. Their necks wrap around under their body, with their head under their tummy, and their front feet come out last. This stops them hitting their head on the ground. Didnt this have to happen first time?
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Jealousy, loyalty and love - do animals have emotions too?

Ponies pair, and crash through fences if one is taken away. Dogs stay loyal to humans showing sadness if apart. Geese guard each other and, if necessary, fight. Hens have friends and pine if made to part. Which came first babies or parents? Wouldnt a baby on its own die? How could a baby be born unless the parents exist?

If reptiles changed to mammals, why develop young that need more care? What is wrong with a perfectly adequate reptile egg? Why provide milk when baby reptiles can eat by themselves?

Crocodiles get energy from the sun and cannot attack when cold.

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What is the process of natural selection?

It comes from outside - not inside. It removes the weak by no food, by enemies or by bad weather. With no process inside the body how could it have made a limb, a feather, a tooth or an eye?

Mutations are mostly bad. They are like going one step sideways and a hundred back. If one went forward it would be cancelled out by others going back. Because they can not create, how could they have made a limb, a feather, a tooth or an eye?

Arent two gender creatures more complicated than one? If they evolved wouldnt it have taken twice as long? These creatures usually pair and both lay eggs.* How could life go on while supposedly waiting for them to mature?
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Didnt the first parents have to match? If not, how could there have been young? Arent parents rather like a violin and bow different and separate, and useless apart, but when they are put together they can play the most beautiful note? Surely only God, who can see the end from the beginning, could plan two opposite things to instantly fit?

Why evolve male and female before knowing whether they could pair?

Jesus said ...at the beginning the Creator made them male and female...
(Matthew Ch.19 v 4)

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The broken cord is seen hanging over the lambs back soon after birth

Mums muscles had to push first time. The water-sac had to be broken first time. Mum had to clean the babys face first time. If any water is inhaled the baby would drown. The umbilical cord had to break for the first time. Blood each side of the cut cord had to clot first time. Extra blood had to be sent to the lung vessels first time. Then the lungs had to inflate on their own the first time. Lungs breathing in and out had to work the first time. Milk from the mother had to be there the first time. Babies had to know how to suckle the first time. Mum had to protect her baby the first time. It all had to happen together first time, so could not have slowly evolved.

The miracle of the first birth

A puppy soon after birth

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Do science and God mix? Yes

Science is what God has done. It is bigger than materialism. It has a divine spark.

If you want to learn more about God read the beginning of St. Johns Gospel, and Ch. 3 verse 16 where Jesus says: God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life.

To keep you busy What started the first babys breath? What made the first heart begin to beat? Write a poem about, or draw a picture of an animal. Things to do Draw 5 rectangles next to each other with one side always touching another one. Rearrange them, to make 12 different shapes. Draw a chess board - 8 squares by 8 squares. Start on the 2nd box in on the left top-line. Move 2 squares forwards then 1 sideways. Continue to do this, filling the chessboard, until you cannot move anymore. Hint: Fill the corners and outside edge first. 37

The Law - despite local authority guidelines the law allows the teaching of special creation. The U.K. 1988 Education Reform Act, Section 8. 3 tells us that: The agreed syllabus must reflect the fact that the religious traditions in Great Britain are in the main Christian, whilst taking account of the teachings and practices of the other principal religions represented in Great Britain. The European Centre for Law and Justice says: to censor discussion and teaching of creationism would violate the spirit as well as the letters of democracy enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, the Charter on the Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and the UN Convention on the rights of the Child. It also says that censorship would hamper the educational progress of students by restricting their examination of competing scientific ideas and would necessarily violate the freedom of expression, including academic freedom, as well as the right to the free exercise of religion.

The USA Supreme Court said in 1987 (in Edwards v Aguillard): Teaching a variety of scientific theories about the origins of humankind to school children might be validly done with the clear secular intent of enhancing the effectiveness of science instruction.

More material: www.creationresearch.net www.crt.org.uk www.npnvideos.co.uk www.AnswersinGenesis.org www.creation.com www.onesmallspeck.com www.biblicalcreation.org.uk www.Noahsarkzoofarm.co.uk www.csm.org.uk Photos: P 9 (sky) 11 (land), 13 (bananas), Poppy Carter (14 yrs). P 9 (amber), Wikipedia by Mila Zinkiva. P 7, 12, 19, 24, 33, 37, 38, 39 A.Willis atbr76@dsl.pipex.com P 14, 15, 16 Courtesy of NASA - Absolute Earth. P 18 Planet-medien - A. G.www.clipart.com P 11, 20, 23, 26 NPN Videos. Jennet Christie SRN P 25 Monarch caterpillar and chrysalis The author Bill Powers USA. www pixcontroller.com P 36 Life Issues Institute www.lifeissues.org

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* Starred references
P3 Ovocledidin-17 found in chickens ovaries help make the shell. Prof. John Harding, Sheffield. P6 Genesis is divided into 10 accounts. Moses records could be compiled from: - Gods account up to Ch 2 v 4; Adams account up to Ch 5 v 1a; Noahs account up to Ch 6 v 9a; etc. The fourth commandment tells us to keep one day in seven special for God. Exodus Ch 20 v 11 P7 *1 p321 One Small Speck to Man by Dr V Sodera. *2 Such as in cows, elephants and dogs. P9 *1 Amber air bubbles have 30% oxygen compared to 21% now. See: Robert A Burner and Gary Landis of Yale University in Science magazine 18th March 1988. Also see: http//minerals.cr.usgs.gov/gips/na/amber.html. *2 Fossil trees can be seen near Manchester, UK; Yellowstone Park USA; and Gympie, Qld. Australia. *3 Salt is in central Poland, Israel, USA, Canada, India, Australia, Mongolia, Bolivia, and Africa. P13 Some insects see in ultra-violet. P15 *1 Gen.Ch. 1 v 16. *2 The earth spins on its axis at 1,044.75 mph (1,670 km/h), circling the sun at 66,975 mph (107,160 km/h). Both circle our galaxy at 495,000 mph (792,000 km/h). P16 *1 Our moon eclipses the sun every 18 years 11 days. *2 Halleys Comet has been seen every 76 years.*3 Venus rotates on its axis in the opposite way to the earth. Uranus lies on its side. The moons of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune rotate in the opposite way to their planets. P18 Whales are the only sea animal, and giraffes the only land animal normally born tail first. P19 Bird faeces and urine are mixed. P20 *1 Pigeons use powder instead of oil. Penguins oil glands are near the beak.*2 Archaeopteryx feathers are whole, and not a half feather and a half scale. P22 Whartons jelly clots the blood when the umbilical cord breaks. It is nowhere else in the body. P28 Sialic acid on mammal cells is different to that on human cells. P29 Joint oil = synovial fluid. P31 Zona Pelucida used to be called The Genesis Barrier. P34 i.e.: snails and worms. Bible verses: Genesis Ch. 1, 2, 7 and 8; Exodus Ch. 20 v 11 and Ch. 31 v 17; Job Ch. 38; Psalms 33 v 6 and v 9; 102 v 25; Mark Ch.10 v 6; Luke Ch.3 v 38; John Ch 1 v 1 5; 1 Corinthians Ch 15 v 22, 39 and 47; 2 Peter Ch. 3 v 5 and 6; Revelation Ch 5 v 13. Have you enjoyed this booklet? If so why not try: Miracles of Nature. Email: jennet@thewonderofcreation.org.uk or Telephone: +44(0)1256 882 661.

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