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. IRREFUTABLE EXAMPLES OF DESIGN IN NATURE

3. “Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.” Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1987, p. 1

4. 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

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

7. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs. The duick brown aox jumped over the lazf eogs. The duick brosn aox iumped over the lazf eogs.

8. “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

9. 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

10. 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.

11. THE PROBLEM OF IRREDUCIBLE COMPLEXITY

14. Kreb’s Cycle

15. Initiation of glycolysis requires ATP molecules

16. The World’s Smallest Rotary Propulsion System

17. CO-OPTION

18. 30 ADDITIONAL MOLECULAR PARTS NEEDED! FROM WHERE?

19. WOULD ANY EVIDENCE CONVINCE EVOLUTIONISTS? The famous British evolutionist (and Communist) J.B.S. Haldane claimed in 1949 that evolution could never produce “various mechanisms, such as the wheel and magnet, which would be useless till fairly perfect.” Dewar, D., Davies, L.M. and Haldane, J.B.S., (1949) Is Evoution a Myth? A Debate between D. Dewar & L.M. Davies vs. J.B.S. Haldane, Watts & Co. Ltd/Paernoster Press, London, p. 90

20. The Problem: Immediate Design Perfection – or Death!

21. Stephen J. Gould of Harvard: “Organs of extreme perfection proclaim their value unambiguously; the difficulty lies in explaining how they developed…how can a series of reasonable intermediate forms be constructed? Of what value could the first tiny step toward an eye be to its possessor? The dung-mimicking insect is well protected, but can there be any edge in looking only five percent like a [bird dropping]? Darwin’s critics referred to this dilemma as the problem of assigning adaptive value to ‘incipient [incomplete] stages of useful structures….The argument still rages, and organs of extreme perfection rank high in the arsenal of modern creationists.”

22. “Every naturalist has his favorite example of an awe-inspiring adaptation. Mine is the ‘fish’ found in several species of the freshwater mussel Lampsilis. Like most clams, Lampsilis lives partly buried in bottom sediments, with its posterior end protruding. Riding atop the protruding end is a structure that looks for all the world like a little fish. It has a streamlined body, well-designed side flaps complete with a tail and even an eyespot. And, believe it or not, the flaps undulate with a rhythmic motion that imitates swimming.”

23. “Surrounding the fish, symmetrically on both sides, are extensions of the mantle, the ‘skin’ that encloses the soft parts of all clams and usually ends at the shell margin. These extensions are elaborately shaped and colored to resemble a fish, with a definite, often flaring ‘tail’ at one end and an ‘eyespot’ at the other. A special ganglion located inside the mantle edge innervates these flaps. As the flaps move rhythmically, a pulse, beginning at the tail, moves slowly forward to propel a bulge in the flaps along the entire body. This intricate apparatus formed by the marsupium and mantle flaps, not only looks like a fish but also moves like one.”

25. SURINAM TOAD TOAD-ALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR EVOLUTION

26. www.xenopus.com

27. A PREDATOR THAT HIJACKS THE “MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM” OF ITS PREY AND THEN CONVERTS THE SYSTEM FOR ITS OWN SELF DEFENSE

30. Photo courtesy of Jim Christensen – www.uwphoto.net

31. Chemical suppression Selective digestion Specific relocation Live incubation Photos courtesy of Jim Christensen www.uwphoto.net

32. Working in the jaws of death! Is that any way to make a living?

35. “As a fish approaches, the shrimp waves its antennae back and forth to attract attention. If interested, the fish swims over and allows the shrimp to climb aboard. The shrimp moves rapidly over the fish, picking off parasites, investigating irregularities, and cleaning injured areas. As the fish lies quietly, as if in a state of suspended animation, the shrimp is even allowed to make minor incisions to extradite subcutaneous parasites.”

36. “Eventually, the shrimp is allowed full access to the gills and mouth cavity. All this is done with no attempt to harm the shrimp, which would no doubt make a tasty morsel. In no time at all the location of these shrimp becomes well known, and the fish can be seen literally lining up to wait their turn.” L. P. Lester and R. G. Bohlin, The Natural Limit to Bi0logical Change, Prober Ministries Intenational, 1984, p. 31

38. A DRAGONFLY IN THE OINTMENT

39. “The copulatory apparatus of the male dragonfly is one of the most remarkable structures in the Animal Kingdom. The “papal organ” on the pedipalp of the male spider, and the hectoctylous arm of the Cephalopod Mollusc, extraordinary as they are, do not defy all explanation, since in each case they are modifications of an appendage already present. But the apparatus of the male dragonfly is not homologous [similar] with any known organ in the Animal Kingdom; it is not derived from any pre-existing organ: and its origin, therefore, is as complete a mystery as it well could be.” R. J. Tillyard, The Biology of the Dragonfly, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 215

40. GIRAFFE ANATOMY A TALL ORDER FOR EVOLUTION

42. A HEART STOPPING PROPOSAL

44. “Another related question is “What would be the consequences of a 1 or 2% inequity in pumping rates?” Burton (1965) has illustrated the dramatic consequences of a 2% excess pumping rate by the right heart: if the normal blood volumes of 3.3 and 1.7 liters were initially present in the systemic and pulmonary circulations, respectively, and if pumping rates of 5.0 and 5.1 liters/minute were postulated for left and right ventricles, respectively; in 10 minutes of pumping, one liter of blood would be transferred from the systemic to the pulmonary circulation. The resultant volumes would be 2.3 liters in the systemic and 2.7 liters in the pulmonary circulation. Such a situation amounts to an impossible degree of pulmonary congestion. Burton indicates that pulmonary edema and death therefrom would rapidly follow.” Marlyn E. Clark, Our Amazing Circulatory System…By Chance or Creation, Creation Life Pub., San Diego, CA, 1976, p. 21

45. THE BRAIN – A THOUGHT PROVOKING ORGAN

46. Limbic System

48. “In terms of complexity, an individual cell is nothing when compared with a system like the mammalian brain. The human brain consists of about ten thousand million nerve cells. Each nerve cell puts out somewhere in the region of between ten thousand and one hundred thousand connecting fibers by which it makes contact with other nerve cells in the brain.”

49. “Altogether the total number of connections in the human brain approaches 1015 or a thousand million million. Numbers in the order of 1015 are of course completely beyond comprehension. Imagine an area about half the size of the USA (one million square miles) covered in a forest of trees containing ten thousand trees per square mile. If each tree contained one hundred thousand leaves the total number of leaves in the forest would be 1015, equivalent to the number of connections in the human brain!”

50. “Despite the enormity of the number of connections, the ramifying forest of fibers is not a chaotic random tangle but a highly organized network in which a high proportion of the fibers are unique adaptive communication channels following their own specially ordained pathway through the brain.”