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I didn't do so well, but really enjoyed that. Thanks for posting.
I took a hit on Darwinism. I don't think simple Darwinism explains natural selection. But I don't think natural selection didn't happen either. Even Darwin had his doubts, as referenced by Stephen Meyer.
LOL, no.
Micro Evolution is a fact, not Macro Evolution. Atheist love hiding Macro under Micro hoping layman dont looks deep into to find out con.
Stephen Meyers does a beautiful job debunking Darwinian Evolution.
The Cambrian Explosion completely debunks the mechanism of the Darwinian Evolution. Tell me how 20 different Phyla with completely different body plans, appear all of the sudden in the Fossil record during the geologically instant Cambrian Explosion with no transitional fossil from the Ediacaran (Late Pre-Cambrian) era.
With new bodyplans you need new novel functional proteins, and to get new novel functional proteins the odds of a Genetic Mutation(s) producing a new DNA sequence to produce a new novel functional protein is 1 in 10^77. For reference theirs only been 10^40 organisms that have ever lived on earth.
Darwinian Evolution is based on random mutations + natural selection over a very long period of time, not this explosion of new information.
Not only that Dr. James Tour one of the top 10 synthetic organic chemist in the world and only one of only a handful who can build nanorobots from scratch completely laughs at the idea of Abiogensis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4sP1E1Jd_Y
I would like to point you to the theory of intelligent design, and an excellent book by Stephen C Meyer. The origin of life, and how new body plans have arisen is not actually a problem that has been solved by the scientific community. There are excellent purely scientific reasons to doubt the theory of Darwinian and Neo-Darwinian evolution from the combinatorial inflation problem, to the absurd wait times to produce a single gene in idealized populations, to the fact that random mutations are practically guaranteed to either kill or seriously cripple an organism on the macro level, or seriously degrade and cause proteins to no longer work on the micro level. Another note is that the bible is very often not literal, especially in books like Genesis. Be conscious of what gene of book your are reading is, for this determines interpretation. Genesis is written as a saga, so it's non literal, while books like the gospels are historical accounts. On an even further note, understand that the presence of a natural mechanism or law does not disprove the existence or actions of God, for how did those mechanisms come to be and how did they come to function with such incredible specificity and regularity that the universe appears designed? Just as the programmer and engineer use laws and mechanical processes to design an engine or program, the existence of the processes and laws that the program and engine use do not disprove the existence of the engineer or programmer.
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Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design
> When Charles Darwin finished The Origin of Species, he thought that he had explained every clue, but one. Though his theory could explain many facts, Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. During this event, the “Cambrian explosion,” many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock.