| The question used to be, "Can evolution be | | | | In that same year, 1945, the United States |
| proven?" Today, a more appropriate question is, | | | | dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, |
| "Is evolution science?" | | | | Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These two bombs alone |
| PRIMITIVE TWENTIETH CENTURY | | | | -- as weak and as primitive as they were by |
| To most people, science is seen as "today," | | | | today's standards -- killed over 190,000 people. It |
| modern, up-to- date, and perhaps even the | | | | became obvious that we had taken control of a |
| promise of futuristic wonders. A generation which | | | | power so ferocious that the meaning of the word |
| possesses supersonic jets, Intercontinental Ballistic | | | | "war" would never be the same. |
| Missiles (ICBM's), space shuttles and sophisticated | | | | Then, as late as April of 1986, the core meltdown |
| computers can hardly be called primitive. Or can it | | | | at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor finally made man |
| In the midst of all of this state-of-the-art | | | | acutely aware of the destructive powers of |
| technology, there seems to be a rather primitive | | | | radiation even for peaceful purposes. This accident |
| theory which, although steadily losing credibility | | | | in the U.S.S.R. spread radiation panic throughout a |
| even among those who have adhered to it for a | | | | large portion of the world's population. Once more, |
| long time, still has many convinced that it is based | | | | man was forced to deal with a nuclear-related |
| on science. This theory has proven one thing | | | | situation hitherto unencountered. |
| beyond a shadow of a doubt: although modern | | | | THE COMMON DENOMINATOR |
| technology is nearing Star Wars sophistication, | | | | What the above historical events have in |
| modern man is still capable of some | | | | common is an introduction of a facet of radiation |
| embarrassingly primitive thinking. | | | | to modern man. The most destructive aspect of |
| To understand how such a theory could have | | | | radiation is its ability to cause random changes on |
| gained any support at all, one must look back at | | | | the genetic, molecular, and atomic levels, partially |
| the reasoning which prevailed in the days of | | | | or entirely destroying a recipient organism. |
| sorcery and witchcraft. These notions were | | | | Here's an idea of what radiation does: |
| certainly not the result of tangible evidence. | | | | IMMEDIATE DAMAGE |
| Obviously, the human mind is highly susceptible to | | | | Exposure of high doses of radiation to limited |
| super-human distortions and misinterpretations. | | | | parts of the body can cause severe tissue |
| Although sorcery and witchcraft per se have | | | | damage and eventual necrosis. |
| gone the way of the horse and buggy, the kind | | | | Exposure of the entire body to a few hundred |
| of imagery which facilitates the acceptance of | | | | "rem" (rem is a unit used for measuring radiation |
| irrational views of reality apparently has not. I'm | | | | effectiveness) can initially cause nausea. Then, in |
| talking about the "scientific" theory of evolution. If | | | | about a month, the person might begin suffering |
| this theory is not honest misinterpretation, it may | | | | hemorrhages, anemia, tiredness, weakness, and |
| very well be the most sophisticated hoax ever | | | | an increased risk of infection. Although some may |
| perpetrated on the human race. | | | | survive, others will die as a result of these |
| THE TASADAY TRIBESMEN | | | | maladies. |
| If you think a hoax on such a large scale is not | | | | At about 1,000 rem, nausea, vomiting, and |
| possible, consider this: | | | | diarrhea may develop within hours of exposure. |
| On August 14, 1986, ABC-TV's news program 20 | | | | As these symptoms become worse, they are |
| 20 aired a segment on the Tasaday tribesmen in | | | | followed by fever, loss of fluids, severe infections, |
| the Philippine jungles, uncovering a hoax of | | | | and finally death. |
| monumental proportions. | | | | At about 10,000 rem, the dose to which a |
| In the early 1970's, a tribe was found in the | | | | worker might be exposed during a nuclear reactor |
| Philippine jungles "living" under the most primitive | | | | accident, vomiting and diarrhea would occur within |
| conditions. The Tasaday tribesmen, as they | | | | an hour, followed by reduced blood pressure, |
| became known, seemed "untouched by modern | | | | convulsions, and unconsciousness. Death would |
| civilization." Their mode of life resembled modern | | | | come within one to three days. |
| man's image of cavemen: they hunted for food, | | | | LONG-TERM DAMAGE |
| wore clothes made of leaves, and lived in caves. | | | | The fact that radiation can induce mutations and |
| Nothing could be more exciting -- and more | | | | cause genetic effects has been known for at |
| convincing. | | | | least fifty years. Studies show that radiation can |
| The discovery of a "prehistoric" tribe in modern | | | | cause not just one, but a variety of different |
