1. Scientific Community Questions Darwin’s Theory Is the theory of evolution flawed?

2. Scientific Objections to Darwin’s Theory  Richard Milton is a famed geologist who has been examining Darwin’s theory.  Quite a few artifacts that scientists have thrown out because they didn’t fit with the strata in which they were found.  Coal’s formation can be fast: modern timber pilings have turned to coal under great pressure.  Inexplicable anomalies point to the belief that the earth is not as old as previously believed;  Radioactive data does not support the general scientific community’s belief regarding the age of the earth.

3. How old is the earth?  Is the earth really 4,500 million years old?  There is mounting evidence that coal can be formed relatively quickly!  Meteoric dust is not at levels for this age of the earth (there should be billions of tons.)  Measurement of radioactive uranium in the crust does not match the age of the radioactive helium – it’s only about 200,000 years; the technique is an unreliable dating mechanism.

4. Deductive reasoning is faulty  The radioactive substances in the earth’s atmosphere could be that old without the world being that old  Reasoning in one manner just to fit a theory can be faulty reasoning.  Darwin’s theory has been supported because we, as humans, have liked that it seems to explain things to us.

5. Anomalies have been building up & may topple!  There is no solid empirical evidence; it is all conjecture.  The idea was that we would eventually fill in the gaps of the theory – but over 100 years we haven’t.  Most famous example: Peppered moth and industrialized mellanism; this is not natural selection ~ the dark colored moths flourished while light ones were visible, thus eaten by birds.

6. Darwin versus modern theory  Given millions of years, Darwin believed that one animal (e.g. a bear) could become another animal (e.g. a whale) given natural selection.  How did Darwin arrive at this theory? He gave credence to a range of ideas,  Modern Theory is one of blind chance that won’t listen to alternate ideas.

7. Darwin’s theories have been applied to other sciences beyond biology  Evolution of stars (astronomy)  Evolution of geological structures (geology)  Evolution of religion (??)  Darwin recognized that living things were complex whereas his followers no longer see this – they say it’s “simple”

8. Can one person make a difference?  According to Darwin’s theory, people can not make a difference.  Science has tried to make humans as mechanistic  People, however, still believe things like that people have a place in the universe; they have moral if not religious beliefs.  These are contradictory ideas.

9. Creationism  Creationism is one of several theories that disagrees with Darwin’s theories  Darwin does not explain the ORIGIN of the earth or of life itself despite his titled book  Origins in Science: A warm puddle, spontaneously evoked the first microorganism. No scientist has ever been to synthesize anything living in this way, even under laboratory conditions.  A Biblical flood is possible? Yes, 1922 Samuel Woolley was excavating Ur. He found human artifacts above and below different strata.

10. Geological evidence  As a geologist, he rationally questioned Darwin’s theory  He was called stupid and loony.  This was because people found it impossible that someone of intelligence could interpret the evidence in another way. Any attempt must be the work of a madman or a creationist!  You can question the theory, even if you haven’t figured out exactly what replaces it.

11. Natural selection  Finches in the Galápagos Islands – there’s some evidence from fossils that if a tree has been fossilized that the tree must have been buried all at once – 100 ft. of sediment must have deposited very rapidly, or the tree where the finches lived would have decomposed.  The evidence contradicts Darwin’s theory of those fossilized finches in the tree.

12. Do man and apes share a common ancestor?  The Museum is just an interpretation of Darwin’s theory.  Lucy skeleton found in Africa; half-human, half-ape. They were put together in different ways that make it possible to interpret the finding as MANY different creatures.  Australopithecus may be the only possible “missing link.”

13. Macroevolution  Genetic homeostasis shows that there is no infinite plasticity of species  Every single plant and animal breeding experiment has proven that the type will ultimately become sterile, and will not pass to another being.

14. Fossil sequence  The fossil records do not follow a sequence  The fossils examined over more than the last 100 years have been unable to follow a pattern  Why can you find a sea urchin with flint fossil within and without it? It suggests only a very rapid change.  Richard Milton has not found the answers he’s looking for yet, based on science alone.