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-Norma Bixler

A Theory Requiring FaithCREATION

EVOLUTIONA Theory Requiring Faith

(Can we prove or disprove one?)

BOTH CREATION & EVOLUTIONCAN’T BE TRUE!

(e.g. total non-existence of a

“thing”)

DISPROVING GOD ISIMPOSSIBLE

(e.g. based on acceptable

laws of probability)

DISPROVING EVOLUTION ISPOSSIBLE

HARD vs. SOFT SCIENCE

• SOFT: Based on observation & study

• HARD: Based on empirical analysis

THE FOSSIL RECORD

THE CONTENTION

Gradual Mutational

Change

THE FACTS

There Are No Missing

Links

CHARLES DARWIN•“Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine graduations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being as we see them, well defined?”

• “The gradual change of fossil species has never been part of the evidence for evolution …”• “Darwin showed that the record was useless for testing between evolution and special creation because it has great gaps in it …”• “… no real evolutionist … uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of evolution as opposed to special creation.”

MARK RIDLEY (zoologist)

• “Not only has paleontology failed to come up with the fossil ‘missing links’ …”• “… but hypothetical reconstructions of major evolutionary developments – such as that linking birds to reptiles – are beginning to look more like fantasies than serious conjectures.”

MICHAEL DENTON (MD, PhD)

• “This (the gap in the proposed progression of horses) is true of all thirty-two orders of mammals …”• “The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence from one order to the next known.”• “In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and much disputed.”

GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON (Evolutionary Paleontologist)

THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION

FOSSIL HOAXES/MISTAKES

Piltdown Man

Nebraska Man

Java Man

ANALYZING FIRST LIFE

SIMPLEST LIFE: Bacteria

DNA

AMINO ACIDS(Protein Chains)

CHIRALITY

• 100,000 minimum DNA base pairs• 10,000 minimum amino acids

• Odds of 110,000 correct “flips” = (1/2)110,000

• Odds = 1 chance in 1033,113

SIMPLEST BACTERIA Random ChiralityProbability

LIFE SPECIFIC AMINO ACIDSOne Chance in 10 6,021

CORRECT AMINO ACID, RIGHT PLACEOne Chance in 10 13,010

CORRECT GENETIC MATERIAL PLACEMENTOne Chance in 10 60,155

• Chirality• Life specific amino acids• Correct AA, proper place• Correct Material

(right place for each gene)

• Correct gene sequencing

TOTAL 10 112,827

SIMPLEST BACTERIA Multiple Probability(one chance in …)

= 10 33,113

= 10 6,021

= 10 13,010

= 10 60,155

= 10 528

THIS IS LIKE PICKING A SELECTED ELECTRON FROM THE UNIVERSE

1,376 times in a row!