I heard that R Dawkins has 'refuted' Hoyle's evolution analogy of hurricane building an aircraft.
Of course, I believe his was based on sophistry, or tricks, or logical flaws, or perhaps a combination of those.
I guess in the God Delusion he tried to apply Hoyle's airplane in a junkyard analogy to the existence of God. It's not the only time I've seen Darwinians desperately trying to dismiss the statistical impossibility of life emerging from the chaos of the primordial world. The most popular these days is called the 'RNA world', where the RNA comes together first and then manages and organizes proteins into life. When DNA is unzipped the first thing that happens is, single stranded RNA become molecular mechanisms that do the work in a cell. They can be very short but the problem is in order for them to actually do something you need a long code with high specificity.
“I, for one, have never subscribed to this view of the origin of life, and I am by no means alone. The RNA world hypothesis is driven almost entirely by the flow of data from very high technology combinatorial libraries, whose relationship to the prebiotic world is anything but worthy of “unanimous support”. There are several serious problems associated with it, and I view it as little more than a popular fantasy” (
The RNA world hypothesis: the worst theory of the early evolution of life, except for all the others, NCBI. Charles Carter, article peer review from Biology Direct)
Another popular one is mutations in the same place in two different species. They never stand up to close scrutiny and never answer demands of the burden of proof. To the creationist the question of which came first, the chicken or the egg is obvious. God created the chicken first because God created life, and life always comes from life. So the Darwinian's naturalistic assumptions force them to contrive and fabricate a mythical first cause for the egg. Even the Big Bang is said to have emerged from a '
cosmic egg'.
We know what came first, in the beginning God created life. In fact, God gives light to every soul that comes into the world to understand this fundamental fact of creation:
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. (Rom. 1:18-21)
Darwinian evolution is an assumed effect without a viable cause. The principle is called the Law of Biogenesis, life always comes from life. Everyone knows this but men suppress the truth in unrighteousness, their thoughts chase these chicken and egg question in circles like the proverbial fool chasing the wind. Abiogenesis is just one example, they emerge at every major node of the Darwinian tree of life.
Grace and peace,
Mark
