Creation Essay 7 7. History, Science and the Facts History is a chronological record of past events. It is based on the testimony of human observers of the actual events, preserved in various forms, such as books, articles, letters, diaries, birth certificates, obituaries, business and government documents, etc.
Evolutionary theory proposes a history of life on the earth for which there is no human testimony.
These data have over the past two centuries been interpreted to tell a story of the gradual change of living organisms from simple to complex, from cells to scientists, during some billions of years. No humans observed evolution taking place in the past, and they cannot reproduce evolution in the present. They should show numerous complete sequences of intermediate fossil types leading from, say, scaly reptile to feathered bird, or from invertebrate worm to backboned fish. Such sequences of fossil forms documenting the process of evolution change should be found systematically in the fossil record, connecting all of the different kinds of plants and animals, all the way from amoeba to man. Some of these sequences would be expected to be missing because by chance the fossils were not formed, preserved, or found.