Question Evolution! 15 questions evolutionists cannot adequately answer

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“Question evolution!” is off to a great start. The Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), which is one of the largest non-denominational, grassroots church lobbies in America and speaks on behalf of over 43,000 churches, is promoting the campaign. With so many churches involved, there is going to be a whole lot of questioning of evolution going on! Get involved yourself and get your church involved as well—let us work together to spread the truth.

Students certainly should question Darwinism in their schools and encourage others to do it too—after all, don’t teachers urge students to “question everything”? Students have a right to question the evolutionary pseudoscience peddled to them.

You can also get shirts, hats and caps, bags, mugs, stickers or badges printed with “Question evolution! / Creation.com” or “Evolution—The greatest hoax on Earth? / Get the facts at Creation.com”.

These people also came up with 15 questions that evolutionists cannot adequately answer. Because creationism has no to few cracks in it, amirite?

15 Questions -

How did life originate? How did life with hundreds of proteins originate just by chemistry without intelligent design?

How did the DNA code originate? The code is a sophisticated language system with letters and words where the meaning of the words is unrelated to the chemical properties of the letters—just as the information on this page is not a product of the chemical properties of the ink (or pixels on a screen). What other coding system has existed without intelligent design?

How could such errors (mutations) create 3 billion letters of DNA information to change a microbe into a microbiologist? How can scrambling existing DNA information create a new biochemical pathway or nano-machines?

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? Why should science be restricted to naturalistic causes rather than logical causes?

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?

Where are the scientific breakthroughs due to evolution? Why do schools and universities teach evolution so dogmatically, stealing time from experimental biology that so benefits humankind?

Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as this operational science?

Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes? If “you can’t teach religion in science classes”, why is evolution taught?

Feel free to answer these questions, btw.
 
I always thought evolution was just the best reasonable explanation and that it's completely amendable in the future when a better understanding of the universe is available, provided a great many other people investigate and give the OK, not an end-all no-back-talk dogma.
 
Yea, evolution isn't perfect but I think it's the best explanation we currently have.
 
Evolution can't answer questions that it isn't made to answer.

It's not like religion guys :rolleyes:
 
Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes?

trololo

what would you suggest, creation.com?
 
Yea, evolution isn't perfect but I think it's the best explanation we currently have.

I always thought evolution was just the best reasonable explanation and that it's completely amendable in the future when a better understanding of the universe is available, provided a great many other people investigate and give the OK, not an end-all no-back-talk dogma.

Right, it is just a theory...
Evolution vs natural selection... it is basically taught as the same thing.

Big Bang is way more sketchy, in my book... but evolution seems completely reasonable, as a part of the piece of the puzzle. I believe that there is way more to "life" than just this theory, and some of that is spiritual/mystical, and we will never understand it.

Intelligent design and evolution are two completely compatible ideas.
 
Yea, one thing I don't believe in is the Big Bang, but the Theory of Evolution has way more evidence for me.
 
Counterquestion:
Where did the designer come from ?
Why didn't he make a universal DNA code ?
Bacteria that can replace phosphorus with arsenic ? What gives ?
Why is the existence of a designer as a "I dunno therefore god" story tolerated ?
Why don't you try to treat diseases with 100 year old antibiotics and tell me how it works out for you ?
Why can't I be arsed to come up with ten more questions ?
 
I'll wait for someone with more time and knowledge to give a proper response, but I will just say, several of those are questions that evolution doesn't HAVE to answer, because it isn't intended to answer those questions, and many more of them DO have answers and the person who wrote the article simply has a (willfully?) incomplete knowledge of the science and body of evidence.
 
I cannot emphasise enough how much I think this anti-science damages the reputation of Christanity as a (respectable) transmissible system of morality and understanding and spirituality.

I've never heard a pastor chide YECism, or belief that the Flood was real. Churches are supposed to (amongst other things) help spread the truth, which means not coddling this thinking, but helping remove its basis.
 
Counterquestion:
Where did the designer come from ?
Well, that's a big one.
The thing is, intelligent design assumes mysticism, which can explain away anything by nature...
Paradoxes must be accept in/with faith...

There is no way of knowing this answer... what was there before what made the designer, etc... it goes on and on.

Perhaps the answer is circular in nature... not in a straight line time idea... but circular time.

But even a circle must begin somewhere? It's beyond me... us...
 
These questions have been answered multiple times by scientists, far more adequately than the creationist opposite (which is essentially waving hands and saying "magic!") at least. If you want answers to these questions, I can actually answer them all to a moderate degree without even a science degree.
 
