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Old 12-30-2005, 08:40 AM
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Four Visual Images of Evolution
The first image came from the experiment of Stanley Miller who, in 1953, artificially produced a red goo consisting of amino acids. The implication? God was out of a job if natural processes could explain the origin of life.

The second image came from Charles Darwin’s Origin of the
Species. The only illustration in the book depicted a tree whose trunk represented an ancient ancestor. The tree grew upwards into limbs and branches, illustrating how millions of species of organisms evolved over a magnificent expanse
of time.

The third image was Ernst Haeckel’s drawings of embryos,
found in practically every book on evolution. He placed embryonic pictures of various vertebrae sideby-side showing how strikingly similar they are at the beginning stages of development. His conclusion was that we have a common
ancestry.

The fourth was the archaeopteryx, the famous fossil from a birdlizard-like creature dating back 150 million years. Scientists hailed it as the missing link between modern
birds and reptiles.

The Images of Evolution Exposed.
Evolutionists continue to use these four images to support their views. In fact, these images still appear in most science textbooks. But do they represent truth? In an interview with Jonathan Wells, senior fellow with the Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture, he claimed that each image is either false or misleading.

The validity of the Miller experiment hinges on how well he was able to simulate with accuracy the atmosphere of the early earth. He wasn’t able. He used a hydrogen-rich mixture that included methane and ammonia. There is no evidence at all that this was the makeup of early earth’s atmosphere. If you do Miller’s experiment today with a more accurate simulation, the result is formaldehyde and cyanide and certainly not amino acids.

Darwin’s tree of life accurately represents his views. But Darwin himself admitted that fossil records failed to support his tree of life image. He concurred that there was a major group of animals (phyla) that suddenly appeared on the record. He trusted that future discoveries would substantiate his views. But actually the opposite is true. After the Cambrian explosion more than 540 million years ago, fully developed animals appeared with no semblance of evolutionary processes.

What about Haeckel’s embryos?
Haeckel lined up drawings of various embryos (including fish, tortoise, chicken, human) to demonstrate their striking similari-ties and he concluded that we all have common ancestry. But modern embryonic photographs look vastly different from Haeckel’s drawings. Actually, his depictions are fake. He doctored them up to make them appear to be similar. Moreover, he chose only the embryos that had similarities, purposefully omitting those not supporting his theory.

Does the archaeopteryx provide Darwin’s missing link? Hardly. Darwin admitted his theory depended on future fossil discoveries to authenticate his views. Oddly, only two years after he published The Origin of the Species, the archaeopteryx was discovered. Today, most paleontologists agree that it is not a half-bird, half-reptile. They believe it simply represents an extinct member of the bird family.
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Old 12-30-2005, 09:31 AM
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Yes, he's dead. Idiocy thrives though.
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Old 12-30-2005, 10:15 AM
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godBoy,

You are special. You are an absolutely useful manifestation of lack of education. Well, you said you were home educated by an egyptian monk. Maybe so, I just don't think the monk was very well educated. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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Old 12-30-2005, 10:22 AM
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I liked godBoy better when his name was txag007
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Old 12-30-2005, 10:56 AM
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I see. Something to hide. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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Old 12-30-2005, 11:07 AM
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The world is flat. There is no evidence that the earth is round, except for a bunch of doctored photographs that aren't very convincing at all.
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Old 12-30-2005, 11:12 AM
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Just curious... How old do you think the earth is, godBoy?
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Old 12-30-2005, 04:35 PM
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Since this is a passage from someone else's work you really should give a citation.
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Old 12-30-2005, 04:55 PM
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Google give us this:

http://www.christianbooksummaries.co...hp?v=3&i=6
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Old 12-30-2005, 05:56 PM
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Hey godboy, Christians are not scientists, they are story tellers.

Don't attempt to transition, you will be made to look foolish.
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