IS EVOLUTION A HOAX?
WHAT PROMINENT SCIENTISTS SAY ABOUT EVOLUTION
1. “Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great conmen, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever. In explaining evolution, we do not have one iota of fact.” Dr. Newton Tahmisian, Atomic Energy Commission.
2. “The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.” Sir Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer and physicist.
3. “I believe that one day, the Darwinian myth will be ranked the greatest deceit in the history of science. When this happens, many people will pose the question, ‘How did this ever happen?’” Dr. Soren Lovtrup, Swedish embryologist.
GREATEST FOSSIL EXPERTS SAY, “NO EVIDENCE!”
1. “I will lay it on the line—there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.” Dr. Colin Patterson, curator of Fossils at the British Museum of Natural History [Colin Patterson, letter dated April 10, 1979 to Luther Sunderland, quoted in L. D. Sunderland, Darwin's Enigma, p. 89.]
2. "120 years after Darwin….we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin’s time!” Dr. David Raup the leading paleontologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. ["Conflicts between Darwin and Paleontology," in the Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin].
3. "No one has found any such in-between creatures….There is a growing conviction among many scientists that these transitional forms never existed." Dr. Niles Eldredge, head of New York City’s American Museum of Natural History in New York City. ["Alternate Theory of Evolution Considered," in Los Angeles Times, November 19, 1978].
4. The evidence is so nonexistent that Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe (an atheist & a Buddhist) wrote Evolution from Space, positing that life must have been flown here from outer space!
EVOLUTION COMPUTER SIMULATION BREAKS DOWN
Murray Eden at MIT and mathematician Marcel P. Schutzenberger developed a computer simulation of evolution using natural selection and random mutations. After repeated attempts to get positive results, Eden’s group were astounded by the fact that, mathematically, none of the mechanisms of evolution could ever produce the positive changes required by evolutionary theory.
COMPLEXITY -- POINTS TO DESIGN
1. THE BRAIN. In man is a 3 pound brain which has a 100 billion neurons intricately linked to each other. The total number of connections in the brain approaches 1015 or 1,000 million million.
2. THE EYE. Your retina is thinner than paper, yet its tiny surface (only 1 inch square) contains 137 million light-sensitive cells. These retina cells perform up to 10 billion calculations per second in determining the nature of the image transmitted to the eye by light photons. No supercomputer on earth is capable of matching these virtually instantaneous calculations.
3. INSULIN. Isaac Asimov estimated there are 8 x 1027 (eight followed by 27 zeros) different possible combinations of an insulin-like proteins. For the sake of argument, let's assume that each second that the universe has existed, a different combination of an insulin-like protein is produced. After 10 billion years, we would have approximately 3 x 1017 (three followed by 17 zeros) different combinations or approximately one ten-billionth of all the possible combinations of insulin. To produce all the combinations, we would need to wait an additional 10 billion times the presently supposed age of the universe -- 100 quintillion years.
4. HEMOGLOBIN. Asimov estimates 135 followed by 165 zeros as the different combinations of hemoglobin. This number is larger than all the atoms in the universe! To produce the one combination of hemoglobin that our body uses would require a hemoglobin factory that would consume 10 sextillion universes every second and would require 10 trillion trillion years to produce all the different combinations!
5. DNA. DNA is a code, a language of the highest order. The language of DNA is a molecular language, made up of nucleotide letters -- the ultimate limit of miniaturization. The DNA is a blueprint that not only describes, but directs, step by step, the assembling of lifeless chemicals into a complete organism with all its functional arrangements; from one cell to trillions, producing a multitude of organic factories, all interacting together to complete the purpose for which the creature was designed before its first cell was formed!
The amount of information in the 3 billion base pairs in the DNA in every human cell is equivalent to that in 1,000 books of encyclopedia size. It would take a person typing 60 words per minute, eight hours a day, around 50 years to type the human genome. And if all the DNA in your body’s 100 trillion cells was put end to end, it would reach to the sun (90,000,000 miles away) and back over 600 times! [“Genome Facts,” Nova Online, www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genome /facts.html]
Francis Collins, the scientist who led the team that cracked the human genome, says, "When you have for the first time in front of you this 3.1 billion letter instruction book that conveys all kinds of information…you can't survey that…without a sense of awe….and…a vague sense that this is giving me a glimpse of God's mind." Steven Swinford [“I’ve found God, says man who cracked the genome,” June 11, 2006; www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article673663.ece]
Speaking of the absurdly improbable, Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould described humans as "a glorious accident" of evolution which required 60 trillion contingent events. That would require more than 36 necessary events per day, each day for 4.55 billion years -- just to get Homo sapiens. And conveniently, each of these 36 daily events had to occur in the right place at the right time in the right sequence.
MACROEVOLUTION IMPOSSIBLE
1. "The reasons for rejecting Darwin's proposal are many, but first of all that many innovations cannot possibly come into existence through the accumulation of many small steps, and even if they can, natural selection cannot accomplish it, because incipient and intermediate stages are not advantageous." Evolutionist Soren Lovtrup.
2. "You can't fly with 2% of a wing..." Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould in “Not Necessarily a Wing,” Natural History, Oct. 1985, pp. 12-13.
