An anniversary of the Theory of Evolution

2. The natural laws that govern the universe and our world are perfectly fine tuned. Even minor changes in the constants of these laws and/or the natural or chemical properties of the elements critical to life would have destroyed life before it existed. How can these natural laws be so perfectly balanced and designed without a Designer?
   “It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out… The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design.”
   (Paul Davies , God and the New Physics (1983), p.189)

3. Earth is a truly privileged planet. Chances of finding a similar habitable planet like Earth suited for life in our Milky Way galaxy or even in the entire universe are practically zero.
   “To us, the signal is so strong that even at this time, it appears that earth indeed may be extraordinarily rare.”
   (Evolutionary astronomers Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee , Rare Earth  (2000), chapter 12)

4. First Life. Modern science has reached the unanimous conclusion that life on a planet like earth could not have started by mere chance. The complex building blocks of the simplest living cell – proteins, DNA  and molecular machines – do not allow for random assembly even through long periods of time. Despite decades of intense research, origin-of-life scientists have found no evolutionary explanation to explain how life could have started by natural processes alone.
   “Everything about evolution before the bacteria-like life forms is sheer conjecture,” because “evidence is completely lacking about what preceded this early cellular ancestor.”
   (Marc W. Kirschner  and John C. Gerhart, The Plausibility of Life (2005), p.46-50)

5. No mechanism for species to evolve. Natural selection is just variation within a species. Genetic mutations are required to evolve from one species into the next, however mutations are not common and mostly neutral. If they happen, they are almost always harmful not beneficial.  The occurrence of many small, beneficial steps of mutations is against all odds and has never been observed.
   “Mutations are almost universally harmful. In human beings, they are classified as ‘birth defects.’ They result in death and sterility. People today suffer from more than 4,000 disorders caused by gene mutations. Down’s syndrome, cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia are familiar examples.”
   (James Perloff, Tornado in a Junkyard, 1999, p.25)

6. The fossil record. There are no intermediate species in the fossil record. According to Darwin's theory of evolution, species would evolve to more complex new species by a series of gradual mutations. However, despite of over 100⁺ years of extensive studies of the fossil record, no intermediate species have been discovered. On the contrary, the Cambrian Explosion  shows the almost “overnight” appearance of the body plans of all modern day life forms at about the same moment in time.
   “I look skeptically upon diagrams that show the branching diversity of animal life through time, and come down at the base to a single kind of animal….Animals may have originated more than once, in different places at different times.”
   (Paleontologist Harry Whittington, The Biological Explosion at the Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary, as published in Evolutionary Biology, volume 25 (1991), p.294)

7. The existence of so called irreducible complex molecular machines cannot be explained by gradual, 'evolutionary' evolvement of the components of these machines, as these systems can only perform if all components are present. Therefore, gradual “evolution” is not possible.
   “The bacterial flagellum uses a paddling mechanism, and it must meet the same requirements as other such swimming systems. And it is necessarily comprised of at least three parts – a paddle, a rotor, and a motor – it is irreducibly complex. Gradual evolution of the flagellum faces mammoth hurdles.”
   (Dr. Michael Behe, Darwin ’s Black Box (1996), p.70-71)

There are a plentitude of embarrassing statements by professed evolutionists who admit to the failure of the theory of evolution. Following are some more statements by evolutionary scientists about the - lack of real - evidence for the evolution 'theory':

"When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: "It happened." Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd."
(Simon Conway Morris, from Evolution: Bringing Molecules into the Fold, Cell, Vol. 100, pp.1-11, January 7, 2000, p.11)

"If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary biology is flourishing today as it seldom has flourished in the past. For biologists collectively are less agreed upon the details of evolutionary mechanics than they were a scant decade ago. Superficially, it seems as if we know less about evolution than we did in 1959, the centennial year of Darwin's on the Origin of Species."
(Niles Eldredge, Time Frames: The Rethinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibrium, 1985, p.14)

"The history of organic life is indemonstrable; we cannot prove a whole lot in evolutionary biology, and our findings will always be hypothesis. There is one true evolutionary history of life, and whether we will actually ever know it is not likely. Most importantly, we have to think about questioning underlying assumptions, whether we are dealing with molecules or anything else."
(Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Professor of Biological Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, February 9, 2007)

Many evolutionists will claim that above statements are pulled out of context to discredit Darwin's theory of evolution, however looking at the above mentioned 7 major challenges to the theory of evolution and the numerous frustrated statements (by evolutionist) provided in this article illustrate the severity of the crisis of the evolutionary theory.

Would Darwin himself still be an evolutionist?

Charles Darwin himself - if he would be still alive today - would likely seriously be challenged to still believe in his own theory of evolution. Some of his own concerns about his theory have turned out to be 'killers', like (in his own words):

• he made the suggestion that what he call 'simple' life may have begun in a "warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, lights, heat, electricity, etc. present, [so] that a protein compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes." We now know that is impossible and origin-of-life scientists are at a dead end trying to explain how the most simplest life form (a bacteria) ever came about. How can the theory of evolution be a viable theory if it cannot explain the origin of life?
• and about the fossil record he wrote: "“Why 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 is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory.” Now, after 150 years of zealous searching for this 'graduated organic chain', we know that is just does not exist. The fossil record does not give us any confirmation for gradual development of species and - as underlined in the above quotation - this is a serious argument against the theory of evolution.
• In The Origin of Species, Darwin also writes: “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 (emphasis added).” According to Darwin himself, the existence of these irreducible, complex systems is a devastating blow to the thieory of evolution!

Was Charles Darwin a Christian, an agnostic or an atheist?

All though raised as a Christian Charles Darwin likely abandoned Christianity as a student when he refused to become a minister. Charles Darwin wrote in his autobiography about the diminishment of his religious faith and he stated that he was an agnostic (claiming to 'neither believe nor disbelieve' in the existence of God). However, later Darwin stated in his private notebooks that he was a materialist (a type of atheist). Likely the best characterization of Darwin would be to call him a 'weak atheist'. A weak atheist acknowledges a lack of belief in God but does not claim to have the proof that God does not exist.

In the September 2005 issue of National Geographic Joel Achenbach claimed that human evolution is a "fact" but he also admitted that "Today the field [speaking about paleoanthropology] has again become a rather glorious mess." In the same National Geographic article Dan Lieberman (Harvard paleoanthropologist) makes the amazing confession that, "We're not doing a very good job of being honest about what we don't know..."

On a personal note - I was taught the theory of evolution in high school. It was not even presented to me as a theory but as a fact. Only very limited evidence was presented. and because of it I lost my interest in God and Christianity. Now I know I was duped, I was deceived. Only when life presented me with an interest and an opportunity to do my own research at a later stage of my life I discovered that evolution is a lie. But I had to discover that myself. I had to dig myself into science to find the gaps and faulty patches. I just wish that during my school and college years one of my teachers would have been more objective and at least would have told me that the theory of evolution is not a fact and shown me the alternative view of Intelligent Design of Creation.  That way I could have made my own decision about what to believe earlier in my life.

Unfortunately one cannot change the past, but one can make better choices for the future....

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