Lonestar_logic
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The spelling and grammar appear to be correct in this post^. Other than those items, every single thing is wrong and based on incorrect assumptions.
Every piece.
I can only assume you never took biology and got your information about evolution from a creationist.
And just your saying so proves it.
I was happy to see that others have demonstrated the errors, saving me the trouble.
This is what the evolutionist has said:
"Approximately 15 billion years ago, life began..."
"No, it was more like 7 billion years ago..."
"Uh, well, the earth probably began about..."
"The strata may show..."
"Well, we evolutionists don't exactly agree about when, why or how the world began, but...evolution is a fact and you are unscientific if you don't believe it!"
Quotes About Life Fully Formed In The Fossil Record
"All the larger groups of animals, e.g. fishes, amphibians, reptiles, mammals seem to have appeared suddenly on the earth, spreading themselves, so to speak, in an explosive manner in their various shapes and forms. Nowhere is one able to observe or prove the transition of one species into another, variation only being possible within the species themselves" Evolutionist, Max Westenhofer as quoted in Dewar's More Difficulties, p. 94
"The evidence of Geology today is that species seem to come into existence suddenly and in full perfection, remain substantially unchanged during the terms of their existence, and pass away in full perfection. Other species take their place, apparently by substitution, not by transmutation" Geologist, Joseph Le Conte
"Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links?
Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory."
Charles Robert Darwin,
The Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, 1st edition reprint. Avenel Books
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology (study of fossils). In any local area, a species does not arise gradually by the steady transformation of its ancestors, it appears all at once and fully formed."
Dr. Stephen J. Gould, Prof of Geology and Paleontology, Harvard University. Mentioned in one of his regular columns in Natural History Magazine (1977) and also in The Panda's Thumb, 1980, p. 181-182
"different species usually appear and disappear from the record without showing the transitions that Darwin postulated -- we are now about 120 years after Darwin and the knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. We now have a quarter of a million fossil species but the situation hasn't changed much -- We have fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwins' time" Dr. David Raup, a paleontologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Field Museum Natural History Bulletin 50:22- 29
"Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and paleontology does not provide them" Dr. David B. Kitts, Paleontologist
"The known fossil record fails to document a single example of phyletic evolution accomplishing a major morphologic transition" Evolutionist, Dr. Steven M. Stanley
"The record certainly did not reveal gradual transformations of structure in the course of time.
On the contrary, it showed that species generally remained constant throughout their history. New types or classes seemed to appear fully formed, with no sign of an evolutionary trend by which they could have emerged from an earlier type."
~Bowler, 'Evolution: The History of an Idea', 1984, p. 187~
Quotes Regarding Mutations
"To postulate that the development and survival of the fittest is entirely a consequence of chance mutation seems to me a hypothesis based on no evidence and irreconcilable with the facts.
These classical evolutionary theories are a gross over-simplification of an immensely complex and intricate mass of facts, and it amazes me that they are swallowed so uncritically and readily, and for such a long time, by so many scientists without a murmur of protest."
Sir Ernest Chain,
Co-holder of the 1945 Noble Prize for developing penicillin.
"Nine-tenths of the talk of evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation and wholly unsupported by facts.
This museum is full of proofs of the utter falsity of their views. In all this great museum, there is not a particle of evidence of the transmutation of species."
Dr. Etheridge,
World famous palaeontologist of the British Museum
"...the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutation plus natural selection quite unaware of the fact that random mutations turned out to be irrelevant and natural selection a tautology."
Arthur Koestler,
Soldier, writer and philosopher
"With the inability of mutations of any type to produce new genetic information, the maintenance of the basic plan is to be expected....
There are limits to biological change and these limits are set by the structure and function of the genetic machinery."
L. P. Lester Ph.D. and R. G. Bohlin Ph.D,
"The Natural Limits of Biological Change"
"Variation is one thing, evolution quite another; this cannot be emphasized strongly enough...
Mutations provide change, but not progress."
Pierre Grasse,
Editor of the 28-volume "Traite de Zoologie," for 30 years the Chair of Evolution, Sorbonne University, and ex-president of the French Academie des Sciences, "Evolution of Living Organisms: Evidence for a New Theory of Transformation," Academic Press: New York NY, 1977, p.88
"To improve a living organism by random mutation is like saying you could improve a Swiss watch by dropping it and bending one of its wheels or axis.
Improving life by random mutation has the probability of zero."
Albert Szent-Gyorgi,
Nobel Laureate (Medicine, 1937)
"In 10 million years, a human-like species could substitute no more than 25,000 expressed neutral mutations and this is merely 0.0007% of the genome nowhere near enough to account for human evolution.
This is the trade secret of evolutionary geneticists."