3. "The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution ….the answer can be given as a clear, No." Evolutionist Roger Lewin, [“Evolutionary Theory Under Fire,” Science, Vol. 210, Nov. 21, 1980, p. 883.]
SYMBIOSIS: HUMAN MICROBIOME
Over 10,000 species of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes numbering 100 trillion share our bodies. Your skin is like a rain forest; your intestines are teeming with different species like an ocean. You have 10 times more microbial cells than human cells, weighing up to 3 pounds. Experts declare that these microbe's "provide a wide range of metabolic functions that humans lack," and "they work to keep humans healthy." In other words, we could not live without them. It's a symbiotic relationship. [“10,000 Germs Species Live In & On Healthy People” Lauran Neergaard, June 2012, Associated Press]
THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE
1. The Big Bang theory claims that "nothing" suddenly became time, matter, and energy, forming a vast, complex, orderly universe composed of over 100 billion galaxies and containing an estimated trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion tons of matter. Where did all this initial matter come from? How can something come from nowhere, by itself? Second, what caused it to go "bang?" It's unavoidable -- there must have been a "First Cause."
2. Stephen Hawking [Austin American-Statesman, 10/19/97] says "…the universe and the laws of physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist: Either atoms would not be stable, or they wouldn't combine into molecules, or the stars wouldn't form the heavier elements, or the universe would collapse before life could develop, and so on…”
3. John Wheeler, Princeton professor of physics; "Slight variations in physical laws such as gravity or electromagnetism would make life impossible. The necessity to produce life lies at the center of the universe's whole machinery and design." [Reader's Digest, September 1986].
4. Albert Einstein said, "In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views." [The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, p. 214.]
PROBLEMS WITH BIG BANG COSMOLOGY
The Big Bang couldn’t happen by itself because nothingness can’t pack together. It couldn’t become very dense, because a total vacuum is the opposite of total density. There would be no ignition to explode it. There’s no way to expand it because the "gravity" which brought it together would keep it from expanding. The intense heat caused by the exploding nothingness is said to have changed it into protons, neutrons, and electrons. First, an empty vacuum in the extreme cold of outer space can’t get hot by itself. Second, an empty void cannot magically change itself into matter. Third, there can be no heat without an energy source. If it occurred, the Big Bang would have produced equal amounts of positive matter (matter) and negative matter (antimatter). But only small amounts of antimatter exist. Also, the antimatter from the Big Bang would’ve destroyed all the regular matter. In frictionless space there would be no way to slow the particles; they would maintain the same speed and direction forever. There’s no way to get the particles to form into atoms or cluster into gaseous clouds. Angular momentum [turning motion] would be needed, and the laws of physics couldn’t produce it. Neither hydrogen nor helium in outer space would clump together because the molecules are too widely separated. But even if they could, the gas could not build enough mutual gravity to bring it together. Careful analysis has revealed that there’s not enough matter in gas clouds to produce stars. Further, there wouldn’t be enough time for the gas to reach the currently known expanse of the universe, so it could form itself into stars. If the Big Bang theory were true, instead of a universe of stars, there would only be an outer rim of fast-moving matter. In order for the gas to produce stars, it would have to stop flowing outward, begin moving in circles, then pack tighter. But there would be nothing to induce these motions. Further, there’s not enough mass in the universe for the origin of matter and stars. It’s about 100 times less than the amount required by the Big Bang theory. Even if the Big Bang somehow produced hydrogen and helium, the 90 heavier (post-helium) elements had to be made. The nuclear gaps at mass 5 and 8 make it impossible for hydrogen or helium to change into any of the heavier elements. Exploding stars couldn’t produce the heavier elements. But assuming they could, there’s not been enough theoretical time to produce all the needed heavier elements that now exist. According to the theory, there should be "population III" stars, containing only hydrogen and helium, but there aren’t. There aren’t enough supernova explosions to produce the needed heavier elements. The theory requires that all the stars exploded, often. But evolutionists postulate that 5 billion years ago, the explosions suddenly stopped. Why? Supernovas don’t throw off enough matter to make additional stars. Only hydrogen and helium have been found in the outflowing gas from supernova explosions. An explosion of a star would not produce another star. (evolution-facts.org)
STEPHEN HAWKING’S book The Grand Design (2010) attempts to deflect the reality of a Designer by claiming that gravity created everything from nothing. But Dr. John Lennox, Mathematician at Oxford University pointed out that gravity is part of the cosmos, so it can’t create the cosmos. As the philosopher Parmenides once said, “From nothing, nothing will ever be.”
UNLIKELYHOOD OF CHANCE EVOLUTION
1. If you would take the parts of a new car, and fly at the height of 10,000 feet, and dump them out, would they assemble themselves into a car before they hit the ground? No. The evolutionist would say, “Well, you just don’t have enough time.” Ok, drop the parts from 100,000 feet; will they assembly themselves any better into a car? No!
2. “We must now admit to ourselves that the probability of life arising by chance, by evolution, is the same probability as throwing six on a die 5 million consecutive times.” Astrophysicist Fred Hoyle.
