Mike RiddleMike Riddle

Evolution ExposedEvolution Exposed

Evolution

Origin of the universe (matter) Origin of stars and galaxies Origin of earth Origin of life Origin of different species Origin of humans

Evolution is an explanation of origins by naturalistic processes over billions of years.

Is Evolution a Fact or a Theory?

An Important Question

“Fact: In science, an observation that has been repeatedly confirmed and for all practical purposes is accepted as “true”….

Theory: In science, a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses.

National Center for Science Education (NCSE), http://ncse.com/evolution

Is Evolution a Fact or a Theory?

It is both…. The theory of evolution is supported by so many observations and confirming experiments that scientists are confident that the basic components of the theory will not be overturned by new evidence.

National Academies of Sciences, http://www.nationalacademies.org/evolution/TheoryOrFact.html

Is Evolution a Fact or a Theory?

“Evolution has been subjected to scientific testing for over a century and has been (and continues to be) consistently confirmed by evidence from a wide range of fields.”

National Center for Science Education (NCSE), http://ncse.com/evolution

The Bible contains many errors and can no longer be trusted as the Word of God.

If evolution is a fact or a theory then…

Genesis 1 God created light God created plants God created sun, moon, and stars God created fish and birds God created land animals God created humans

Not True

Exodus 20:11 Nehemiah 9:6 Isaiah 42:5 Isaiah 44:24 Jeremiah 27:5 Jeremiah 32:17 John 1:3 Acts 14:15 Acts 17:24-25 Ephesians 3:9 Colossians 1:16 Revelation 4:11

God Created

Not TrueThe Bible

contains errors

Genesis 1:31And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good

Genesis 1:31And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good

Millions of years of death

and decay

Millions of years of death

and decay

Perfect No deathPerfect

No death

If evolution is a fact or theory then God’s “very good” includes death and decay.

Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Not True

1 Cor 15:21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

Not True

The GospelIf sin was not the cause of

death then why did Jesus have to go to the cross?

Genesis

Genesis is the foundation for the

Gospel

Not True

If evolution is a fact or a theory then the Bible is Wrong.

We need toExamine the Claims of Evolution

Is Evolution a Fact or a Theory?

“A scientific theory is a careful attempt to explain certain observable facts of nature by means of experiments.

• Must be observable• Must be repeatable• Must be testable”

David Menton (Ph.D. Cell Biology and Professor of Human Anatomy), http://www.bestbiblescience.org/theory.htm

The Real Facts About Evolution Origin of matter The big bang Origin of stars and galaxies Origin of life Origin of information One kind changing into a new kind

(dinosaur into bird, ape to human) Billions of fossils and fossil graveyards No mechanism for “macro” change

Evolution Exposed Where did the matter come

from? What caused it to “explode”?

Many scientific evidences that refute the Big Bang Missing antimatter Not enough supernovas Existence of comets Spiral galaxies

John Byl (Ph.D. Astronomy), God and Cosmos, 2001.

“First, big-bang cosmology, even though it is currently the most popular cosmology and even though it is often presented as undoubtedly true, is beset with a number of serious observational and theoretical difficulties.”

Tom Van Flandern (Ph.D. Astronomy), http://metaresearch.org/cosmology/

“Our ability to test cosmological theories has vastly improved with modern telescopes covering all wavelengths, some of them in orbit. Despite the widespread acceptance of the big bang theory as a working model for interpreting new findings, not a single important prediction of the theory has yet been confirmed, and substantial evidence has accumulated against it.”

Evolution Exposed: Star FormationEvolution Exposed: Star Formation

The popular idea is that stars form from vast clouds of gas and dust through gravitational contraction.

The popular idea is that stars form from vast clouds of gas and dust through gravitational contraction.

Gas and dust clouds will

expand NOT contract

Nebula

Evolution Exposed: Star FormationEvolution Exposed: Star Formation

“The complete birth of a star has never been observed.”“The complete birth of a star has never been observed.”

Don DeYoung (Ph.D. in Physics), Astronomy and the Bible, 2000, p. 84.Don DeYoung (Ph.D. in Physics), Astronomy and the Bible, 2000, p. 84.

“It [star formation] has never been observed, nor could it truly be observed since the process is supposed to take hundreds of thousands of years.

