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Evolution Part 3
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Hi, I'm Dave DeWitt.
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A few years ago, I wrote a book which is called An Evaluation of the Atheist Religion Known
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as Evolution.
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I also wrote a brief overview of that book, and I'm going to cover that overview in three
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podcasts.
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This is the third one of those podcasts.
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The next thing I want to talk about is adaptation is not microevolution.
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Microevolution is a deceptive term that evolution religion imposes on the world to describe
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adaptation.
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It's like saying since Santa Claus is real, the Santas at the mall are proof of Santa
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who also comes down the chimney.
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There are micro-Santas, and hence, the micro-Santas are proof of a macro-Santa.
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Adaptations through mutations and natural selection are observable in nature and expressed
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as variations within what the Bible calls kinds of living things, such as different
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kinds of dogs or cats or horses, the vast amount of genetic information which is in
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every kind of living thing allows them a variable genetic expression needed to survive
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changing environments, but that genetic information only allows variation within its kind.
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There's no observation whatsoever that it adds information allowing movement to a different
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kind of a living thing, like, say, from a frog to an alligator.
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That's because all genetic variations only use genetic information already in the creature.
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It must be understood that there's never been any observation of any new genetic information
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produced in any creature by random mutations in nature.
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And all of evolution depends on that.
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The next thing I want to point out is the conditions of the Earth and the universe
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eliminate evolution.
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The reason for this chapter is that some evolutionists realizing that the chances of life evolving
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from non-living chemicals is absurd punt to life coming from outer space, somewhere else
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in the universe.
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They want us to believe that pushing the problem out to an undeterminable remote place in the
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universe somehow solves the problem.
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Right now there are planets crashing into their stars, unattached planets crashing into
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other planets, shock waves of thousands of degrees traveling through the universe, stars
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ending up eating one another, comets crashing into planets, black holes sucking in everything
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in their path, whole galaxies colliding into each other, and supernovas destroying entire galaxies.
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The universe appears to be a huge place full of spectacular destruction.
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Planets do not support life.
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When it comes to planets, astronomers have observed three kinds of planetary orbits.
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A few with approximately circular orbits so close to a star that they're burning hot,
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a few with circular orbits so far from the star they're freezing cold, and in most cases
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elliptical orbits that freeze from their star and burn when they're close, none of which
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could support life.
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The reason life is never found on other planets is because planets are not things that support life.
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If you had a spaceship that could take you anywhere in the universe, we have found that
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there's no place in the universe that you could step out of that spaceship and survive
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except here.
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The earth is uniquely stable.
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Even with the summer and winter seasons established after Noah's Flood and Genesis 8, the earth
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is stable and consistent.
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The earth is described by astronomers as an oasis of tranquility in a universe of chaos
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and destruction.
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In my reading on the subject, and I don't recall the source, I came across an evolutionary
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astronomer who said, we hit the orbital jackpot, we get a gentle ride.
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Another evolutionary astronomer said, what's so amazing about the earth's orbit around
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the sun is not only that it's inevitable, but it had to be stable for a billion years
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for life to evolve on it.
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And I would add, yeah, or God created it that way.
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No astronomer has been able to find anything anywhere close to our earth, anywhere in the
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universe.
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The idea that although planets have never been observed supporting life, some beings
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from some planets millions of light years away somehow traveled all that hostile space
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for millions of years to visit earth, or some asteroid with some form of life clinging to
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it hung on for millions of light years, and then was not burned up entering our atmosphere,
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is nothing less than absurd.
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The earth is completely unique.
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Human life requires physical constraints, laws, and properties that fall within certain
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narrow ranges.
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If the earth were 2% closer or further away from the sun, no life would be possible.
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If the earth rotated any slower than it does, then day and night temperatures would differ
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too greatly.
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If it rotated faster, then the violent winds would be too great.
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Oxygen compromises 21% of the earth's atmosphere.
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If it were 15%, humans would suffocate.
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If it were 25%, the spontaneous fires would break out, and it's been estimated that
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we can draw the conditions that a fewer than a trillionth of a trillionth are a percent
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of all the stars that would be capable of sustaining advanced life.
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Considering that the observable universe contains less than a trillion galaxies, each averaging
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a hundred trillion stars, we can see that not even one planet would be expected by natural
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chance alone to possess the necessary conditions to sustain life.
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Next, I want to say a few things about the man-made geologic columns.
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Geologic columns do not define the dating of rock strata.
