Four Problems with EvolutionFour Problems with Evolution

ComplexityComplexity

ConsciousnessConsciousnessFossilsFossils

LawsLaws

Problem #1: LawsProblem #1: Laws

A Rational Creator (God) Points to a Rational Creation (Science)

A Rational Creator (God) Points to a Rational Creation (Science)

Johannes Kepler

He (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible.

He (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible.

Colossians 1:15-16Colossians 1:15-16

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Problem #2: FossilsProblem #2: Fossils

“The number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed on the earth, (must) be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory.”

“The number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed on the earth, (must) be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory.”

Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species, 1859

Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species, 1859

“The Missing Link?”“The Missing Link?”

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“The Missing Links?”“The Missing Links?”

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“The Missing Links?”“The Missing Links?”

“I fully agree with your comments about the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them … . I will lay it on the line -- there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.”

“I fully agree with your comments about the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them … . I will lay it on the line -- there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.”

Dr. Colin Patterson,Senior Paleontologist of the

British Museum of Natural History, about his book,

Evolution

Dr. Colin Patterson,Senior Paleontologist of the

British Museum of Natural History, about his book,

Evolution

No Fossils by 1995No Fossils by 1995“I found that out back in the 1960s as I tried in vain to document examples of the kind of slow, steady directional change we all thought ought to be there, ever since Darwin told us that natural selection should leave precisely such a telltale signal as we collect our fossils up cliff faces. I found instead, that once species appear in the fossil record, they tend not to change much at all. Species remain imperturbably, implacably resistant to change as a matter of course.”

“I found that out back in the 1960s as I tried in vain to document examples of the kind of slow, steady directional change we all thought ought to be there, ever since Darwin told us that natural selection should leave precisely such a telltale signal as we collect our fossils up cliff faces. I found instead, that once species appear in the fossil record, they tend not to change much at all. Species remain imperturbably, implacably resistant to change as a matter of course.”

Niles EldredgeNiles Eldredge

Colossians 1:15-16

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth. All things were created through Him and for Him.

Colossians 1:15-16

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth. All things were created through Him and for Him.

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Problem #3: ComplexityProblem #3: Complexity

Problem #3: ComplexityProblem #3: Complexity

Michael Behe, PhDProfessor of Biochemistry

Lehigh University

Michael Behe, PhDProfessor of Biochemistry

Lehigh University

“In Darwin’s day, a cell under a microscope, looked like a glob of Jello with a dark spot as the nucleus. It could do interesting things, but they didn’t know how. We know now the single cell organism is an incredibly intricate Lilliputian world where a typical cell takes ten million million atoms to build.”

“In Darwin’s day, a cell under a microscope, looked like a glob of Jello with a dark spot as the nucleus. It could do interesting things, but they didn’t know how. We know now the single cell organism is an incredibly intricate Lilliputian world where a typical cell takes ten million million atoms to build.”

A hair from a bacteria is like a complex motor. It rotates up to 100,000 rpm!

“Very Fast Flagellar Rotation,” Nature, 1994

A hair from a bacteria is like a complex motor. It rotates up to 100,000 rpm!

“Very Fast Flagellar Rotation,” Nature, 1994

By comparison, a high-revving Honda S2000, with a state-of-the-art four

cylinder, two-liter, dual overhead cam engine has a redline of only 9000

rpms.

By comparison, a high-revving Honda S2000, with a state-of-the-art four

cylinder, two-liter, dual overhead cam engine has a redline of only 9000

rpms.

Colossians 3:16-17

For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth... And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

Colossians 3:16-17

For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth... And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

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Laminin Protein:

The laminin protein is made up of three separate parts, called the A, B1, and B2 chains. That gives it a total of six "ends", which accounts for a lot of its flexibility in connecting various kinds of molecules.

Laminin Protein:

The laminin protein is made up of three separate parts, called the A, B1, and B2 chains. That gives it a total of six "ends", which accounts for a lot of its flexibility in connecting various kinds of molecules.

Problem #4: ConsciousnessProblem #4: Consciousness

Michael RuseMichael Ruse

Darwinist philosopher Michael Ruse candidly concedes that no one, certainly not Darwinians, seems to have any answer to the consciousness issue.

Darwinist philosopher Michael Ruse candidly concedes that no one, certainly not Darwinians, seems to have any answer to the consciousness issue.

J.P. MorelandProf. of Philosophy,

Biola University

J.P. MorelandProf. of Philosophy,

Biola University

“If the universe began with dead matter having no consciousness, how do you get something totally different from materials that don’t have that? But if everything started with the mind of God, we don’t have a problem explaining the origin of our mind.”

“If the universe began with dead matter having no consciousness, how do you get something totally different from materials that don’t have that? But if everything started with the mind of God, we don’t have a problem explaining the origin of our mind.”

Genesis 2:7

Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Colossians 1:18

(Jesus) is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

Genesis 2:7

Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Colossians 1:18

(Jesus) is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

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Pascal’s WagerPascal’s Wager