Walter James ReMine,
The Biotic Message : Evolution versus Message Theory
Quotes Regarding Natural Selection
"I may be permitted to say, as some excuse, that I had two distinct objects in view; firstly, to show that species had not been separately created, and secondly, that natural selection had been the chief agent of change...
Hence, if I have erred in giving to natural selection great power, I have at least ... done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations."
Charles R. Darwin,
"The Descent of Man," bound in one volume with "The Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life," [1871], Modern Library, Random House: New York, nd., pp.441-442
"If numerous species, belonging to the same genera or families, have really started into life all at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of descent with slow modification through natural selection."
Charles Darwin,
''The Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life' A Facsimile of the First Edition, Harvard University Press, 1964, p. 302
"'Survival of the fittest' and 'natural selection'. No matter what phraseology one generates, the basic fact remains the same: any physical change of any size, shape or form is strictly the result of purposeful alignment of billions of nucleotides (in the DNA).
Nature or species do not have the capacity to rearrange them nor to add to them. Consequently no leap can occur from one species to another.
The only way we know for a DNA to be altered is through a meaningful intervention from an outside source of intelligence - one who know what it is doing, such as our genetic engineers are now performing in the laboratories"
I. L. Cohen,
Officer of the Archaeological Institute of America. Member New York Academy of Sciences. "Darwin Was Wrong - A Study in Probabilities" New Research Publications, Inc., p. 209
"No one has yet witnessed, in the fossil record, in real life, or in computer life, the exact transitional moments when natural selection pumps its complexity up to the next level.
There is a suspicious barrier in the vicinity of species that either holds back this critical change or removes it from our sight."
Kevin Kelly,
Executive Editor of Wired Magazine, "Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines," [1994], Fourth Estate: London, 1995, reprint, p.475
"But how do you get from nothing to such an elaborate something if evolution must proceed through a long sequence of intermediate stages, each favored by natural selection?
You can't fly with 2% of a wing ... How, in other words, can natural selection explain these incipient stages of structures that can only be used (as we now observe them) in much more elaborated forms?
... one point stands high above the rest: the dilemma of incipient stages. Mivart identified this problem as primary and it remains so today."
Stephen Jay Gould,
Prof of Geology and Paleontology, Harvard University
"The non-utility of specific characters is the point on which Natural Selection as a theory of the origin of species is believed to fail"
Professor D.H. Scott, Extinct Plants, p. 22
"No recognized case of Natural Selection really selecting has been observed"
Professor Vernon Kellogg, Evolution, p.91
It is easy enough to make up stories, of how one form gave rise to another, and to find reasons why the stages should be favored by natural selection. But such stories are not part of science, for there is no way of putting them to the test."
Luther D Sutherland,
'Darwin's Enigma', Master Books 1988, p7,8, 89
"In other words, it's Natural Selection or a Creator. There is no middle ground.
This is why prominent Darwinists like G. G. Simpson and Stephen Jay Gould, who are not secretive about their hostility to religion, cling so vehemently to natural selection.
To do otherwise would be to admit the probability that there is design in natureand hence a Designer."
G. S. Johnston,
The Genesis Controversy, Crisis, p. 17, May 1989
Quotes Regarding Transitional Forms
"Firstly, why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms?
Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?"
Charles R. Darwin,
The Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, first edition reprint Avenel Books, p. 205
"But, as by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?"
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Charles R. Darwin,
The Origin of Species, Ch 6, p134
"Instead of revealing a multitude of transitional forms through which the evolution of the cell might have occurred, molecular biology has served only to emphasize the enormity of the gap. We now know not only of the existence of a break between the living and non-living world, but also that it represents the most dramatic and fundamental of all the discontinuities of nature.
Dr. Denton, Ph.D (Molecular Biology),
An evolutionist currently doing biological research in Sydney, Australia
"Yet Gould and the American Museum people are hard to contradict when they say there are no transitional fossils. As a paleontologist myself, I am much occupied with the philosophical problems of identifying ancestral forms in the fossil record.
Dr. Colin Patterson,
Senior Palaeontologist, British Museum of Natural History, London "Darwin's Enigma: Fossils and Other Problems," [1984], Master Book Publishers: El Cajon CA, Fourth Edition, 1988, p89
The more scientists have searched for the transitional forms between species, the more they have been frustrated." Newsweek, November 3, 1980
"We now come to perhaps the most serious of defects in the evolutionary theory (belief) - the complete absence of transitional forms. If life has always been in a continual stream of transmutation from one form to another, as evolutionists insist, then we should certainly expect to find as many fossils of the intermediate stages between different forms as of the distinct kinds themselves.
Yet, no fossils have been found that can be considered transitional between the major groups or phyla! From the beginning, these organisms were just clearly and distinctly set apart from each other as they are today. Instead of finding a record of fine graduations preserved in the fossil record, we invariably find large gaps. This fact is absolutely FATAL to the general theory (belief) of evolution."
Scott M. Huges. PH.D