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To: Lost Highway
First, the scientific community is now almost unanimous in affirming that the universe had a beginning. This is usually referred to in scientific terms as "The Big Bang Theory." Of course, this implies that someone or something brought the universe into existence. - Agreed basically universally.

Secondly, the universe bears all the marks of having been "finely tuned" to make life possible. - Disagree. There are literally billions of stars, and there are ranges of cosmological constants that would cause life for each of them. Besides, you CAN NOT analyze probability from only one case.

Thirdly, the evidence is mounting that life on earth simply could not and did not come into existence through natural processes in a primordial "soup." - Agreed. Nobody even claims to have an answer for this.

Fourthly, the genetic code of all biological life on earth contains evidence of intelligent design. This is because the genetic code contains information comparable to the information in complex computer programs as well as information in books. - How is DNA like a book or computer program exactly. They both contain information?

Fifthly, the fossil record continues to be an embarrassment to the Darwinian theory of evolution. The many transitional forms which Darwin predicted would be found simply have not surfaced. This fact has forced evolutionists to modify Darwin's Theory, often in absurd ways. - For one, the fossil record is obviously incomplete. Also, what absurd ways are there.

In short, it is the theory of naturalistic evolution which is in serious trouble scientifically today, while the Biblical teaching of creation never looked better. - I find their conclusion suspect, and that though there are significant problems with the current theory of the origin of life, there are more significant problems with the biblical account.
10 posted on 04/27/2004 10:01:45 AM PDT by KillBill
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To: KillBill
In short, it is the theory of naturalistic evolution which is in serious trouble scientifically today,...

I agree with this statement and so do many others.

There's an interesting debate going-on at ISCID:

There is only one problem with Darwinian evolution. It is the same problem that Lamarckian evolution has presented. Both Have failed endless critical experimental analyses. Accordingly, both must be rejected. Lamarckism has been largely rejected. Why Darwinism survives is a mystery. I hope I may be forgiven for introducing my own Semi-meiotic Hypothesis, but the simple undeniable fact is that it has not been subjected to experimental analysis. Until it is it must be considered viable. There is also evidence accumulating from molecular biology that fundamental gene families common to huge groups of organisms have existed since very early in evolutionary history, which certainly is compatible with the notion that chromosome restructuring alone can serve to release novel genetic expressions which were latent and unexpressed perhaps for many millions of years. Both the Semi-meiotic Hypothesis and the correlated Prescribed Evolutionary Hypothesis have yet to be even recognized, let alone tested. It may prove that there is really no significant role for micromutational (base pair) genetic alterations in determining evolutionary destiny. In any event, as I and others have indicated, there is no compelling evidence that evolution above the species level is even occurring. That certainly is the perspective of Pierre Grasse, Robert Broom and of all people, the author of "Evolution: The Modern Synthesis", Julian Huxley, not to mention myself. Godfrey Hardy felt that mathematics existed independent of the human condition and needed only to be discovered. I accept that interpretation and have chosen to extend that prefomed concept to include the whole of science to include evolution which I now regard as essentially an emergent phenomenon prescribed just as certainly as were the conic sections, the periodic table of the elements and all of Newtonian physics and Einstein's relativity. Science is nothing but the discovery of what is there. That is the best evidence against the Darwin/Wallace hypothesis. They discovered nothing. They simply reacted to their common reading experience with the works of Malthus and Lyell. The laws of physics have been discovered. The laws that have driven evolution (past tense) will ultimately be discovered. When that finally occurs, and I firmly believe it will, both Lamarckism and Darwinism, like the Phlogiston of chemistry and the Ether of physics will become nothing but historical curiosities.

~Nosivad (John A. Davison, Ph.D.)

40 posted on 04/28/2004 8:45:36 AM PDT by Michael_Michaelangelo
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