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Here's some basic problems with the geologic columns.
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One, geologic column is imposed on, not observed in the real world, of strata.
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Charles Lyell, in the early-mid 1800s, was primarily responsible for giving the world
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the idea of geologic columns.
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Each rock layer was given a name and an age and an index fossil.
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Well, Morris and Parker make the following observation.
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There's only one place in all the world to see standard geologic columns, and that's
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in a textbook.
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The real world strata and the fossils they contain do not use long ages.
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By the late 1800s, without any scientific process whatsoever, dates were assigned to
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fossils in certain layers that were then used to date rock layers from one region of the
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earth to the other.
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But as Dr. Ken Hovind casually points out, they just picked those numbers out of the
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clear blue sky.
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Third, strata laid down slowly over millions of years would not be bent, buckled, and torn
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apart.
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If layers were laid down gradually, we would expect to find thick, smooth layers globally,
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but we don't.
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Common rock layers are buckled up, inverted, folded over, and inserted into each other.
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Any glimpse at a map of the ocean floors will tell you that the continents were once together
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and torn apart to their present position.
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Creatures that die slowly over millions of years do not become fossilized.
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If you take a walk through the forest, you will not obtain a bunch of dead animals waiting
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around to become fossils.
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Where are all the transitional fossils?
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The fossils of those transitional creatures could be observed in the earth's strata.
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The reality is none of them are there.
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The development of well-defined rock layers do not require millions of years.
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Probably the most obvious example of this in the natural world is the explosion of Mount
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St. Helens on May 18th in 1980.
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I want to point out that some common sense eliminates evolution.
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The impossibility of an old age.
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If our current earth existed for millions of years, here's what would happen.
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The oceans would be as salty as the Dead Sea.
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No sea life would survive.
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Our silt coming out of the major rivers would fill the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea.
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Trees rotting over millions of years would make the alluvial soil and the tropical rainforest
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hundreds of meters thick instead of the relatively thin layers we observe today.
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And there would be no danger of erosion as there is today.
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The earth would be filled with meteorites.
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The strata of the earth would be packed with fossils.
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The moon would be covered with dust meters thick, and so would Mars.
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The earth would be impossibly overpopulated with humans, not to mention all the pre-human
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Neanderthal-like beings and their relatives, theoretically more able to survive than the apes.
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In evolution religion, nobody plus nothing equals everything.
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If we apply our observation instead of the unobservable leap of faith used by the evolution
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religion, the cause and effect we observe in the universe tells us there has to be at
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least a personal with a, you know, like emotion and will, a moral with a sense of right and
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wrong, a just, dictating the absolute and absolute standard, purposeful with a destiny
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in mind, creator, a personal, moral, just, purposeful creator.
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Many leaky buckets hold no more water than one leaky bucket.
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If in the mind of the average college student the evidence of evolution is overwhelming,
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and every attempt to observe the claim of evolution comes from certain conclusions with
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zero evidence based on zero observations in a real, unrealistic world, to put it mathematically
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zero plus zero plus zero plus zero plus zero plus zero equals zero, the chances of life
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evolving on every planet you would look at would be zero, add them up, you get zero.
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Complexity requires complexity.
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The religious idea that mutations account for complexity we see in our world is negated
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by the reality of the interdependence of parts.
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The point is simply and obvious, all the parts of the biological organism like the human
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eye or the structure of the neck of a giraffe have to be functioning perfectly or the organism
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is perfectly useless.
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To support one part would evolve, then wait around for a million years for another part
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to evolve is absurd.
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The last thing I want to say here is that evolution is a bad accident.
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If it happened, it's a bad accident.
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There are atheists and evolutionists that say there's no God because of all the extreme
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suffering in the world.
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The argument goes something like this.
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Number one, if there was a good God, he would not create a world full of suffering.
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Number two, we have a world full of extreme suffering.
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Number three, therefore either God does not exist or God is bad.
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Well, if evolution is the source of all life, then why is that not also true of evolution?
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Number one, if evolution were good, it would evolve a world without extreme suffering.
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Number two, we do have a world full of extreme suffering.
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Number three, therefore either evolution does not exist or it's bad.
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If you like the extreme suffering of the world and you believe in evolution, then the
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only possible conclusion is evolution is a bad accident.
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Well, thank you for listening.
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This is the third of my three podcasts on the subject of evolution.
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The other two and the paper that they're taken from are available on our website, relationalconcepts.org.
