In Darwin’s Own Words

Darwin, himself, knew that there must be innumerable transitional species. There must be millions if we gradually evolved from, as my professor likes to say, “from Amoebas to College Students”

In the sixth chapter I enumerated the chief objections which might be justly urged against the views maintained in this volume. Most of them have now been discussed. One, namely, the distinctness of specific forms and their not being blended together by innumerable transitional links, is a very obvious difficulty… But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against my theory.
Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
http://www.classicreader.com/book/107/69

But there are none. Not one, although they are still desperately looking. Lucy was a lemur, not a human.
Where is the half-fish-half amphibian? Where is the half-amphibian-half reptile?
Where is the half-man-half-ape?
He doesn’t exist.
He never did.

The only explanation is: And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7 KJV)

Ida and Other “Missing Links”

Is “Ida” a missing link?

Isn’t the newly publicized Darwinius masillae a transitional life form?

According to the Institute for Creation Research, no. Ida has no transitional characteristics. She is an extinct form of monkey at best. Read their story at http://www.icr.org/article/4637/ (besides, Ida has a tail. Apes do not have tails.)

What about other missing links?

There are also no missing links between fish and amphibians. No half-amphibian-half-reptile, no half-reptile-half bird (archaeoptryx is wishful thinking. It is all bird) no half-reptile-half mammal.
And we can no longer blame the scarcity of the fossil records. The fossils have been found. The book of Genesis was clearly right:

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. (Genesis 1:25 KJV)

Man Did Not Evolve from Apes

Misconception 1: Man evolved from Apes

So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Genesis 1:27 KJV)

Just about anyone in the “civilized” world has seen the little chart showing man looking like an ape, hunched over, and gradually standing more upright, losing his hair and looking more like a man. You have also most certainly heard of the “missing link”

What is the problem with that? Well, when Darwin postulated the idea of evolution, there was a scarcity of fossils. He expected that as time progressed, archaeologists would find transitional life forms (Missing links).

“Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely-graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.” [1]

The problem? In the approximate 140 years since Darwin wrote, archaeologists have found not one “missing link”.

Not one.

 1 The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of the Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1872)
Page 293
Charles Darwin

Mutations Cannot Explain Complex Life

Misconception 2: We evolved over series of Mutations

1. How do you suppose that both male and female mutations were formed exactly the same way and found each other within their lifetimes to reproduce? (And this had to happen for millions of life forms!)
2. Animals kill their mutated offspring
3. Even if they live, mutations do not ‘improve’ the species they are destructive. No viable exception has ever been found.
4. A change from one life form to another involves a dramatic change in DNA. And if you’ve ever seen DNA being replicated you would realize this is impossible.
5. If you can watch the above video and still believe that life is just an accident, you have more faith than I do!
6. Not only does the DNA replication process (above) make this impossible, but DNA is continously being repaired.

The World is Only Few Thousand Years Old

Misconception 3: The Universe is Billions of years old

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. (Genesis 2:2 KJV)

Actually, there is more evidence that the Earth is only somewhere in the neighborhood of 13,000 years old. Maybe even less. But you’ll certainly never hear that from the evolutionists. That would blow their theory straight out of the water, wouldn’t it?

• There is only a few thousand years of dust accumulated on the moon
• The Speed of Light is Slowing Down!
• Radio halos show that rocks formed abruptly. Not over eons and eons.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, I am going to direct you to read a book that is now available in HTML format online. You don’t have to buy the book. Just click and read. Enjoy!

http://www.creationism.org/ackerman/index.htm

Irreducible Complexity

Misconception 4: Life Forms evolve incrementally from very simple to more complex

Cause-effect patterns have to exist to explain everything because if everything in the universe is the product of randomness, science would be impossible. ~Einstein

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case.” Charles Darwin [1]

This is describing what is known as “Irreducible Complexity” If a life form has separate functions that cannot be separated without causing the organism to stop functioning, then evolution could not explain it.

The Bombardier Beetle was once used as primae facie evidence of irreducible complexity but it has since been ruled out. The beetle mixes two caustic chemicals together and squirts its would-be predators with a bomb. The chemicals are stored in the body separately and mixed together when ejected to make an explosion that can kill attacking insects and injure small animals.

