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Eternal Perspectives We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen... Ten Major Flaws of Evolution by Randy Alcorn and Jim Darnall I wrote the following article many years ago, but it system known. A pinhead of DNA has a billion times needed to be thoroughly revised and updated. more information capacity than a 4-gigabit hard drive. When you look at Thanks to Jim Darnall for adding some important Ironically, evolutionists scan the heavens using mas- new information. sive radio telescopes hoping for relatively simple sig- a watch, nal patterns that might have originated in outer space, 1. The complexity of living systems all the while ignoring the incredibly complex evidence you assume could never evolve by chance— of superior intelligence built into every human’s DNA. While we’re waiting to hear signs of intelligence be- there was a they had to be designed and hind interstellar communication, we’re ignoring those created. built into us. watchmaker. A system that is irreducibly complex has precise components working together to perform the basic 3. No mutation that increases function of the system. (A mousetrap is a simple ex- genetic information has ever ample.) If any part of that system were missing, the been discovered. Inside this issue: system would cease to function. Gradual addi- Mutations which increase tions could not account genetic information would be the Randy’s Response to for the origin of such a raw material necessary for a Jewish Boy’s Position system. It would have to evolution. To get from “amoeba” on Abortion come together fully to “man” would require a mas- 4 formed and integrated. sive net increase in information. Many living systems ex- There are many examples of An Apology & Clarification hibit this (vision, blood- supposed evolution given by About Mel Gibson clotting, etc.). When you proponents. Variation within a 8 look at a watch, you as- species (finch beak, for ex- sume there was a watch- ample), bacteria which acquire It’s Time to Take a Stand maker. A watch is too antibiotic resistance, people 10 complex to “happen” by born with an extra chromo- chance. Yet such living some, etc. However, none of Distinctive Teachings of systems are almost infi- the examples demonstrate the Biblical Christianity nitely more complex than development of new informa- 12 a watch. They could not be random—they simply tion. Instead, they demonstrate either preprogrammed had to be designed and created. variation, multiple copies of existing information, or Bring Me the Books even loss of information (natural selection and adap- 14 2. The high information tation involve loss of information). The total lack of any content of DNA could only have such evidence refutes evolutionary theory. come from intelligence. 4. Evolution flies directly in the face Eternal Perspective Information science teaches that in all known of entropy, the second law of MINISTRIES cases, complex information requires an intelligent 2229 E. Burnside #23 message sender. This is at the core of the Search thermodynamics. Gresham, OR 97030 for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). DNA is by This law of physics states that all systems, whether 503.663.6481 far the most compact information storage/retrieval open or closed, have a tendency to disorder (or “the www.epm.org Eternal Perspectives, Summer 2004 Creationism or Evolution? least energetic state”). There are some ways. The fact is, many supposed “ape-men” are special cases where local order can increase, very clearly apes. Evolutionists now admit that but this is at the expense of greater disorder else- other so-called “ape-men” would be able to have where. Raw energy cannot generate the complex children by modern humans, which makes them systems in living things, or the information required to the same species as humans. The main species build them. Undirected energy just speeds up de- said to bridge this gap, Homo habilis, is thought struction. Yet, evolution is a building-up process, sug- by many to be a mixture of ape and human fossils. gesting that things tend to become more complex and In other words, the “missing link” (in reality there advanced over time. This is directly opposed to the would have to be millions of them) is still missing. Raw energy law of entropy. The body hair and the blank expressions of sub- humans in these models doesn’t come from the cannot 5. There is a total lack of bones, but the assumptions of the artist. Virtually noth- generate the undisputed examples (fossilized or ing can be determined about hair and the look in living) of the millions of transitional someone’s eyes based on a few old bones. complex forms (“missing links”) required for 7. The dating methods that systems in evolution to be true. evolutionists rely upon to assign Evolution does not require a single missing millions and billions of years to living things, or link, but innumerable ones. We should be sur- rounded by a zoo of transitional forms that cannot rocks are very inconsistent and the information be categorized as one particular life form. But we based on unproven (and don’t see this—there are different kinds of dogs, questionable) assumptions. required to but all are clearly dogs. The fossils show different sizes of horses, but all are clearly horses. None is Dating methods that use radioactive decay to build them. on the verge of being some other life form. The determine age assume that radioactive decay fossil record shows complex fossilized life sud- rates have always been constant. Yet, research denly appearing, and there are major gaps be- has shown that decay rates can change accord- tween the fossilized “kinds.” Darwin acknowl- ing to the chemical environment of the material edged that if his theory were true, it would require being tested. In fact, decay rates have been in- millions of transitional forms. He believed they creased in the laboratory by a factor of a billion. would be found in fossil records. They haven’t All such dating methods also assume a closed been. system—that no isotopes were gained or lost by th e rock since it formed. It’s common knowledge that 6. Pictures of ape-to-human hydrothermal waters, at temperatures of only a few “missing links” are extremely hundred degrees Centigrade, can create an open system where chemicals move easily from one rock subjective and based on system to another. In fact, this process is one of the evolutionists’ already-formed excuses used by evolutionists to reject dates that don’t assumptions. Often they are fit their expectations. What’s not commonly known is that the majority of dates are not even consistent for simply contrived. the same rock. Furthermore, 20th century lava flows The series of pictures or models that show often register dates in the millions to billions of years. progressive development from a little monkey to There are many different ways of dating the earth, modern man are an insult to scientific research. and many of them point to an earth much too young These are often based on fragmentary remains for evolution to have had a chance. All age-dating that can be “reconstructed” a hundred different methods rely on unprovable assumptions. Page 2 Eternal Perspectives, Summer 2004 8. Uses continue to be found for If I flipped it for years nonstop, I supposedly “leftover” body might get 50 or even 100 in a row. But this is only because getting structures. heads is an inherent possibility. Evolutionists point to useless and vestigial (left- What are the chances of me flip- over) body structures as evidence of evolution. How- ping a coin, and then seeing it ever, it’s impossible to prove that an organ is useless, sprout arms and legs, and go sit in because there’s always the possibility that a use may a corner and read a magazine? be discovered in the future. That’s been the case for No chance. Given billions of years, over 100 supposedly useless organs which are now the chances would never in- known to be essential. Scientists continue to discover crease. Great periods of time make uses for such organs. It’s worth noting that even if an the possible likely but never make the impossible organ were no longer needed (e.g., eyes of blind possible. No matter how long it’s given, non-life creatures in caves), it would prove devolution not will not become alive. Great periods of evolution. The evolutionary hypothesis needs to find examples of developing organs—those that are in- 10. The scientific method can only time make the creasing in complexity. test existing data—it cannot draw conclusions about possible likely but origins. never make the Micro-evolution, changes within a spe- cies on a small scale, is observable. But evi- impossible dence for macro-evolution, changes tran- scending species, is conspicuous by its ab- possible. sence. To prove the possibility of anything, science must be able to reproduce exact original conditions. Even when it proves something is possible, it doesn’t mean it there- EPM Information: fore happened. Since no man was there to record or even witness the beginning, con- Eternal Perspectives is a 9. Evolution is said to have begun clusions must be made only on the basis of interpret- quarterly publication of Eter- by spontaneous generation—a ing presently available information. If I put on rose- nal Perspective Ministries, concept ridiculed by biology. colored glasses, I will always see red. I accept the 2229 E. Burnside #23, Gre- Bible’s teaching on creation, and see the evidence as sham, OR 97030, 503-663- When I was a sophomore in high school, and a being consistently supportive of that belief.

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