By the time the average child has completed the school system and by the time the average undergraduate has completed college or university he feels himself sure of the following five "scientific" facts: 1) The universe and the earth are billions of years old, which is the time required for inorganic material to be transformed spontaneously into living biological material and the time required by the primeval cell to evolve spontaneously and by natural selection up to homo sapiens sapiens. Not only the schools, colleges ands universities are full of this "information" but also magazines life "The National Geographic" can scarcely write a paragraph without citing this sort of 'information', directly or indirectly, as scientific fact. 2) The evolution of life from non-life and the evolution of the primeval amoeba-like cell up to homo sapiens has allegedly taken millions of years too. Chance mutations followed by natural selection are a slow process... 3) There is no longer any need to believe in a designer to account for the manifest design in biology. Mutation followed by natural selection will produce results which look like design, without the presence of any intelligence behind the design so produced - although they both need long time periods to achieve the result. 4) The majority of great scientists who were convinced Christians in the past and believed the biblical creation report and time table, were so because the science they knew about was lacking in maturity. That is, in plain language they were Christians because they did not know the whole truth that modern science has allegedly taught us. 5) Really advanced science would deny the need for believing in any personal intelligent Creator. The following treatise examines in detail the above five points in the next five chapters. It shows not one of the concepts is founded on science carried out according to the well known rules of scientific procedure in the laboratory today. --- excerpt from book's Preface
