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TATEMENTS of
CIENCE and
CRIPTURE
XHIBITED
XAMINED
XPLAINED
DUCATIONAL
DIFYING
VANGELICAL
Presented
by
Dr Thomas J Kindell
Founder & President of Reasons for Faith Ministries, Inc.
“Be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is
within you” I Peter 3:15
A CRITIQUE OF
TEXTBOOK
ARGUMENTS FOR
THE GENERAL
THEORY OF
EVOLUTION – Pt. 1
MILLER’S FATAL FLAWS
1. Exclusion of oxygen (UV oxygen dilemma)
2. Inclusion of methane and ammonia
3. Unrealistic levels of UV light and electricity
4. An artificial trap used to isolate compounds
5. The few amino acids were 50% racemic
6. 99% of compounds produced were toxic
FIFTY YEARS OF FAILURE
1. No success producing all 20 amino acids
2. No success producing all 4 nucleotides
3. No satisfactory synthesis of sugars
4. No satisfactory synthesis of fatty acids
5. No successful synthesis of non-racemates
6. No exclusive production of biological units
ADDITIONAL FATAL
ROADBLOCKS
1. Water – Vastly favors depolymerization
2. The laws of chemical cross-reaction
3. Instability of building block molecules
4. No physical evidence of a primordial soup
5. No reasonable mathematical probability
All right-handed sugars…… 1/10300
All correct biological bonds…… 1/10300
Exclusion of non-biological units…… 1/101000
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“Six monkeys, set to
strum unintelligently on
typewriters for millions
of years, would be
bound in time to write
all the books in the
British Museum.”
Sir James Jeans, The Mysterious Universe, p. 4, NY, Macmillan & Co
We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable
rights, that among these are
life liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
1080 – number of monkeys involved
1010 – random sequences per second
1020 – seconds (approx 3 trillion years)
10110 – total random sequences
10280 – probability of success by chance
10170 – resultant probability = zero!
…more than 40 years of
work has failed to produce
any convincing detailed
scheme as to how living
cells could have evolved
from simple organic
molecules.
Palmer, T., Controversy: Catastrophism & Evolution,
Kluwer Academic, 1999, p. 264
The origin of life. There is
no consensus at all here –
lots of theories, little
science. That’s one of the
reasons we didn’t cover it
in the [PBS] series. The
evidence wasn’t very good.
PBS producer Richard Hutton, Washington Post online forum
“It’s a shame that there are
precious few hard facts when it
comes to the origin of life... the
how part has everybody
stumped. Nobody knows how a
mixture of lifeless chemicals
spontaneously organized
themselves into the first living
cell.”
Paul Davies (Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie Univ.),
Born Lucky, New Scientist, Vol. 179 (2403):32, July 12, 2003
DEFINING TERMS
What kind of “evolution” really occurs?
Most Modern Creationists Agree:
•Change over time happens
•Descent with modification occurs
•Mutations produce inheritable changes
•Natural selection is an observable fact
•Speciation does occur
THE CREATIONIST CONTENTION
The Observed Changes:
Mutations
Natural Selection
Speciation
All take place without any
information gain which is required
for the general theory of evolution
to be true. In fact, such changes
only result in segregation,
corruption and loss of information.
H. Pylori
(Helicobacter
Antibiotic
pylori)
Absorbed
through the
cell wall
H. Pylori produces
an enzyme that
converts the
antibiotic into
a poison.
The poison
kills the
bacterium.
H. pylori
Antibiotic
Absorbed
through the
cell wall
Mutant H. pylori
lacks the ability
to produce enzyme.
Ha Ha Ha!
No enzyme
No poison
No death
Survived
because of
LESS
information
Some further examples of
mutational loss of information
causing an advantage
preserved by natural selection:
- Flightless Beetles
- Eyeless Cave Fish
- Sickle Cell Trait
The gene pool of the new
variety is more limited than
before and less able to
adapt to future changes.
Chihuahuas cannot produce
Great Danes.
Genetic information
was lost not added.
Just as in a real book
misprints are more likely to
produce nonsense than
better sense, so mutations
will almost always be
deleterious, almost always,
in fact, they will kill the
organism or the cell...