| times was so fascinating that it got front-page | | | | types of mutations. One of the effects of these |
| coverage worldwide, a book was written on the | | | | aberrations is cancer. The cancer can show up |
| discovery, and pages of "history" were added to | | | | years or even decades after the organism's |
| some encyclopedias. | | | | exposure to radiation. If the organism does not |
| Twelve years passed before it was uncovered | | | | show any signs of cancer, there is still the |
| that the world had been taken in by a sinister | | | | possibility that cancer may show up in future |
| hoax. By the mid 1980's, in attempts to follow up | | | | generations. |
| on earlier suspicions, the news media learned that | | | | Some other disorders or genetic diseases which |
| these "tribesmen" were in fact modern-day | | | | may show up in later generations as a result of |
| Philippine natives -- they ordinarily wore blue jeans | | | | random mutations are: hemophilia, congenital |
| and sweat shirts, smoked cigarettes, etc. They | | | | cataract, spontaneous abortions, cystic fibrosis, |
| had been put up to this charade by a Philippine | | | | color-blindness, and muscular dystrophy. |
| official who led them to believe that they would | | | | Still other diseases such as diabetes, heart |
| receive financial or other assistance if they | | | | disorders, asthma, and schizophrenia could |
| "looked poor" for the cameras. In the end, they | | | | manifest themselves in later generations as a |
| received no assistance, were abandoned by the | | | | result of random mutations combined with |
| Philippine official, and the charade was over. | | | | environmental factors. |
| And so, a "major anthropological find" enjoyed | | | | THE BENEFICIAL CHANGES |
| over a decade of "historical significance" before | | | | We've just gotten a glimpse of the severe |
| turning into a "major historical fraud." And had it | | | | effects of random microscopic changes on |
| not been for diligent investigation by the news | | | | biological life. And it seems that no matter at |
| media, this hoax could very well have remained | | | | what level these changes occur -- genetic, |
| the "anthropological find of the twentieth century" | | | | molecular, or atomic -- the result is almost always |
| in history books. | | | | the same: deterioration, destruction, and, in many |
| THE EVOLUTION OF EVOLUTION | | | | cases, death. |
| Ever since Charles Darwin published his book "On | | | | Does this coincide with what evolutionists have |
| The Origin Of Species" in 1859, the theory of the | | | | been chewing our ears off with for years? |
| evolution of life has undergone changes, updates, | | | | For years we've been hearing stories about how |
| and "advances" -- and the theory is still "evolving." | | | | biological life underwent billions of years of random |
| By the time scientists are through with this | | | | genetic changes. We've been hearing how by |
| theory, if ever, the "origin of species" may have | | | | accident some of these changes resulted in |
| more versions than species. This may make | | | | beneficial mutations. We've been hearing how |
| "natural selection" (of one version) extremely | | | | these beneficial mutations eventually resulted in |
| difficult. | | | | new and more complex species. Yet, when we |
| The scientific concept of the origin of life on earth | | | | look at what random genetic changes -- or any |
| begins with the premise that life first appeared | | | | other random changes, for that matter -- actually |
| billions of years ago with the formation of | | | | do to biological life, we find nothing but disease |
| microscopic organisms out of inanimate matter. In | | | | and death. Where are all those beneficial |
| the billions of years which followed, small | | | | mutations evolutionists have been talking about? |
| organisms evolved into higher and more complex | | | | Not one patient has ever developed or passed on |
| forms of life, and one species evolved into | | | | to future generations better biceps, for example, |
| another. The chain of events leading from the | | | | as a result of radiotherapy. Not one of the |
| first single-celled organism to the most complex | | | | thousands of surviving bomb victims of Hiroshima |
| organ, the human brain, was at first believed to | | | | and Nagasaki has developed a more evolved |
| have been a slow and gradual process. | | | | brain, for example, as a result of exposure to |
| But archaeologists have worn out many shovels | | | | radioactivity. Not one person involved in a nuclear |
| trying to uncover evidence supporting evolution. | | | | reactor accident has developed a more |
| At last count, they had enough bones to make | | | | sophisticated skin, for instance, which is tougher |
| friends with every dog in Chicago and enough | | | | and more durable than average. In virtually every |
| fossils to open a mail-order fossil business. But no | | | | case, random mutations have resulted in havoc |
| evidence. No series of fossils or sets of bones | | | | and destruction. |
