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Mr. Johnston confesses that he used to be a believer in Evolution. But reading a book on the subject opened his eyes, and after much study he wrote this present book. He gives both scientific findings and Catholic teaching to show that the theory of Evolution is incompatible with both Catholic teaching and common sense. His reason for studying Evolution, as he quotes one eminent writer, is that "Every attack on the Christian Faith made today has, as its basis, the doctrine of Evolution." Impr. 204 pgs,

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	02 janvier 2001
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781618905192
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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“By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; and all the power of them by the spirit of his mouth: gathering together the waters of the sea, as in a vessel; laying up the depths in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord, and let all the inhabitants of the world be in awe of him. For he spoke and they were made: he commanded and they were created.”
— Psalm 32:6-9
Nihil Obstat: J. A. Clarke, D.D., D.C.L. Censor Deputatus Imprimatur: Francis Rush Archbishop of Brisbane November 23, 1981
Originally published as The Crumbling Theory of Evolution by J. W. G.Johnson (Wallace Johnson) in Australia, 1982. Third printing (updated) in 1987. Published by Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration, Inc., Los Angeles, c. 1986 under the title Evolution? and distributed by TAN. Polish edition (translated by Prof. Maciej Giertych) under the title Na bezdrozach teoriiewolucji (“The Crumbling Theory of Evolution”) published in 1989 by Wydawnictwo Michalineum, Warszawa-Struga. Retypeset and published in 2000 by TAN Books and Publishers, Inc., with permission of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration, under the title The Death of Evolution.
Copyright © 1986 by Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration, Inc., Los Angeles, California.
ISBN 978-0-89555-664-6
Library of Congress Control No.: 00-131563
Printed and bound in the United States of America.
TAN Books Charlotte, North Carolina www.TANBooks.com 2000
CONTENTS
Foreword
1. Why We Must Fight Evolution
Attack and Counter-Attack —Evolution and the “Secular Man”—Scientists counter-attack—Evolution infiltrates Christianity—Marxism, Humanism, Modernism—Compulsory educational system—“Many Adams” (Polygenism) denies Original Sin and then all dogmas—Encyclical: Humani Generis — Teilhard de Chardin’s “Evolution Theology.”
2. The Demise of Darwinism—October, 1980
Darwinism’s long triumph—Chicago Convention 1980—Acknowledged fossil evidence is against Darwinism—Proposed evolution by huge jumps (punctuated equilibria)—Second Law of Thermodynamics—Mutations—The “Hopeful Monster” Theory—Natural Selection—“Gill slits and Tail”—Vestigial organs.
3. The Fossil Record
Rocks begin to be classified by fossils—No transitional fossils—Fossils suddenly appear in Cambrian strata—Dinosaurs—Pterosaurs—“Living fossils”—Latest finds reveal advanced life in Cambrian—Marine plants to land plants (?)—Jerome Lejeune on genetics—The Horse series—Reptile to bird (?) and Archaeopteryx.
4. “Human Evolution”
Evolution penetrates religion with the “ape-men”—Nebraska Man—Neanderthal Man—Piltdown Man—Australopithecines—Zinjanthropus—Homo Habilis—Java Man and Peking Man (Homo Erectus)—Big changes since 1972—Skull 1470—Ramapithecus—Finds at Laetolil: Jawbones, Footprints—Finds at Hadar: Jaws and other bones; the “first family of early man”; “Lucy”—Richard Leakey’s new “tree of man”—Johanson’s turnabout: Afarensis—Another Boisei upsets hominid evolution—are H. Habilis and H. Erectus valid?—The Boy Erectus—Talgai skull and Kow Swamp skeletons—Castenedolo and Calaveras skulls—Gradism vs. Cladism splits evolutionists.
5. Geology and the Deluge
Deluge geology ousted by Uniformitarian geology—Lyell and Darwin in partnership—The Geologic Column—Moving mountains—The Grand Canyon—Polystrate fossils—Coal and oil—Shrunken rivers and inland waters—Mountains submerged—Fossil graveyards.
6. Radioactive Dating
Based on assumptions—Discrepant results—Tested on rocks of known ages—Carbon 14—30,000 C-14 dates—Moon rocks—Dating Zinj and Skull 1470—Footprints in stone.
7. Continental Drift (or Plate Tectonics)
Mid-Atlantic Ridge—Moving plates—Magnetic reversals—Dating sea floor—Some objections to Continental Drift theory—Some evidence against theory— An alternative explanation.
8. Cultural Evolution or Devolution?
World population shows humanity young—Did Stone-Age men stagnate?—Archaeology supports Bible rather than evolution—Civilization did not evolve—Culture degrades with remoteness—Feral children—Human language.
9. Life
Spontaneous generation discredited—The living cell—Life requires total cell—Amino acids and Miller’s experiment—Amino acids are left- and right-handed—Sidney Fox’s proteinoids—Mathematical odds against protein; and against living cell.
10. The Universe and The Earth
Stars and Galaxies: by the “Big Bang” (?) or by Creation (?)—Red shift—Quasars— Polonium Halos: “The Creator’s signature” — The Solar System — Evidence for young earth and young universe — How do stars burn?
11. Out of Nothing
Earth is unique—Theorists “explain”universe without Creator—Apparent age versus real age—Earth, Man and Universe by “FIAT!”
Appendix A: The Church’s Position
Appendix B: The Church and Father Teilhard de Chardin
Appendix C: Feral Children
Appendix D: Addendum to “Human Evolution”—and a Word on Birds
Any Questions? Selected Questions Answered
Some Further Resources
A Collection of Classic Artwork
Favorite Prayers to Our Lady
FOREWORD
I understand sincere evolutionists; I was one. I do not understand those who not only will not listen to counterargument, but would prevent others from listening.
Ten years ago, to humor a friend, I read Father O’Connell’s Science of Today and The Problems of Genesis . My belief in evolution disintegrated, accompanied by anger that a whole counter-argument had been kept from me for so long. At the same time I began to discern evolution’s potential threat to religion. I resolved to equip myself to help others to hear the counter-argument which was being so effectively suppressed.
I studied and lectured and learned. The lecture, “The Case Against Evolution,” grew to a two-hour session, and it was recorded. The recording was converted into a booklet in 1976 by Miss Paula Haigh, who was conducting the Catholic Center For Creation Research in America. To my extreme surprise, the modest printing was well received. It was reprinted in Australia in 1979. Out of that booklet has come this small book. It involved a complete rewriting of the original, and enlarging it with so much additional material that the result is a different book.
With gratitude I acknowledge the personal effort of Miss Haigh, without which the original text would not have seen print. Also, I acknowledge the collaboration of Mr. A.W. Mehlert of Brisbane, who has authored articles in the Creation Research Society Quarterly and the Bible Science Newsletter . His specialized research, especially in the increasingly confused field of “ape-men,” was most helpful. Acknowledged, too, is the help received from the anonymous ones: illustrators, typists, and those who helped bridge the financial gap for publishing costs.
There is now a massive literature by anti-evolution scientists, and it is hoped that this book will provide a digest of their overall case in an easily readable form for lay people—and for experts, too, if interested.
Wallace Johnson
December 1, 1981
Chapter 1
WHY WE MUST FIGHT EVOLUTION
Attack and Counter-Attack
“Every attack on the Christian faith made today has, as its basis, the doctrine of evolution.” (Newman Watts, author of Britain Without God ).
More than a century ago, in England, an Anglican bishop’s wife said: “I do hope that what Mr. Darwin is saying is not true; and if it is, I hope it does not become generally known.”
Today the wheel has turned. Instead of the bishop’s wife, it is now Darwinists who are worried, because creation scientists have shown that evolution is false. The Darwinists, in their turn, are hoping that this does not become generally known. The evolution-biased mass media is ensuring that it does not become known.
The dominance of evolution ideas deadened belief in Divine Creation and supernatural religion. So was born the phenomenon of the 20th-century, the secular man . Well-educated; inured to evolution; often a very decent person; but he never thinks of God.
An atheist, Renan, predicted that the collapse of the supernatural would lead to the collapse of moral convictions. Evolution’s naturalism has ousted supernaturalism, and we can see moral convictions collapsing. The Christian culture is crumbling; and the “Post-Christian era” has begun. That is the final fruit of evolutionism.
In 1859, Professor Sedgwick of Cambridge warned Darwin that, through his evolution ideas, “Humanity would suffer a damage that might brutalize it and sink the human race into a lower state of degradation than any into which it has fallen since its written records tell us of its history.”

