The Trumpet Vine

To paraphrase…

A fact is something observed without exception for decades, even centuries or millennia. Evolution has never been observed so it can’t be a fact. A theory must be proven by many successful experiments and all the disproof experiments must fail. Evolution has none of each and therefore can’t be a theory. A hypothesis must have at least one successful experiment and evolution has only failures so it can’t even qualify as an hypothesis. Speculation must not violate the laws of physics and evolution does violate those laws so it can’t be a speculation. The only thing left is the evolution is a fantasy.

As you probably guessed I read another anti-evolution book. And this will mark the 5th month of my 12 month challenge to read a book. This time it was The Trumpet Vine by Dr. Joseph Mastropalo.

I want to start off by saying the past anti-evolution books I’ve read have been focused on special creation and specifically Biblical Creation. But this book was not so.
It is the first fiction book I read for my 12 month challenge but it is researched fiction. The book is written by a well credited scientist and I guess to make it more interesting for us he put the book in a fiction format.
This book focused on the concept of devolution. This word was invented way before the word ‘evolution’ was.
Devolution is the concept that everything is degrading as time goes on not evolving. This book gives the example of the sun and how it is losing mass and losing energy, devolution. It also talked about how we humans we are as healthy as we ever will be at birth and slowly degrade as we live on. And that that is the state of everything in our world without exception.

So then this book goes on to research evolution. At first it goes through the textbooks that include evolution and come up with these figures. Of the evidence for evolution in the textbooks 12% were superstitions, 74% were frauds and 14% were forgeries.

Now it seems to me for something like evolution, which is saturated in our cultures, to say this about the textbooks seems a little extreme. But for some reason people don’t try and research it themselves to see whether or not this is true. Unless someone is plain off their rocker, who would make such a claim?

So after the research about the evolution textbooks the book goes farther into the origin of evolution. You gotta read this…
The Greek Anaximander orginated evolution, it caught on and Anaxagoras, Empedocles and Aristotle made the contributions. What they put together can almost be read verbatim from the textbooks. Meaning evolution has traveled down all these mellinia virtually unchanged. But the most startling thing of all is that evolution is religious. The Greeks credit Mother Earth, goddess Gaea, with spontaneous generation. For US public schools this is something serious. By state laws, schools can only teach truth, so they are possible state outlaws. But by the US Constitution public school can not further religion in the classrooms. That means public schools are Federal outlaws in the United States.

Dr. Redi gave experiments that proved evolution to be just Gaea superstition. Then a 100 years later Reverend Darwin, the medical school drop-out, brought it all back.

But! Still the most remarkable thing about this book is that its arguments did not hinge on a creator. It did say that inteligence and not the no-brain evolution created life. But the author didn’t make out any of his characters to be religious and did not stand on any scripture for his beliefs. I forever will be a Christian but when you don’t have to refer back to the Bible and take its word for it, I think that is incredible. And it isn’t like the Bible is ever wrong, it recorded correctly, but it can be backed up by your own eyes.

The book’s mascot is the Trumpet Vine because it is the same plant but each flower is unique and different. Evolution can’t create that. An intelligence has to have been the creator.

Having said all that, and yes I approve of this book, but this being a review I do have to warn you. The author of this book, while having some ingenious writing moments and not an altogether poor writer, he definitely uses a style you don’t usually come across in fiction books. He is an older man, and it kind of reminds me of a grandparent telling you how you should do something with a method that has been long outdated, right or wrong. I did sit in one of Dr. Mastropalo’s lectures and it was good. But I’m a writer myself and I can critique writing. The book definitely had its, “What is he [the author] doing?!” moments. Next time, he should get an editor.

Things I learned:
1. Why didn’t early evolutionists think of something like devolution. If as we are getting older we accumulate mistakes in our biology that causes our death couldn’t an ape be a regressed human?

2. Darwin’s says permanent extinction, evolution forever. Devolution says permanent extinction and a lifeless end. I think the latter makes more sense.

3. You can’t use the molecular clock to find the order of evolution yourself.

4. You can’t quote a textbook as your reference for proof of evolution because evolution doesn’t have any references in textbooks.