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 Charles Darwin
characterized his idea as a
"rag of an hypothesis with as many flaws and holes as sound
parts."
The guru of evolutionism worried
"I…have devoted my life to a phantasy."
He had reasons to worry!
The Dynamic Genome
The term "evolution" is an
oxymoron. The reality of genetic adaptability, doesn't equate with
Darwin's fantasy. Every prototype genome possesses inherent genetic
adaptability that assures a kaleidoscope of descendant diversity. Some
public minds mistakenly confuse the reality of nature's genetic dynamism
with evolutionism's make-believe.
Human DNA carries 3+ billion base pairs. Two human parents
possess the capacity to produce 70 trillion variations in their children.
Darwin's Galapagos
finches produced offspring endowed with different shaped beaks---but 21st
century Galapagos finches still fly as finches! Fruit flies, subjected to
laboratory induced mutations, may add or subtract wings and legs but
continue producing fruit flies, ad infinitum---never butterflies nor
dragonflies! Extrapolation doesn't mend the
"flaws" and
"holes" of Darwin's
"rag of an hypothesis."
Big Bang!
The origin of matter by an explosion in
empty nothingness an alleged fifteen billion years ago baffles. Something
from nothing? Billions of cosmic bodies carving predictable orbits
originating in an explosion? Since when does a horrendous explosion
create order---floating in space? Darwin avoided attempting to explain
the origin of inorganic matter or the process of the first appearance of
organic life from non-life.
Spontaneous Generation
Nineteenth century, primitive wisdom mistakenly viewed
single-celled, organic life forms as "simple." A blob of protoplasm! In
reality, a living cell is vastly more complex than the most sophisticated
man-designed mechanism. No human laboratory has duplicated what random
chance allegedly accomplished in some still unidentified,
"prebiotic soup."
No
evidence exists that original life defied impossible odds to create itself
by spontaneous generation. NEVER!!!
Random Chance Odds
The odds of random chance
generating an ecologically unique environment essential to produce and
sustain organic life on Planet Earth is mathematically less likely than
6-billion blindfolded humans simultaneously solving a Rubik cube
puzzle---three times in a row.
Amino-Acid Building Blocks are Not Ambidextrous
A cell's
proteins require "left-handed," amino-acid building blocks. DNA & RNA use
only "right-handed" building blocks. Natural forms come in a 50-50
mixture. Evolutionism's random chance explains neither the cause nor the
discriminating process that mandates selection of left-handed v.
right-handed building blocks.
Information
The
specific kind of life reproduced by each genome is shaped by the
information packed into the genes of each microscopic cell. Evolutionism
does not account for the original source of that information vested in the
dynamic genome of evolutionism's first ever cell from its beginning..
Intelligent Design
Homo sapiens have
coexisted with now extinct, ape-like species but fossil evidence alone has
yet to prove linkage to a "common ancestor."
No scholar suggests
the Mount Rushmore presidential profiles were carved by nature's winds and
rains. Regardless, neo-Darwinism insists the living, human models for that
granite sculpture evolved coincidentally from an ancestor
molecule---without intelligent design or designer. Evolutionism's dogma,
allegedly the product of human intelligence, illogically rejects
intelligent cause and process in the origin of all life.
Mutations
Mutations, genetic mistakes, the alleged
engines driving evolutionism, are rarely beneficial. Mutations usually
degrade the genome and trigger information loss. These genetic defects
do not introduce new information to the gene code. Nor do genetic
defects represent an incremental step in a mythical leap to some radical
new organism. Variety potential, inherent within the dynamic genome
assures genetic adaptability but not some quantum leap to some radically
new prototype life. Neo-Darwinism ignores this scientific reality
and relies on billions of mutations, combined with natural selection, as
the source of every kind of life on earth after that first life cell.
Natural Selection
Counting on
natural selection to combine with mutations to produce the engine of
evolutionary change, creates a major league dilemma: the exact
opposite results. Thanks to natural selection, mutations tend to be
weeded out rather than serve as a conduit for the development of an
entirely new life-systems!!!
