This year I read a number of books set against the naturalistic theory of evolution (i.e. origin of species by unguided natural forces). These books highlighted the apparent design and fine-tuning of our universe, the mathematical improbabilities (some mathematicians would call them 'impossibilities') of life originating randomly and then evolving randomly, and a host of other difficulties that the naturalistic theory of evolution has yet to overcome. Most fascinating to me was the static nature of the fossil record: fossil creatures show up fully formed, fully functional, and perfectly designed for their intermediates; 'transitional fossils' are transitional only from a subjective point-of-view. These were great books that highlight the difficulties of our current understanding of evolution, but none of them endorse the 'Answers in Genesis' approach to cosmology. I tend towards Old Earth Creationism or Theistic Evolution (in which 'evolution' is a guided process).
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