Posted on 02/19/2015 12:24:31 PM PST by Heartlander
The author swerves back and forth between origin of life, which is only dimly perceived, and evolution, which is verifiable.
From the author’s footnote #202
In recent years, creationism took on new currency as the spiritual progenitor of “intelligent design” (I.D.), a scientifically worded attempt to show that blanks in the evolutionary narrative are more meaningful than its very convincing totality. I.D. lost some of its journalistic heat last December when a federal judge dismissed it as pseudoscience unsuitable for teaching in Pennsylvania schools.
Please tell me how evolution is verifiable? You can’t test it.... since you can’t test it you can’t repeat the test and get the same result (verify it) and since you can’t test it you can’t falsify it. It lies outside the limits of the scientific method.
It is therefore philosophy that is based on the non-existence of a creator and the need for a process to explain the existence of and the diversity of life.
I would argue that the laws of nature argue powerfully for a creator.
Ten Strawman Arguments.
Please help me recall.
I guy that wrote the “Book” on “Chemical Evolution”, the first real attempt was written by who?
I want to say Keynon ? or something similar ?
From my understanding even though he later withdrew his theory, it still is used.
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever have been present. But if (and oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, lights, heat, electricity, etc. present, that a protein compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.
– Darwin
They make the Catholic v Protestant threads look like an afternoon social. To be fair though, iPhone users don't think Android users are headed for the Lake of Fire [cue ominous music] and vice versa.
At least not that I'm aware of:)
oops.
Should read “The guy”
“There was this enormous problem of how you could get together into one tiny sub-microscopic volume of the primitive ocean all of the hundreds of different molecular components you would need in order for a cell replicative cycle to be established. And so my doubts into whether amino acids could order themselves into meaningful biological sequences on their own without pre-existing genetic material being present just reached an intellectual breaking point. The more I conducted my own studies including a period of time at the NASA Ames Research Center the more it became apparent that there were multiple difficulties with the chemical evolution account”.
- Dean Kenyon
I followed the links to the book- “More than a Myth”. The book has several chapters by well respected authors..
Evolution is junk science. It is taught in schools and colleges without any standing evidence. Like where is all the transitional fossils? Why hasn’t any animals evolved if they have been around for millions of years. It is the thought process of the atheist that run the education systems.
I dabble in science and what I discover is this. Not ONE useful idea or invention has come about because of evolutionary or uniformitarian philosophy. The motivation behind all of this scientism is god-hating. They do not want to admit that there is a sovereign God with demands on their life, So, no matter the field, Astronomy, biology, geology, genetics, etc. they substitute man’s ideas for a divine creator.
In arguement #5, the author pretty much uses Darwin's own discussion of the predictive outcome of the fossil record. Are you saying that Darwin set-up his own strawman predictive outcome argument of the fossil record? If he did then he created a heads I win tail you lose outcome predictive outcome. Very clever!
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