MUTATIONS - Radioactive waste helps to increase the number of cellular
mutations in life forms. Help me to send one truckload to the backyard
of every evolution-teaching professor in America. Or, let's buy them big
X-ray machines to use like tanning beds. …Okay, too much fun here. ….Back
to serious answers.
Evolutionists have serious problems with their theory. There is still
no mechanism for *how* evolution could have happened, to bolster their
underlying belief system that there just can't be a God to have to answer
to. Testable-repeatable science shows very, very different results than
evolution teaches. Mutations are almost always harmful or (if not fatal)
get reabsorbed into successive generations in any event. Inbreeding causes
serious problems, not magical automatic improvements. They keep thinking
that somewhere on Earth they'll find some bona fide transitional fossils.
But while billions upon billions of fossils have been dug up over the years
there are still zero transitional fossils that stand up to scientific scrutiny
over time. All amphibians remain amphibians (reproducing within preset
variational limits). All fish remain fish. All mammals have always been
mammals, and within mammals (just like "kinds" within amphibians or fish,
etc.), there are dog-kind of animals that keep producing only a variety
of dogs as offspring. Why, you'd think that some wise Designer had encoded
specific, but flexible, instructions into each type of life at the outset
then let them propagate down through time.
A good engineer does not re-invent the wheel with each new model. Do
you think that any of the engineers at GM, Toyota or Ford would even consider
doing this when they're preparing a new automobile design? Of course not.
We know that many reptile and mammal skeletons look almost the same structurally,
even though the rest of each creature is extremely different. Of course! They were
designed, not randomly evolved in some mystical-evolutionary sequence. Our Designer may have
"mixed & matched" parts when He was designing. The human eye is closely
related to the octopus eye. Human milk is closest to that of donkeys. The
human skeleton may be close to that of some primates - but so many of our
other biological parts are not! Evolution is a myth and underneath the
covers it is actually a spiritual deception. What we see in the fossil
record and in life today is actually evidence of a common Designer of it
all.
When you're watching an evolutionary TV show on PBS, BBC, Discovery
or other religious stations, listen for their underlying assumptions. They
*know* that evolution happened. That much is a given. Okay, umm, now how
this week? They're sure of only one thing - and that is that humans do
not have to answer to God.
Evolution sure didn't happen by mutations or else we'd have to wait
in line to buy truckloads of radioactive waste, correct? Instead, evolutionists
vehemently object to my idea of using their barbeque areas for long term
nuclear waste disposal. Come on, I'm just trying to help them realize their
religion's potential. (Evolution is not science; it is rather a philosophy
or religion - that often stands against known science.)
How many times a year do Time, Newsweek, National Geographic or other
religious magazines tell us that some fossil find will "completely re-write"
the evolutionary tree? They still have no mechanism and zero real transitional
fossils. But they have great artist drawings to compensate for their lack
of evidence! The frauds and wishful evidence of the past get scratched
out and the new stuff gets wishfully drawn into place. They are just sure
that it had to have happened somehow because the alternative (answering
to our Creator) is unthinkable to them.
If a person doesn't get enough calcium for 10 or 20 years it affects
their spinal column and posture, correct? (Such a deficiency can also have
serious impacts on the circulation and central nervous systems as well,
by the way.) Until about 100 years ago most people around the world ate
only local foods. Local foods are grown in local soil. Got
that? So then … if the local soil in some places was deficient in
magnesium, iron, aluminum, or any combination of so many other minerals
that we need at least trace amounts of … how would that affect their skeletal,
circulatory and nervous systems…? If everybody there had low iron…?
Low potassium in some areas…? We'd get a few deformed skeletons as
mute testimony to the long-term deficiencies in particular locales, correct?
And that's what we find.
Most hominid fossils show regular humans, over 99% (of the estimated
7,000 total) are pretty normal. But a few old human skeletons are misshaped.
Perhaps there was inbreeding or as mentioned above some nutritional deficiencies
in those areas? Less than 1% of all the hominid fossils found (again, about
9,000 total now) are odd enough that evolutionists jump on them for media
attention and then apply for grant monies. But even with a few odd enough
hominid fossils (maybe 40 or 50 out of the thousands and thousands that have
been found, less than 1% of the total, remember this!) there is definitely no
progression. The fossils just aren't there to support evolution.
And virtually all mutations are harmful. So, be logical and consider creation
theory. (text by P.A.)
