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	<title>modernchristianissues.org - A Christian Apologetics Blog &#187; Creation vs Evolution</title>
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		<title>Why There is a God</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;happened&#8221;. We had to have been created.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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 &#8220;happened&#8221;. We had to have been created.</p>
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		<title>Ida and Other &#8220;Missing Links&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.L. Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is &#8220;Ida&#8221; a missing link? Isn&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Is &#8220;Ida&#8221; a missing link?</h2>
<h3>Isn&#8217;t the newly publicized <em>Darwinius masillae</em> a transitional life form?</h3>
<p class="stdtext">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 <a href="http://www.icr.org/article/4637/" target="_blank">http://www.icr.org/article/4637/</a> (besides, Ida has a tail. Apes do not have tails.)</p>
<h3>What about other missing links?</h3>
<p class="stdtext">There are also no missing links between fish and amphibians. No half-amphibian-half-reptile, no half-reptile-half bird (<a href="http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2/4254news3-24-2000.asp">archaeoptryx is wishful thinking. It is all bird</a>) no half-reptile-half mammal.<br />
And we can no longer blame the scarcity of the fossil records. The fossils have been found. The book of Genesis was clearly right:</p>
<p class="biblequote">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. <span class="stdtext">(Genesis 1:25 KJV)</span></p>
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		<title>Man Did Not Evolve from Apes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.L. Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;civilized&#8221; world has seen the little chart showing man looking like an ape, hunched over, and gradually standing more [...]]]></description>
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<p class="biblequote">So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.<span class="stdtext"> (Genesis 1:27 KJV)</span></p>
<p class="stdtext">Just about anyone in the &#8220;civilized&#8221; 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 &#8220;missing link&#8221;</p>
<p class="stdtext">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).</p>
<p class="ArticleQuote">&#8220;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.&#8221; <a class="xref" href="#Footnote1">[1]</a></p>
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<p class="stdtext">The problem? In the approximate 140 years since Darwin wrote, archaeologists have found not one &#8220;missing link&#8221;.</p>
<p class="stdtext">Not one.</p>
<p class="stdtext"> </p>
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 <a class="referencepoint" name="Footnote1">1</a><em> The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of the Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life</em> (1872) <span class="referencetext"><br />
Page 293<br />
Charles Darwin</span></p>
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		<title>Mutations Cannot Explain Complex Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.L. Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Misconception 2: We evolved over series of Mutations 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!) Animals kill their mutated offspring Even if they live, mutations do not [...]]]></description>
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<ol>
<li>How do you suppose that both male and female mutations were formed exactly the same way <em>and</em> found each other within their lifetimes to reproduce? (And this had to happen for millions of life forms!)</li>
<li>Animals kill their mutated offspring</li>
<li>Even if they live, mutations do not &#8216;improve&#8217; the species they are destructive. No viable exception has ever been found.</li>
<li>A change from one life form to another involves a dramatic change in DNA. And if you&#8217;ve ever seen DNA being replicated you would realize this is impossible.<object width="425" height="344" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/hfZ8o9D1tus&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hfZ8o9D1tus&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /></object></li>
<li>If you can watch the above video and still believe that life is just an accident, you have more faith than I do!</li>
<li>Not only does the DNS replication process (above) make this impossible, but DNA is continously being repaired.</li>
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		<title>The World is Only Few Thousand Years Old</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.L. Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 id="Billions">Misconception 3: The Universe is Billions of years old</h3>
<p class="biblequote">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.<span class="stdtext"> (Genesis 2:2 KJV)</span></p>
<p class="stdtext">Actually, there is more evidence that the Earth is only somewhere in the neighborhood of 13,000 years old. Maybe even less. But you&#8217;ll certainly never hear that from the evolutionists. That would blow their theory straight out of the water, wouldn&#8217;t it?</p>
<ul>
<li>There is only a few thousand years of dust accumulated on the moon</li>
<li>The Speed of Light is Slowing Down!</li>
<li>Radio halos show that rocks formed abruptly. Not over eons and eons.</li>
</ul>
<p class="stdtext">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&#8217;t have to buy the book. Just click and read. Enjoy!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.creationism.org/ackerman/index.htm">http://www.creationism.org/ackerman/index.htm</a></p>