Gas in space is very resistant to being compressed into a star. Compression of gas causes an increase in magnetic field strength, gas pressure, and angular momentum,…”

Jason Lisle (Ph.D. Astrophysics), The New Answers Book 3, 2009, p 193.

Jason Lisle (Ph.D. Astrophysics), The New Answers Book 3, 2009, p 193.

“Despite numerous efforts, we have yet to directly observe the process of stellar formation…. The origin of stars represents one of the fundamental unsolved problems of contemporary astrophysics.”

Charles Lada and Frank Shu (both astronomers), “The Formation of Sunlike Stars,” Science, 1990, p. 572.

Charles Lada and Frank Shu (both astronomers), “The Formation of Sunlike Stars,” Science, 1990, p. 572.

Evolution ExposedThe Origin of Life

Life must have started 3.7 billion years ago.

Miller created the building blocks of life in a laboratory.

The Claim

Evolution ExposedThe Origin of Life

No observable evidence Scientists are unable to create a protein The cell is more complex than any man-

made machine Life can’t start in an oxygen atmosphere Life can’t start if there is no oxygen in

the atmosphere Life can’t start in water (Hydrolysis)

Evolution Exposed: Amino AcidsEvolution Exposed: Amino Acids

Hundreds of types of amino acidsOnly 20 are used in life

Hundreds of types of amino acidsOnly 20 are used in life

Evolution ExposedEvolution ExposedJeffrey Tomkins (Ph.D. Genetics), “Engineered Protein ‘Evolution’ Proves Biological Complexity”, Acts and Facts, March 2013.

“The main problem regarding false ideas about protein evolution is one of perception associated with the steady diet of academia’s evolutionary false teachings.”

Evolution ExposedEvolution Exposed

“A great deal of effort has been expended in finding theories for the origin of life without success.”

“A great deal of effort has been expended in finding theories for the origin of life without success.”

Hubert Yockey (Ph.D. Physics), Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life, 2005, p. 188.

Origin of LifeOrigin of Life

“As far as science knows, the law of biogenesis, life arises from life, is still valid.”

“As far as science knows, the law of biogenesis, life arises from life, is still valid.”

Donald Johnson (Ph.D. Chemistry, Ph.D. Computer and Information Science), Programming of Life, 2010, p. 23.

Evolution ExposedEvolution ExposedRichard Dawkins (Ph.D., Professor of Zoology), The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, 2009, p.422.

“The theory we seek, of the origin of life on this planet, should therefore positively not be a plausible theory!”

MutationsNatural Selection

Evolution Exposed

Words Have Meaning

Do you believe in evolution?

Micro-evolution

Macro-evolution

Adaptation, variety within kind

Darwinian evolution

How Evolution Happens?

Millions of years of mutations add new information

Selection Process

Amoeba Man

EvolutionEvolution

Requires the addition of

new genetic

Requires the addition of

new genetic

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Information

Mutations

No change

No evolution

Disease

No evolution

Add information

Produce more

offspring that survive

Detrimental Neutral BeneficialDetrimental Neutral BeneficialDetrimental Neutral

Information

James Crow (Professor of Genetics at University of Wisconsin, chaired Dept of Medical Genetics), 1997.

James Crow (Professor of Genetics at University of Wisconsin, chaired Dept of Medical Genetics), 1997.

“The typical mutation is very mild. It usually has no effect, but shows up as a small decrease in viability or fertility… each mutation leads ultimately to one genetic death.”

“The typical mutation is very mild. It usually has no effect, but shows up as a small decrease in viability or fertility… each mutation leads ultimately to one genetic death.”

Information

“DNA is an information code,…The overwhelming conclusion is that information does not and cannot arise spontaneously by mechanistic processes. Intelligence is a necessity in the origin of any informational code, including the genetic code, no matter how much time is given.”

Lane Lester (Ph.D., Genetics) and Ray Bohlin (Ph.D. Molecular and Cell Biology), The Natural Limits to Biological Change, 1989, p. 157.

Lane Lester (Ph.D., Genetics) and Ray Bohlin (Ph.D. Molecular and Cell Biology), The Natural Limits to Biological Change, 1989, p. 157.

Mutations and Information

“But in all the reading I’ve done in the life-sciences literature, I’ve never found a mutation that added information.”

