Posted on 07/25/2009 10:11:21 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Life is not a naturalistic phenomenon with unlimited evolutionary potential as Darwin proposed. It is intelligently designed, ruled by immutable laws, and survives only because it has a built-in facilitated variation mechanism for continually adapting to internal and external challenges and changes. The essential components are: functional molecular architecture and machinery, modular switching cascades that control the machinery and a signal network that coordinates everything. All three are required for survival, so they must have been present from the beginning—a conclusion that demands intelligent design. Life’s built-in ability to adapt and diversify looks like Darwinian evolution, but it is not. Darwin’s theory of speciation via natural selection of natural variation is correct in principle, but it cannot be extrapolated to universal ancestry. What we see instead is different kinds of organisms having been designed for different kinds of lifestyles, with enormous potential for diversification built-in at the beginning, but with time this potential for diversification has become depleted by selection and degraded by mutations so that we are now rapidly heading towards extinction. Intelligent design and rapid decay point to recent Creation and Fall, as the Bible tells us....
(Excerpt) Read more at creation.com ...
Life’s irreducible structure—Part 1: autopoiesis
Life’s irreducible structure—Part 2: naturalistic objections
Astonishing DNA complexity demolishes neo-Darwinism
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Thanks for the ping!
PS This is the paper I was referring to re: universal laws of life.
All the best—GGG
“and survives only because it has a built-in facilitated variation mechanism for continually adapting to internal and external challenges and changes.”
So evolution doesn’t exist, but variation and adaption to challenge and change does.
Fascinating.
Is there anything in the paper you disagree with?
Other than it being a pile of pabulum and strawmen, I guess not.
It’s actually quite nice to see the creationist author concede all the main points of the argument, and then deny the conclusion.
Unfortunately it’s a pdf and I can’t cut/paste. Provide me a text version and I can start.
Unfortunately it’s a pdf and I can’t cut/paste. Provide me a text version and I can start.
Yes, he tacitly agreed with the central origin of life, evolution from that origin, ages of evolution, age of the earth, etc, etc. His only seeming disagreement with TOE goes back billions of years. GGG must not of read the PDF, because GGG thinks the world was created in 5000 bc.
The word I think you were thinking of was pablum.
There is pablum and pabulum.
Similar words with similar meanings. Either works.
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“Neo-Darwinists proposed that natural variation occurred
primarily via mutation of genetic information. However,
recent discoveries show that mutations are accidental
damage events and are sending us all to extinction on a
remarkably short time scale due to what appears to be the
universally deleterious effects of these mutations.”
We’re all going to die “on a remarkably short time scale” due to genetic variations?
Strawman.
It sounds like the Al Gore could have wrote this.
How a strawman, something set up to be easily knocked down?
“Despite life’s marvels, it all dies. Why? Theologically,
because of the Fall—Adam and Eve’s sin brought death into
a perfect world.5 The biological question then is ‘How?’,
and we shall see later that the answer is ‘mutations’. “
Another strawman.
No creature needs to live forever. Just enough to propogate.
People die of cancer, sure. And serious malformation due to mutated DNA can be fatal.
But there are positive mutations of DNA. Just think MRSA. Not positive for us, but they seem happier that your average Staphylococcus aureus.
But those are just “variations”, of course. Not that evil evolution.
I’ve managed to propagate a new generation of little mike-zeds. Who carry my genetic material and their mother’s, possibly mutated somewhat, but free to propagate their own offspring.
No tragic mutations killing off me, my kids, my family, or anyone I know.
Perhaps people are mutating and dropping dead in your circle at a rate which prevents their propagation. Hopefully, not.
I don't think anywhere in the article it was stated that people were dropping over around us from mutations around us. But is that all?
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