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		<title>Irreducible Complexity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.L. Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Misconception 4: Life Forms evolve incrementally from very simple to more complex 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.&#8221; Charles Darwin [1] This is describing what [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 id="Increment">Misconception 4: Life Forms evolve incrementally from very simple to more complex</h3>
<p class="ArticleQuote">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.&#8221; Charles Darwin <a class="xref" href="#Footnote2">[1]</a></p>
<p class="stdtext">This is describing what is known as &#8220;Irreducible Complexity&#8221; If a life form has separate functions that cannot be separated without causing the organism to stop functioning, then evolution could not explain it.</p>
<p class="stdtext">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.</p>
<p id="Flagellum" class="stdtext">Bacterial Flagellum (Photo, below, courtesy Access Research Network) are now hands-down the masters of irreducible complexity <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria</a> 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. <a href="http://www.arn.org/docs/mm/flag_labels.htm">http://www.arn.org/docs/mm/flag_labels.htm</a> The flagellum has been said to be the most efficient machine known to man. Immeasurably more efficient than man can design.</p>
<div><img src="http://www.modernchristianissues.org/Images/flagellum500.jpg" border="0" alt="Bacterial Flagellum could never have evolved piece by piece and still function" width="500" height="333" /></div>
<hr /><a class="referencepoint" name="Footnote2">1</a><em> On the Origin of Species</em></p>
<div><span class="referencetext">Charles Darwin</span></div>
<div><span class="referencetext">London: John Murray. (1859)</span></div>
<div><span class="referencetext">Page 189, Chapter VI</span></div>
<p><span class="referencetext"> </p>
<p></span></p>
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		<title>Dinosaurs and Men Walked the Earth Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.L. Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Misconception 5: Dinosaurs Became Extinct 65 Million Years Before Man Appeared Carvings of dinosaurs on a rock&#8230; 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 [...]]]></description>
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<p class="stdtext">Carvings of dinosaurs on a rock&#8230; dated at 3,500 years old. Now how do you suppose those people knew what a dinosaur looked like? <a href="http://www.hecklerspray.com/awesome-or-off-putting-dinosaurs-man-hand-in-hand/20065436.php">http://www.hecklerspray.com/awesome-or-off-putting-dinosaurs-man-hand-in-hand/20065436.php</a></p>
<p class="stdtext">See for yourself. Human footprints next to and overlapping dinosaur footprints. <a href="http://www.bible.ca/tracks/taylor-trail.htm">http://www.bible.ca/tracks/taylor-trail.htm</a></p>
<p class="stdtext">Trilobites have also been smashed by a sandaled footprint. Trilobites were supposed to have become extinct before the dinosaurs! <a href="http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy/meister.html">http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy/meister.html</a></p>
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		<title>Granite was Formed in Minutes &#8211; Not Eons!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.L. Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 id="RadioHalos">Polonium Radiohalos prove that granite did not take millions of years to form</h3>
<p class="stdtext">Inside of granite are little microscopic halos of decomposing polonim. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium" target="_blank">According to Wikipedia</a>, 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.</p>
<p class="stdtext">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.</p>
<p>See <a href="http://www.halos.com/" target="_blank">http://www.halos.com/</a></p>
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		<title>Animal Communication Cannot be Explained by Evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.L. Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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<p class="stdtext">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!</p>
<ul>
<li>Whales can communicate over thousands of miles <a class="xref" href="http://www.modernchristianissues.org/wp-admin/#Footnote3">[1]</a>. They have a language we have not yet figured out.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Even the tiniest of ants and bees communicate! <a class="xref" href="http://www.modernchristianissues.org/wp-admin/#Footnote4">[2]</a></li>
</ul>
<hr /><a class="referencepoint" name="Footnote3">1</a><em> Christopher Clark: Whales off Newfoundland can hear whales near Bermuda </em><br />
<span class="referencetext">By David Brand<br />
Cornell University<br />
</span><a href="http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/05/2.24.05/AAAS.Clark.whales.html" target="_blank">http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/05/2.24.05/AAAS.Clark.whales.html</a></p>
<hr /><a class="referencepoint" name="Footnote4">2</a><em> Social Insects And How They Communicate</em><br />
<span class="referencetext">Dr William Foster<br />
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge<br />
</span><a href="http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/495/">http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/495/</a></p>
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		<title>Animal Weapons Could Not Have Evolved</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>A.L. Howard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Animal Weapons Tell me how this critter ate before his little weapon evolved!]]></description>
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<p class="stdtext"><strong>Tell me how this critter ate before his little weapon evolved!</strong></p>
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