ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY - PART 13

  ONE HEARTBEAT       AWAY

  PART 13



  Mark Cahill's Book


According to Dr Kent Hovind, the test of any theory is whether or not it provides answers to basic questions.  How would you answer these?

1.  When, where, why and how did life
      Come from non-living matter?

2.  When, where, why and how did life
    learn to reproduce itself?

3.   With what did the first cell capable
       of sexual reproduction reproduce?

4.   Why would any plant or animal want
       to reproduce any more of its kind
       since this would only make more 
      mouths to feed, and decrease the 
      chances of survival?  ( Does the
       individual have a desire to survive, 
       or the species?  How do you explain 
       this?)

5.    How can mutations ( recombining of
        the genetic code) create any new,
       improved varieties?  (Recombining 
       English letters will  never produce 
       Chinese books.)

6.   Natural selection works only with the
       genetic material available, and
        tends only to keep a species stable.
       How would you explain the
       increasing complexity in the genetic
       code that must have occurred
       if evolution were true?

7.   When, where, why 
      and how did
      a) single-celled 
           plants
          become multi- 
          celled?
          (Where are the
           two- and three-celled 
            intermediates.

      b)  Fish change to amphibians?

       c) Amphibians change to reptiles?

      d)  Reptiles change into birds? (Their
            lungs, bones, eyes, reproductive
            organs, heart, method of  
           locomotion, body covering etc.,
           are all very different!) How did the
           Intermediate forms live?

8. Where, when, why, how, and from
      what did 
     a)  Whales evolve?
     b)  Sea horses evolve?
     c)  Bats evolve?
     d)  Hair, skin, feathers, scales,
            nails, claws, etc. evolve?

9.  Which of the following evolved
      first (how and how long did it 
      work without the others?)?
      a)  The digestive system, the food
             to be digested, the appetite, the
              ability to find and eat the food,
             the digestive juices, or the body's
              resistance to its own digestive 
              juice (stomach, intestines
               etc.) ?

        b)  The drive to reproduce or the 
               ability to reproduce?
    
        c)  The lungs, the mucus lining
               to protect them, the throat or
               the perfect mixture of gases to
               be breathed into the lungs?

        d)  The plants, or the insects that
               pollinate the plants?

         e)  The bones, ligaments, tendons, 
                blood supply, or muscles to   
                 move the bones?

          f)   The immune system or the 
                need for it?

Now take a minute to
 thoughtfully consider
 your answers. Are you sure they're reasonable  and scientifically 
proveable, or do you just hope and believe that it may have happened that way?  Do you really think evolution makes sense?  

Scientists want to convince us that new body parts and complex organs - with all their interrelated functions - simply appeared in order to meet a creature's new need.

But when you stop to consider it logically, it just isn't possible. Natural selection is fine for explaining certain small -scale changes in organisms, like the beaks of birds adapting to small environmental changes. It can take existing structures and refine them. But it can't explain how you get complex structures in the first place.

We also need to follow the idea of transitional forms to its logical conclusion.  Can a fish survive with a partial gill?  No, it would die.  Can a bird survive with half a wing?  No, it would be lunch for some other animal!  Could we digest food with an incomplete digestive system?  Or see with an undevelooed eyeball?  Could a  cheetah run without fully formed legs?  Common sense tells us the answer. 

next post tomorrow 1st August