Organisms don't improve by changing incrementally over thousands of years. They are complex and need all their distinct features to survive, even the smallest insects. It is called irreducible complexity.

DNA can't produce new kinds. Neither can natural selection. It can help an organism adapt to an environment but not add to the organism. Mutations detract from an organism; they don't improve it. They weaken it or kill it.

The fossil record, despite its enormity, shows no transitional forms, and some of the supposed earliest forms of evolution show up at the top of fossil deposits instead of only at the bottom. Besides, they were most likely caused by a catastrophic event, like Noah's flood.

Darwinian evolution needs billions of years for it to work. But it turns out that evolution can't work the way Darwin imagined. Fossils, DNA, natural selection, and mutations actually all disprove it.

In the last 6000 years writing and reading have evolved quite extensively, but before then we have no written records. Why is that? Could time have only started 6000 years or so ago?

Which makes more sense? God creating everything already intact or a single cell that happened to have DNA, RNA, and proteins, etc., that over millions of years produced plants, insects, reptiles, fish, birds, animals, and human beings?

Many scientist now reject the Big Bang. Even Stephen Hawking, one of the originators of the Big Bang, later rejected it. The "singularity" that has replaced the Bang still doesn't explain Nothing, chance, and the complex universe.

Did God create the universe in 6 days, or by chance did Nothing produce a great explosion that caused the vast cosmos of stars and planets, including earth?

If you put together the amazing, complex, well-designed life on earth, the presence of miracles and the supernatural, the truth of the Bible, the resurrection of Jesus, and the transformed lives of Christian believers, you have only one explanation--the existence of God.

If there is no God, how can so many people's lives be totally transformed by belief in Jesus, even alcoholics, drug addicts, and criminals? At age 15 I was an ordinary boy when I went forward and accepted Christ. I had a spiritual high for two days, and my life was forever changed.

The New Testament tells the story of Jesus, the son of God, whose resurrection inspired witnesses to tell his story, resulting in millions of followers all over the world for 2000 years. If Jesus hadn't risen from the dead, there would be no Christianity today.

The Bible is a remarkable book with one message--God--despite the variety of authors from different time periods. It is also the ancient book with far more extant copies than other ancient works that are close to the time of the original writings. It has stood up to 2000 years of scholarship.

Doesn't the existence of the supernatural prove God? I'm not talking about all the ghosts and poltergeists but the numerous accounts of miracles, healings, visions, voices of "God.," and "angel" appearances. Even UFOs and aliens may actually be demonic.

The scientific anthropic principle has at least 128 ways the world has been fine-tuned to allow for life--the size and distance of the sun and moon, the electromagnetic field, the amount of helium, oxygen, nitrogen, etc. If any were slightly different, there would be no life. God did it.

Is there a God? If not, why is the world so complex, diverse, so seemingly designed? "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." (Rom 1:20NIV)

Doug Olsen, Presbyterian, conservative in my faith, liberal in my politics, open-minded toward individuals. Taught high school and college English for 40+ year. Retired, married. Author of www.amazon.com/Twelve-Pilla...