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www.WhoMadeWhom.com
Hadrosaur
Announced in 2007
Discovered in 1999!
2008 at the
Smithsonian
It was the sponge .
Man
Shrew Chimpanzee
Opossum
Cynognathus
Seymouria
Trematops
Eusthenopteron
Darwin’s
Finches
Microevolution
or
Adaptation
of the kinds
The known fossil record fails to
document a single example of phyletic
evolution accomplishing a major
morphologic transition (structural
change), and hence offers no evidence
that the gradulalistic model (of
evolution by natural selection) can be
valid.
Steven Stanley in Macroevolution
Is this just a mouse with really
long forelimbs and fingers?
www.DissentfromDarwin.org
• " We are skeptical of claims for the ability
of random mutation and natural selection
to account for the complexity of life.
Careful examination of the evidence for
Darwinian theory should be encouraged."
www.DissentfromDarwin.org
• " We are skeptical of claims for the ability
of random mutation and natural selection
to account for the complexity of life.
Careful examination of the evidence for
Darwinian theory should be encouraged."
• Darwin skeptics: www.rae.org contains
over 2000 names of trained scientists who
are “skeptical.” And another 1000 who are
not willing to sign it for fear of reprisal.
Hebrews 13:13 Let us, then, go to him
outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he
bore.
Hebrews 13:13 Let us, then, go to him
outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he
bore.
14 For here we do not have an enduring
city, but we are looking for the city that is
to come.
Hebrews 13:13 Let us, then, go to him
outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he
bore.
14 For here we do not have an enduring
city, but we are looking for the city that is
to come.
15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us
continually offer to God a sacrifice of
praise--the fruit of lips that confess his
name.
NIV
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Some of the DNA controls gene
expression, but still there are
huge amounts that appear to be
nothing more than “junk.”
Some of the DNA controls gene
expression, but still there are
huge amounts that appear to be
nothing more than “junk.”
Romans 8:20-23
Romans 8:20-23
I Corinthians 15:53-58
Macroevolution of the Reptiles
“This idea is tremendously important . . .
there is a kind of biological brotherhood
that’s much more profound than we ever
realized.”
Stephen Jay Gould
Nature Genetics volume 15 1997
Mitchell M. Holland lab
Nature Genetics volume 15 1997
Thomas J. Parsons, et. al.
“The observed (mutation) rate reported here
is very high compared to rates inferred from
evolutionary studies.”
Emphasis added
Mitchell M. Holland lab
Nature Genetics volume 15 1997
Thomas J. Parsons, et. al.
“The observed (mutation) rate reported here
is very high compared to rates inferred from
evolutionary studies.”
“(An evolutionary study) yielding one of the
faster estimates gave the (mutation) rate of . . .
~1/600 generations. . . . Thus, our observation
is roughly 20-fold higher than would be
predicted from (evolutionary) analyses.”
Emphasis added
Mitchell M. Holland lab
Nature Genetics volume 15 1997
Thomas J. Parsons, et. al.
“Using our empirical rate to calibrate the
mtDNA molecular clock would result in an
age for (modern man’s last common ancestor)
of only ~6,500 years,
Emphasis added
Mitchell M. Holland lab
Nature Genetics volume 15 1997
Thomas J. Parsons, et. al.
“Using our empirical rate to calibrate the
mtDNA molecular clock would result in an
age for (modern man’s last common ancestor)
of only ~6,500 years, clearly incompatible
with the known age of modern humans.”
Emphasis added
Mitchell M. Holland lab
Nature Genetics volume 15 1997
Thomas J. Parsons, et. al.
“Using our empirical rate to calibrate the
mtDNA molecular clock would result in an
age for (modern man’s last common ancestor)
of only ~6,500 years, clearly incompatible
with the known age of modern humans.”
And another reseacher responded to these
results in Science vol. 279, 1998; “No one
thinks that’s the case, . . .”
Emphasis added
(evolutionary)
(empirical)
(evolutionary)
(empirical)
“There is no evidence that any one factor
explains this discrepancy, (possibilities are)
mutational hot spots, selection, and random
genetic drift and the limitations of
phylogenetic (evolutionary) approaches . . .”
Neil Howell, et.al., Am.J.Hum.Genet. 72:659-70, 2003
Thus, empirically speaking . . .
best estimates are ~ 6,500 years
to modern Man’s
last common ancestor (Eve!)
What does the Platypus
What does the Platypus
and the Coelacanth
have in common?
The Coelacanth
According to the fossil record this type of fish was
thought to have been extinct for nearly 100 million
years . . . until one was caught in the mid-1900s.