| show unmistakable intermediate species. If one | | | | Is it possible that modern technology has actually |
| species evolved into another, "linking" species | | | | disproven evolution rather than helped it? |
| would have to have existed in profuse quantities | | | | Evolutionists in the past have hidden behind the "it |
| at various points in earth's history. But profuse | | | | took billions of years" routine. Before the nuclear |
| quantities of missing links which could be termed | | | | age it may have been necessary to get into a |
| "indisputable evidence" have never been found. | | | | time machine to verify whether, given enough |
| This brings us to a new version of evolution called | | | | time, random mutations would cause life to |
| "punctuated equilibrium." This version of evolution | | | | evolve. However, with the advent of modern |
| is held by many scientists who oppose the "slow | | | | technology's ability to affect massive random |
| and gradual" version. "Punctuated equilibrium" says | | | | mutations relatively quickly, there is no longer a |
| that species appear more suddenly and retain | | | | need to dig into the past to see the contrived |
| their basic forms until they become extinct. Now | | | | fallacies supporting the evolutionary powers of |
| that sounds a whole lot better. It conveniently | | | | random mutation. The answer is right in front of |
| does away with the need to find missing links. | | | | us. Random mutations result in quite the opposite |
| What's wrong with that? If you can't find the | | | | of what we've been led to believe. They result in |
| murder weapon, convince the jury the accused | | | | nothing but illness and fatalities -- not |
| shoots bullets through his ears! | | | | improvements. What's more, the more massive |
| And the theory goes on and on, twisting and | | | | and prolonged the occurrences of these |
| turning around every discrepancy and | | | | mutations, the greater the havoc and destruction. |
| contradiction. | | | | So what do you suppose would happen to a |
| If the logic and mechanics of the theory of | | | | planet subjected to random mutations for billions |
| evolution make much sense to you, you probably | | | | of years? Total annihilation! |
| haven't scrutinized it too objectively. Hopefully this | | | | When you take what we know as fact today |
| book, and particularly this chapter, will help you | | | | about random mutation and try to reconstruct a |
| towards that end. | | | | scenario of those alleged billions of years of |
| BORN OF IGNORANCE | | | | earth's history, instead of the fairy tale story of |
| For one species to have evolved into another, | | | | evolution, you come up with a picture which more |
| massive genetic changes would have to have | | | | and more resembles a horrible scene out of a |
| occurred throughout earth's history. Probably the | | | | "post-nuke" movie: |
| strongest thing going for evolution at the time of | | | | Even if earth had already been as populated in |
| its inception, over a hundred years ago, was that | | | | that alleged period of three and a half billion years |
| virtually nothing was known about genetics in that | | | | ago as it is today, and had since been affected |
| era. Even today, the vast majority of the public, | | | | by billions and billions of random mutations, |
| although somewhat familiar with terms like | | | | according to what we know today about random |
| "genetic engineering" and "random mutation," are | | | | mutation, by now life would probably have been |
| still pretty much in the dark with respect to this | | | | virtually wiped out. With random mutation being |
| modern branch of science. And with constant | | | | the highly destructive force that it apparently is, |
| exposure to the purported mechanics of | | | | the process which was supposed to have caused |
| evolution, it's no wonder that a theory with so | | | | life to evolve is precisely what would have |
| little substance has been able to grab such a | | | | caused, in all probability, such genetic havoc that |
| strong foothold on society -- the average person | | | | few organisms would have survived the ordeal. |
| simply does not know enough to say why | | | | Furthermore, under such circumstances, "survival |
| evolution does not work. | | | | of the fittest" is a totally ludicrous concept. The |
| I am convinced that if the public had had a decent | | | | word "fit" would have described largely those |
| understanding of genetics, and random mutation in | | | | organisms which were less disease ridden than |
| particular, before being presented with the theory | | | | the rest, a far cry from the "better species" of |
| of evolution, the theory could never have been | | | | evolution. And of those "fit" survivors, many |
| taken seriously and certainly could never have | | | | would have passed on genetic diseases to their |
| been accepted as legitimate science. | | | | offspring. Even if the "fit" had not been wiped out |
| Furthermore, another thing going for evolution is | | | | by the random mutations, their offspring still |
| simply the constant exposure of its ill-founded | | | | would have stood a chance of being wiped out by |
