Introduction
The purpose of this site is to provide scientifically objective information and analyses of Creation Science and Evolution that you probably will not find else where, to analyze other scientists’ ideas and theories, and propose my own hypotheses and scientific predictions. This site will cover molecular biology, medicine, physics, astronomy, geology, fossils, historic documentation, a general analysis of evolution, a scientific analysis of the Bible, a scientific analysis of the flood, and analyses of other hypotheses and theories. I will try to use common language as much as possible so that students of high school or lower who have had little science will be able to follow the text and concepts. History teaches us that intellectual growth comes from questioning common knowledge and accepted ideas. Failing to do so, causes intellectual stagnation.
My personal attitude concerning my 35 year search for the truth about the existence of a being like God was very practical. If he exists, I want to know it. If he does not exist, I want to know it. To convince myself of either his existence or non existence when it is not true simply because I want to believe such is not logical, rational, or scientific. I wanted to know the truth. The last thing I wanted was to find myself standing before such a being in judgment and facing my eternal destiny saying,”Oops!”
Perspective
The biggest mistake we make in considering the existence of God is that we tend to transfer our abilities and inabilities to others. It only seems natural for man to believe that,”If I cannot do something, then neither can anyone else.” Of course this is not true and the evidence against this rational is all around us. First, there are people who can do many things that anyone of us cannot do because none of us can do everything. Second, there are many animals which can do things that man cannot do. Birds flap their “arms” and fly, fish breath under water, and the cheetah can run at more than 60 miles per hour. And all of these animals are considered to be inferior to man. Shouldn’t a superior being be able to do many more things that man cannot do? Of course.
Next, science has taught me that, scientifically and technologically, what we cannot do today does not have to be what we cannot do tomorrow. We take for granted what people could not even dream of just 40 to 50 years ago. Where will we be 40 to 50 years from now? And because we cannot do something now, does that mean that another being cannot do it now or could not do it in the past? Of course not.
We also tend to believe that God cannot exist because we cannot comprehend the totality of his existence. This is in spite of the fact that science has classified more unknowable to man than man knows. Because the earthworm cannot comprehend the totality of man’s existence, does that mean that we don’t exist? Of course not. Therefore, to find the truth, we must open our minds.
Objectivity
Objectivity is the first and most important requirement for science. We must be open minded to permit the scientific evidence to tell us what is true. This means that we must objectively consider all possibilities in relation to the evidence. To believe what we want to believe regardless or in spite of the evidence is not objective and cannot be science. It can only be religion. To refuse to objectively consider a concept in relation to the evidence because it is not what we want to believe is an act of religion, not science.
I believe so firmly in objectivity and questioning everything believed by myself and others, that I used to teach my high school science students to question everything and everyone, including me. In one class, I had four students take that as a challenge and they spent the full year trying to trip me up. This was great because they had to pay attention and study, we had really great discussions, they really learned to use science to analyze everything, and they kept me on my toes. The most important thing was that my students learned to think for themselves and not just let me spoon feed them.
I also regularly rewarded my classes with what I called free lectures where they could ask me anything about what THEY wanted to know and I would lecture on it. This was done to make science more personal and fun for my students. It really worked.
Now it is my turn. I plan to use this sight to question long standing and accepted theories and shake your tree in hopes that you will re think what you have been taught and believe. I hope you fall out of at least one of these trees. Who knows, maybe you’ll realize something you have been looking at but not seeing. You might learn something. If nothing else, I hope we re learn to question existing ideas and think for ourselves.
Macro Picture
One of the problems in science concerning the creation/evolution debate, is that most scientists spend all of their time engrossed in their micro part of the science macro picture so that they only see the problems evolution has in their field. These scientists don’t realize that evolution has problems in all scientific fields. Most of them tend to believe that evolution works just fine in every field of science except theirs. One of my goals is to use my broad knowledge of science to make this scientific macro picture easily available to everyone.
Note
The site begins with a scientific feasibility analysis of the creation of life using molecular biology and physics followed by a probabilities analysis of a superior being existing based on a scientific analysis of the Torah or first five books of the Bible which promises to be controversial and interesting. I intend to be honest and frank and will, therefore, step on some toes. You have been warned. If you don’t like the site, don’t read it. Every thing contained in this site is the personal opinion of Carl Cantrell. This site WILL cause you to think. Be warned: I enjoy using dry humor to make points and keep the text interesting.
Hypotheses
For those of you who don’t know, especially the younger people, hypothesis is singular and hypotheses is plural and is pronounced hi-poth-e-seeze. A hypothesis is an idea which has not been tested. When a hypothesis is tested and proven correct, it becomes a theory.
I have pointed out in the past that at least a few of the hypotheses I have written on this site have been tested and proven to be theories. This is important because most scientists and others with Ph.D.s won’t write one hypothesis in their life time which will be tested and confirmed as a theory. Very few write two or more hypotheses which are tested and confirmed to be theories and, on this site, I already have several confirmed theories.
I have been thinking about this for some time wondering just how many hypotheses I have on this site and how many have been confirmed as theories because I just write them and post them, I don’t count them. I have realized that I have written hypotheses about almost every field of study there is and this site is a time bomb waiting to go off in progressive faces when those hypotheses start being tested and confirmed in significant numbers.
Conservatively estimating, there are probably more than 50 hypotheses posted on this site by me about just about everything and there could easily be more than 100. If my hypotheses ever start being tested and confirmed in mass, a lot of liberal heads are going to explode. On this site, I have already disproved almost everything they believe and don’t worry, I am sure I will eventually get to the rest of it.
Truly, God has blessed me and used me to teach the truth.
If you know of any of my hypotheses which have been tested and confirmed as theories, please let me know, tell me which essay it was posted in and when, and provide me with information about the testing and confirmation so I can post it and people will know that what I teach is the truth. My e-mail link is at the bottom. Thank you.