atheist delusion- god delusion by richard dawkins
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Evolution – a Theory in CrisisEvolution – a Theory in Crisis
Part 1 of 3 Part 1 of 3 The Scientific BankruptcyThe Scientific Bankruptcy
of Darwinian Evolutionof Darwinian Evolution
Also available:Part 2 of 3 – The Philosophical Bankruptcy of Darwinian EvolutionPart 3 of 3 – The Biblical Creation Alternative & Its Implications
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Richard Dawkins
“No qualified scientist doubts evolution is a fact.”
700 Scientists dissent:“We are sceptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life.”
http://www.dissentfromdarwin.org/
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Charles Darwin(1809-1882)
‘Natural selection’
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Definition of Evolution?
Variation within a ‘kind’ or ‘prototype’?
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Relatives?
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Darwinian evolution’s ‘tree of life’
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A caricature of the ‘creation model’
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The actual creation model
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Small changes (micro-evolution)
+ Millions of years
=
Big changes (macro-evolution)
The central Darwinian Claim
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A sample of what’s involved
• Evolve a 4th chamber in its heart
• Evolve mammary glands and a milk supply
• Evolve a hair covering
• Evolve a temperature control system
• Evolve a corti in the inner ear
• Evolve a diaphragm
To turn into a mammal, a reptile must:
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Carl Sagan’s challenge:
“Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof.”
(1934 – 1996)
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Outline
• 14 ‘Proofs’ dismissed
• 8 Problems discussed
• 3 Pathways discovered
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Proof No. 1The Giraffe
J. Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829)
“Inheritance of acquired
characteristics”
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The Natural History Museum - London
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Proof No. 2Dog Breeding
Variations between dogs tell us nothing about where dogs came from in the first place.
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Proof No. 3Galapagos Finches
Variations between finches tell us nothing about where finches came from in the first place.
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Proof No. 4 The Horse sequence
‘‘The family tree of the horse is beautiful and continuous only in the textbooks.’’
- Heribert-Nilsson, Biologist.
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Proof No. 5 - Peppered Moths
Population shifts between light and dark moths tell us nothing about where the moths came from in the first place.
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Proof No. 6The Fruit Fly
Variations between fruit flies tell us nothing about where fruit flies came from in the first place.
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Darwin’s “three great classes of facts”
1. Similar Body Structure (homology)
2. Similar Embryonic Development
3. Rudiments (vestigial organs)
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Darwin’s claim:Structural similarity proves common ancestry.
Proof No. 7HomologyRatDogHorseBatMolePorpoiseMan
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Claim: arms evolved from pectoral fins
Claim: legs evolved from pelvic fins
Or does it?
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Proof No. 8Similar Embryonic Development
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)
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Darwin’s ‘marvelous fact’…
…is actually fiction.
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Proof No. 9Vestigial Organs
The coccyx is neither functionless nor useless.
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Proof No. 10Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
“Resistance is gained…not by adding something, but by losing it ”
– Dr. Lee Spetner Ph.D
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Proof No. 11 Sickle Cell Anemia
This haemoglobin mutation tells us nothing about where haemoglobin came from in the first place.
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Proof No. 12 Molecular similarity
Anomalies:
• Chimp & human - 7.7% diff.
• No. of chromosomes
• Amount of DNA
• Distance between proteins
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Proof No. 13 Archaeopteryx
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The Hoatzin
Young Hoatzins have claws on their wings for climbing.
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Proof No. 14 ‘Ape-men’
Australopithecus afarensis - ‘Lucy’
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A picture’s worth a thousand words
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….and a few more thousand words
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Proof No. 14 ‘Ape-men’
Australopithecus afarensis - ‘Lucy’
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10 Design features for Upright Posture
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Prof. Simon Conway Morris (Cambridge palaeontologist)
“When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems
to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus…”
(Evolution: Bringing Molecules into the Fold, Cell 100, (Jan 7 2000):1-11)
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8. Mathematics/Probability
3. Natural selection’s limits
4. The Cambrian explosion
5. Lack of transitional fossils
6. Complex beginnings
7. Irreducible complexity
1. The nature of mutations
8 Problems with Darwinism:
2. The limits of mutation
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Three Pathways to a Creator
• InformationComplex specified information demands an intelligent designer.
• EliminationOnly 4 options.
• RevelationEvidences that God has spoken.
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‘‘We take the side of [neo-Darwinian] science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfil many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.’’
(Billions and billions of demons, The New York Review, January 9, 1997, p. 31).
Harvard geneticist Richard LewontinHarvard geneticist Richard Lewontin