Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Bring it::Question Evolution! Campaign

It's an amazing thing how people like to claim that they are free thinking and approach everything with "healthy" skepticism yet still willing to claim that macro evolution is an undisputed fact. Part of science is questioning all conclusions and presuppositions - testing them to see what is true. I think a good example is how for a hundred years it was considered a fact that the speed of light is constant in all reference frames, but now it's being called into question and researched more. I see nothing wrong with that, although I think we will still find that it is constant, but it doesn't hurt to look. Why is it so bad to question evolution? Why wouldn't you want to make sure it's correct? I mean if it's true, more research can only confirm it. Mariano has pointed to me to two links to web resources that brings up such questions and invite others to do the same. The first one can be found at

Question Evolution! Campaign

Use this link to find out all about the campaign. The campaign was also written up in an article over at Creation Ministries International. You follow this link to read it.
The article even has a list of questions that are being considered problematic to the theory of evolution.

15 Questions summary

Note to would-be evolution defenders: please read the full brochure and linked articles before attempting to answer the questions, otherwise you will likely be wasting your time boxing at shadows.
  1. How did life with specifications for hundreds of proteins originate just by chemistry without intelligent design?
  2. How did the DNA code originate?
  3. How could copying errors (mutations) create 3 billion letters of DNA instructions to change a microbe into a microbiologist?
  4. Why is natural selection taught as ‘evolution’ as if it explains the origin of the diversity of life?
  5. How did new biochemical pathways, which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence, originate?
  6. Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists know that they were not designed?
  7. How did multi-cellular life originate?
  8. How did sex originate?
  9. Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing?
  10. How do ‘living fossils’ remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years?
  11. How did blind chemistry create mind/intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality?
  12. Why is evolutionary ‘just-so’ story-telling tolerated as ‘science’?
  13. Where are the scientific breakthroughs due to evolution?
  14. Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as the operational science?
  15. Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes?
A lot of proponents of evolution admit that we don't have answers to these but they are confident that we will figure them out. In other words, they punt to faith.

There is even a video to go along with this campaign.




If anyone thinks they can answer these, please do. Bring it if you can.
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12 comments:

  1. Maybe you should post this over at Jerry Coyne or P.Z. Myers' blog, and see what happens. Chicken to engage with actual biologist working in this field? Perhaps you'll learn something.

    #6 was great by the way. Snowflakes also look like they were designed, ergo...

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  2. PZ Myers? Jerry Coyne? Please be serious

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  3. Who says snowflakes are not designed? If God is in control of everything of course he is in control of that.

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  4. You being a chicken explains the size of your brain.

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  5. Well said Marcus. You really got me there. But seriously, if you want actual answers to the above, why not try to get them from actual biologists? Granted, most of the questions are nonsense and show your ignorance (#6, really Marcus?) and also granted posting this at PZs would probably lead to a lot of name calling, but you might actually get some answers too.

    You are a coward, and you know it.

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  6. The fact that you think number 6 is nonsense shows just how out of touch with reality you are. And I can only take so much immature and foolish name-calling....I get my fill from you.

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  7. Do you seriously think biologist don't have theories for the origins of sexual reproduction?

    And I can only take so much immature and foolish name-calling...

    Wha! And while there might be the occasional immature and foolish name-calling, most if not all of it are simply statements of fact.

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  8. Do you seriously think biologist don't have theories for the origins of sexual reproduction?

    I've looked and could not find any theory to explain where sexual reproduction came from. When did this happen? When life became multi-celled? How is sexual reproduction more of an advantage over asexual reproduction?

    Wha! And while there might be the occasional immature and foolish name-calling, most if not all of it are simply statements of fact.

    I haven't seen much of simply stating facts on his blog and never really seen it from you.

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  9. You looked? I find that doubtful, start with wikipedia, dumbass.

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  10. You can't answer the question of the origins of sexual reproduction without also explaining the mechanism of how it developed or when. For example when why did it become more advantageous over asexual reproduction? I have not seen anything answering this. Furthermore, I'm still not convinced by the "article" your dredged up a while that attempted to explain how and why homosexuality evolved given that it does not lead to a continuation of population. You really seem to have drank the kool aid on this. You have Illustrated what blind faith looks like and it's not pretty.

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  11. I'm still not convinced by the "article" your dredged up a while that attempted to explain how and why homosexuality evolved given that it does not lead to a continuation of population.

    What in the world are you talking about?

    For example when why did it become more advantageous over asexual reproduction?

    When or why?

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