Attacking Evolution #1B

A Letter Exchange with Von's Substack

[Note: This post is intended to be a letter exchange with Von who writes at

Von’s Substack

This is the first letter exchange from Creation Reformation, so we ask your patience if we did not do it right :)]

Recently Von at

Von’s Substack

requested a letter exchange on the topic of “How to Attack Evolution” or, in its long form, “What is the best way to attack evolution in our modern age?" We appreciate the offer and this is our first letter in answer to the question posed.

We would pose the question slightly differently, but for the same goal. We would pose the question as, “What is the best evidence to present to challenge evolution in our modern age?” Our discussion below answers Von’s questions with our slightly different wording in mind.

We present our alternative question because the best answer to “What is the best way to attack evolution in our modern age” is “with evidence.” By “evidence” is meant natural, material evidence found on earth. Origins science is a historical science, like archeology, forensics science, paleontology, etc. For any historical science the questions can be answered only by considering the best logical inferences from the material evidence.

Before we get to our answer, we must recognize something counter-intuitive, but essential to “attacking” evolution: It is not about the evidence. It is about the logical inferences one is permitted to make from the evidence. In a world where methodological naturalism rules the scientific roost, all evidence will be viewed one way, even if it means pounding square pegs in round holes.

Consider this: how much evidence would it take to convince an atheist that God created the world? The answer is there is no amount of evidence. An atheist does not have a category for a creator God, so it is impossible for an atheist to be convinced that God created human beings. It is not that an atheist will not be convinced by evidence, but he cannot. An atheist’s adopted philosophy of nature (e.g., worldview) does not permit any inference of a living God from material evidence.

And even those who nominally allow for the possibility of a God may resist logical inferences from the evidence for a different reason: They don’t like the God of the Bible, and he is the only viable creator God around. We have written in our book, Without Excuse: Evidence for Creation by God, the following: But for the Bible, everyone would be a creationist. Why? Because the evidence for an intelligent creator is overwhelming. There is absolutely no question that the evidence on earth provides a logical inference of intelligent design. But many people reject the evidence, not on logical grounds, but because they don’t like the God of the Bible, again, the only creator around.

In a world in which people can objectively consider material evidence on earth and freely make logical inferences, the DNA molecule is the best evidence against the natural processes of evolution. Put bluntly, there is no natural force, law, or cause in nature that can produce the hardware of the DNA molecule and the software of its coded building instructions.

Not only must evolutionists come up with a rational explanation for the very first replicating hardware/software on earth, but they must also explain how that first software was reprogrammed over and over and over to become even more complex software. The question boils down to Did Nature Learn to Code? We have written on this topic here and here.

The co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, Francis Crick, considering this hardware and software that resides in every cell of our bodies, theorized that the first DNA molecules were sent to earth on rockets from another civilization in space. That illustrates the problem evolutionists have with this piece of evidence. There is no natural explanation. Period.

Evolutionists may, in reply, indicate that there is no natural explanation yet. Fair enough, but we live in the here and now, and our scientific knowledge of causes and effects is very well developed. We know where codes come from. Codes always come from the mind of an intelligent being. Always.

What about the code in our cells?

Wrestling with this question is the best attack against evolution today.