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CONTROVERSIAL RELIGION AND SCIENCE WRITER
by Babu G. Ranganathan*
Greetings. I am a recognized religion and science writer. Some of my writings are quite controversial. I would appreciate you kindly reading and sharing any of my articles below. I have been recognized for my writings in the 24th edition of Marquis “Who’s Who in The East.” Thanking you much for any assistance.
TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE OF HELL EVOLVED FROM GREEK ROOTS Although I am a conservative Christian (Reformed Baptist), I no longer believe that the Bible teaches or supports the traditional doctrine of hell with its teaching of eternal torment or suffering. The Bible does teach eternal punishment, but it’s not eternal torment. Scripture teaches that God’s wrath is not an end in itself but a means to an end. In my popular Internet article, TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE OF HELL EVOLVED FROM GREEK ROOTS, I explain how and why teaching of eternal torment entered early into Christianity and how Scripture passages have been misinterpreted and taken out of context to support that teaching. Read the WHOLE article before you judge. There have been good Christian men through the centuries who have held to this view including Isaac Watts, author of the classic Christian hymn “When I Survey The Wondrous Cross.” You may access the article here: http://bgrnathan.blogspot.com/2010/04/traditional-doctrine-of-hell-has-greek_03.html
NATURAL LIMITS TO EVOLUTION: Only micro-evolution, or evolution within biological “kinds,” is genetically possible (such as the varieties of dogs, cats, horses, cows, etc.), but not macro-evolution, or evolution across biological “kinds,” (such as from sea sponge to human). All real evolution in nature is simply the expression, over time, of already existing genes or variations of already existing genes. For example, we have breeds of dogs today that we didn’t have a few hundred years ago. The genes for these breeds had always existed in the dog population but never had opportunity before to be expressed. Only limited evolution or adaptation, variations of already existing genes and traits, is possible.
People often ask how all the different races could have descended from Adam and Eve. But, in principle this is no different than asking how children with different color hair can come from the same parents who both have black hair. Just as some couples today carry the genes to produce children with different color hair, so too Adam and Eve, our first parents, carried the genes to produce all the varieties and “races” of people. You and I today may not possess the genes for producing various races, but Adam and Eve did possess such genes. Everyone knows that you can get a pure breed from a mutt, but you can’t get a mutt from a pure breed. A mutt carries genes to produce pure races. Adam and Eve, our first parents, were mutts!
The genes (chemical instructions or code) must first exist or otherwise the evolution cannot occur. Genes instruct the body to build our tissues and organs. Nature is mindless and has no ability to design and program entirely new genes for entirely new traits. Nature can only work with the genetic ability already existing in species. Nature cannot perform the genetic engineering necessary to increase that genetic ability.
What about natural selection? Natural selection itself does not produce biological traits and variations. It can only “select” from biological variations that are possible and which have survival value. The real issue is what biological variations are possible, not natural selection. If a beneficial variation occurs (i.e. change in color of fur or hair) that helps a species to survive then that survival is referred to as being “selected.” The term “natural selection” is simply another way of saying “survival of the fittest.” Evolutionists depend on random (chance) genetic mutations over supposedly millions of years to produce the right changes for natural selection to use.
Dr. Randy J. Guliuzza’s extensive research points to a better explanation than natural selection for variation and adaptation in nature. Dr. Guliuzza explains that species have pre-engineered mechanisms that enable organisms to continuously track and respond to environmental changes with system elements that correspond to human-designed tracking systems. This model is called CET (continuous environmental tracking). His research strongly indicates that living things have been pre-engineered to produce the right adaptations and changes required to live in changing environments. It’s much like a car that’s been pre-engineered so that the head lights turn on automatically when day changes to night.
How could species have even survived if their vital tissues, organs, reproductive systems, etc. were still evolving? A partially evolved trait or organ that is not complete, fully integrated with other functions of the body, and fully functioning from the start would be a liability to a species, not a survival asset. Plants and animals in the process of macro-evolution would be unfit for survival. For example, “if a leg of a reptile were to evolve (over supposedly millions of years) into a wing of a bird, it would become a bad leg long before it became a good wing” (Dr. Walt Brown, scientist and creationist). Survival of the fittest (aka natural selection) actually would have prevented evolution across biological kinds! Read my Internet article: WAR AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS!
Many people have wrong ideas of how evolution is supposed to work. Physical traits and characteristics are determined and passed on by genes — not by what happens to our body parts. For example, if a woman were to lose her finger this wouldn’t affect how many fingers her baby will have. Changing the color and texture of your hair will not affect the color and texture of your children’s hair. So, even if an ape’s muscles and bones changed so that it could walk upright it still would not be able to pass on this trait to its offspring. Only changes or mutations that occur in the genetic code of reproductive cells (i.e. sperm and egg) can be passed on to offspring.
What about the new science of epigenetics? Epigenetics involves inheritable environmental factors that can turn the genes (in our DNA) on or off, but epigenetics does not alter or change the DNA code itself. Epigenetics cannot produce evolutionary change.
