| Evolution is not necessarily incompatible with the | | | | evolution transformed one species into another on |
| verse "In the beginning God created heaven and | | | | the genetic level.The problem with Darwinian |
| earth." Its problem lies more with the notion that in | | | | evolution is not that it's incompatible with faith in God. |
| the beginning (of the theory of evolution) Darwin | | | | The problem is that it's incompatible with science. And |
| knew nothing about genetics.Modern science has | | | | we're not yet even talking about complexities and |
| shown that random genetic mutation (which can be | | | | design. We're talking about how random genetic |
| caused by carcinogenic chemicals, radioactivity, and | | | | changes could have produced a vast majority of |
| sunlight, for example) is a highly destructive process. | | | | healthy life forms with such a relatively negligible |
| It can result in diseases such as cancer, hemophilia, | | | | number of deformed ones (even if we agree for the |
| Down's syndrome, cystic fibrosis, color-blindness, and | | | | sake of argument it is possible to produce complex |
| muscular dystrophy, not to mention severe | | | | healthy ones at all).Ironically, the only way you can |
| deformities in offspring.Darwinian evolution does not | | | | even entertain the notion that evolution was even |
| even begin to address the issue of how organisms | | | | possible is if you bring God into the equation. God |
| transformed from one species into another on the | | | | certainly could have laid down a blueprint in the |
| genetic level. For each accidental genetic | | | | genetic code (not unlike that of a fetus, which |
| improvement -- if it truly was random -- there should | | | | "evolves" from one cell) that gives single-celled |
| have been myriads of accidents which did not work | | | | organisms the ability to evolve into various species. |
| out. Many of these "failures" would have resulted in | | | | And this would explain why the fossil records show |
| diseased and deformed life forms, regardless of how | | | | relatively few diseased and deformed life forms.Now, |
| long they lived or whether they lived at all. Thus, for | | | | I realize you can't bring God into a science classroom; |
| every successful species -- and there have been | | | | you can't scientifically explain God. But shouldn't you |
| literally billions of them -- there should have been | | | | be able to scientifically explain evolution? And if after |
| many unsuccessful ones littering our planet. The fossil | | | | over one hundred years you still can't, isn't it time to |
| records show no such scenario.Fossil records show, | | | | reconsider? Simply because it's accepted for a long |
| by and large, healthy life forms. The absence of a | | | | period of time doesn't turn a theory into a fact. In a |
| prolific number of deformed and diseased life forms | | | | science classroom they should teach science, not one |
| actually supports the notion that a random | | | | person's religion or another person's cult.by Josh |
| evolutionary process -- the one taught in school text | | | | Greenberger |
| books -- never took place.I have yet to hear a | | | | Get his free book on evolution at EvolutionDead. |
| biologist, geneticist or biophysicist explain how | | | | |