Transcript Week 5 - GEOCITIES.ws

Problems with
Evolution
Overview
 All information is filtered through a
person’s worldview
 What are some prominent examples of
how evolutionists interpret evidence
differently?
 Prominent means most well-known, not
necessarily most persuasive
A definition
 Extrapolation:
1. to infer (an unknown) from something that is
known; conjecture.
2. Statistics. to estimate (the value of a variable)
outside the tabulated or observed range.
3. Mathematics. to estimate (a function that is
known over a range of values of its
independent variable) to values outside the
known range.
Examples of religion strongly
influencing science
 Explaining the origin of life
 Possibility A: Life occurred by spontaneous,
self-generation
 Possibility B: Some sort of intelligence was
first and it caused life to begin
 Many scientists (both Christian and
Atheist) have calculated the likelihood of
Possibility A
Origin of Life
 The trouble is that there are about two thousand
enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all
in a random trail is only one part in 10 40000, an
outrageously small probability that could not be
faced even if the whole universe consisted of
organic soup. – Sir Fred Hoyle & N.C. Wickramasinghe
 For a simple gene of only 300 sequences the
“odds against” have been calculated as one
followed by 130 zeros, to one. … It is, then,
small wonder that most scientists have come to
the conclusion that sequenced DNA and
proteins cannot be attributed to chance alone. –
Dr. A.E. Wilder-Smith
Put another way . . .
 “The English mathematician and astronomer
Sir Fred Hoyle made a similar comparison in
an interview published in Nature magazine on
November 12, 1981. Although an evolutionist
himself, Hoyle stated that the chance that
higher life forms might have emerged in this
way is comparable to the chance that a
tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might
assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials
therein.”
Imagination and
Interpretation
 Statistically speaking, both estimates are
“impossible”
 For evolutionists, possibility A is all their
worldview allows
 Seek out evidence that shows life exists
elsewhere (e.g., Mars)
 Thus, life must have evolved in an older part
of the universe
 Possibility B requires much less
imagination – Job 38:4
Miller-Urey experiments
 Tried to re-create the recipe for life
 Chemical soup + volcanic gases + electric
zap = Life (amino acids)
 Problems:
 Scientists no longer believe the gases they
used existed on early Earth – when agreed
upon gases are used no amino acids even
form
 The amino acids don’t constitute “life”, even
with the incorrect atmosphere scientists
have can’t make even the simplest protein
Haeckel’s embryos
 Mentioned on the AIG video
 Deliberately faked to support Darwin’s theory
 Still used in some biology textbooks!
Homology as evidence
 Homology = a fundamental similarity based on
common descent
 Homology = evidence for common descent
 Thus, “similarity due to common ancestry
demonstrates common ancestry”
Galapagos Finches
 Darwin observed multiple “species” of finches
on the Galapagos islands while aboard the
H.M.S. Beagle in 1835
 Academy of Sciences use change in beak size
as an example of how species originate
 But it failed to report beak size decreasing after
a drought ended and the merging of species
Just a few other examples
 Darwin’s tree of life
 Cambrian explosion
 Mutant fruit flies
 Genetic engineering only leads to harmful repetition
of existing genetic information
 Peppered moths
 Moths actually don’t rest on exposed tree trunks and
photographs were staged
 Piltdown man
 Used in scientific literature as evidence for “missing
link” for over 40 years before exposed as a hoax
Two ways to see the world
 Romans 11:33
 The awe and humble wonder towards God
and his creation
 Romans 8:6-8
 The frantic search to make man answerable
to no one in order to escape God’s law
Important points
 It’s not about ridiculing the evidence used for
evolution, but understanding why it makes so
much sense to people who reject God
 Again, more reason to address the person
AND the issues, not just trying to have more
knowledge than them
 Matthew 6:24 - No one can serve two masters.
Either he will hate the one and love the other,
or he will be devoted to the one and despise
the other.
Ecclesiastes
12:12
Bible verses
 Job 38:4 - 4 "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
 Romans 11:33 - 33Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and
knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his
paths beyond tracing out! 34"Who has known the mind of the
Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"
 Romans 8:6-8 – The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind
controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; 7the sinful mind is hostile
to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. 8Those
controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.
 Ecclesiastes 12: 12 - 12 Be warned, my son, of anything in
addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and
much study wearies the body.
 Matthew 6:24 - No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate
the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and
despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.