Wednesday, May 10, 2017

The topic of Evolution, Part Two

Evolution: all life on earth has come about through descent with modification from a single common ancestor (a hypothetical, primitive, single-called organism).

  The fact that evolutionary process, on the scale of millions of years, cannot be observed, tested, repeated, or falsified places them in the category of historical science. In secular science, evaluating historical events is considered just as acceptable as conducting laboratory experiments when it comes to developing scientific theories. Since scientific theories are subject to change, it is acceptable to work within an admittedly deficient framework until a better or more reasonable framework can be found.

A major problem for evolution, as mentioned above, is the huge increase in information content of organisms through time. Evolutionary theory accepts additions and deletions of information as evidence of evolution of a population.  The problem is that through the imagined history of life on earth, the information content of the genomes of organisms must have increased dramatically. Beginning with the most primitive form of life, we have a relatively simple genome compared to the genomes that we see today.  Mutations are said to provide the fuel for the evolutionary engine. Virtually all observed mutations result in a loss in the information content of a genome. There would need to be some way to consistently add information to the genome to arrive at palm trees and people from a simple single-celled organism-the hypothetical common ancestor of all life on earth. Evolutionists have failed to answer the question, "Where did all the new information come from since mutations are known to reduce information?" You cannot expect evolution, which requires a net gain in information over millions of years, to occur as a result of mutation and natural selection. Natural selection, evolution's suppose mechanism, cause a loss of information and can only act traits that are already present!

Creationist agree with the idea of "descent with modification" but not with the notion of a single common ancestor. To accept a common ancestor for all life on earth requires a rejection of the biblical account of creation in Genesis and backed up by many other verses. The order of events of evolutionary history cannot be reconciled with the account recorded in Genesis 1, without compromising one or the other. The philosophies of evolution and biblical Christianity are not compatible. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBZqyG149ww 

 

 

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