John C. Kendrew, The Thread of Life, Harvard Univ Press, pp 106-107
The quick brown fox jumps
over the lazy dog.
The duick brown aox jumps
over the lazf eog.
The duick brosn aox iumps
over the lazf eog.
An accident, a random change, in any
delicate mechanism can hardly be expected
to improve it. Poking a stick into the
machinery of one’s watch or one’s radio
set will seldom make it work better.
Theodosius Dobzhansky, Heredity and the Nature of Man, p. 105
We have seen that
living things are too
improbable and too
beautifully “designed”
to have come into
existence by chance.
Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, W. W.
Norton & Co., New York, p. 43
DESIGNED
BY THE BLIND
WATCHMAKER?
Evolutions “watchmaker”
is both blind and
brainless.
THE NATURAL SELECTION
DECEPTION
1. It can’t be invoked for prebiotic evolution.
“I would like to plead with you,
simply, please realize you cannot
use the words, ‘natural selection’
loosely. Prebiological natural
selection is a contradiction in
terms.”
T. Dobzhansky, The Origins of Pregiological Systems and of
Their Molecular Matrices, p. 11, 1965
THE NATURAL SELECTION
DECEPTION
2. Natural selection has no creative power
Natural selection has no
consciousness, intelligence,
foresight or creative capability at
all. It is at the mercy of random
processes because it can only
select what random mutations
create.
“For a greatly improved eye or
brain to appear suddenly, a
thousand such changes
[mutations] must occur at once
in a single animal, all accidental,
and yet in a favorable direction.
That would be as unlikely as
to toss a coin in the air and have it
come up heads a thousand times
in a row.”
R. Jastrow, “Selection for Perfection,” Science Digest, December, 1981, p. 86
WORMS EVOLVING AN EYE WITH A 1 IN 2
PROBABILITY OF GETTING A GOOD
MUTATION VERSUS A LETHAL MUTATION
1024 – planets involved
1016 – square feet per planet
1010 – worms per square foot
1013 – mutations per worm per year
1014 – years of time allowed
1077 – total sequences attempted
1 in 10223 – resultant probability = zero!
ATP
ADP + PI
Kreb’s
Cycle
Initiation of
glycolysis requires
ATP molecules
THE PROBLEM – RANDOM PROCESSES
(INCLUDING MUTATIONS) DON’T
PRODUCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
“There is no known natural law
through which matter can give
rise to information, neither
is any physical process or
material phenomenon known
that can do this.”
Werner Gitt, In the Beginning Was Information, p. 64-67, 1997
THE PROBLEM – RANDOM PROCESSES
(INCLUDING MUTATIONS) DON’T
PRODUCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
“Biological information is not
encoded in the laws of physics
and chemistry...(and it)
cannot come into existence
spontaneously...There is no known
law of physics able to create
information from nothing.”
Paul Davies, Life force, New Scientist, 163(2204):27-30, Sept 18, 1999
THE PROBLEM – RANDOM PROCESSES
(INCLUDING MUTATIONS) DON’T
PRODUCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
“Any living thing possesses an enormous
amount of ‘intelligence’...Today, this
‘intelligence’ is called ‘information,’ but it is
still the same thing...This ‘intelligence’ is the
sine qua non of life. If absent, no living being
is imaginable. Where does it come from?
This is a problem which concerns both
biologists and philosophers, and, at present,
science seems incapable of solving it.”
P. Grasse, Evolution of Living Organisms, Academic Press, 1977, p. 13
THE PROBLEM – RANDOM PROCESSES
(INCLUDING MUTATIONS) DON’T
PRODUCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
“...but if Mayr’s characterization
of the synthetic theory is
accurate, then that theory
[mutations/selection], as a
general proposition, is effectively
dead, despite its persistence
as textbook orthodoxy.”
Stephen J. Gould, Paleobiology, 6(1):120, 1980
CONCLUSION
Nothing in biology makes sense
outside of the theory of evolution.
T. Dobzhansky
Nothing in biology makes sense
outside of the evidence.
Nothing in biology makes sense
outside of explaining the origin of
information.
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