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Why does "15 Questions for Evolutionists" brochure confuse the meaning of "evolution?

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Why do evolution believers hate questions they can’t answer?

How did life originate? Creation answers this. Evolutionists cannot answer this, so they proclaim that evolution doesn’t concern itself with the origination of first life, only of subsequent life. If you can’t answer the question of origination, then you can’t remove God out of the equation. God created man in His image, but evolutionists want to return the favor.

How did the DNA code originate? Creation answers this. Evolutionists cannot answer this either, so they change the definition of their religion (yes, religion) to state that they are not concerned with origination only all subsequent life. Then they puff out their chests and say “you don’t understand evolution.” We understand a lie when we see one.

How could mutations create the huge volumes of information in the DNA of living things? The simple answer is that they can’t. While mutations are considered the magical mystery force driving all evolution, benevolent mutations have never been shown to advance a species nor to encode any genetic information that didn’t previously exist. Other than a change of diet in bacteria, no evidence of evolution has ever been observed, tested or replicated. In short, there is nothing remotely scientific about it.

Why is natural selection….taught as ‘evolution’, as if it explains the origin of the diversity of life? In their religion everything is evolution. Everything which validates evolution proves evolution and everything which invalidates evolution proves evolution. Everything in biology proves that adaptation is a conservative process and does not include the fabrication of genetic information. Therefore since it invalidates claims of evolution, it proves evolution.

How did new biochemical pathways originate? Simply put, if it can happen it is self explanatory. If it can’t happen, it requires millions of years. Every time they meet with an impossibility of reason, evolutionists simply increase the age of everything.

Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists know that they were not designed? Exactly the same way that bird evolution came about; someone saw an artist’s picture of a dinosaur and an artist’s of a chicken and concluded that they looked alike. Therefore, it became science.

How did multi-cellular life originate? Nothing ever originated. Everything always was. It just got more complex as time went on. Original single cell organisms were actually multi-celled organisms sharing a room to save on expenses.

How did cells adapted to individual survival ‘learn’ to cooperate and specialize to create complex plants and animals? In the beginning was Frankencell, which didn’t need to originate because that’s outside of the “science” of evolution. Then it went through the Magical Mutation Tour and morphed into all living things. If this is impossible, add one billion years until it IS possible.

How did sex originate? Two cells were hanging out at a local sand bar, drinking and munching plankton. One thing led to another, and before you know it, BAM! One cell produce sperm and the other didn’t have government funded birth control.

Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing? True, the fossil record shows many living things that lived and died without apparent predecessors or descendants, but evolutionists have proclaimed that all fossils are transitional. We’re only missing 99% of them because they are rare. It’s entirely possible that YEC’s stole them all.

How do ‘living fossils’ remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years, if evolution has changed worms into humans in the same time frame? Obviously, they are conservative and refuse to accept any genetic make-up but their own.

How did blind chemistry create mind/ intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality? It didn’t. Altruism and morality are maladaptive behaviors conditioned into us through years of the degenerative weakening of the human spirit. Soon humans will be too weak to murder their unborn, and the human race will die off.

Why is evolutionary ‘just-so’ story-telling tolerated? When you lack the facts, sometimes it’s best to simply speak in multi-syllable words you don’t comprehend and state that your rival is poorly educated and simply doesn’t understand science. Evolution is the antithesis of science, but the embodiment of pomposity.

Science involves experimenting to figure out how things work; how they operate. Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as this operational science? Evolution is not about science or biology; it’s about the denial of God. Given its true motive, the details are meaningless. When it comes to religion, evolutionists say, “That miracle could not have happened, so therefore it did not happen.” When it comes to impossible claims of evolution, they say “You just don’t understand evolution. When in doubt, lie.

Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes? Michael Ruse, evolutionist science philosopher admitted, “Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.” Heck, I don’t think I can top that!
 
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Why do evolution believers hate questions they can’t answer?

