Darwin…

Darwin…In Light of 150 Years of Error!

Darwin Day CelebrationAN INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITY

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CHARLES ROBERT DARWINFebruary 12, 1809 to April 19, 1882

The Evolution of a Global Celebration Of Science and Humanity Darwin's 200th Birthday will occur on February 12, 2009; it will also be the 150th Anniversary of the publication of his famous book, On The Origin of Species. So, together we can evolve a truly international Celebration to express gratitude for the enormous benefits that scientific knowledge, acquired through human curiosity and ingenuity, has contributed to the advancement of humanity. The objective of Darwin Day Celebration is to encourage existing institutions worldwide, such as municipalities, public and private schools, colleges and universities, libraries, museums, churches, private organizations and individuals to celebrate Science and Humanity every year, on, or near, February 12, Darwin's birthday!

The Survey Says…..

Only 4 in 10Believe in Evolution!

Implications

As Darwin is being lauded as one of the most important scientists in history on the 200th anniversary of his birth (on Feb. 12, 1809), and 150 years since his publication “Origin of the Species”, it is perhaps dismaying to scientists who study and respect his work to see that well less than half of Americans today say they believe in the theory of evolution, and that just 55% can associate the man with his theory.

Naturally, some of this is because of educational differences. Americans who have lower levels of formal education are significantly less likely than others to be able to identity Darwin with his theory, and to have an opinion on it either way. Still, the evidence is clear that even to this day, Americans' religious beliefs are a significant predictor of their attitudes toward Darwin's theory. Those who attend church most often are the least likely to believe in evolution, and most likely to say they do not believe in it.

“The central, unifying principle of biology is the theory of evolution, which includes both micro- and macro-evolution, and which extends to ALL species. Someone who ignores the most important theory in biology cannot expect to properly practice in a field that is now so heavily based on biology”

Professor Michael Dini

“The central, unifying principle of biology is the theory of evolution, which includes both micro- and macro-evolution, and which extends to ALL species. Someone who ignores the most important theory in biology cannot expect to properly practice in a field that is now so heavily based on biology”

Professor Michael Dini

Micro evolution = small changes within the same kind of organism

Macro evolution = is the addition of new traits so as to transition into a new and different organism

“Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers (though themselves orthodox) for quoting the Bible as an unanswerable authority on some point of morality”

Charles Darwin

“Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct”

Charles Darwin

“Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind.”

Genesis 1:11-12

“So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind.”

Genesis 1:21

“Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.”

Genesis 1:24-25

Darwin’s Finches

“huge genetic changes turning one kind of animal into another.”

“small changes within the same kind of organism.”

The Fruit Fly

Female Can Lay 100 Eggs a Day, Up To 2,000 in Her Life

Grows From an Egg To An Adult in 10-12 Days

Producing Up To 30 Generations Per Year

The Fruit Fly

These mutations have caused such physical characteristics as eyeless flies, flies with different colored eyes, flies with legs growing from their heads, extra pairs of wings, various colored bodies, wingless flies, flies with unusually large wings, flies with useless wings, flies with twisted wings, etc.

FRUIT FLIES!

“After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro that if a thousand mutations were combined in one specimen, there would still be no new species”

Evolution Can Not Account For the

Origin of Life

“By the end of the nineteenth century there was general agreement that life cannot arise from the nonliving under conditions that now exist upon our planet. The dictum ‘All life from preexisting life’ became the dogma of modern biology, from which no reasonable man could be expected to dissent”

David Kirk

“There is no serious doubt that biogenesis is the rule, that life comes only from other life, that a cell, the unit of life, is always and exclusively the product or offspring of another cell”

George Gaylord Simpson

“First, this course is unusual because at this point in time, there is much that we don’t know about how life emerged on Earth”

“This course focuses exclusively on the scientific approach to the question of life’s origins. In this lecture series, I make an assumption that life emerged from basic raw materials.... Even with this scientific approach, there is a possibility that we’ll never know how life originated.... If life is the result of an infinitely improbable succession of chemical steps, then any scientific attempt to understand life’s origin is doomed to failure.”

Dr. Robert Hazen

“If life comes only from life, does this mean that there was always life on earth? It must, yet we know that this cannot be so. We know that the world was once without life—that life appeared later. How? We think it was by spontaneous generation”

Dr. George Wald

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the

earth.”

Genesis 1:1

To Go To Heaven We Must Obey

God!

The Creator of the Universe!

By Bob Gard – Hollister, Missouri Church of Christ www.hollisterchurchofchrist.org Taken From An Article in February 2009 “Reason and Revelation” Titled “Darwin in Light of 150 Years of Error” By Kyle Butt and Eric Lyons at www.apologeticspress.org March 8, 2009