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“For evolution to be true, there would have been innumerable transitional forms between different types of creatures. Therefore, for every known fossil species, many more must have existed to connect it to its ancestors and descendents [sic]. This is yet another example of evolutionary conclusions coming before the evidence. Really, the claim is an implicit admission that large numbers of transitional forms are predicted, which heightens the difficulty for evolutionists, given how few there are that even they could begin to claim were candidates. . . .

Evolutionists believe that mutation provides new information for selection. But no known mutation has ever increased genetic information, although there should be many examples observable today if mutation/selection were truly adequate to explain the goo-to-you theory. . . .

Adaptation and natural selection are biological facts; amoeba-to-man evolution is not. Natural selection can only work on the genetic information present in a population of organisms--it cannot create new information. For example, since no known reptiles have genes for feathers, no amount of selection will produce a feathered reptile. Mutations in genes can only modify or eliminate existing structures, not create new ones. If in a certain environment a lizard survives better with smaller legs, or no legs, then varieties with this trait will be selected for. This might more accurately be called devolution, not evolution. . . .

Note that even if such a mutation were ever discovered, evolutionists would still need to find hundreds more to give their theory the observational boost it desperately needs.”
― Jonathan Sarfati, Refuting Evolution 2

“Population genetics calculations suggest that in 5 million years (one million years longer than the alleged time between Ambulocetus and Rodhocetus), animals with generation lines of about ten years (typical of whales) could substitute no more than about 1,700 mutations.6 This is not nearly enough to generate the new information that whales need for aquatic life, even assuming that all the hypothetical information-adding mutations required for this could somehow arise. (And as shown in chapter 9, real science shows that this cannot occur.)”
― Jonathan Sarfati, Refuting Evolution: A Response to the National Academy of Science s' Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science

“Certainly, bārā’ is only ever used of God, but is not restricted to creatio ex nihilo. And ‘āsāh is sometimes used to mean ‘create ex nihilo’.”
― Jonathan Sarfati, The Genesis Account - A theological, historical, and scientific commentary on Genesis 1-11

“Jesus Christ is the Truth; and if He affirmed the literal creation of the world in six normal-length days, we Christians should do the same. If however we compromise and try”
― Jonathan Sarfati, Busting Myths: 30 Ph.D. scientists who believe the Bible and its account of origins

“The toledot of the heavens and earth (Genesis 2:4–4:26) starts with the high point of the creation of man and woman, and the ordination of marriage. But not too long after that, the First Couple, Adam and Eve, sinned, and brought death into the world.”
― Jonathan Sarfati, The Genesis Account - A theological, historical, and scientific commentary on Genesis 1-11

“All billions-of-years views place death before sin. It’s hard to overstate the importance of this. These views teach that almost as soon as living things arose, they also died. However, the first recorded death of a biblically living creature (Hebrew nephesh chayyāh64) occurred after Adam and Eve sinned, when”
― Jonathan Sarfati, The Genesis Account - A theological, historical, and scientific commentary on Genesis 1-11

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9).”
― Jonathan Sarfati, The Genesis Account - A theological, historical, and scientific commentary on Genesis 1-11

“But this light of Genesis 1:3, while not God, was still unique. It wasn’t sourced in the sun or stars—they wouldn’t be created until Day 4 (see Ch. 8). Fruchtenbaum plausibly argues that the source of this physical light was probably the Shekinah Glory.”
― Jonathan Sarfati, The Genesis Account - A theological, historical, and scientific commentary on Genesis 1-11

“the purpose of Genesis was to refute pagan beliefs involving worship of the sun, other luminaries, or pagan deities. In other words, Genesis is allegedly teaching us not to worship the sun but our true God who made the sun. (As”
― Jonathan Sarfati, The Genesis Account - A theological, historical, and scientific commentary on Genesis 1-11