Bacterial Flagellum (Photo, below, courtesy Access Research Network) are now hands-down the masters of irreducible complexity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria Inside the bacteria is a little motor that spins what looks like a tail to propel the bacteria from place to place. Like an electric motor, it has a stator, a rotor, bushings and more. No way could the little motor evolve piece-by-piece and be functional. The bacteria would starve. http://www.arn.org/docs/mm/flag_labels.htm The flagellum has been said to be the most efficient machine known to man. Immeasurably more efficient than man can design.

1 On the Origin of Species

Dinosaurs and Men Walked the Earth Together

Misconception 5: Dinosaurs Became Extinct 65 Million Years Before Man Appeared

Carvings of dinosaurs on a rock… dated at 3,500 years old. Now how do you suppose those people knew what a dinosaur looked like? http://www.hecklerspray.com/awesome-or-off-putting-dinosaurs-man-hand-in-hand/20065436.php

See for yourself. Human footprints next to and overlapping dinosaur footprints. http://www.bible.ca/tracks/taylor-trail.htm

Trilobites have also been smashed by a sandaled footprint. Trilobites were supposed to have become extinct before the dinosaurs! http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy/meister.html

Granite was Formed in Minutes – Not Eons!

Polonium Radiohalos prove that granite did not take millions of years to form

Inside of granite are little microscopic halos of decomposing polonim. According to Wikipedia, Polonium has many isotopes whose half-life ranges from six months to 103 years. Therefore, if the polonium was decaying as granite formed for even a few years, there could be no radiohalos. They would have dispersed eons before the granite soldified. Other radiohalos have been found from isotopes with half-lives measured in seconds.

The website halos.com equates finding polonium radiohalos in granite to finding Alka Seltzer bubbles in ice. You could only assume that the ice had been frozen very quickly.

See http://www.halos.com/

Animal Communication Cannot be Explained by Evolution

Animal Communication

Animals of all kinds communicate. This is so amazing that though it is not prima facie evidence for a Creator, it should make one wonder!

• Whales can communicate over thousands of miles [1]. They have a language we have not yet figured out.
• Chickens communicate. With a cluck a momma hen can get her chicks to form up or to follow her. I used to watch them for hours when I was a kid.
• Even the tiniest of ants and bees communicate! [2]

1 Christopher Clark: Whales off Newfoundland can hear whales near Bermuda
By David Brand
Cornell University
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/05/2.24.05/AAAS.Clark.whales.html

2 Social Insects And How They Communicate
Dr William Foster
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/495/

Animal Weapons Could Not Have Evolved

Animal Weapons

Tell me how this critter ate before his little weapon evolved!

Can Science Explain the Origin of Life?

What is life and what is not?

What is “life?” One definition is an organism that can grow, reproduce, and have a metabolism (ongoing chemical reactions) as opposed to a dead organism, or inanimate matter. While this may seem fairly straightforward, it excludes some elements that we may instinctively consider alive. Are seeds that lie dormant for years alive? If they are not, what defines the instant in which they become “alive?” If seeds are already alive, what makes them so? No chemical reactions are occurring, i.e. no signs of life.

What about so-called gram-positive bacteria that run out of nutrients? When they sense that they cannot continue to live, they put their biochemical energy into creating spores. In harsh environments, gram-positive bacteria cease to exist after creating spores. Are bacterial spores alive? Spores, like seeds, can remain dormant for decades with no signs of chemical reactions. Then, they spring to life as bacteria when the environment supplies nutrients, proper environmental conditions, and moisture. These bacteria are genetically identical to the bacteria that produced the spores. If spores are not alive, then what confers life to them resulting in live bacteria?

Evolution

Can evolution explain life? No. It only depicts how life evolved once there was life. If the fundamental ingredient of the universe were preprogrammed to evolve into life, this would be a new evolution theory. This is what many scientists including Richard Dawkins contend.

