and in some respects more correctly than I did.”
— Francis Darwin (ed.). The Autobiography of Charles Darwin and Selected Letters.
1958. (original: 1892). New York: Dover Publications. p. 46.
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What’s wrong with Evolution.
• Extrapolation in the Extreme.
• 2. Evidence is Embellished.
• Explanations are Egregious.
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What’s wrong with Evolution
3. Explanations are Egregious.
The mechanisms evolutionists propose are anti-scientific.
Evolutionists propose to build complexity by using either miracles or negative (randomizing, destructive) processes.
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Cosmic Evolution
Where did the “Big Bang” come from?
The “Big Bang” was an explosion!
(a negative, destructive event)
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Cosmic Evolution
The “Big Bang” was an explosion!
(a negative, destructive event)
Where did the “Big Bang” come from?
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Chemical Evolu
The first self-reproducing cell had to arise from accidental motions of atoms plus raw energy from the Sun (or from volcanoes, or lightning).
Tion
Nobel laureate Francis Crick once wrote:
“An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.”
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Biological Evolution
The wonderful diversity of living things that we find in Earth’s biosphere arose through:
mutations (unplanned changes in DNA —
actually a degrading of the cell’s information)
natural selection (the early deaths of lots of organisms, the weeding out of the “unfit” before they can reproduce)
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What’s wrong with Evolution
• Extrapolation in the Extreme
• 2. Evidence is Embellished.
• Explanations are Egregious.
• Evangelism gets Eviscerated
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What’s wrong with Evolution.
4. Evangelism gets Eviscerated.
Evolutionists/atheists recognize very clearly that evolution undermines the gospel
(and the Bible in general).
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Evolution is the greatest engine of atheism.”