"On
the Credibility of Darwinism" by George Warington - http://www.creationism.org/victoria/VictoriaInst1869_pg039.htm
"Instinct"
by Evan Shute - http://www.creationism.org/symposium/symp4no4.htm
"Could Life 'Just Happen'?"
by Ron Lyttle - http://www.creationism.org/english/LifeJustHappen_en.htm
"The Trilobite’s
Eye: An Embarrassment to Evolution" by Gerard Wakefield - http://www.creationism.org/wakefield/trilobiteeye.htm
"The Natural
Direction of Life Is Degeneration, Not Evolution" - http://www.icr.org/mutation
"Biblical
Thorns" by J. Mackay - http://www.creationresearch.net/images/PDF_Items/bible_thorns.pdf
"Genome
Decay in the Mycoplasmas" by Wood - http://www.icr.org/article/genome-decay-mycoplasmas/
"The
Blind Gunman" by Demick - http://www.icr.org/article/blind-gunman/
"Mutations"
AIG Section - https://answersingenesis.org/genetics/mutations/
"Mutations
Questions and Answers" CMI Section - http://creation.com/mutations-questions-and-answers
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human face is the external or outer ear, known anatomically as the pinna or auricle. It consists primarily
of elastic cartilage covered with skin ... vestigial claim was often uncritically repeated ... main function
of the outer ear is to collect sound within specific frequency ranges and loudness levels that vary ...
sounds in the frequency range of normal human speech are enhanced ... second ridge abuts it halfway
down: the antihelix. The antihelix swings up into a little plane and down into the lobe ... medical
lexicographer ... two ears, which creates an auditory parallax ... if humans had floppy outer ears like dogs,
or a projecting pinna like rabbits, damage to the ear ... capacity of a listener to recognize and localize sounds
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directed mutations may have played a role in adaptation within created kinds ... chromosomes come
in pairs, known as homologs, one derived from each parent ... meiotic recombination begins with an
enzyme making a double-stranded break in the DNA ... gene conversion. Instead of swapping a portion
of the chromosome, the information from one homolog is copied on to another ... alleles, violating an
assumption of the mathematical models used to detect natural selection ... enzymatically controlled way ...
stably paired early in meiosis so they can be accurately divided in the first cell division ... RNA
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whales and seals can dive for very long periods of time - up to one hour in the case of sperm
whales or 30 minutes for harbour seals. The latter can even sleep underwater! ... far more
oxygen-carrying myoglobin molecules in their muscles ... Institute of Integrative Biology at the
University of Liverpool, England ... this sounds very much like an example of deliberate design
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claim that mutations cannot add information to the genome ... reproduce the transmission accurately at the
other end ... termed prescriptive information or functional information; viz., information about how to
accomplish a task ... several species of bacteria can vary their outer-surface proteins by recombining parts
from other genes or pseudogenes ... the mutations described above are parameterized rather than being
open-ended. In other words, the cell’s existing biology defined a set of likely-beneficial configurations ...
a given genome is not just the configuration of DNA ... It takes information to appropriately channel mutations
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Alexander Winchell (1824–1891) was Professor of Geology and Paleontology at the University of
Michigan, an eminent scientist ... a major role in developing the field of geology in America ... Neo-Nazi ...
president of the American Geologist journal and was also appointed as the state geologist of Michigan ...
collections of fossils in the world, plus zoological and botanical specimens ... exponent of a Christian
view of science ... his attempts to reconcile evolution with Christianity ... clear conflict between evolution
and religion led to a racist form of theistic evolution that influenced many persons, from church leaders
to the Ku Klux Klan ... progenitor of the Hebrews and Europeans was the Adamic family, and advocated
that the supposed primitive humans were derived from a pre-Adamic family line which he called Dravida ...
non-Adamic/Davida humans, such as the Negro race, could not successfully interbreed with the Adamic
race ... existence of the evolutionists’ claimed primitive pre-humans, such as the Neanderthals
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evolutionists to claim that similarity is evidence for evolution. Creationists often counter that similarity
is evidence of a common Designer ... the Biologos website. This particular example is based on a
study of olfactory (smell) receptor genes (ORs) in humans and several non-human primates ... many
pseudogenes have more than one mutation predicted to silence the gene. To construct the phylogeny ...
are considered to be from convergent evolution ... non-human primate, it remains to be seen if the
phylogeny ... Science is a useful tool for investigating the world around us, but it is not an all powerful
source of knowledge.
