TATEMENTS of CIENCE and CRIPTURE

1. THE CASE FOR CREATION S TATEMENTS of CIENCE and CRIPTURE E XHIBITED XAMINED XPLAINED E 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

2. A CRITIQUE OF TEXTBOOK ARGUMENTS FOR THE GENERAL THEORY OF EVOLUTION – Pt. 1

4. MILLER’S FATAL FLAWS 1. Exclusion of oxygen (UV oxygen dilemma) 2. Inclusion of methane and ammonia 3. Unrealistic levels of UV light and electricity 4. An artificial trap used to isolate compounds 5. The few amino acids were 50% racemic 6. 99% of compounds produced were toxic

5. FIFTY YEARS OF FAILURE 1. No success producing all 20 amino acids 2. No success producing all 4 nucleotides 3. No satisfactory synthesis of sugars 4. No satisfactory synthesis of fatty acids 5. No successful synthesis of non-racemates 6. No exclusive production of biological units

6. ADDITIONAL FATAL ROADBLOCKS 1. Water – Vastly favors depolymerization 2. The laws of chemical cross-reaction 3. Instability of building block molecules 4. No physical evidence of a primordial soup 5. No reasonable mathematical probability

8. All right-handed sugars…… 1/10300 All correct biological bonds…… 1/10300 Exclusion of non-biological units…… 1/101000

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11. “Six monkeys, set to strum unintelligently on typewriters for millions of years, would be bound in time to write all the books in the British Museum.” Sir James Jeans, The Mysterious Universe, p. 4, NY, Macmillan & Co

12. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

13. 1080 – number of monkeys involved 1010 – random sequences per second 1020 – seconds (approx 3 trillion years) 10110 – total random sequences 10280 – probability of success by chance 10170 – resultant probability = zero!

16. …more than 40 years of work has failed to produce any convincing detailed scheme as to how living cells could have evolved from simple organic molecules. Palmer, T., Controversy: Catastrophism & Evolution, Kluwer Academic, 1999, p. 264

17. The origin of life. There is no consensus at all here – lots of theories, little science. That’s one of the reasons we didn’t cover it in the [PBS] series. The evidence wasn’t very good. PBS producer Richard Hutton, Washington Post online forum

18. “It’s a shame that there are precious few hard facts when it comes to the origin of life... the how part has everybody stumped. Nobody knows how a mixture of lifeless chemicals spontaneously organized themselves into the first living cell.” Paul Davies (Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie Univ.), Born Lucky, New Scientist, Vol. 179 (2403):32, July 12, 2003

19. DEFINING TERMS What kind of “evolution” really occurs? Most Modern Creationists Agree: • Change over time happens • Descent with modification occurs • Mutations produce inheritable changes • Natural selection is an observable fact • Speciation does occur

20. THE CREATIONIST CONTENTION The Observed Changes: Mutations Natural Selection Speciation All take place without any information gain which is required for the general theory of evolution to be true. In fact, such changes only result in segregation, corruption and loss of information.

27. H. Pylori (Helicobacter pylori) Antibiotic Absorbed through the cell wall H. Pylori produces an enzyme that converts the antibiotic into a poison. The poison kills the bacterium.

28. Mutant H. pylorilacks the abilityto produce enzyme. Antibiotic H. pylori Absorbed through the cell wall MUTANT Ha Ha Ha! No enzyme No poison No death Survived because of LESS information

29. Some further examples of mutational loss of information causing an advantage preserved by natural selection: - Flightless Beetles - Eyeless Cave Fish - Sickle Cell Trait

33. The gene pool of the new variety is more limited than before and less able to adapt to future changes. Chihuahuas cannot produce Great Danes. Genetic information was lost not added.

36. Just as in a real book misprints are more likely to produce nonsense than better sense, so mutations will almost always be deleterious, almost always, in fact, they will kill the organism or the cell... John C. Kendrew, The Thread of Life, Harvard Univ Press, pp 106-107

37. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The duick brown aox jumps over the lazf eog. The duick brosn aox iumps over the lazf eog.

38. An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one’s watch or one’s radio set will seldom make it work better. Theodosius Dobzhansky, Heredity and the Nature of Man, p. 105

39. We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully “designed” to have come into existence by chance. Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, W. W. Norton & Co., New York, p. 43

40. DESIGNED BY THE BLIND WATCHMAKER? Evolutions “watchmaker” is both blind and brainless.

41. THE NATURAL SELECTION DECEPTION • It can’t be invoked for prebiotic evolution. “I would like to plead with you, simply, please realize you cannot use the words, ‘natural selection’ loosely. Prebiological natural selection is a contradiction in terms.” T. Dobzhansky, The Origins of Pregiological Systems and of Their Molecular Matrices, p. 11, 1965

42. THE NATURAL SELECTION DECEPTION • 2. Natural selection has no creative power Natural selection has no consciousness, intelligence, foresight or creative capability at all. It is at the mercy of random processes because it can only select what random mutations create.

43. “For a greatly improved eye or brain to appear suddenly, a thousand such changes [mutations] must occur at once in a single animal, all accidental, and yet in a favorable direction. That would be as unlikely as to toss a coin in the air and have it come up heads a thousand times in a row.” R. Jastrow, “Selection for Perfection,” Science Digest, December, 1981, p. 86

44. WORMS EVOLVING AN EYE WITH A 1 IN 2 PROBABILITY OF GETTING A GOOD MUTATION VERSUS A LETHAL MUTATION 1024 – planets involved 1016 – square feet per planet 1010 – worms per square foot 1013 – mutations per worm per year 1014 – years of time allowed 1077 – total sequences attempted 1 in 10223 – resultant probability = zero!

45. ATP ADP + PI

46. Kreb’s Cycle

47. Initiation of glycolysis requires ATP molecules

48. THE PROBLEM – RANDOM PROCESSES (INCLUDING MUTATIONS) DON’T PRODUCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS “There is no known natural law through which matter can give rise to information, neither is any physical process or material phenomenon known that can do this.” Werner Gitt, In the Beginning Was Information, p. 64-67, 1997

49. THE PROBLEM – RANDOM PROCESSES (INCLUDING MUTATIONS) DON’T PRODUCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS “Biological information is not encoded in the laws of physics and chemistry...(and it) cannot come into existence spontaneously...There is no known law of physics able to create information from nothing.” Paul Davies, Life force, New Scientist, 163(2204):27-30, Sept 18, 1999

50. THE PROBLEM – RANDOM PROCESSES (INCLUDING MUTATIONS) DON’T PRODUCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS “Any living thing possesses an enormous amount of ‘intelligence’...Today, this ‘intelligence’ is called ‘information,’ but it is still the same thing...This ‘intelligence’ is the sine qua non of life. If absent, no living being is imaginable. Where does it come from? This is a problem which concerns both biologists and philosophers, and, at present, science seems incapable of solving it.” P. Grasse, Evolution of Living Organisms, Academic Press, 1977, p. 13