We dislike it when others misrepresent what the theory states, as you have done in your post.

Do you accept the theory that germs caues disease? I would assume you do. Are you also aware that the Germ Theory of Disease does not tell us how life came about? It doesn't tell us how germs came to be. So I guess we need to throw away the Germ Theory of Disease, right? If we don't know where germs came from, how can we know that they cause disease?

What about the theory of atoms . . . .

How did life originate? Creation answers this.

No, it doesn't. "God did it" is not an answer. It is a belief.

Evolutionists cannot answer this, so they proclaim that evolution doesn’t concern itself with the origination of first life, only of subsequent life.

Why would you need to know where the first life came from 4 billion years ago in order to determine if humans and chimps share a common ancestor just 5 million years ago?

If you can’t answer the question of origination, then you can’t remove God out of the equation.

You are jumping the gun. What evidence allows you to include God as the cause?



How could mutations create the huge volumes of information in the DNA of living things?

Of the DNA differences between chimps and humans, which of those differences could not be produced by the observed mechanisms of mutation?
 
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Why do evolution believers hate questions they can’t answer?

How did life originate? Creation answers this. Evolutionists cannot answer this, so they proclaim that evolution doesn’t concern itself with the origination of first life, only of subsequent life. If you can’t answer the question of origination, then you can’t remove God out of the equation. God created man in His image, but evolutionists want to return the favor.
No, my idea that the Invisible Pink Unicorn created life answers it.

No one ever "proclaimed" that evolution doesn't explain the origin of life, it just never has. What was the title of Darwin's book, btw? On the Origin of Species. Not life, species. Nothing in the theory of evolution explains where life comes from. It is not supposed to.


[How did the DNA code originate? Creation answers this. Evolutionists cannot answer this either, so they change the definition of their religion (yes, religion) to state that they are not concerned with origination only all subsequent life. Then they puff out their chests and say “you don’t understand evolution.” We understand a lie when we see one.
If you understand a lie when you see one, you must understand creationism very well.

[How could mutations create the huge volumes of information in the DNA of living things? The simple answer is that they can’t. While mutations are considered the magical mystery force driving all evolution, benevolent mutations have never been shown to advance a species nor to encode any genetic information that didn’t previously exist. Other than a change of diet in bacteria, no evidence of evolution has ever been observed, tested or replicated. In short, there is nothing remotely scientific about it.
Wow, lots of empty assertions based on your own ignorance. There are known beneficial mutations, though most are neutral.

[Why is natural selection….taught as ‘evolution’, as if it explains the origin of the diversity of life? In their religion everything is evolution. Everything which validates evolution proves evolution and everything which invalidates evolution proves evolution. Everything in biology proves that adaptation is a conservative process and does not include the fabrication of genetic information. Therefore since it invalidates claims of evolution, it proves evolution.
A completely nonsensical answer that doesn't even address the question.

[How did new biochemical pathways originate? Simply put, if it can happen it is self explanatory. If it can’t happen, it requires millions of years. Every time they meet with an impossibility of reason, evolutionists simply increase the age of everything.
More of the same.

[Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists know that they were not designed? Exactly the same way that bird evolution came about; someone saw an artist’s picture of a dinosaur and an artist’s of a chicken and concluded that they looked alike. Therefore, it became science.
More nonsense and propaganda. Let's ignore the real evidence, like the fact they both have both scales and feathers or the fact that the skeletal structure of primitive birds was very similar to theropod dinosaurs.


[How did multi-cellular life originate? Nothing ever originated. Everything always was. It just got more complex as time went on. Original single cell organisms were actually multi-celled organisms sharing a room to save on expenses.
Oh sooooo funny. You must be a stand-up comic.


[How did cells adapted to individual survival ‘learn’ to cooperate and specialize to create complex plants and animals? In the beginning was Frankencell, which didn’t need to originate because that’s outside of the “science” of evolution. Then it went through the Magical Mutation Tour and morphed into all living things. If this is impossible, add one billion years until it IS possible.
Lets also ignore the fact that many unicellular organsims live as colonies, or that there are still many primitive colonial animals such as Volvoz with only limited cell specialization.