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Thomas Bayes (1702–1761) was a British mathematician and pastor. His much-used theorem involves
probability calculations. ... draws out a white marble, the theorem explains what can be probabilistically
said about the number of remaining white and black marbles ... Pastor Richard Price (Bayes and Price,
1763), and such efforts continue today. Philosopher Richard Swinburne, a colleague of Richard Dawkins
at Oxford University, calculates the probability of God’s existence at more than 50 percent ... select group
of hospital cases are prayed for, then later compared with non-prayed-for persons. How patient must be
the Creator of the universe as He looks down upon the silliness of mankind
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distributing free pamphlets on creation science at a summer session of Michigan State University.
The title of the pamphlet was “How science shows there MUST be a Creator” ... chemical equilibrium,
the statistical improbability of getting biological chemicals through random processes, and information
theory. The professor was unwilling to acknowledge the relevance of anything I had to say ... False
Assumption 1. “Human Reasoning is adequate to explain everything worth knowing.” This is a
foundational premise of humanism ... False Assumption 2. “Macro-evolution is the eventual result of
many steps of microevolution.” Unfortunately, micro-evolution is typically the result of a loss of information
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forgeries used to support evolution is that of Archaeoraptor liaoningensis, commonly called Archaeoraptor ...
1998 at a press conference at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. The announcers
included paleontologist Philip J. Currie of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology in Drumheller,
Alberta; Stephen Czerkas of the Dinosaur Museum in Blanding, Utah; and Xing Xu of the Institute of
Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing ... Liaoning, China ... High resolution X-ray
computed tomography evaluations confirmed Xing’s evaluation ... predatory dinosaurs called dromaeosaurs
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definition of a biological species can be controversial. The most common definition is based on the
biological species concept proposed in a book by Ernst Mayr (Mayr, 1942). Basically, a species is a
group of natural populations that can (potentially) interbreed to produce fertile offspring ... Canis familiaris
was the scientific name (genus and species) given to the domestic dog ... Morphological (physical)
characteristics were used by Carl Linnaeus when he pioneered the field of taxonomy in the 1700s ...
The study of created kinds is called baraminology (from Hebrew bara — create, mîn — kind) ...
reproductive barriers are greater than just infertility in offspring. Hybrids can be weaker
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strings of amino acids connected by what are called “peptide bonds” ... string of amino acids is far
more likely to split apart than it is to lengthen spontaneously. This observation is significant enough
to make a natural origin of life effectively impossible ... in 1981 biochemist Duane Gish calculated from
thermodynamic principles the ratio of splitting versus lengthening. His calculations showed that in a
forming chain, each time a new amino acid is added to an existing chain, its concentration decreases
by a factor of one hundred (Gish, 1981). ... Chains degenerating about 100 times as fast as they can form
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evolutionists explain the slow development of male and female reproductive systems? If some type of
early creature is reproducing asexually, when and why does it start developing male and female
reproductive systems ... many creatures is a single sex chromosome. The incredible design makes
the inference of a Designer quite reasonable ... biblical analogy comparing the relationship of God with
his people to the relationship of a man with his wife ... mutations (any changes in the sequence of DNA
nucleotides) have been viewed as copying errors ... wide range of proofreading and repair mechanisms
in place that considerably reduce the frequency of errors ... RNA ... homologous recombination
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organisms recognize specific colors in their survival and reproductive strategies. Among the most
brilliantly colored of all insects, male Morpho butterflies display spectacular shades of blue ... the
blue coloration is not produced by pigments, but rather by the fine microstructure of the scales that
cover the wings. The scales covering the wings, which are actually dark brown in color, have repeating
patterns of longitudinal ridges ... Morpho amathonte, native to Central America ... photoreceptors
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new cancer drug ... ‘penicillin-like breakthrough’ ... melanoma skin cancer ... A study in Nature
describes the drug's chemical structure ... New Scientist online commented that ‘Although
scientists have known for some time that all cancers are a result of gene mutations ...
genetic differences ... new genetic information which natural selection uses to drive evolution
forward. Indeed, mutation is the only mechanism available to produce the variations without
which, as Darwin admitted, ‘...natural selection would have nothing to work with.’ ... cancer-producing
mutation ... supposed information-building mutations that drive evolution forwards ... fertile imagination
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BBC News website reported on a pink elephant in the Okavango Delta ... calf is thought to be
an albino, an extremely rare phenomenon in African elephants. Thus the extraordinary colour
is due to a lack of normal skin pigmentation rather than development of novel pigmentation ...
the fact that mutations very frequently represent a loss of genetic information
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parallel universes ... no direct evidence for wormholes has been observed ... phantom matter ...