Modern evolutionists believe and hope that over, supposedly, millions of years, random genetic mutations in the genes of reproductive cells caused by environmental radiation will generate entirely new genes. This is total blind and irrational faith on the part of evolutionists. It’s much like believing that randomly changing the sequence of letters in a romance novel, over millions of years, will turn it into a book on astronomy! That’s the kind of blind faith macro-evolutionists have.
When evolutionary scientists teach that random genetic mutations in species over, supposedly, millions of years caused by random environmental agents such as radiation, produced entirely new genes (i.e. genetic code or genetic information) leading to entirely new forms of life, they are not teaching science but simply a faith, a belief!
Some evolutionists teach that evolution occurred across biological kinds suddenly due to massive environmental radiation so that, for example, a reptile suddenly changed into a bird. This, too, is nothing more than blind faith.
What about “junk” DNA? It isn’t junk, after all. It’s because of our ignorance that we called these segments of DNA junk. Now, we know that these so-called “non-coding” segments of DNA to be vital in regulating gene expression (i.e. when, where, and how genes are expressed, so they’re not “junk”). Read my popular Internet article: HOW FORENSIC SCIENCE REFUTES ATHEISM: https://english.pravda.ru/science/120027-science_atheism/
Read the interesting article by creationist and scientist Dr. Jeffrey P. Tomkins, VIRAL GENOME JUNK HITS TRASH (http://www.icr.org/article/9253)
Mutations are accidents in the genetic, are mostly harmful, and have no capability of producing greater complexity in the code. Even if a good accident occurred, for every good one there would be hundreds of harmful ones with the net result, over time, being harmful, even lethal, to the species. At best, mutations only produce further variations within a natural species. Even so, mutations are not the best explanation for variations within a natural species.
Since it is not rational to believe that genetic information, or any form of information, can arise by chance, it is totally rational to believe that God (the Supreme Genetic Engineer) placed within all natural species, in the beginning, with all of the recessive and dominant genes that produced all of the intra-species variations in nature.
If life on earth had really existed for millions of years, all species would have become extinct by now due to the colossal number of accumulated mutations over time (Please read the author’s popular Internet article, ARE FOSSILS REALLY MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD? http://bgrnathan.blogspot.com/2010/04/are-fossils-really-millions-years-old.html).
All species of plants and animals in the fossil record are found complete, fully-formed, and fully functional. This is powerful evidence that species did not come into existence gradually by any macro-evolutionary process but, rather, came into existence as complete and ready-to-go from the very beginning, which is possible only by special creation.
All the fossils that have been used to support human evolution have been found to be either hoaxes, non-human, or human, but not non-human and human (i.e. Neanderthal Man was discovered later to be fully human). Textbooks and museums still continue to display examples and illustrations supporting human evolution which most evolutionists have rejected and no longer support. Many diagrams of ape-man creatures over the years were reconstructed according to evolutionary interpretations from disputable bones that have now been discredited but still being taught in school textbooks.
There has never been unanimous agreement among evolutionary scientists on ANY fossil evidence that has been used to support human evolution over the many years, including LUCY.
What about genetic and biological similarities between species? Genetic information, like other forms of information, cannot happen by chance, so it is more logical to believe that genetic and biological similarities between all forms of life are due to a common Designer who designed similar functions for similar purposes. It doesn’t mean all forms of life are biologically related! Only genetic similarities within a natural species proves relationship because it’s only within a natural species that members can interbreed and reproduce.
What about the chimp-human DNA similarity? The actual similarity is between 70–87% not 99.8% as commonly believed. The original research stating 99.8% similarity was based on ignoring contradicting evidence. Only a certain segment of DNA between apes and humans was compared, not the entire DNA genome. Read the article, “Evaluating the Human-Chimp DNA Myth — New Research Data” at the Institute for Creation Research site. Whatever similarities exist are better explained due to a common Designer Who designed similar functions for similar purposes, rather than chance common ancestry. Read my Internet article: WAR AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS!
DID GOD USE EVOLUTION? The Christian Scriptures teach that God began with a perfect creation where even all the animals (including) birds were vegetarian (Genesis 1:29–30). This perfect creation became imperfect with suffering and death because of man’s sin. Evolution doesn’t begin with a perfect world or with all animals being vegetarian and co-existing peacefully.
Furthermore, God says ten times in Genesis 1 that all living things must reproduce after their own kind. This implies that there are natural limits and barriers to variations in all forms of life.
So, the answer is God did not use evolution in creating life on earth.
WHAT IS SCIENCE? Science simply is knowledge based on observation. No one observed the universe coming by chance or by design, by creation or by evolution. These are positions of faith. The issue is which faith the scientific evidence best supports. Natural laws may explain how an airplane or living cell works, but it’s irrational to believe that mere undirected natural laws can bring about either. Once you have a complete and living cell then the genetic code and mechanisms exist to direct the formation of more cells, but how did the cell originate when no directing code and mechanisms existed in nature? Just because something exists in nature doesn’t mean that Nature invented it. For example, if all the chemicals that make-up an earthworm were scattered and left to themselves, “Mother Nature” would have no ability to re-organize them into a worm again. It takes an already existing worm to bring about another worm. It takes an already existing cell to bring about another cell. The worm and cell exist and reproduces in nature but Nature didn’t design or invent them. All of the founders of modern science believed in God.
