Evolution Has Weaknesses?
In short, yes. And a whole lot of them. Not the least of which is it doesn’t make any sense!
As noted in this article, Baylor Surgeon ‘Dissects’ Darwinism,
Baylor? A faith-based hospital in, hyuck hyuck, Dallas, Texas? Well, yee-haw, let’s pretend this is gonna be objective, wee-doggy.
Dallas’ Baylor University Medical Center surgeon Joseph Kuhn recently described three serious problems with Darwinian evolution in a paper titled “Dissecting Darwinism” for the school’s medical proceedings. He wrote that all three points were argued in 2010 in front of the Texas State Board of Education, which after days of deliberation decided that textbooks must teach both the strengths and weakness of evolution.
The now-ousted Texas BOE manipulated science and history to promote a Christian agenda, yes. Surely you don’t think the fact that they listened to this crank someone lends credit to his piece, do you? Because that would be an appeal to authority. Wow, you’re hitting all the classic argumentative fallacies. You’re like batting practice. Also, you know 2010 isn’t recent, right? It’s now 2012.
Kuhn says specifically,
Based on an awareness of the inexplicable coded information in DNA, the inconceivable self-formation of DNA, and the inability to account for the billions of specifically organized nucleotides in every single cell, it is reasonable to conclude that there are severe weaknesses in the theory of gradual improvement through natural selection (Darwinism) to explain the chemical origin of life. Furthermore, Darwinian evolution and natural selection could not have been causes of the origin of life, because they require replication to operate, and there was no replication prior to the origin of life.
Now, class, do we remember our vocab words from last lesson? The very first one I told you to remember was argument from ignorance. Saying we can’t explain something doesn’t mean you can just fill it in with your little myth. Alternatively, you can think of what you’re doing as the “god of the gaps” argument. When we don’t know something it’s easy to fill in the answer with “it must be a god.” Once upon a time we didn’t know what made the sun rise, what made lightening strike, what made it rain or why we die. Humans at those times made up stories about gods for all of them, but today we know the answers to all of them and none are gods. Those gaps have been filled with knowledge. The point is, just because our knowledge about something is limited doesn’t mean the default answer is a magical god.
As noted in the article, “even evolution’s most ardent advocate, Richard Dawkins, admitted in 2009 that “the most profound unsolved problem in biology is the origin of life itself.”
Yeah, like I said, we don’t have an answer doesn’t mean your stupid answer is right.
The fact is the gap to reasonably believe this is insurmountable. And, even a year after the decision was made to present both sides, 9 out 10 textbooks have failed to follow through on the Board of Educations Rulings.
Have you even followed this case?
Makes you wonder whose agenda we’re falling prey to.