Inflated Time
Without mega-chunks of
time, evolutionism bites the dust as just
another fictional
whim. Radiometric dating's anomalous results raise red flags. Washington
State's Mount St. Helens blew its top in 1980. Radiometric dating of the
event produced conflicted results ranging from 340,000 years before the
present to as long ago as 2,800,000 years BP. Assertions as to the age of
the earth deserve caveats.
Without those mega-chunks of
time, mega-evolution qualifies as so much wishful thinking. But with
those chunks of time, where are the billions and billions of people that
by now would be walking on each other's toes? Two thousand years ago, an
estimated 100 million Homo sapiens lived on Planet Earth. Thanks to
geometric progression, the numbers have spiked radically with an estimated
6 billion of the human family on hand who welcomed the 21st
century! If the earth is even 100,000 years old, where are all the
people that would be bursting the seams of the planet if the past can be
measured by the present?
Abrupt Appearance
Contrary to the gradual,
incremental "progress toward perfection" conjectured by Darwin's
mega-evolution, thousands of fully formed, intelligently designed and
irreducibly complex life forms appeared abruptly, simultaneously and
world-wide, without persuasive fossil evidence of prior ancestry. This
Cambrian Explosion defies the anchor premise of Darwinian conjecture.
Stasis
Following this
across-the-board sudden appearance of thousands of distinctly different
kinds of life, descendants of these unique life forms continue to inhabit
planet earth, virtually unchanged. Undeterred by mega chunks of deep time
conjectured by evolutionism, bacteria continue to generate bacteria, fish
produce fish, and apes parent apes. Coelacanths still swim in marine
waters and Wollemi pines still grow on land.
Missing Transitionals
Evolutionism requires
billions of incremental steps to bridge the gaping genetic chasms between
organic prototypes: single cell-to-fish-to- amphibian-to-reptile-to-bird
and mammal and eventually, to-man. After billions of fossil discoveries,
where is the evidence of Darwin's "…innumerable
transitional forms…"?
Certainly not in today's living natural world. As to the miniscule number
of fossil forms categorized as "transitional," they represent just another
extinct species. So-called "intermediates" carry the label because an
evolutionist has declared it, not because of irrefutable proof of genetic
linkage as between old bones. Neither homology nor morphology equates
genealogy.
Irreducible Complexity
A partially
evolved body part would render any alleged "transitional" severely
handicapped. A critter saddled with an appendage half-leg and half-wing
couldn't fly or walk efficiently. An incrementally evolving eye would
hardly contribute to fitness or survival. Dr. Michael Behe illustrated
the problem by referencing a simple mousetrap with a single missing
part---no mouse need fear, the trap couldn't function!
Entropy
The second law of
thermodynamics doesn't track with Darwin's speculative
"progress toward perfection."
Given 4.55 billion years,
the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics impacts the precise opposite of
what evolution requires. Entropy's deterioration and decline is the
inevitable consequence in nature. Homo sapiens age, grow weak and die;
trees lose their leaves and die; cars rust; buildings crumble; mountains
erode.
Cataclysm
Many extinct species disappeared abruptly,
victims of violent, hydraulic cataclysm, rather than from the
encroachment of newly-evolving descendants eliminating "inferior"
ancestors as per Darwin's speculations. Numerous surviving species, still
living today, escaped extinction, showing little modification from their
fossil ancestors.
World View
Evolution is less than
"science;" it's a secular religion. An atheist and devoted disciple of
Darwinian faith, describes evolution as "…a
full fledged alternative to Christianity…Evolution is a religion. This
was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution
today." (Michael
Ruse, "Saving Darwin from the Darwinians,"
National Post, May
13, 2000, p. B-3.)
Bottom Line
Religion is built on faith
in the unseen. Unlike evolutionism's blind faith in random chance, faith
in the Master Designer is based on rational reason. Life comes only from
life. The God who placed the sun, moon, stars and planets in cosmic orbit
is the Author of all life on Planet Earth.
"By the Word of the Lord were the heavens made; their starry host by the
breath of His mouth…He spoke, and it came to be. He commanded, and it
stood firm."
(Psalms 33: 6, 9.)
5-26-2003
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