Lucky us

The mathematical odds of having the stuff of our universe (at least the stuff we know) “evolve” into life are vanishingly small. Sir Fred Hoyle likened the probability of random emergence of single-celled life to the probability of a Boeing 747 assembling as the result of a tornado whirling through a junkyard. Some scientists say: no problem, just have numerous universes (perhaps an infinite number) each having trillions of planets hosting tornadoes for billions of years. In one of these worlds life will result and evolve to us. Furthermore, since the conditions for life might exist on some the millions of other planets (yes, there could be that many), life might be common in our universe. Almost all of the other universes will be devoid of life. However, this assertion presumes parallel universes or multiverses-hidden worlds along side ours.

Does this explanation debunk spirituality?

Suppose we accept this story of life’s beginning. What or who created all these worlds? Why were all these created-so that there would be life? Thus, this seemingly bizarre rationalization of how life begun does not address the what, who, or why. Dawkins employs the multiverse conjecture to show how God is a delusion. Wrong! The multiverse argument can be consistent with spiritual teachings which generally include God.

The difference between knowledge, contention, and fact.

Science using accumulated knowledge contends that parallel universes or multiverses might explain the origin of life. Theories should be testable. Even published experiments must be reproducible or be retracted. Many scientists doubt that the concept of parallel universes and multiverses can ever be tested. Spiritual wisdom from across time, geography, and cultures has similar teachings. I believe that time has tested these beliefs and reproduced them.

Healing the rift. Bridging the gap between science and spirituality.

Scientists have been humbled by revelations of the last several decades: parallel worlds, missing dark ingredients of the universe, and the mysterious stuff in a vacuum. Numerous physicists are declaring the world as spiritual. We are blessed with the gift of life. By incorporating both the spiritual as well as the scientific, I believe that we enjoy a more opulent life.

Leo Kim, Ph.D. was a research associate at MIT, scientist, and executive in the biotechnology industry. He studied with healers such as Barbara Brennan, Bernie Siegel, and Deepak Chopra, and is a certified clinical hypnotherapist. For more information, and to learn about his new book, Healing the Rift, visit: http://healingtheriftbook.com/

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Leo_Kim
http://EzineArticles.com/?Can-Science-Explain-the-Origin-of-Life?&id=1612948

Oil could not have taken thousands of years to form

Oil Creation Theory Challenged by Fuel-Making Fungus

Animals decompose or are eaten before they get a chance to turn into oil.

Oil Creation Theory Challenged by Fuel-Making Fungus

A newfound fungus living in rainforest trees makes biofuel more efficiently than any other known method, researchers say.

In fact, it’s so good at turning plant matter into fuel that researchers say their discovery calls into question the whole theory of how crude oil was made by nature in the first place.

While many crops and microbes can be combined to make biofuels – including the fungi that became infamous as jungle rot during WWII – the newfound fungus could greatly simplify the process, its discoverers claim. Researchers have suggested that billions of acres of fallow farmland could be used to grow the raw material of biofuels. But turning corn stalks or switchgrass into fuel is a painstaking process and the end product is expensive and not entirely friendly to the environment.

The fungus, which has been named Gliocladium roseum, stands out in the crowd.

“This is the only organism that has ever been shown to produce such an important combination of fuel substances,” said researcher Gary Strobel from Montana State University. “The fungus can even make these diesel compounds from cellulose, which would make it a better source of biofuel than anything we use at the moment.”

The scientists are now working to develop its fuel producing potential, according to a paper published in the November issue of the journal Microbiology.

The fungus grows inside the Ulmo tree in the Patagonian rainforest in South America. “When we examined the gas composition of G. roseum, we were totally surprised to learn that it was making a plethora of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon derivatives,” the stuff of diesel, Strobel said. The fuel it produces has been dubbed “myco-diesel.”

Cellulose, lignin and hemicellulose make up the cell walls in plants. They makes the stalks, sawdust and woodchip and cannot be digested by most living things. Some 400 million tons of this plant waste is produced ever year just from farmland, Strobel and his colleagues say. In current biofuel production, this waste is treated with enzymes called cellulases that turn the cellulose into sugar. Microbes then ferment this sugar into ethanol that can be used as a fuel.

If G. roseum can be used commercially to make fuel, a step could be skipped.

“We were very excited to discover that G. roseum can digest cellulose. Although the fungus makes less myco-diesel when it feeds on cellulose compared to sugars, new developments in fermentation technology and genetic manipulation could help improve the yield,” Strobel explained. “In fact, the genes of the fungus are just as useful as the fungus itself in the development of new biofuels.”