In time, the theory of evolution permeated human thought in almost every direction… The ultimate result was exactly what Sedgwick had said it would be, brutalization. The new doctrine very soon began to undermine religion. (Robert E. D. Clark, M.A., Ph.D. in Darwin: Before and After , 1948.)
“All this has in a great measure lead to agnostic and atheistic beliefs of the present day. Perhaps the worst of all is that the minds of the young have been singed by doubt.” (Father D. Murray in Species Revalued , 1935.)

Actually, the work of the evolutionists will be largely responsible for the perilous times which are ahead, for evolution has been a large factor in bringing about the widespread godless philosophy which is characteristic of our time, and which will become worse. (Ex-evolutionist, Bolton Davidheiser, Ph.D. Zoology & Genetics, in Evolution and Christian Faith , 1969).
Almost unchallenged for a century, evolution completely changed world thinking and caused havoc in religion. Yet, the counter-attack which has begun is not by religious writers, but by scientists. The Evolution Protest Movement was founded by a few eminent scientists in England in 1932. It has produced a continuity of sound literature against evolution. The Creation Research Society began in 1963 in the U.S.A. with 10 scientists. It has grown rapidly to over 650 scientists who must hold at least a Master’s Degree in Science. These 650 scientists are pledged against evolution and for the Biblical a