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- From: Jim.Maroon@f33.n214.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Maroon)
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- Subject: Re: evolution
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 12:16:00 PDT
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- -=> Quoting Bruce Hogan to All <=-
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- BH> 1) The observable fact of the remains of tropical plants found all
- BH> over the world, including the polar regions (the original question
- BH> that prompted this flurry of discourse).
-
- BH> OK, what do you do with this, and the following? Find out how the
- BH> Evolution model explains it and then find out how the Creation
- BH> model explains it. If you meet someone who is afraid to do that,
- BH> avoid them; they are not helping you think clearly, just helping
- BH> you think "correctly".
-
- Piece of cake. I'm no scientist, but even I know that, according
- to geological record, all of the land masses in the world were connected as
- one giant land mass. Continental drift seperated them, so it is no mystery
- how what you observe above occured, if it occured. (I'm taking your word
- for it.)
-
- BH> 2) The lack of transitional species. This will be hotly debated, but
- BH> simply ask for the millions of examples that should be there if
- BH> evolution is a billions-of- years process with billions upon
- BH> billions upon billions of mutations and trials and errors. Don't
- BH> accept an explanation, rather stand your ground until someone
- BH> produces some evidence. And study "punctuated equilibrium" and
- BH> see if it is consistent with the description of how evolution
- BH> works or if you think it is an explanation by some of why what we
- BH> observe doesn't fit the process of evolution?
-
- Two thoughts. One, there are many examples of transitional change.
- Witness Hyeracotherium to equus, the modern horse, among a myriad of others.
- Two, you are arguing with the rather old fashioned notion of how natural
- selection occurs. It was once thought that species evolve slowly, over
- millions of years, and while they do to an extent, that is not the driving
- mechanism behind evolution. Natural selection works best during times of
- trauma... when two populations are forcefully divided, when conditions in the
- environment force a selection between differing genetic traits. They are
- forced to evolve quickly or they go extinct. Lets say it gets really
- cold suddenly. Those members of the species who have genetic traits favorable
- to cold weather survive, those who do not, die. Usually,in order to survive,
- it takes a mutation to survive in such a situation. Thus, the environemnent
- selects for the trait that keeps one warm (longer hair, for example). If the
- environement continues to be cold, it will continue to select for survival,
- until eventually, and geologically quickly, perhaps in as few as couple of
- hundred thousand years, you have a new species, and the old species is
- "extinct." Finding trasitional species during such a relatively brief
- period would be next to impossible.
-
- BH> 3) That fossilization is not a present day process except during
- BH> cataclysmic events. To understand why this is foundational to the
- BH> question, study the term "uniformitarianism" from the
- BH> evolutionists point of view and then consider the Creation model's
- BH> view that the geologic record, and the fossil record, are not the
- BH> records of eons of slow, uniform changes but the records of a
- BH> cataclysmic, hydraulic event (a worldwide flood) with the
- BH> attendent sorting of debris and the deposition of layers as one
- BH> would expect.
-
- There is absolutely no evidence of a worldwide flood. Floods are
- easy to detect in the geological record. A Noah's flood would have left
- massive evidence, which it did not, because it never happened. :)
-
- BH> 4) That if the geologic column is the record of billions of years of
- BH> accumulated layers of time/earth, why do we find what is known as
- BH> "polystate fossils", which are fossils (e.g. a tree trunk) which
- BH> transverse millions of years of supposed layers of geologic
- BH> history?
-
- Earthquakes and plate tectonics, as well as normal, minor shifting.
-
- BH> 5) The observable fact that the layers of the geologic column do not
- BH> actually appear anywhere in the world in complete form _and_ that
- BH> the pieces of the supposed "column" that do exist can be found in
- BH> reverse order, or a non-sequential order, when compared to what
- BH> the evolutionary model says it should be.
-
- Earthquakes and plate tectonics, as well as normal, minor shifting.
-
- BH> 6) The huge and innumerable deposits of fossils where the remains of
- BH> what should have only appeared millions of years later, according
- BH> to the geologic column theory, are mixed up with the remains of
- BH> what supposedly had disappeared from the scene millions of years
- BH> earlier.
-
- Earthquakes and plate tectonics, as well as normal, minor shifting.
-
- BH> 7) The numerous cases of large deposits of fossil graveyards that
- BH> include the soft parts of the flesh. This does not fit a model
- BH> which demands a slow, uniform process. Flesh rots, and quickly.
- BH> We also have the millions of mammoths and other large animals that
- BH> were killed instantly in the north polar regions, many with the
- BH> flesh and hair intact, some standing, some kneeling, some with
- BH> food in their mouths, with the eyes and red blood cells well
- BH> preserved and the separation of water in the animal's cells was
- BH> only partial testifying to an extremely fast and continuous
- BH> freeze. The existence of an estimated 5,000,000 frozen mammoths
- BH> along the coasts of Alaska and Northern Siberia needs to be
- BH> weighed against the evolutionary model which claims no cataclysmic
- BH> events have intervened and that the record is "uniform", or should be.
-
- Again, evolution is not based on a slow, uniform process. It is
- driven by natural selection, in spurts and starts, which depends exactly
- on the clatyclismic mechanisms you describe above. You are basing your
- notion of evolution on outdated science.
-
- BH> 8) The rate of abandonment of the evolutionary model by hundreds of
- BH> highly qualified scientists. You would never find this out by
- BH> reading your science book or the newspaper of course, but it is
- BH> worth your research time. Find out why they are questioning the
- BH> premisses of evolutionary thinking.
-
- No evolutionary scientists I know of have made such a change. Give
- us a name or two. The only ones I know of either got their degrees at Bible
- colleges, or their field of science make them completely unqualified (not,
- as you say, highly qualified) to judge the evolutionary process in any
- credible way.
-
- BH> These are simply offered to fuel your study. Think for yourself. Ask
- BH> hard questions. Many more questions could, and should, be asked
- BH> before one should
-
- Methinks you are less open minded than you would have us believe. Be
- honest. You have an agenda, and that agenda is to prop up the creation
- myth of the old testament. Creation science is not science at all, but
- religious dogma. There is nothing scientific about it.
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