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.
- How did life with specifications for hundreds of proteins originate just by chemistry without intelligent design?
- How did the DNA code originate?
- How could copying errors (mutations) create 3 billion letters of DNA instructions to change a microbe into a microbiologist?
- Why is natural selection taught as ‘evolution’ as if it explains the origin of the diversity of life?
- How did new biochemical pathways, which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence, originate?
- Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists know that they were not designed?
- How did multi-cellular life originate?
- How did sex originate?
- Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing?
- How do ‘living fossils’ remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years?
- How did blind chemistry create mind/intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality?
- Why is evolutionary ‘just-so’ story-telling tolerated as ‘science’?
- Where are the scientific breakthroughs due to evolution?
- Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as the operational science?
- 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.