[How did sex originate? Two cells were hanging out at a local sand bar, drinking and munching plankton. One thing led to another, and before you know it, BAM! One cell produce sperm and the other didn’t have government funded birth control.
More evidence for you to ignore: Primitive unicellular organisms exchange genetic materal all the time without the use of sex.


[Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing? True, the fossil record shows many living things that lived and died without apparent predecessors or descendants, but evolutionists have proclaimed that all fossils are transitional. We’re only missing 99% of them because they are rare. It’s entirely possible that YEC’s stole them all.
Or maybe you creationists continue to ignore the transitional fossils we find, more and more every year. Its never enough though, is it?

[How do ‘living fossils’ remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years, if evolution has changed worms into humans in the same time frame? Obviously, they are conservative and refuse to accept any genetic make-up but their own.
Look up "stabilizing selection." Assuming you can read.

[How did blind chemistry create mind/ intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality? It didn’t. Altruism and morality are maladaptive behaviors conditioned into us through years of the degenerative weakening of the human spirit. Soon humans will be too weak to murder their unborn, and the human race will die off.
Where did that even come from? You certainly have an active imagination, if very little integrity.


[Why is evolutionary ‘just-so’ story-telling tolerated? When you lack the facts, sometimes it’s best to simply speak in multi-syllable words you don’t comprehend and state that your rival is poorly educated and simply doesn’t understand science. Evolution is the antithesis of science, but the embodiment of pomposity.
When your "rival" writes drivel like this post, it very easy to conclude they are " poorly educated and simply doesn’t understand science."

[Science involves experimenting to figure out how things work; how they operate. Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as this operational science? Evolution is not about science or biology; it’s about the denial of God. Given its true motive, the details are meaningless. When it comes to religion, evolutionists say, “That miracle could not have happened, so therefore it did not happen.” When it comes to impossible claims of evolution, they say “You just don’t understand evolution. When in doubt, lie.
"Operational science," is a buzz word created by professional creationists. The term does not exist in professional circles at all. Evolution has nothing to do with God and many evolution supporters here are Christians.

[Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes? Michael Ruse, evolutionist science philosopher admitted, “Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.” Heck, I don’t think I can top that!
I don't think any parody of creationists could top this drivel you posted. You continue to serve well as a self-parody of a creationist, if not an outright Poe.
 
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> How did life originate? Creation answers this.
No it doesn't. The Hebrew text of Genesis ONLY addresses the WHO of creation. (God.) The text says nothing about the specific processes God employed nor how long ago nor how long the various stages required.

The Biblical text in Genesis 2:7 DOES describe abiogenesis: life from non-living ingredients (HADAM, "the human one" from "the dust of the ground".) But it says nothing about the HOW of life's origination. Many Old Testament texts describe the same "dust of the ground" (the basic chemical elements of the earth's crust) as the ingredients/source of all life.

[Of course, here is where traditionalists often insist on arguing Ultimate Causation versus Proximate Causation----as if "I'm not from the USA, I'm from Chicago" is not a silly claim.]
 
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verysincere said:
Why does the "15 Questions for Evolutionists" brochure from Creation.com confuse the meaning of "evolution"? Why would a Young Earth Creationist ministry wish to expose their "science knowledge" in this way?

Most of the questions deal with topics which have nothing to do with the Theory of Evolution. Why? Is it scientific ignorance? Or dishonesty? Very shrewd propaganda technique?

15 questions for evolutionists

Sorry, but I'm of the mind that, it they're being "dishonest" then why not email them with a response? It's my understanding that they routinely answer them on their site. Also, if you're in fact "studying" yec's then one would think you'd do more observation, and less antagonizing.
 
