Alex Korndorf, a critic of creation, cannot say the following without meriting a response: \"[Intelligent design theory] is pure dogma with absolutely no basis in reality.” I disagree. The reality of creation is firmly founded. Korndorf also said, “Not only are the intelligent design lobby’s arguments against evolution void, but intelligent design is not science at all.” I beg to differ. Check out all the bibliographic information at the end of this article. There are serious arguments, facts and scientists supporting the creation science side.
Alex Korndorf asked for an example of an irreducibly complex organism that “ has absolutely no evolutionarily beneficial results unless it is fully evolved.” The Bombardier Beetle is one creature that fits the ticket:
“The bombardier does appear to be unique in the animal kingdom. Its defense system is extraordinarily intricate, a cross between tear gas and a tommy gun. When the beetle senses danger, it internally mixes enzymes contained in one body chamber with concentrated solutions of some rather harmless compounds, hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinones, confined to a second chamber. This generates a noxious spray of caustic benzoquinones, which explode from its body at a boiling 212 degrees Fahrenheit. What is more, the fluid is pumped through twin rear nozzles, which can be rotated, like a B-17's gun turret, to hit a hungry ant or frog with bull's eye accuracy.” Quote from Natalie Angier reported by Rich Thompson/ San Francisco, Time Magazine (February 25, 1985), p. 70.
At the same time, how could the beetle evolve both the chemicals and the chambers? There would be no point to developing chambers if there were no chemicals to fill them, and if there were no control mechanisms, the bug would explode.
If one wants to explain the origins of the universe without God, one must elaborate on at least the five following areas: 1. Cosmic Evolution, 2. Chemical Evolution, 3. Stellar and Planetary Evolution, 4 Organic Evolution and 5. Macro-Evolution. One must first explain how all the matter of the universe arose from absolutely nothing. The evolutionist says that “In the beginning, there was nothing, then this nothingness formed an infinitely dense singularity that began spinning; this then exploded to form everything.”
One must next go on to explain how the elements formed. Evolutionist Harlow Shapely said, “In the very beginning, we say, were hydrogen atoms...” Some evolutionists claim there was also helium. The question of how all the other elements came about remains. Thus the miracle of the star comes in to harness the hydrogen and helium to produce all the other elements. But how does a star fuse past element number 22, Titanium?
Even more puzzling is what caused the planets of our solar system to have vast variation in their component elements. “The first two thirds of Neptune is composed of a mixture of molten rock, water, liquid ammonia and methane”(http://www.solarviews.com/eng/neptune.htm) while “Iron makes up about 70% of Mercury's total weight making” (http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu).
I think the last two definitions of evolution can be left for another article. One more comment of Kordorf's deserves a response. Korndorf said, “...evolution supplies us with a fossil record in which not one single authentic fossil has ever been found outside of where the theory of evolution says it should be.” To clarify, evolution does not provide us with the fossil record. Evolution is merely a theory that tries to interpret the fossils that the earth provides. Evolution says that the fossils were laid down slowly over millions of years, while the Creationist theory says they were laid down quickly by a global flood. And fossils have been found outside of their postulated geologic column.
Walter T. Brown writes in 1989 book \"In the Beginning\" that \"Practically nowhere on the earth can one find the so-called 'geologic column.' In fact, at most places on the continents, over half the 'geologic periods' are missing! Only 15-20 percent of the earth's land surface has even one-third of these periods in the correct consecutive order. Even within the Grand Canyon, over 150 million years of this imaginary column are missing. Using the assumed geologic column to date fossils and rocks is fallacious.\"
Will any responses to this article evolve out of nothing or will they be produced by intelligence?
Sources: Harlow Shapely, \"On the Evolution of Atoms, Stars and Galaxies, \" in Adventures in Earth History (1970), p. 77; Walter T. Brown, In the Beginning (1989), p. 15
Alex Korndorf asked for an example of an irreducibly complex organism that “ has absolutely no evolutionarily beneficial results unless it is fully evolved.” The Bombardier Beetle is one creature that fits the ticket:
“The bombardier does appear to be unique in the animal kingdom. Its defense system is extraordinarily intricate, a cross between tear gas and a tommy gun. When the beetle senses danger, it internally mixes enzymes contained in one body chamber with concentrated solutions of some rather harmless compounds, hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinones, confined to a second chamber. This generates a noxious spray of caustic benzoquinones, which explode from its body at a boiling 212 degrees Fahrenheit. What is more, the fluid is pumped through twin rear nozzles, which can be rotated, like a B-17's gun turret, to hit a hungry ant or frog with bull's eye accuracy.” Quote from Natalie Angier reported by Rich Thompson/ San Francisco, Time Magazine (February 25, 1985), p. 70.
At the same time, how could the beetle evolve both the chemicals and the chambers? There would be no point to developing chambers if there were no chemicals to fill them, and if there were no control mechanisms, the bug would explode.
If one wants to explain the origins of the universe without God, one must elaborate on at least the five following areas: 1. Cosmic Evolution, 2. Chemical Evolution, 3. Stellar and Planetary Evolution, 4 Organic Evolution and 5. Macro-Evolution. One must first explain how all the matter of the universe arose from absolutely nothing. The evolutionist says that “In the beginning, there was nothing, then this nothingness formed an infinitely dense singularity that began spinning; this then exploded to form everything.”
One must next go on to explain how the elements formed. Evolutionist Harlow Shapely said, “In the very beginning, we say, were hydrogen atoms...” Some evolutionists claim there was also helium. The question of how all the other elements came about remains. Thus the miracle of the star comes in to harness the hydrogen and helium to produce all the other elements. But how does a star fuse past element number 22, Titanium?
Even more puzzling is what caused the planets of our solar system to have vast variation in their component elements. “The first two thirds of Neptune is composed of a mixture of molten rock, water, liquid ammonia and methane”(http://www.solarviews.com/eng/neptune.htm) while “Iron makes up about 70% of Mercury's total weight making” (http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu).
I think the last two definitions of evolution can be left for another article. One more comment of Kordorf's deserves a response. Korndorf said, “...evolution supplies us with a fossil record in which not one single authentic fossil has ever been found outside of where the theory of evolution says it should be.” To clarify, evolution does not provide us with the fossil record. Evolution is merely a theory that tries to interpret the fossils that the earth provides. Evolution says that the fossils were laid down slowly over millions of years, while the Creationist theory says they were laid down quickly by a global flood. And fossils have been found outside of their postulated geologic column.
Walter T. Brown writes in 1989 book \"In the Beginning\" that \"Practically nowhere on the earth can one find the so-called 'geologic column.' In fact, at most places on the continents, over half the 'geologic periods' are missing! Only 15-20 percent of the earth's land surface has even one-third of these periods in the correct consecutive order. Even within the Grand Canyon, over 150 million years of this imaginary column are missing. Using the assumed geologic column to date fossils and rocks is fallacious.\"
Will any responses to this article evolve out of nothing or will they be produced by intelligence?
Sources: Harlow Shapely, \"On the Evolution of Atoms, Stars and Galaxies, \" in Adventures in Earth History (1970), p. 77; Walter T. Brown, In the Beginning (1989), p. 15
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