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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. 2
180 VESTIGIAL ORGANS
IN MAN
S. R. Scadding:
“...Vestigial organs
provide no evidence for
evolutionary theory.”
Scadding, S. R., 1983, Do vestigial organs provide evidence for
evolution?, Origins Research 6(2):4-6. This paper was originally
published in Evolutionary Theory 5:173-176, 1981
MOLECULAR “TREES”?
“But in the 25 September issue of the
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences… colleagues
at the University of California, Irvine,
show that the molecular clock could
be ripe for the pawnshop…
Molecular clocks in general are
much more "erratic" than previously
thought, and practically useless to
keep accurate evolutionary time…”
9/28/2001, PM Science Now
CRITERION SIMILAR DISSIMILAR
DNA
Man-Chimp
Insulin
Man-Pig . . . . . . . . Chimp
Lysosome
Man-Chicken . . . . Chimp
Milk Chemistry Man-Donkey. . . . . Chimp
Blood Specific
Man-Frog . . . . . . . Monkey
Gravity
Cytochrome-C Man-Sunflower . . Mold
We also share about 50%
of our DNA with bananas
and that doesn’t make us
half bananas, either from
the waist up or the waist
down.
S. Jones, interviewed at the Australian Museum on The Science
Show, broadcast on ABC radio, January 12, 2002
A recent report in the
Proceedings of the
National Academy of
Sciences suggests that the
similarity of DNA between
chimp and humans is 95%
rather than > 98%.
R. J. Britten, ‘Divergence between samples of chimpanzee and
human DNA sequences is 5% counting indels.’ Proceedings
National Academy of Sciences 99:13633-13635, 2002
If we were to expect to find
ancestors to, or intermediates
between, higher taxa. It would be
in the rocks of late Precambrian to
Ordovician times, when the bulk
of the world’s higher animal taxa
evolved. Yet transitional alliances
are unknown or unconfirmed
for any of the phyla or classes
appearing then.
J. W. Valentine & D. H. Erwin, “The Fossil Record,” in Development as an
Evolutionary Process
Below this (Cambrian strata) are
vast thicknesses of sediments in
which the progenitors...would be
expected. But we do not find
them; these older beds are
almost barren of life, and the
general picture could reasonably
be consistent with the idea of
special creation...
Alfred S. Romer, Natural History, October 1959
At the higher level of evolutionary
transitions between basic morphological
designs, gradualism has always been in
trouble, though it remains the “official”
position of most Western evolutionists.
Smooth intermediates between
Bauplane are almost impossible to
construct, even in thought experiments,
there is certainly no evidence for them in
the fossil record (curious mosaics like
Archaeopteryx do not count.)
Stephen J. Gould & N. Eldredge, Paleobiology 3:147
...I fully agree with your comments on
the lack of direct illustrations of
evolutionary transitions in my book. If I
knew of any, fossil or living, I would
certainly have included them...Yet Gould
and the American Museum people are
hard to contradict when they say there
are no transitional fossils...I will lay
it on the line - there is not one such
fossil for which one could make a
watertight argument.
Personal letter from Dr. Colin Patterson, Senior Paleontologist at the British
Museum of Natural History in London, to L. Sunderland
1. Darwinian evolution “impossible” to observe.
T. Dobzhansky
2. Mutation/Selection mechanism “effectively dead.”
S. Gould
3. Not a single “watertight” transitional fossil.
C. Patterson
Long curved fingers
Locking wrists
Wrong talus angle
Ape-like foot
…the australopithecines known
over the last several decades…are
now irrevocably removed from a
place in the evolution of human
bipedalism, possibly from a place
in a group any closer to humans
than to African apes and certainly
from any place in the direct human
lineage.
Charles Oxnard, The Order of Man, Yale University Press, pg. 332.
NO TRUNK
NO SEED
The extreme rarity of transitional
forms in the fossil record
persists as the trade secret of
paleontology, the evolutionary
trees that adorn our textbooks
have data only at the tips and
nodes of their branches; the rest
in inference, however reasonable,
not the evidence of fossils.
Stephen J. Gould, Natural History, Vol. 86, pp. 22-30
NO CONNECTING
BRANCHES
NO TRUNK
NO SEED
NO CONNECTING
BRANCHES
NO TRUNK
NO SEED
NO CONNECTING
BRANCHES
NO TRUNK
NO SEED
NO CONNECTING
BRANCHES
NO TRUNK
NO SEED
FOUR
TEXTBOOK
FRAUDS
The Creator’s Finches
The biogenetic law has
become so deeply rooted in
biological thought that it
cannot be weeded out in
spite of its having been
demonstrated to be wrong
by numerous subsequent
scholars.
W. J. Bock, Science 164:684, 1969
The core scientific issue remains
unchanged: Haekel’s drawings of 1874
are substantially fabricated. In support
of this view, I note that his oldest “fish”
image is made up of bits and pieces
from different animals - some of them
mythical. It is not unreasonable to
characterize this as “faking”...Sadly, it is
the discredited 1874 drawings that are
used in so many British and American
biology textbooks today.
M. K. Richardson, “Haekel’s Embryos, Continued,” letter to Science,
281 (5381):1289
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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