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Are these nine good reasons why evolution (all species evolving from one species) cannot be true? Information credit goes to: http://us1.harunyahya.com/?

BillHill "In God We Trust" March 04, 2009 16:50:10

Life cannot emerge by chance... The odds that an average protein molecule forms by chance have been calculated as “1 in 10950, a figure that far exceeds human imagination. In mathematical terms, this figure represents a probability of “zero.”
There is not a single intermediate fossil… Although some 100 million fossils belonging to 250,000 separate species have to date been unearthed, not one supports Darwinism.
“Living fossils” are a response to evolutionary myths... “living fossils” are the fossils that despite being hundreds of millions of years old, they are identical to specimens living today.
The unimaginable information in DNA… It is an absolute fact that DNA cannot form by chance.
Organs with irreducible complexity... For example, eyes and wings possess irreducible complexity. It is impossible for the structures such as the tear gland, retina and iris, that together comprise the eye, to come into being individually in stages.
All the variety of life on Earth appeared suddenly 530 million years ago... Nearly all the phyla (Mollusca, Chordata and similar categories) emerged in the Cambrian Period, 530 million years ago. Only one or two phyla existed in the Pre-Cambrian. For example, there is no difference between the eye of the trilobite, a life form that emerged in the Cambrian, and the eyes of present-day life forms.
Reptiles are not the ancestors of birds... Evolutionists are no longer able to point to Archaeopteryx as an intermediate form between reptiles and birds. Investigations of fossils have shown that the creature is not a transitional form, but rather an extinct species of bird with slightly different characteristics to those of present-day birds.
Fish did not move onto the land... Evolutionists once used to point to the coelacanth as evidence for the myth of a transition from water to dry land. It was thought that the coelacanth was an intermediate life form between fish and amphibians. However, a “living” coelacanth was caught in the Indian Ocean in 1938.
Mutations cannot form new species... Mutations are breakages and dislocations, caused by radiation or chemical effects, in the DNA molecule located in the nucleus of the living cell and that carries genetic information. DNA has a highly complex structure. For that reason, any random change arising in this molecule can only damage it. Mutations usually lead to irreparable damage, deformity and even death. People subjected to the tragedies of Hiroshima, Nagasaki or Chernobyl are living indications of this. The claim that mutations are an evolutionary mechanism is proof of the dilemma facing the theory of evolution.

None of the above

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Absolutely NOT true....overwhelming evidence

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No, evolution is true, we just need more time to find those darn "transitional fossils"

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  • asdf 7 days ago
    asdf

    None of the above

    How about some concrete evidence that god exists billhill? And don't try to quotethe bible, that's about as concrete as quoting something from the National Inquirer. This is why I have little patience for evangelists and the like. Your attacks on evolution for example: you say any random change in DNA can only damage it. Clearly you have never REALLY studied genetics. Look at any basic bacteria culture study that you can perform in a college biology lab and you can simulate evolution.
    -Simply grow a large colony of bacteria that is incapable of producing an enzyme to complete necessary biological pathways. The original dish will obviously have this enzyme because the bacteria can't produce it.
    -After many generations, the colonies will be moved to a new dish.
    -The new dish will have no enzyme on it of course.
    -The results? Surprise! Some of the bacteria will live even though they were denied the vital enzyme! How?!?! MUTATION The bacteria changed so they could either produce the enzyme or go without. The point is that mutations happened and they were a good thing for the bacteria
  • BADGER ~ In The Constitutio... March 04, 2009 20:56:06
    BADGER ~ In The Constitution We Trust

    None of the above

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  • gfreeman~American Atheist~ March 04, 2009 17:04:05
    gfreeman~American Atheist~

    Absolutely NOT true....overwhelming evidence

    I just have a few comments, certainly not all the answers. To me, 1 in 10950 is pretty good odds, this may be a misprint however. If the odds of the lottery were that good, I would actually play. Deniers of evolutionary theory will also point to the lack of transitional fossils, the supposed "missing link". This is an easy argument to make, scientists find one fossil in the evolutionary chain between two others, evolution deniers will always ask where is the transitional fossil. Scientist could not find enough in-between fossils to make these types happy. It's an endless argument. As far as DNA is concerned, the length of DNA chains actually suggests the lack of a designer. A lot of the DNA chain is useless protein chains, just holding the structure together. There is actually no real gene information encoded.
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