| concepts to the general public. I think it is human | | | | hereditary genetic diseases. Then, any |
| nature to become accustomed to an idea after | | | | disease-free offspring would again be threatened |
| repeated exposure no matter how insane the | | | | with annihilation when this entire mutation cycle |
| idea may be. And in the case of evolution, its | | | | started over again. |
| constant exposure coupled with the general | | | | Thus, after billions and billions of years of random |
| public's lack of understanding of the mechanics of | | | | mutations, even in the unlikely event that some |
| certain genetic properties is what has helped | | | | genes mutated in a way that might have |
| perpetuate this theory. | | | | ultimately produced some beneficial changes to an |
| Here's a rough idea of what a theory might sound | | | | organism, an already populated planet would have |
| like for the first time when you know quite well | | | | been reduced to a few diseased life forms, at |
| that the mechanics don't work: | | | | best. Those few beneficial genes, if they could |
| THE WORM-TRAIN THEORY | | | | even have existed, would have been so |
| Scientists took a worm crawling in a railroad yard | | | | overwhelmed by the staggeringly high number of |
| and put it under a powerful electron microscope. | | | | diseased genes necessary to produce just a few |
| They discovered that a worm's cell magnified | | | | beneficial accidents, that they could never have |
| three billion times has an uncanny resemblance to | | | | borne any fruit. An organism would have been |
| a train window. They concluded that if you | | | | wiped out long before it had an iota of a chance |
| incubate three dozen worms in a solution of | | | | to change or improve. In a sense, earth would |
| amino acids and carbon compounds for | | | | have resembled a planet after a nuclear holocaust. |
| approximately one and a half million years they will | | | | Now, if a planet began with relatively few life |
| eventually evolve into the Long Island Railroad. | | | | forms, as earth allegedly did, how far would life |
| THE COMEDY OF SCIENCE | | | | have gotten? I don't mean how far would |
| Of course, the above was only a tongue-in-cheek | | | | evolution have gotten. I mean, how far would |
| version of a "theory." However, in the following | | | | those few organisms have gotten before being |
| pages I hope to demonstrate how the theory of | | | | wiped out by the destructive powers of random |
| evolution is not that far removed from such a | | | | mutation? According to what we've actually seen |
| comical scenario. | | | | random mutations do in modern times, life never |
| EVOLUTION: A GENETIC IMPOSSIBILITY | | | | would have gotten off the ground, let alone |
| Genetic engineering, or "gene splicing," is probably | | | | proliferated into highly complex and healthy |
| the hottest and most fascinating subject in | | | | species. In all likelihood, earth would have turned |
| modern medicine. It seems to hold answers to | | | | into a desolate planet long ago. |
| questions raised by some of the most baffling | | | | Even the mice mentioned earlier who were born |
| diseases. And it looks more promising every day. | | | | twice their normal size as a result of intelligent |
| Genetic engineering is the business of altering | | | | mutation had a high mortality rate. That is, not |
| genes. Found by the hundreds, sometimes by the | | | | only does random mutation produce diseased life |
| thousands, within the nucleus of every cell, genes | | | | forms, but even beneficial mutations can have |
| cause the development of characteristics such as | | | | fatal side effects. So how do you suppose billions |
| hair color, height, the shape of some living | | | | of years of random mutations would effect life -- |
| organisms, etc. Altered genes can cause an | | | | even if they accidentally produced a few beneficial |
| organism or its offspring to take on new | | | | mutations along the way? Start a process of |
| dimensions -- its physical characteristics may | | | | evolution? Destruction sounds more like it. |
| literally change. Sometimes these changes may be | | | | BASELESS THEORETICS |
| for the good. At other times, these altered genes, | | | | There is no question that intelligent mutation can |
| generally referred to as mutations, may cause | | | | effect certain beneficial changes in an organism or |
| genetic diseases which can destroy the organism. | | | | its offspring. There is no question that natural |
| Although the potential of genetic engineering and | | | | hereditary effects can cause a member of a |
| the extent of its impact on biological systems are | | | | species to be born "bigger and stronger" than the |
| far from fully realized at this point in time, science | | | | rest -- not as a result of random mutation, but by |
| has made great advances in the field. | | | | the manifestation of traits which may have been |
| A MISCONCEPTION ABOUT 'COULD'VE' AND | | | | dormant for generations. There is no question |
| 'DID' | | | | that biological systems can adapt to their |
