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Question Evolution!

The academic powerhouse Creation Ministries International recently launched have launched a “Question Evolution” campaign. Check out the flash video PPSimmons has put together promoting this tectonic revolution in science:

While a fancy looking flyer can be downloaded for the campaign, the biology professor stumping questions can be located on the one web site dedicated to revealing the truth of Jesus’s word – Conservapedia.  I know my readers also frequent Conservipedia everyday and are intimately acquainted with the site (in a totally non-homosexual way, of course), I’ll save you the time and list the knock down arguments against evolution here:

1. How did life originate? How did life with hundreds of proteins originate just by chemistry without intelligent design?
2. How did the DNA code originate? The code is a sophisticated language system with letters and words where the meaning of the words is unrelated to the chemical properties of the letters—just as the information on this page is not a product of the chemical properties of the ink (or pixels on a screen). What other coding system has existed without intelligent design?
3. How could such errors (mutations) create 3 billion letters of DNA information to change a microbe into a microbiologist? How can scrambling existing DNA information create a new biochemical pathway or nano-machines?
4. Why is natural selection taught as ‘evolution’ as if it explains the origin of the diversity of life?
5. How did new biochemical pathways, which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence, originate?
6. Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists know that they were not designed? Why should science be restricted to naturalistic causes rather than logical causes?
7. How did multi-cellular life originate?
8. How did sex originate?
9. Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing?
10. How do ‘living fossils’ remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years?
11. How did blind chemistry create mind/intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality?
12. Why is evolutionary ‘just-so’ story-telling tolerated?
13. Where are the scientific breakthroughs due to evolution? Why do schools and universities teach evolution so dogmatically, stealing time from experimental biology that so benefits humankind?
14. Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as this operational science?
15. Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes? If “you can’t teach religion in science classes”, why is evolution taught?

I am sure the incredible scientists at Creation Ministries International has heard all the evidence for and against each of these points.  People could write entire books on the subject – and some have, so I will not directly address each point here.  Instead, I’ll just ask one simple question:

Let’s pretend we have no answers for any of the above questions – how does that provide any evidence for the god hypothesis you propose?

 

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Countering Atheism

While The Global Atheist Convention was on in Melbourne a rival crowd of around 400 were attending Creation Ministries International rival event “Countering the Rise of Atheism— the Evidence for Creation”.

One can only wonder at which evidence they may have been looking at for all that time, since creation implies the appearance of whole organisms, plants, planets, stars, galaxies, and even matter itself from nothing whatsoever.  Something we are told is impossible by the very people promoting this view.

It is clear reporters of the event did not attend The Global Atheist Convention or have any idea what constitutes science since they deride Dawkins for promoting his new book,(which he didn’t, although they allow Dr Sarfati’s to pimp his new book “The Greatest Hoax on Earth”), refusing to debate “creation scientists” and cast him as the “hero of the faith”.

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Further Reading

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