The discovery also questions assumptions about how fossil fuels are made.

“The accepted theory is that crude oil, which is used to make diesel, is formed from the remains of dead plants and animals that have been exposed to heat and pressure for millions of years,” Strobel said. “If fungi like this are producing myco-diesel all over the rainforest, they may have contributed to the formation of fossil fuels.”

Ant Algorithms Argue Against Evolutionary Origins

Ant Algorithms Argue Against Evolutionary Origins

By Brian Thomas, M.S.

Traffic jams are a frustrating part of modern life, and many dream of the kind of uncongested roadway systems shown in futuristic movies like Minority Report. But some researchers have suggested that ideal traffic management algorithms already exist—in ants.

University of Sydney entomologist Audrey Dussutour told Wired Science that she has “been working with ants for eight years, and [has] never seen a traffic jam.” Dr. Dussutour already knew that ants organize themselves for optimum efficiency when they are in wide paths with many lanes. In their new study, she and her coauthors reported that when the insects traveled on the equivalent of a one-lane road, they employed tactics enabling them to maximize their overall efficiency.

One of the “solutions… to prevent overcrowding” on a narrow track is that outbound ants gave way to inbound ants carrying loads. Further, non-laden inbound ants slowed down rather than speeding up to pass the slower, laden ants in front of them. “The insects could waste up to 64 s [seconds] on a 300 cm bridge. However, by slowing down and following an unimpeded cargo-carrying ant, the empty-handed foragers would only be delayed by 32 s, returning faster than if they’d muscled past.” Also, “unladen returning ants avoided outbound foragers by moving to the side.

(Click Here to read the story)

Why There is a God

This sums it up pretty well. This man is brilliant. The late Dr. James Kennedy interviews Dr. Ravi Zacharais. Dr.  Zacharias explains why the universe could not have possibly just “happened”. We had to have been created.

‘Everybody’ In the Civilized World Believes in Evolution, Don’t they?

Everyone in the civilized world believes in evolution,
don’t they?

Think again. Only 14% of respondants think that God has nothing to do with our existence. Below are the results of Gallup polls going back from 2008 to 1982.

Reprinted with permission of GALLUP
See the entire poll. It has some very interesting statistics.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/Evolution-Creationism-Intelligent-Design.aspx

The Amazing Camel

This has been going around in email for a while. I have not investigated every claim, but I’ve read enough about camels to know that it is not out “in left field”.

The Amazing Camel and Its Creator
(From Moody Press)

If you ever doubted that God exists, meet the very technical, highly engineered Dromedary Camel.

When I’m hungry, I’ll eat almost anything- a leather bridle, a piece of rope, my master’s tent, or a pair of shoes.

The Amazing Dromedary Camel

My mouth is so tough a thorny cactus doesn’t bother it. I love to chow down grass and other plants That grow here on the Arabian desert

I’m a dromedary camel, the one-hump kind that lives on hot deserts in the Middle East.
 
My hump, all eighty pounds of it, is filled with fat- my body fuel- not water, as some people believe. My Mighty Maker gave it to me because He knew I wouldn’t always be able to find food as I travel across the hot sands. When I don’t find any chow, my body automatically Takes fat from the hump, feeds my system, and keeps me going strong. This is my emergency food supply.

If I can’t find any plants to munch, my body uses up my hump. When the hump gets smaller, it starts to tip to one side. But when I get to a nice oasis and begin to eat again, My hump soon builds back to normal.
 

I’ve been known to drink twenty-seven gallons of water in ten minutes. My Master Designer made me in such a fantastic way that In a matter of minutes all the water I’ve swallowed Travels to the billions of microscopic cells that make up my flesh. Naturally, the water I swallow first goes into my stomach. There, thirsty blood vessels absorb and carry it to every part of my body. Scientists have tested my stomach and found it empty ten minutes after I’ve drunk twenty gallons.
 

In an eight hour day I can carry a four hundred pound load A hundred miles across a hot, dry desert And not stop once for a drink or something to eat. In fact, I’ve been known to go eight days without a drink, but then I look a wreck. I lose 227 pounds, my ribs show through my skin, and I look terribly skinny. But I feel great! I look thin because the billions of cells lose their water. They’re no longer fat. They’re flat.