| It is human nature to sometimes see the | | | | environment on a macro level. But to say that |
| possibility of an event as synonymous with the | | | | adaptation to an environment or any other natural |
| actuality of an event. This couldn't be more | | | | phenomena can result in random mutations which |
| misleading when dealing with the subject of how | | | | will eventually produce new or more complex |
| genetic breakthroughs relate to the theory of | | | | species is totally baseless. To say that life started |
| evolution. | | | | with few life forms and evolved into today's |
| Many people, evolutionists and laymen alike, are | | | | profuse, complex, and generally healthy life forms |
| exposed to media coverage on the progress of | | | | is contrary to everything twentieth-century |
| genetic engineering. However, by not putting the | | | | science has learned thus far about random |
| facts into proper perspective, it is easy for one | | | | mutation. To say that a one celled organism |
| to misinterpret "what is possible" as "what actually | | | | evolved even into a one inch fish is an unrealistic |
| happened." That is, the idea that genetic research | | | | stretch of the imagination which requires a lot of |
| could confirm some arguments in support of | | | | dishonest and twisted reasoning. To say that a |
| evolution, is one misinterpretation one could easily | | | | human being is the result of an accidental |
| make if not aware of the ill-founded logic involved. | | | | evolutionary process is sheer lunacy. |
| The logic may go something like: if scientists could | | | | The very fact that there are billions upon billions |
| change the makeup of a species to a considerable | | | | of healthy life forms in existence today actually |
| degree or change one species into another | | | | proves the precise opposite of what evolutionists |
| through genetic mutation in the lab, it could verify | | | | believe -- that life on earth could not possibly |
| evolutionists' arguments that this could have | | | | have gone through any massive random genetic |
| happened naturally in the past. | | | | changes. And without genetic changes, evolution is |
| Not quite. | | | | as dead as a fossil. |
| A faulty logic we must rid ourselves of is: if you | | | | Furthermore, if genetic engineering proves |
| could prove that John Doe is the greatest artist | | | | anything, it proves that it takes a high degree of |
| that ever lived that would prove that he painted | | | | intelligence and sophistication to do nothing more |
| the Mona Lisa. To prove that John Doe painted | | | | than just tamper with existing forms of life. |
| the Mona Lisa, you'd have to do just that. Merely | | | | Consequently, creating or even significantly |
| proving that he is capable of it does not prove | | | | improving a species, requires intelligence and |
| that he actually did it. Elephants can shoot water | | | | sophistication of an even higher degree. The |
| through their trunks, but that doesn't prove | | | | notion that any random genetic process can |
| African elephants have their own fire department. | | | | create new or more complex species is not |
| No matter what scientists do in the lab in relation | | | | science, logic, or even a theory -- it is purely a |
| to biotechnology, it has little or no bearing on | | | | product of the imagination. |
| what actually happened in earth's past. Recent | | | | A MATHEMATICAL IMPROBABILITY |
| biotechnology has produced mixed-breed animals | | | | Even without genetic considerations, the |
| which doubtless never existed in earth's history. | | | | ludicrousness of evolution can be expressed in |
| Thus, what is produced in the lab says nothing | | | | terms of simple mathematical probabilities. If, for |
| more than that it is possible in the lab. What earth | | | | the sake of argument, a process -- random |
| produced in its past is a different story. | | | | mutation -- will develop life in billions of years and |
| A MORE SERIOUS PROBLEM | | | | the same process will destroy life within a human |
| But the fact that capability does not prove | | | | lifetime, which will happen first? The destruction? |
| actuality is the least of evolutionists' problems. | | | | No, it will not happen first -- it's the only thing |
| What modern man has learned thus far about | | | | that'll happen. In the time that life is suppose to |
| genetic mutation does not only not support | | | | develop, it will be destroyed literally millions of |
| evolution but actually deals the theory a | | | | times over -- nothing can ever get to the point of |
| devastating and embarrassing blow. | | | | developing. |
| To begin with, it is important that we differentiate | | | | Even the question "Given billions of tries, can a |
| between mutations affected by two different | | | | spilled bottle of ink ever fall into the words of |
| means: | | | | Shakespeare?" has become obsolete as a result |
| RANDOM MUTATION | | | | of modern man's understanding of random |
| One, random mutation. This type of mutation | | | | mutation. Till now, this question pointed out odds |