EXPLAINING HOW AN AIRPLANE WORKS doesn’t mean no one made the airplane. Explaining how life or the universe works doesn’t mean there was no Maker behind them. Natural laws may explain how the order in the universe works, but mere undirected natural laws can’t explain the origin of that order. Again, once you have a complete, living cell then the genetic code/mechanisms exist to direct the formation of more cells, but the problem for atheists is how did the cell naturally originate when no directing code/mechanisms existed in nature? Read my Internet article: HOW FORENSIC SCIENCE REFUTES ATHEISM
SCIENCE SHOWS THE UNIVERSE CANNOT BE ETERNAL because it could not have sustained itself eternally due to the law of entropy (increasing net energy decay, even in an open system). Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity confirms that space, matter, and time all had a beginning. Even time had a beginning! Time is not eternal. Popular evolutionary scientist Stephen Hawking admits that the universe came from nothing but he believes that nothing became something by a natural process yet to be discovered. That’s not rational thinking at all, and it also would be making the effect greater than its cause to say that nothing created something. The beginning had to be of supernatural origin because natural laws and processes do not have the ability to bring something into existence from nothing. The supernatural cannot be proved by science but science points to a supernatural intelligence for the origin and order of the universe.
Where did God come from? Obviously, unlike the universe, God’s nature does not require a beginning.
MIT scientist and creationist, Dr. Walt Brown, has written the most fantastic book ever on creation vs. evolution: “In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood”. You can read the entire book online at https://www.creationscience.com/. The physical book is also available at: https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Compelling-Evidence-Creation-Flood/dp/1878026089. Read this book!
Visit the Institute for Creation Research at www.icr.org to read articles written by scientists who are creationist.
Some other articles and sites by the author:
THE SCIENCE SUPPORTING CREATION: http://creationismnow.blogspot.com/
How Did My DNA Make Me? http://bgrnathan.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-did-my-dna-make-me.html
FISH DNA DOESN’T SUPPORT EVOLUTION OF LIMBS: http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/18-04-2013/124328-evolution_limbs_fish-0/
TALES OF FISH LEGS AND DINOSAUR FEATHERS: http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/08-05-2013/124517-dinosaur_feathers-0/
DOES ‘GOD PARTICLE’ EXPLAIN UNIVERSE’S ORIGIN? http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/03-08-2012/121838-universe_origin-0/
RATIONAL CHRISTIAN ANSWER TO AYN RAND: http://bgrnathan.blogspot.com/2010/04/rational-christian-answer-to-ayn-rand.html
THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL http://bgrnathan.blogspot.com/2010/04/christian-gospel.html
THE NEW TESTAMENT RESPONSE TO HOMOSEXUALS: http://bgrnathan.blogspot.com/2010/04/christian-response-to-homosexuals.html
WILL CHRISTIANS ENJOY SEX IN HEAVEN? https://medium.com/@babugranganathan/by-babu-g-ranganathan-8994707a8b5e
SOCIETY’S RIGHTS VS. CAPITALISM’S RIGHTS: http://bgrnathan.blogspot.com/2010/04/society-rights-vs-corporations.html
THE FAR LEFT AND RIGHT OF THINGS: http://www.ignitepoint.com/?articleid=697524
THE RACIST GERMAN SHEPHERD AND THE BULLDOG http://bgrnathan.blogspot.com/2010/04/racist-german-shepherd-and-bull-dog.html
CHEMOTHERAPY SUCCESS WITH ALOE VERA! http://bgrnathan.blogspot.com/2010/04/chemotherapy-success-with-aloe-vera.html
ARE FOSSILS REALLY MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD? http://bgrnathan.blogspot.com/2010/04/are-fossils-really-millions-years-old.html
ANY LIFE ON MARS CAME FROM EARTH! http://bgrnathan.blogspot.com/2010/04/any-life-on-mars-came-from-earth.html
NO HALF-EVOLVED DINOSAURS http://bgrnathan.blogspot.com/2010/04/where-are-all-half-evolved-dinosaurs.html
*The author, Babu G. Ranganathan, has his bachelor’s degree with concentrations in theology and biology from Bob Jones University (the author does not endorse or support everything about the University). Mr. Ranganathan has been recognized for his writings on religion and science in the 24th edition of Marquis “Who’s Who in The East”. The author has given successful lectures defending creation from science before evolutionist science faculty and students at various colleges and universities. He also has completed two years of full-time graduate study in law at Western New England University School of Law in Springfield, Massachusetts. The author’s articles may be accessed at bgrnathan.blogspot.com.