Camel with Hump Depleted

Normally my blood contains 94 percent water, just like yours. But when I can’t find any water to drink, the heat of the sun gradually robs a little water out of my blood. Scientists have found that my blood can lose up to 40 percent of its water, and I’m still healthy.
 

Doctor’s say human blood has to stay very close to 94 percent water. If you lose 5 percent of it, you can’t see anymore; 10 percent, you can’t hear and you go insane; 12 percent, your blood is as thick as molasses and your heart can’t pump the thick stuff. It stops, and you’re dead.

But that’s not true with me.
Why?
Scientists say my blood is different.
My red cells are elongated. Yours are round.
Maybe that’s what makes the difference

This proves I’m designed for the desert, or the desert is designed for me. Did you ever hear of a design without a Designer?
 

After I find a water hole, I’ll drink for about ten minutes and my skinny body starts to change almost immediately. In that short time my body fills out nicely, I don’t look skinny anymore, and I gain back the 227 pounds I lost.

Even though I lose a lot of water on the desert, My body conserves it too. Way in the beginning when my intelligent Engineer made me, He gave me a specially designed nose that saves water. When I exhale, I don’t lose much. My nose traps that warm, moist air from my lungs and absorbs it in my nasal membranes.

Tiny blood vessels in those membranes take that back into my blood. How’s that for a recycling system? Pretty cool, isn’t it. It works because my nose is cool. My cool nose changes that warm moisture in the air from my lungs into water.
 
But how does my nose get cool? I breathe in hot dry desert air, and it goes through my wet nasal passages. This produces a cooling effect, and my nose stays as much as 18 degrees cooler than the rest of my body.

I love to travel the beautiful sand dunes. It’s really quite easy, because My Creator gave me specially engineered sand shoes for feet. My hooves are wide, and they get even wider when I step on them. Each foot has two long, bony toes with tough, leathery skin between my soles, are a little like webbed feet. They won’t let me sink into the soft, drifting sand. This is good, because often my master wants me to carry him one hundred miles across the desert in just one day. (I troop about ten miles per hour.)

Camel's "Webbed" Feet

Sometimes a big windstorm comes out of nowhere, bringing flying sand with it. My Master Designer put special muscles in my nostrils that close the openings, keeping sand out of my nose but still allowing me enough air to breathe.
 

Camel's Amazing Nose and Eyes

My eyelashes arch down over my eyes like screens, keeping the sand and sun out but still letting me see clearly. If a grain of sand slips through and gets in my eye, the Creator took care of that too. He gave me an inner eyelid that automatically wipes the sand off my eyeball just like a windshield wiper.
 

Some people think I’m conceited because I always walk around with my head held high and my nose in the air.

But that’s just because of the way I’m made. My eyebrows are so thick and bushy I have to hold my head high to peek out from underneath them. I’m glad I have them though. They shade my eyes from the bright sun.

Desert people depend on me for many things. Not only am I their best form of transportation, but I’m also their grocery store. Mrs. Camel gives very rich milk that people make into butter and cheese. I shed my thick fur coat once a year and that can be woven into cloth. A few young camels are used for beef, but I don’t like to talk about that.

For a long time we camels have been called the “ships of the desert” because of the way we sway from side to side when we trot. Some of our riders get seasick.
 

I sway from side to side because of the way my legs work. Both legs on one side move forward at the same time, elevating that side. My “left, right left, right” motion makes my rider feel like he is in a rocking chair going sideways.

When I was six months old, special kneepads started to grow on my front legs. The intelligent Creator knew I had to have them. They help me lower my 1000 pounds to the ground. If I didn’t have them, my knees would soon become sore and infected, and I could never lie down. I’d die of exhaustion.

By the way, I don’t get thick kneepads because I fall on my knees. I fall on my knees because I already have these tough pads.

Camel Knee Pads

Someone very great thought of me and knew I needed them. He designed them into my genes.

It’s real difficult for me to understand how some people say I evolved into what I now am. I’m very technical, highly engineered dromedary camel. Things like me don’t just happen. They’re planned on a drawing board by Someone very brilliant, Someone very logical.

Do you know HIM?

The Amazing Camel Was no Accident