All the missing fossils? Maybe they were destroyed, eroded away, buried in a deep cave miles underground, or sucked into the molten mantle. It's not like evolution doesn't have a few cracks, so does creationism, but backward thinking only damages the reputation of churches. That's why I stopped going to the church in the county I lived in as a child; they wouldn't accept anything than what was in the Bible.
 
well I know nothing, but this looks laughably fun to read! perhaps someone who is knowledgeable can answer these accurately. I'm killing time:

anywhos, looks like most of the "questions" are just about cells. More robust stuff on how cells developed/cell structures/dna/etc is out there fo' sure. Hardly a case against evolution.

Spoiler :

How did life originate? How did life with hundreds of proteins originate just by chemistry without intelligent design?
not what evolution is for; um, cells developed overtime too. as far as "cell evolution", I've heard stuff about how smaller bacteria/cells got absorbed into being a part of a eukaryotic cell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endosymbiotic_theory

so that's a start. if you can accept that starting out with a few simple cells can make pretty complicated cells, you're well on your way to envisioning cells beginning to make "life" (note they are already life) forms. And if you can envision very small simple organisms/plant-like structures developing, you're even farther on your way!

How did the DNA code originate? The code is a sophisticated language system with letters and words where the meaning of the words is unrelated to the chemical properties of the letters—just as the information on this page is not a product of the chemical properties of the ink (or pixels on a screen). What other coding system has existed without intelligent design?

what does this ask? besides, DNA code has been mapped reasonably well. If humans can master a large chunk of it, no reason to think there needed to be an "intelligent" design (I'm sure any IDers wouldn't consider human beings to be godly).
How could such errors (mutations) create 3 billion letters of DNA information to change a microbe into a microbiologist? How can scrambling existing DNA information create a new biochemical pathway or nano-machines?

? what is this asking? I don't see why anyone would object to idea that maybe if you scrambled up stuff it could make a new biochemical pathway. I'm sure there's stuff cell theory knows, just Kennigit is ignorant.

Why is natural selection taught as ‘evolution’ as if it explains the origin of the diversity of life?
'Cuz it does explain a lot of diversity of life? As well as provide explanations why the fossil record is as it is (i.e. history of earth's temperature cycles and climate and such to explain why plants/animals/whatever thrived in one period then died in another).

How did new biochemical pathways, which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence, originate?

Origin is a stupid question to ask. But I'm sure if you accept some theories about cells (realise I am using this word wrong, but I mean the development of simple cells into more complex as well. Of course that doesn't show how cells originated, but some seemingly robust ideas are out there imo of how cells themselves developed) then you could maybe get a better answer.

Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists know that they were not designed? Why should science be restricted to naturalistic causes rather than logical causes?

How do they look designed lol. And when "designed", I hope you mean adapted to their environment and display properties that could be beneficial to help them survive in that environment, and that animals/plants in different environments might display different unique properties because it's catered to their environment.

oh wait a minute, that sounds like something.
How did multi-cellular life originate?
probably already answered, or at least a lot of good solid information out there on how simpler cells could get more complex.

How did sex originate?
I dunno. whenever animals popped up and got more complex. Meiosis already is there for eukaryotic cells, so the mechanisms for sex was already there. As for why animals started doing it or whatever probably has some explanation out there already. Again, I'm ignorant. But I could see that sexual reproduction does have advantages once mammals and such came about, especially as the female of the species is the only one that has to do childbearing. It seems helpful for half of a population to carry on life as they please.

Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing?

don't think they are bro.

How do ‘living fossils’ remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years?

Cuz evolution doesn't mean everything has to get replaced, just things can develop into something different afaik. Plus there are conditions to evolution--if you don't have heavy evolutionary pressure then the species could just survive.

How did blind chemistry create mind/intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality?

I'm not sure that some of those things exist to the extent you think :P

Why is evolutionary ‘just-so’ story-telling tolerated?

Eh, I don't believe in physics either until grand unified theory comes out. I think Earth just is trying to give everyone a hug, why you gotta be saying gravity works "just so"?

Where are the scientific breakthroughs due to evolution? Why do schools and universities teach evolution so dogmatically, stealing time from experimental biology that so benefits humankind?

What?

Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as this operational science?
wat? It is an operational science?

Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes? If “you can’t teach religion in science classes”, why is evolution taught?

wat? Besides obvious trolling, I don't think someone understands what science is. You gather evidence and work theory around it or make a theory and rigorously test it.

tell me of any religion that does that and I'll let you teach it in a science class.
 
Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes?
:confused:

Creationism isn't taught in classrooms.
 
Feel free to answer these questions, btw.
Every question religious idiots have asked has been answered. It's just they either don't accept or understand the answers.
In fact, more often than not they don't even understand the questions, nor the subject they ask questions about, and they don't even LISTEN to the answers or the attempt to bring out of their ignorance. Which is why we constantly see the same idiotic bad points coming back despite being answered or destroyed about fifty thousands times a year.

Moderator Action: The word idiot could have been used a bit less in your post.
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889
 
People this ignorant don't deserve a rebuttal.

And even if they got one...

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