Guest Author - Diana Pederson

Creation vs. Evolution is a video discussion of Creationism versus Evolution. It claims to be discussing these theories in a language suitable to a broad audience. Those wishing a more indepth study will find it in the appendices. This tape will take 90 minutes to play. An additional 45 minutes of discussion is available for those who want to explore further.

Ralph O. Muncaster. Creation vs. Evolution. Harvest House Publishers.
There are 10 sections to this tape:

1. Definition of Terms
   
2. Probability Analysis
   
3. Microbiology
   
4. Science of Observation
   
5. Cosmology
   
6. Physics
   
7. Why Consider the Bible
   
8. Young Earth/Old Earth Debate
   
9. Implications
   
10. Appendices: Naturalist Presupposition, Amino Acids/DNA Assembly, and Analysis of Chaos Theory.
    

In the first section we learn that there are two kinds of evolution: microevolution that is change within a species; macroevolution is changing from one species to another species. In microevolution, the genes for the changes already exist in each species; this results in different hair colors, eye colors, etc. Macroevolution claims that one cell was the origin of all species.

Muncaster goes through a history of famous scientists who supported the Bible. He says the change didn’t happen until Darwin wrote his book, The Origin of Species and The Higher Criticism of the Bible that challenged the truth of the scriptures. Archaelogy was a new field and they simply didn’t have the information now available to us.

Two battles emerged: Christians vs. Science and Christians vs. Christians. One group of Christians believed the earth was young, approximately 10,000 years old. The other group believes the earth is millions of years old. In 1925, scientists didn’t realize that the universe had a definite beginning like they do today.

The next 7 sections discuss each theory of how the earth came into being via their respective scientific discipline.

The 9th section goes through the reasons we believe the Bible’s account. One of the most significant is the prophecies that have come true hundreds of years after they were made. The Bible also gives scientific insights that weren’t understood until modern science. One of these insights is the Bible’s description of creation itself. All the other scientific facts have been shown to be true. Why shouldn’t we believe the creationist theory if all the other ideas proved true.

Ralph O. Muncaster. Creation vs. Evolution. Harvest House Publishers.

Recommendation

I like the way this tape is set up. It would provide an useful video for High School level Sunday School classes. Muncaster shows himself to be an excellent teacher—capable of explaining the basic theories presented by the different scientific disciplines.