Inflationary models - it sometimes seems they can be tweaked to fit any observations ...
hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence has yielded barely a hint of any alien civilisations ... SETI ...
Alien Telescope Array ... multiverses and universe-gobbling particles ... prejudice against
the Adam-and-Eve ... Green River formation in Wyoming ... fruit bat - a species that does
not use echolocation ... Richard Dawkins’ blind watchmaker ... 1861 the first specimen
of Archaeopteryx ... Leafcutter ants, Atta cephalotes ... Physicists think the explanation
for this lies with the weak nuclear force ... The tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus, is a ‘living fossil’,
virtually unchanged since dinosaurs roamed the Earth... even for a lizard, the tuatara is slow
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“I will praise You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvellous are your works” (Psalm 139:14) ...
human brain ... capable of incredible feats of computation, data recognition and information storage,
the brain exceeds the abilities of all the electronic devices mankind has yet been able to devise. ...
neurons ... work jointly in large networks ... individual synapses
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a live coelacanth captured by a fisherman off the coast of Manado in Indonesia ...
fin of a fossil coelacanth claimed to be 400 million years old from sediments in
northern Wyoming ... Coelacanths were thought to have been extinct for many millions of years until one
was caught off the coast of South Africa in 1938. Since then more than 300 have been
found off the Comoro Islands and eastern Africa ... Natural History Museum, London
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the eye with its 126 million receptor cells, one million ganglion cells and one million nerve fibres.
Pause for a moment and dwell on the complexity, the design and engineering of this small
miraculous object. Yet this eye is nothing – it cannot see unless it is connected to the
brain, this brain with its 100,000 million cells! ... Evolutionary scientists would have us believe
that these arose spontaneously of their own volition and without direction. Logic and
common sense would demand and direct us to think otherwise.
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an effort to avoid dealing with a holy Creator God ... idolatry ... it appears that a modern, scientifically-trained
scientist would have nothing in common with a heathen idolater ... Richard Dawkins wrote a book,
The Blind Watchmaker, in which he made the argument that processes intrinsic to nature
itself are adequate to create life ... very little difference between Dawkins’ glorifying nature as Creator
and the heathen in glorifying dead idols as their masters ... Dawkins proposes a method called
“cumulative selection” as the means for natural processes ... the reality is that every attempt to
explain a natural origin of life apart from God will result in failure and contradictions
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about 45 genera and 800 species worldwide in the nettle family, according to the Flora of North
America ... European authorities include the genus Humulus in the Urticaceae, while American
botanists have created a new family, Cannabinaceae ... male and female flowers appear on the
same plant ... human skin makes contact with these hairs, the stiff translucent tip breaks off, leaving
a sharp point that readily pierces the skin ... nettle fibers were used for many years to make cording,
rope, and cloth. The fibers are considered superior to cotton and were said to be more durable than
linen ... young greens can be cooked in the manner of spinach and served with salt, pepper, a little
vinegar, or lemon juice ... numerous medicinal qualities
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vastness of the oceans and the untold number of species of living things that dwell there. Do you
view it all as a product of chance, or the handiwork of an all-knowing Designer? ... extraordinary
ability of the snapping shrimp. They have one large “snapping” claw, with a specialized plunger
on the movable (dactyl) portion of the claw ... enormous tension, by co-contraction of an opener
and a closer muscle, then snapped shut by a second closer muscle. This produces a high-velocity
water jet ... cavitation bubble which subsequently collapses violently as the pressure rises ... tiny
flash of light ... precise design and function of this claw is one of many examples of the perfect
designs of living things
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Phillip Johnson’s (1991) book Darwin on Trial. It was through the influence of Denton’s (1986)
book, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis ... Darwinism is based on a philosophy called philosophical
naturalism, a belief that nature is all there is ... Michael Behe’s (1996) book, Darwin’s Black
Box ... Stephen Meyer has contributed a host of superlative articles on the Cambrian explosion ...
the Bible, the age of the earth, and the Genesis Flood ... wedge strategy the IDM relies on evidence,
will they be able to open a big crack in the evolutionary/naturalistic juggernaut
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particular interest to researchers who study defensive volatiles that are released from the plants in
reaction to herbivore feeding. Such emissions attract parasitoids and carnivores to the feeding
herbivores ... activate defensive volatile attractants in a complex biochemical cascade of reactions ...
