And the evidence is there, and continues to accumulate in favor of common descent. The evidence is not in the form of “God cannot exist”; that proposition is beyond the ambit of science. The evidence is in the form of observations of how things are that are consistent with common descent, but need not have been that way if there were numerous separate origins of living things. The fact that all life here on earth uses nucleic acids to store heritable information is one such observation. Almost all life that can be directly perceived by human senses uses DNA, and with electron microscopes we can characterize viruses that use RNA. Separate creations need not have been so stingy in terms of how heritable information was stored. Then there is the observation that there is a canonical genetic code, a set of translations between the patterns stored in DNA and the amino acid sequences used to form proteins by organisms. While the total number of possible ways to arrange 20 amino acid products (plus “stop”) with 64 different three-base codons is roughly 1e72 (IIRC, within a few milli-dembskis of error), almost all the organisms within common human experience use just one of those, and the total known different arrangements is way closer to “1″ than it is to “1e72″. The smallness of the divergence from the canonical code is consistent with common descent (as is the pattern of descent with modification seen in those divergences), and if life was the product of numerous separate originations, it need not have been the case at all. The “1e72″ number is staggeringly large, so large that not only could one happily assign a different genetic code to every species that ever lived, but one could easily assign a different genetic code to every individual organism that has ever lived. There’s loads more stuff to go to the point that common descent is supported by evidence, even if Richard Aberdeen hasn’t bothered to acquaint himself with it.

Human experience does now include such things as building devices to measure the cosmic background radiation (though the original detection of this was apparently serendipitous), which provides evidence that our universe originated as cosmologists theorize, from a singularity over 13 billion years ago. Some of us prize the ability to utilize information that is gathered that extends our perception beyond that provided in the set of senses of our bodies, and to build upon that, even if the results are counter to intuition. Intuition is a poor guide to doing science.

The issue certainly isn’t about “what would Darwin do” were he alive, though nothing in the content of modern science would give him much cause for complaint, except for that pangenesis stuff. Evolutionary science doesn’t continually look back to Darwin for justification in authority.

Darwin himself stated that evolution may be the best explanation for how the Creator creates and unlike modern Darwinists, Darwin was careful to use terms such as “possibly”, “perhaps”, “maybe” and “I’m not sure”. Only an idiot is afraid to say, “I really don’t know for sure”, which is why I often treat many modern Darwinists as the idiots they obviously are.

Only an idiot would say there is no Creator, as no one as small as ourselves in such a vast expanse as just the known universe, could possibly know that there is no God. People pretending to be scientists, such as Richard Dawkins, who claim there is no Creator, are plainly liars.

There is no such thing as “science” without definitive evidence. To say there is no God without conclusive evidence to back up such an absurd position is to invent a fairytale representing the very worst kind of supersition. Among other reasons, is the obvious fact that as far as the evidence indicates, everything that exists requires primary causation.

Most modern Darwinists, unlike Darwin, have long insisted that life originiated from a singular primary source. The reason this grand assumption, which was religiously taught when I went through the public school system, on through public university levels, came overwhelmingly into vogue is because until fairly recently (post-Hubble), it was assumed, since it was likewise assumed that there is no creator, that whatever caused life to form on earth must be extremely rare.

Only fairly recently have some scientists began to state that what causes life to appear might be quite common and, to admit that they really have no idea at all how life began on our planet. There currently are a number of somewhat plausible theories, many of which do not at all agree with each other and thus, most of them cannot logically be correct.

And, the vast majority of modern educators who are not practicing scientists, are still stuck in the rut of singular-origination theory, as well as the totally absurd assumption, that the observable reality appeared out of nowhere from nothing, for which absurd assumption, there is not one shred of evidence or human experience to base it on.

Aberdeen can prove that he is not lying about that by providing a quotation from Darwin in which he insists upon one and only one point of origination.

[Expectation: Crickets chirping.]

“Lust for wealth” is a “base drive for reproduction”?

One doesn’t have to have complete knowledge of the origin of life to be able to study its subsequent evolutionary history.

A structure that has a very good fossil record is the mammalian middle ear, with its three ossicles. Two of those are derived from bones in the reptile jaw. There is zero evidence that the mammalian middle ear is the result of “deliberate design”.

I should note that when comments get closed on a thread, it’s over for that thread. I didn’t notice the mismatch until after I had approved Aberdeen’s comment.

The larger problem with Darwinian theory, is the grand assumption that the universe is a product of unguided, natural processes. There is no evidence that this is true, thus the theory is based on a postulate with zero facts in evidence. Thus, it is not only not a valid theroy, it is not even a plausible fairytale.

There is zero evidence that anything has ever resulted as a “creation” of unguided processes and there is overwhelming evidence that everything that exists, is a result of deliberate design. Human beings can create machines that essentially fix themselves and likewise, the Creator can quite logically, create a universal “machine” that adapts and changes pretty much on its own. However, there is no evidence or human experience that indicates that anything has ever appeared on it’s own from the top down. Thus, to conclude such or even to propose such an absurd notion, is an example of the worst kind of supersitious mythology, not worthy of the Chinese universe on the back of a turtle theory of creation.

And finally, modern findings in the past several decades have very much discredited Darwinian singular-origination theory, as it is now considered entirely unknown how life first appeared on our planet and it may well, never be understood. Modern theories range from life or what makes up life being carried in on asteroids and comets, on down to zillions of life forms appearing all over the original primal earth on down to life first appearing in sea water, fresh water, caves, mud and even, under the earth. There could very well be 100, 10,000 or a zillion primary sources from which life adapted and changed over time, rather than the singular-origin Darwinian model long insisted on without any conclusive evidence.

The bottom-line truth is, we don’t have any idea how life formed on this planet and as a recent PBS special called “Origins” concluded, how life appeared remains “one of the great mysteries of modern science”.

Anybody who claims otherwise is quite plainly, an obvious liar, based on the current known evidence.

Thank You, Sincerely
Richard Aberdeen 615-889-1669
richard@freedomtracks.com
http://www.FreedomTracks.com

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