| comes about in a random fashion, without any | | | | so astronomical that it rendered the event a |
| preconceived design or plan on the genetic level. | | | | virtual impossibility. Now, it's not even a question |
| According to evolutionists, random mutation is | | | | of beating ridiculous odds. Now we're shooting dice |
| purportedly what brought life from the one celled | | | | which deteriorate with each throw and eventually |
| stage to its present complexity. That is, through a | | | | self destruct. That is, we're shooting dice (genetic |
| series of beneficial accidents of random mutations, | | | | "messages") which deteriorate (cause genetic |
| they claim, simple organisms evolved over billions | | | | diseases) with each throw (of random mutation) |
| of years into new and more complex species. | | | | and eventually self destruct (the host organism). |
| 'INTELLIGENT MUTATION' | | | | Thus, instead of, "Can you beat such ridiculous |
| Two, a process we can label "intelligent mutation." | | | | odds?" the question now becomes, "After |
| Tinkering and tampering with genes in a | | | | relatively few tries, will you have any ink, paper, |
| laboratory would come under this heading. Genes | | | | or dice left with which to try again?" Since the |
| are "recombined" or "spliced" with the intent of | | | | very life that is supposed to evolve will be |
| affecting a change in the organism or its offspring. | | | | destroyed in the process, it is impossible for the |
| Intelligent mutation has been responsible for two | | | | process to even go on for any required length of |
| impressive genetic breakthroughs. First, scientists | | | | time. This makes it highly questionable, to say the |
| bred red-eyed fruit flies from brown-eyed | | | | least, that a trial-and-error method of genetic |
| parents. Second, by combining growth genes | | | | mutations could beat even realistic odds -- forget |
| from rats with genes in mice, scientists caused | | | | about the preposterous odds proposed by |
| some mice to be born twice their normal size. | | | | evolutionists. Therefore, whether life could develop |
| To one not too familiar with medicine or biology, | | | | in an environment (of genetic mutations) where |
| such insignificant changes may seem hardly worth | | | | even fully developed biological systems cannot |
| noting. Therefore, it is necessary to emphasize | | | | survive is really no more a question of odds than |
| that it took sophisticated twentieth-century | | | | whether a cow could survive underwater long |
| science to affect such seemingly trivial changes. | | | | enough to conceive and give birth -- it's simply |
| They are nothing short of stupendous | | | | impossible. |
| achievements. | | | | EVOLUTION OF ART |
| Again, these are the kinds of genetic | | | | The insanity of evolution is also apparent in the |
| manipulations one might wish to point out in | | | | more aesthetic aspects of man. How could |
| support of evolution: "If we can do it in the lab, | | | | qualities such as artistry, abstract thinking, and |
| why couldn't nature have done it by accident on a | | | | appreciation of music have become traits |
| grand scale in the last three and a half billion | | | | common to an entire species? According to the |
| years?" | | | | mechanics (or imagery) of evolution, it would |
| A LUDICROUS COMPARISON | | | | have been a great wonder if such qualities, so |
| To begin with, comparing intelligent mutation to | | | | meaningless to the survival of purely physical and |
| random mutation is analogous to comparing the | | | | biological systems, would have evolved in only a |
| skillful incision of a surgeon to the random slashing | | | | minute fraction of a species. Yet, to be present -- |
| of a mugger. There is not one recorded case of a | | | | to one degree or another -- in virtually every |
| mugging victim walking away from his assailant | | | | human being? How? This should never have |
| with a successful appendectomy or the successful | | | | happened. |
| removal of cataracts. It doesn't take a doctor or | | | | The existence of such aesthetic human qualities |
| a scientist to know that an accident of random | | | | as emotion, humor, and intellect cannot be |
| cutting will almost invariably leave behind chaos | | | | explained biologically, no matter how ridiculous you |
| and destruction and never result in any | | | | want to get. Why, for example, did nature give us |
| sophisticated surgery. | | | | a sense of humor? How did nature even know |
| Consequently, bringing intelligent mutation as an | | | | what a sense of humor was? And how did a |
| indication that nature could have produced | | | | sense of humor render humans more "fit to |
| complex species from one celled organisms | | | | survive?" There are millions of plants and animals |
| through a long series of accidents of random | | | | without a sense of humor which have obviously |
| mutations is mixing "apples and oranges." Intelligent | | | | survived. There are even humans without a sense |
| design is normally the result of intelligence and | | | | of humor who seem to survive. How did such a |
| design. And when the design is of a highly | | | | quality ever evolve |
| complex nature, as many life forms are, it | | | | MODERN SCIENCE |
| indicates intelligence of a highly complex nature. | | | | Evolution is certainly not the run-of-the-mill theory. |
| Randomness, on the other hand, will generally not | | | | For an unproven and outdated theory, it is taken |
| produce intelligent or sophisticated structures. | | | | rather seriously by a great number of people. |
| Believing that nature accidentally produced | | | | Those who see through its faulty reasoning, |
| complex life forms, in any period of time, no | | | | biases, misinterpreted findings, and obvious |
| matter how long, is roughly equivalent to believing | | | | defiance of common sense and logic, see it as |
| that the New York World Trade Center was built | | | | just another feeble attempt to undermine and |
| by a pack of wild mules who kicked an | | | | tarnish the rational person's ideals. It should be |
| assortment of building material into the right | | | | placed in the same category as sorcery and |
| places. | | | | witchcraft. Such notions have one thing in |
| LUDICROUS EVEN WITHOUT COMPARISON | | | | common -- bereft of any plausible logic, they are |
| However, the genetic implausibility of evolution | | | | "understood" only by those determined to believe |
| comes from elsewhere and has far stronger | | | | in them. The most significant difference is that no |
| arguments. And without a solid genetic basis for | | | | one ever had the gall to call sorcery and |
| biological organisms evolving into higher forms of | | | | witchcraft science. |
| life, the theory of evolution simply disappears into | | | | It's ironic how, in a nuclear age, some of the |
| thin air. | | | | same people who live with the constant fear of |
| So, here's how genetics -- the most crucial aspect | | | | life on earth being catapulted into oblivion by a |
| of evolution -- does not only not support the | | | | nuclear holocaust, can still believe that an aspect |
| theory but actually contradicts it: | | | | of this highly destructive nuclear force -- random |
| SOURCES OF RANDOM MUTATIONS | | | | mutation -- is the mechanism which brought us |
| Modern man has been acquainted with and directly | | | | here. In Darwin's days they new nothing about |
| affected by random mutations long before he | | | | genetics, and certainly nothing about the |
| ever took intelligent mutation seriously. Some | | | | unimaginably destructive nature of random |
| sources of random mutations have been around | | | | mutation. But what about today? A theory which |
| even before we knew how they caused genetic | | | | originated over a hundred years ago -- in times of |
| effects. What are they? Carcinogenic chemicals. | | | | relative scientific ignorance -- should have been |
| Cosmic rays. Sources of radioactivity such as | | | | abandoned by now. Instead, it seems that, the |
| nuclear weapons, nuclear reactors, nuclear waste, | | | | stronger the evidence against evolution becomes, |
| and medical X-rays. | | | | the more determined are some individuals to |
| LET'S TAKE RADIOACTIVITY | | | | believe in it. |
| X-rays were discovered by the German scientist | | | | SCIENCE FICTION |
| Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, making headlines on | | | | At this point, it should be at least somewhat |
| January 6, 1896. As innocent a discovery as it | | | | obvious, even to those who have taken evolution |
| was at the time, man had unwittingly taken | | | | seriously at some point, that the scenario |
| control of a highly potent force -- radiation. These | | | | proposed by this insane theory does not work |
| rays would some day become a source of | | | | and certainly could never have occurred. One may |
| medical cures and also disease and destruction. | | | | even find it puzzling how a concoction such as |
| It wasn't until about a half century later that man | | | | evolution could ever have been accepted as |
| realized the awesome potential of this "invisible | | | | science in the first place. I think that if evolution |
| light." On July 16, 1945, in a desert in Alamogordo, | | | | can be called science, there should be several |
| New Mexico, the United States detonated the | | | | other equally qualified scientific topics included in |
| first nuclear bomb in the world as a test. The | | | | science text books -- the physics behind |
| destructive potential of this new weapon was | | | | Superman's X-ray vision, the story of how the |
| horrifying. It could not only destroy life and an | | | | power of speech evolved in Mickey Mouse, and |
| environment in a conventional explosion, but it | | | | the chemical composition of Batman's Shark |
| could also accomplish the same with just its | | | | Repellent Spray. If we're going to have fun |
| intense heat and radiation. In addition, it could | | | | theories, let's really make them fun.by Josh |
| render an environment uninhabitable for years, | | | | Greenberger Get his free book on evolution at |
| decades, or even centuries to come. | | | | EvolutionDead. |