An air of anticipation hovered over Villa Park High School like a soaring hawk ready to pounce. The OK Corral was a trip to Dairy Queen in comparison to the shoot out that was likely to occur.

You see, I had been invited to teach two Bible Studies at Villa Park on consecutive Thursdays. When I get this opportunity I always tell them at the beginning of the first session that during the first week I will simply give a Creation vs. Evolution lesson, and during the second week I will take questions and provide answers.

At high school Bible Studies you only get about 15 minutes to speak. During week 1, I made the following points:

a) No one would believe a pen is the result of time and chance. The pen is designed, and likewise your eye is designed;

b) Evolutionists believe blue whales have bacteria as their ancestors. Creationists believe bacteria can only produce bacteria (evolution has a theory, but creation has genetics);

c) The most important part of science is observation…what do we observe? Bacteria making bacteria and nothing else;

d) Evolution has blind faith in TIME…given enough time a brain can pop up at the end of nerve chord;

e) Evolution means change; traits of a population change, but the animals do not change into new animals;

f) I added that when I was in high school I was very tempted by sin. Since evolutionism falsified the Bible, the Bible had to be wrong about all of its rules. Thus I could sin without any guilt.

As I waited for the second week’s study to begin, no less than three students told me some of the science teachers were up in arms and that they were going to question me and save science. Obviously they would fire away with their best questions. Here is what their questions were:

1) What about the appendix?

2)What about similar structures between man’s hand, a bat’s wing and a whale’s flipper?

3) What about DNA sequence similarity between man and ape?

Quick easy answers:

Evolutionists think the appendix is vestigial (an organ that is no longer needed today, just a remnant of our evolutionary past). This was a Biology teacher’s first question, so it must have been his best. At the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925, a witness for Evolution said there were 180 vestigial organs in humans. The "useless" organs included the pituitary gland, the thymus and pineal gland among many others. Today the list of vestigial organs is 2 or 3. However, the appendix is not useless. It is known to be part of the immune system and several studies have shown people with their appendix have a lower incidence of colon cancer. You do not need an arm to survive, but you are much better off having one, likewise you do not need an appendix to survive, but you are better off having it.
The similar structure argument is really silly. Look! There are tremendous differences between a hand, flipper and wing. Having five digits is simply excellent design to perform its function. My baby’s stroller and my truck have four wheels…why? It is functional, not related.
DNA is a set of instructions to make a person, animal or plant. Would you expect the instructions to make a car to be more similar to the instructions for a truck or a wheel chair? Obviously since the car is more similar to the truck its instructions would have more in common. Would you expect a human’s DNA to be more similar to an ape’s or an insect’s? Since people have more in common with apes than insects (size, mammalian etc.) that is expected. But the genetic differences are still so significant, they are not related to us. Chimps have 48 chromosomes, we have 46!