larvae of Pieris brassicae, the cabbageworm ... oral secretions from a feeding cabbageworm
induced the release of attractant volatiles ... Lima beans, cucumbers, and mites ... Terpenoids are
the major group in the mixture ... Colorado potato beetle ... well-timed process of biochemical
chain reactions
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cotton plants as hosts for the beet armyworm herbivore, these researchers speculated that the female
parasitoid wasps may have been attracted to the plants by volatiles, which were emitted because
of the feeding larvae ... major enemy of the field elm, Ulmus minor, is the elm leaf beetle,
Xanthogaleruca luteola ... scratches the surface by gnawing shallow, rough grooves ... analysis of
these volatiles has revealed more than 40 compounds, most of which are terpenoids ... Eggs of the
elm leaf beetle are the only host of this wasp parasitoid ... scent emitted by the crushed bug is
extremely unpleasant and downright obnoxious ... defoliate many types of conifers
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raising vegetables in home gardens. One of the favorite crops is tomatoes ... an ugly, large, green
caterpillar called a “hornworm” is found ... will attack tomato and tobacco plants, as well as eggplant,
potato, pepper, horsenettle, jimpson weed, nightshade, and other members of the plant family
Solanaceae ... herbivores, that can defoliate a tomato plant in a matter of days, are considered
“potentially the most destructive insect pests of tobacco” (R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.) ... eggs or
cocoons of a small braconid wasp ... three possible metabolic pathways that produce volatiles in
plants ... regurgitant from herbivores allow the plant “. . . to identify and differentiate herbivore feeding
from mere mechanical wounding ... plant produces a polypeptide called systemin, which is composed
of 18 amino acids
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biomimicry frequently appears in the current technical literature. The term refers to the use of ideas
from nature to develop new products and to solve problems ... inventors, engineers, and scientists
are turning to plants, animals, and objects for technical insights ... design in nature reveals the
fingerprint of the Creator ... beneath the cuttlefish skin are many small elastic sacks, called
chromaloptores, which are filled with color pigments ... white cell patches, called leucophors, which
act like mirrors ... lobster eye works by reflection of light from tiny, flat, mirror-like surfaces ...
“lobster lens” ... geometry is found in NASA’s Chandra orbiting x-ray observatory ... Lotus leaves
are covered with tiny bumps ... magnolias, Dutchman’s pipes, water lilies, philodendrons, and skunk
cabbage ... the iris of the human eye, the blue-green-brown eye component ... has at least 266
identifiable characteristics ... spherical carbon molecules are called fullerenes or “buckyballs.”
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Old Testament book of Jonah is a remarkable example of God's desire to extend mercy
to an undeserving nation ... Nineveh ... God had spared the Ninevites from destruction ...
English translation of the Hebrew word "kikayon" as "vine" is probably incorrect
and that it should be translated "castor oil plant" ... entomologists because Ricinus is
highly toxic: very few insects will feed on it at all ... extract makes an excellent insecticide
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Alister McGrath is Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University, a theologian with
a doctorate in molecular biophysics, and a Christian. The fact that he
is not a young-earth creationist, rather a theistic evolutionist, gives his criticism of
Dawkins’ views on religion more impact ... The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker,
River out of Eden, Climbing Mount Improbable, Unweaving the Rainbow and A Devil’s Chaplain ...
Dawkins attacks William Paley’s natural theology as ‘gloriously and utterly wrong’ ...
Evolution is regarded as occurring by means of the non-random selection of random mutations
of the information in the genes ... Dawkins dispenses with morality - genes have no moral sense
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gender ... adopt the dress and habits of the opposite sex ... may even undergo
surgery to change their sex ... perform legal marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples ...
partners has undergone a “sex change” ... Church ministers whose consciences will not permit
them to carry out same-sex weddings ... But does a surgical operation really change
a person’s gender? Sex differences start early, according to a report in Nature Science Update ...
University of California analysed 12,000 brain genes in developing mice and found that the
activity of 51 genes is different in males and females before the testes are formed ...
chromosomes ... males have an XY pair while females have an XX pair ...
(Matt. 19:4) the Creator said “He that made them at the beginning made them male and female.”
