Evolution is a word with many meanings. This is problematic and at least part of the reason why evolution is one of the most hotly debated topics in our world today. I object to one definition of evolution: the one more accurately called "molecules-to-man evolution." This theory contends that over billions of years, non-living material like rocks turned into simple cellular life, which turned into more complex cellular organisms, which eventually turned into plants and animals and people. It is noteworthy that no one has ever observed any life form change into another life form, despite the fact that based on Darwin's theory, there would be "innumerable" intermediate life form fossils because of such changes. Another event that has never been observed is the spontaneous generation of life from non-living matter. In fact, Louis Pasteur proved that this is impossible in a famous experiement years ago.
I object to this theory because it is scientifically unsound, and despite the fact that it is the most popular theory of origins today. I will be writing more about this, but first I want to present just a few of the scientific problems with the theory of evolution.
This document summarizes much of the complexity of evolutionary theory, and gives a good idea of why evolution isn't as complete or workable a theory as many people believe. One interesting quote: "RNA requires complex biochemistry, hence proteins must have come first, but proteins cannot be improved by replicative selection like RNA, so RNA must have come first." RNA and protein need eachother to survive, and neither could have developed without the other already being there.
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In Michael Denton's book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, he argues at length that the neo-Darwinian synthesis is a failed scientific paradigm. It bears noting that Denton is an agnostic in matters of religious faith; thus in criticizing Darwinism he has no religious ax to grind. The problems facing Darwinism are there, and they are glaring: the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of multicellular life, the origin of sexuality, the gaps in the fossil record, the biological big bang that occurred in the Cambrian era, the development of complex organ systems, and the development of irreducibly complex molecular machines are just a few of the more serious difficulties that confront every theory of evolution that posits only purposeless, material processes.
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The Five Crises in Evolutionary Theory:
- The unsubstantiation of a Darwinian mechanism of evolution
- The total failure of origin of life studies to produce a workable model
- The inability of evolutionary mechanism to explain the origin of complex adaptations
- The bankruptcy of the blind watchmaker hypothesis
- The biological evidence that the rule in nature is morphological stability over time and not constant change.
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Two of the biggest weaknesses of evolutionary theory are:
- There is no adequate explanation for the origin of life from dead chemicals. Even the simplest life form is tremendously complex.
- The fossil record, our only documentation of whether evolution actually occurred in the past, lacks any transitional forms, and all types appear fully-formed when first present. The evidence that "pre-men" (ape-men) existed is dubious at best. So called pre-man fossils turn out to be those of apes, extinct apes, fully man, or historical frauds.
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