Lee Spetner (Ph.D. Physics – MIT, taught information and communications at Johns Hopkins University), Not By Chance, 1997, pp. 131, 138

Lee Spetner (Ph.D. Physics – MIT, taught information and communications at Johns Hopkins University), Not By Chance, 1997, pp. 131, 138

“It seems fair to point out that evolutionists have yet to provide even a single concrete example of a mutation leading to an increase of information as requested.”

Royal Truman (Ph.D. chemistry), “The Problem of Information for the Theory of Evolution,” 2002, p. 14.

About 4 in 10,000 of known mutations are presumed to be beneficial. However, these are only beneficial in a very narrow sense since they involve a loss of function. Not one of these mutations unambiguously created new information.

Jerry Bergman, Ph.D. Human Biology, (Research on the deterioration of the genome and Darwinism: why mutations result in the degeneration of the genome), 2004. Cited in Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome John Sanford,, 2005, p. 26.

A Mathematical Problem for Evolution: Related Mutations

Mutations occur about every 1 in 10 million duplications

107

1 in 10,000,000

A Mathematical Problem for Evolution: Related Mutations

Two related mutations: 107 x 107 = 1014

Three related mutations: 1021 (one in a billion trillion)

(1 in 100 Trillion)

Four related mutations: 1028

1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Natural Selection

What is it?

What Is Natural Selection?Charles Darwin

What Is Natural Selection?Charles Darwin

“It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers.”Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 1859, p. 84.

What Is Natural Selection?What Is Natural Selection?

“Over a long period of time, natural selection can lead to evolution. Helpful variations gradually accumulate in a species, while unfavorable ones disappear.”

Life Sciences, Prentice Hall, 2002, p. 151. (seventh grade textbook)

What is it and how does it work?

Three Assumptions about Natural Selection

1. Evolutionists assume natural selection is responsible for appearance of design and complexity.

2. Evolutionists assume an external source as the source of design.

3. Evolutionists assume natural selection has the capability to choose beneficial mutations (intelligence).

Critical Thinking and Natural Selection

Natural

Caused by nature (natural processes)

Selection

Selector(Intelligence)

A Crucial Question About Natural Selection

Does functional power for organisms to adapt to the environment reside

internally or externally?

Natural Selection

Exposure interface

Pre-programmed information

What Is Natural Selection?

It is an artificial mechanism devised by man to replace the power and intelligence of God.

There is no mechanism for biological change (amoeba to man).

Evolution Exposed

3 Questions About Natural Selection

1. What is it that natural selection actually does and how does it work?

2. Selection implies intelligence. Who or what is actually doing or causing the selection?

1. What is it that natural selection actually does and how does it work?

2. Selection implies intelligence. Who or what is actually doing or causing the selection?

3. Since selection does not address the origin of information, and mutations are known to cause a loss of information or function, is there any observational evidence for where the vast amount of information in DNA came from?

3. Since selection does not address the origin of information, and mutations are known to cause a loss of information or function, is there any observational evidence for where the vast amount of information in DNA came from?

Is Evolution a Fact or a Theory?

“Do we ever observe one kind (i.e., one family) of species change into another kind (or family)? No. Every example of biological change that has ever been observed in real time has been change within a kind.”

Nathaniel T. Jeanson, (PhD from Harvard Medical School in cell and developmental biology), http://www.icr.org/article/7165/

Is Evolution a Fact or a Theory?

In conclusion, evolution is not observable, repeatable, or refutable and thus does not qualify as either a scientific fact or theory. Evolution must be accepted with faith by its believers.”

David Menton (Ph.D. Cell Biology and Professor of Human Anatomy), http://www.bestbiblescience.org/theory.htm

Evolution Exposed Origin of matter The big bang Origin of stars and galaxies Origin of life Origin of information or new information One kind changing into a new kind

(dinosaur into bird, ape to human) Billions of fossils and fossil graveyards No mechanism for “macro” change

FAITH

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16-17

If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

John 3:12

For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.

But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

John 5:46-47

Many churches believe they can be neutral to avoid conflict

Many churches believe they can be neutral to avoid conflict

Neutrality = SurrenderNeutrality = Surrender

The church blends in with the world

The church blends in with the world

He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me

scattereth abroad.

Matthew 12:30

Neutrality

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