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existence of genetic variations that produce a clear survival advantage that can be acted upon by
natural selection ... believed by most neoDarwinists ... non-deleterious genetic variations called
polymorphisms ... blood types, such as A, B, AB, and O, plus the Rh factor ... Hair shaft shape
(round shaft, which produces straight hair; partly oval, which produces curly hair; and largely oval,
which produces kinky hair ... musical talent, the ability to do complex physical and mental games,
fly jet planes at speeds several times that of sound, and display mathematical abilities
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How did life begin? ... How do mutations lead to evolution? ... How are new species formed? ...
Is evolution predictable? ... What’s God got to do with it? ... Neo-Darwinism ... RNA ... DNA ...
nucleic acids and amino acids ... beneficial mutations ... bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens
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competitor to Evolution Only is objective origins science. Objectivity is the antithesis of Evolution
intelligent design (ID) is really not a theory of origins; rather, it is a theory of - design detection ...
all one can demonstrate via observation of nature is that some kind of intelligence was involved ...
Many theistic evolutionists reject the notion that the divine involvement they accept on faith is
detectable. That is, they deny that this reality is empirically distinguishable from a reality that arose
by purely unintelligent processes ... some of the staunchest critics of ID are theistic evolutionists
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metabolic highways
... energy-releasing Krebs cycle ... complex interlocking cycles is the
body’s self healing processes ...metabolic fingerprints ... coronary heart
disease to be spotted with more than 90% accuracy
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development of resistance of viruses to anti-viral agents often is presented as a modern example of
evolution by mutations and, by extension, as clear evidence for Darwinism ... literature indicates that
those examples that are due to mutations are in nearly all cases due to loss mutations and do not
result in a gain of genetic information ... resistance in many kinds of pathogens including viruses ...
systematically change the active site on their antigens ... Antigens are like identification cards that
enable the immune system of the host to determine if a large protein is a friend or foe ... autoimmune
disease results, such as rheumatoid arthritis ... body’s ability to provide natural immunity ... immune system
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Creationists have used the second law of thermodynamics as an argument against evolution for
many years. The origin of the laws of thermodynamics within a Biblical chronology has not been
resolved. The origin of the first law of thermodynamics has not been an issue. As far as I know,
all Creationists agree that the first law of thermodynamics was set in place by God during the
Creation week. ... At the Curse, the Creation was changed. Death began at the Curse, and death
due to old age is the result of some body part’s wearing out. ... degeneration was imposed on the
Creation due to Adam’s sin, which fits in with the second law of thermodynamics
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origins debate are as confusing or as often misconstrued as the term “transitional form" ...
Creationists and some evolutionists claim that transitional or intermediate forms are rare ...
many evolutionary biologists have shifted attention to cladograms (a branching diagram that
is used to depict the hierarchical distribution of shared characters) ... ancestral evidence, and
phylogeny (a lineage) ... dentition or locomotion ... Nested hierarchy ... taxonomic groups ...
chimeric forms ... curious mosaics like Archaeopteryx ... fine grained transitions
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biggest challenges for creationists has been to clearly illustrate the absurdity that passes off as
probability arguments in the naturalistic/evolutionary model of origins ... One has only to wait:
time itself performs miracles. ... Anglican Archbishop of Oxford University, Samuel Wilberforce,
and evolutionist and agnostic Thomas Huxley were engaged in the “Great Debate.” ... given an
infinite amount of time, these monkeys would eventually type up all of the works of Shakespeare ...
top of the incline is the sublime prose of Shakespeare ... unlikelihood of a truly beneficial mutation
that adds new information which then becomes the basis for an evolutionary ... Haldane’s Dilemma
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adult conifer sawfly, or Neodiprion, is a serious pest of coniferous trees ... Sawfly larvae are
notorious for defoliating various types of pine trees and other conifers ... A unique digestive system ...
munching on its staple diet of pine needles, the larva separates the poisonous oils and resins from
the digestible pulp, and stores them in two goiter-like sacs located at the sides of its oral cavity.
If provoked, it instantly turns its head toward its aggressor and secretes a drop of its stored liquid ...
An evolutionary enigma ... The sawfly’s digestive system is more than just an oddity
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Fourth International Conference on Creationism (ICC) in 1998 ... papers, information, and
topics covered in this report ... educational track ... 47 technical papers presented at this
conference and provided in the book of proceedings ... Astronomy, Biblical Studies, Biology
(which includes papers dealing with studies of biological fossils), Geology, Physics (including
Astro-Geophysics), and Social Sciences (including papers dealing with worldviews and law)
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