There are a lot of young people in schools who see representations such as this in textbooks:
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We have a lot of pretty pictures in the textbooks and lots of fossils, being used to discourage, raise doubts, and destroy the faith of Christians, young and old as well as indoctrinating the public at large with the religion of evolution. It's everywhere!
However, the pretty pictures and fossils are just that: select pictures presented in a progression that favor and give apparent transition from one creature to another, based on where they find these creatures in the fossil record, i.e. "geologic column."
These pictures present natural selection as a "forward thinking" entity, "selecting future function instead of actual function", causing changes with an intended goal in mind; as opposed to the random, independent changes that natural selection is supposedly to be.
The only science here however, is that yes, there are fossils of these creatures, but that is as far as it goes. Everything else is conjecture, but not bona fide science. Transition from one creature to another cannot be verified or falsified, because it is based on interpretation and worldviews. That is, evolutionists look at the bones and say, "something is changing into something else"; while creationists look at the bones and and say, "something died."
I would like to invite Christian forum members more eloquent than I to provide encouraging remarks that might help Christians, young or old, as well as others who may be seeking answers, understand the fallacy of evolutionism as it relates to these images.
