The God Delusion is a 2006 book by British biologist Richard Dawkins, holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford.In The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that belief in a god qualifies as a delusion, which he defines as a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence. He is sympathetic to Robert Pirsig's observation that "when one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."[1]As of November 2007, the English version of The God Delusion had sold over 1.5 million copies and had been translated to 31 languages.[2] It was ranked #2 on the Amazon.com bestsellers' list in November 2006.[3][4] In early December 2006, it reached #4 in the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Seller list after nine weeks on the list.[5] It remained on the list for 51 weeks until September 30, 2007.[6] It has attracted widespread commentary, with several books written in response.

Assumptions that evolutionists are forced to make…

Evolution?

“fact” “theory”

“proven” “hypothesis”

ASSUMPTION

“a statement which is not proven to be true but is taken as true for the purpose of the argument which follows.”

If wrong, assumptions can be…

Insignificant

Significant

Devastating

"[In Darwin's writings] possibilities were assumed to add up to probability, and probabilities then were promoted to certitudes.“

—*Agassiz, op. cit., p. 335.

James Conant, chemist and former president, Harvard University, credited with transforming Harvard from a finishing school to world-class research university. Winner of the Priestly Medal for chemistry (highest award). Recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom.

1893-1978

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"Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis [invented for a purpose] on ad hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor science."—* James Conant, quoted in Origins Research, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1982, p. 2.

“Never assume what you’re trying to prove.”

(It can be very dangerous)

The assumptions that evolutionists make are actually things they should be proving to us!

Seven basic assumptions

of evolution..

Gerald A. Kerkut (1927-2004) was a distinguished British zoologist and physiologist. He attended the University of Cambridge earning a doctorate in zoology. He became Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry at the University of Southampton and went on to become the Dean of Science, Chairman of the School of Biochemical and Physiological Sciences and Head of the Department of Neurophysiology.

"I personally hold the evolutionary position, but yet lament the fact that the majority of our Ph.D. graduates are frightfully ignorant of many of the serious problems of the evolution theory. These problems will not be solved unless we

G.A. Kerkut, quoted in Creation: The Cutting Edge (1982), p. 26.

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bring them to the attention of students. Most students assume evolution is proved, the missing link is found, and all we have left is a few rough edges to smooth out. Actually, quite the contrary is true; and many recent discoveries have forced us to re-evaluate our basic assumptions.“

"There are seven basic assumptions not mentioned during discussions of evolution....The first point I should like to make is that the seven assumptions by their nature are not capable of experimental verification.... The evidence that supports [the general theory of evolution] is not sufficiently strong to allow us to consider it as anything more than a working hypothesis."G.A. Kerkut, Professor of Biochemistry, Implications Of Evolution, 1960

1. Non-living things gave rise to living material, i.e., spontaneous generation occurred.

2. Spontaneous generation occurred only once.

Seven basic assumptions of evolution:

4. Protozoa gave rise to the Metazoa5. Various invertebrate phyla are

interrelated.6. Invertebrates gave rise to vertebrates7. Within the vertebrates the fish gave rise

to the amphibia, the amphibia to the reptiles, and the reptiles to the birds and mammals.

3. Viruses, bacteria, plants and animals are interrelated.

Assumption #1: Spontaneous Generation

Great claims need great evidence!

People use to believe that mice could spontaneously arise from a pot of grain if

it was covered by a dirty shirt!

Common idea about Spontaneous Generation during Darwin’s time..

Hanging meat “generates” flies.

Sewage “generates” rats.

Muddy soil “produces” frogs.Bull carcass “produces” bees.

Common beliefs about Spontaneous Generation:

Hanging meat “generates” flies.

Sewage “generates” rats.

Muddy soil “produces” frogs.Bull carcass “produces” bees.

Common beliefs about Spontaneous Generation:

The French Academy of Sciences sponsored a contest for the best experiment either proving or disproving spontaneous generation. Pasteur's winning experiment was a variation of the methods of Needham and Spallanzani. He boiled meat broth in a flask, heated the neck of the flask in a flame until it became pliable, and bent it into the shape of an S. Air could enter the flask, but airborne microorganisms could not - they would settle by gravity in the neck. As Pasteur had expected, no microorganisms grew. When Pasteur tilted the flask so that the broth reached the lowest point in the neck, where any airborne particles would have settled, the broth rapidly became cloudy with life. Pasteur had both refuted the theory of spontaneous generation and convincingly demonstrated that microorganisms are everywhere - even in the air.