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Why do evolution believers hate questions they can’t answer?

How did life originate? Creation answers this.
God did it, of course. I read that in my science textbook, 'the Holy Bible' right where it talks about all the natural forces and properties of nature. The best science textbook in the world! No need to go to college to learn about biology when you have, 'the Bible'
 
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Why don't you answer that yourself?

Instead of complaining about 15 questions, why don't you complain about the 150 or so questions that evolutionists ask creationists that have nothing to do with creationism whatsoever?

Like questions about the Fall, the Flood, the Grand Canyon, Satan, SN1987A, varves, dendrochronology, fossils, radiohalos, Carbon dating, radiometric dating, and so on and so forth.

The mirror hurts, doesn't it?

Still resting my case. Pretty much all of that does have to do with creationism. Quite specifically, too.
 
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We dislike it when others misrepresent what the theory states, as you have done in your post.

No I haven't. Evolution is the reciprocal of American currency; e unim plurabus. From one, many. Please ignore abiogenesis and the lack of scientific evidence of benevolent mutations generating new genetic information. We have reached our conclusions and adjusted the data to match.
Do you accept the theory that germs caues disease?
Nope. Antibiodies destroy germs. It requires a combination of germs and a depleated immune system, which can happen if you have a large quantuity of germs. It's an oversimplification to say the germs cause disease.
Are you also aware that the Germ Theory of Disease does not tell us how life came about?
To my knowledge, nobody has ever come onto a Christian forum and stated that God doesn't exist and the Bible is mythology because he believed that the the Germ Theory disproved it all. To the extent that any belief system supplants theology, that system BECOMES theology.
So I guess we need to throw away the Germ Theory of Disease, right?
Straw man argument. Nobody has proposed discarding observed biology. Evolution has never been observed, and it relies on a process that doesn't exist in nature; namely the sutogeneration of new genetic material and the encoding of such material into the reproductive system. Evolution relies on benevolent mutations which have been observed and documented with less frequency than Bigfoot.
If we don't know where germs came from, how can we know that they cause disease?
Irrelevant. We don't know where Obama came from, and the effects of his disease can be easily observed.

What about the theory of atoms . . . .
You mean that they could not/ did not originate from nothing; but that they had origination in some form?


No, it doesn't. "God did it" is not an answer. It is a belief. /QUOTE]
It's both an answer AND a belief.
Why would you need to know where the first life came from 4 billion years ago in order to determine if humans and chimps share a common ancestor just 5 million years ago?
Probably because the Creator of the universe explained how He did it 6,000 years ago. In a trillion years, abiogenesis is STILL impossible. Time does not convalute the laws of physics. If life cannot originate without intervention, then you're simply debating the process by which a supernatural entity originated life. In such a circumstance, I'll defer to the Creator.
You are jumping the gun. What evidence allows you to include God as the cause?
The history of God's relationship with man is as old as man's history in itself. In other words, from day one God was there; part of man's existence. Evolution is the new theory. To displace man's original knowledge of God it has to be able to answer questions such as origination as well as the 6,000 year history of unexplained miracles. God was here first.




Of the DNA differences between chimps and humans, which of those differences could not be produced by the observed mechanisms of mutation?
None of them, because no mutation has ever been shown to advance a species, only allow for adaptation due to a change of diet ot climate. DNA encodes physical characteristics. Between two beings with 99% of the same characteristics, what percentage of DNA should be the same?
BTW. A common Creator is 100% consistant with everything claimed by a common progenitor.
 
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No need to go to college to learn about biology when you have, 'the Bible'
Perhaps you didn't realize it, but biology can't account for the origination of life. Abiogenesis is impossible. Tell me again how you can find all the answers in biology?
 
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Perhaps you didn't realize it, but biology can't account for the origination of life. Abiogenesis is impossible. Tell me again how you can find all the answers in biology?
Could you tell us what you used in order to draw the conclusion that abiogenesis is impossible?
 
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