The theory of spontaneous generation was finally laid to rest in 1859 by the young French chemist, Louis Pasteur.

Assumption #2: Spontaneous Generation occurred ONLY ONCE!

Great claims need great evidence!

Staphylococcus bacteria

Influenza virus

HIV virusAssumption #3: viruses, plants, animals interrelated

Staphylococcus bacteria

Influenza virus

HIV virus

Great claims need great evidence!

Protozoa Metazoa

Assumption #4: Protozoa gave rise

to Metazoa

Great claims need great evidence!

EVOLUTION OF THE MINOR PHYLA

Over 1 million species of Arthropods

1 million species

112,000 species

Assumption #5:

invertebrate phyla

interrelatedThis phyla relationship tree

is an assumption!

Great claims need great evidence!

(spiders, crustaceans, insects)

Mary Leakey, British paleoanthropologist and wife of Louis Leakey, once prominent paleontologist:

"All these trees of life with their branches of our ancestors, that's a lot of nonsense."

(from an interview with Associated Press, Dec 10 1996)

Invertebrates

Assumption #6: Invertebrates gave rise to vertebrates

Great claims need great evidence!

Fish

Bird

Reptile

MammalAmphibia

Fish

Bird

Reptile

MammalAmphibia

Evolutionists must ASSUME this happened because there

is absolutely NO evidence that it did or can happen.

Assumption #7: A A princes kissed a frog and it became

a prince!

Assumptions have an

expiration date…

"The problem of the origin of species has not advanced in the last 150 years. One hundred and fifty years have already passed during which it has been said that the evolution of the species is a fact but, without giving real proofs of it and without even a principle of explaining it.

G. Salet, Hasard et Certitude: Le Transformisme devant la Biologie Actuelle (1973), p. 331.

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“During the last one hundred and fifty years of research that has been carried out along this line [in order to prove the theory], there has been no discovery of anything. It is simply a repetition in different ways of what Darwin said in 1859. This lack of results is unforgivable in a day when molecular biology has really opened the veil covering the mystery of reproduction and heredity . .

A couple more examples of the

kinds of assumptions

evolutionists make

“No serious scientific discussion of any topic should include supernatural explanations, since the basic (and very reasonable) assumption of science is that the world can be explained entirely in physical terms, without recourse to divine entities.”

Massimo Pigliucci is an associate professor in the Departments of Botany and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

In an article by Massimo Pigliucci, professor of Botany and the University of Tennessee, discussing the theories held today about the origin of life…

Is this a reasonable assumption for a

scientist to make???

“No serious scientific discussion of any topic should include supernatural explanations, since the basic (and very reasonable) assumption of science is that the world can be explained entirely in physical terms, without recourse to divine entities.”

Massimo Pigliucci is an associate professor in the Departments of Botany and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

In an article by Massimo Pigliucci, professor of Botany and the University of Tennessee, discussing the theories held today about the origin of life…

In the very same article discussing theories held today about the origin of life, Massimo discusses the work of Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, and Francis Crick.

WHAT??

Evolutionists consider, did aliens from another planet seed the universe with life or plant life on planet earth?

WHY?

Spontaneous generation doesn’t work!

The universe does show intelligent design!

Aliens but NOT God!

Richard Dawkins, zoologist, prominent outspoken evolutionist and atheist has admitted several times (including on Ben Stein’s movie Expelled), that aliens from outer space could have planted life on this planet. He is not the first. Over a decade ago Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the DNA double helix and committed atheist, stated that maybe aliens brought life to earth from another planet.

Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, evolutionists, propose in their book Evolution from Space, that life was brought to this planet courtesy of an interstellar cloud of gas and dust, or perhaps by a comet. And where does this get

us in validating evolution over God and Creation?

Aliens but NOT God!

Mt. Rushmore, showing the full size of the mountain and the debris from construction.

A model at the site depicting Mount Rushmore's intended final design. Insufficient funding forced the carving to end in October 1941.

A National Park service ranger is lowered over the face of Abraham Lincoln on Mt. Rushmore to seal the cracks in the rock during yearly maintenance.