False Ideas About Truth - Part 20 - Darwin and Lamarckianism

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(1) “Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution” by Alpheas Packard. (2) Questions: What hard-science evidence is there that Darwinian evolution is true? Why are there no true transitional links? Since there are no transitional links to test, is it possible to demonstrate hard evidence of DNA mutational change? (3) “Dismantling Evolution” by Ralph Muncaster. (4) Given that neo-Darwinism requires GRADUAL CHANGE over long periods of time, how do evolutionists explain the sudden appearance of many new life forms on earth in the Cambrian Explosion? (5) Muncaster continues, “The existence of ‘transitional’ species would imply that a creature was in a STATE OF DEVELOPMENT between two species. For example, it might be a reptile with a partially formed feather, not a wholly developed one; or a creature with a part of an eye that didn’t yet ‘work.’ Now, even though millions of fossils have been found since Darwin’s time, we still can’t IDENTIFY transitional species — let alone ’countless numbers’ of them. In fact, in the fossil record body parts and systems are either FULLY FORMED or NON EXISTENT.” (6) What is harder to understand is WHY this 150-year-old theory (though somewhat modified) is STILL BEING TAUGHT as a FACT in light of recent discoveries? (7) However, change BETWEEN species has NEVER BEEN SUBSTANTIATED. (8) “Now, having much recent evidence that was UNAVAILABLE to Darwin, how do MODERN EVOLUTIONISTS support their theory? It seems that, often, either they attempt to hold onto OUTDATED IDEAS by the simple ASSUMPTION that evolution is a FACT — or else the evidence is simply IGNORED. In other cases they explain the theory’s many problems by REACHING INTO OUTER SPACE for answers. . . . Are evolutionary theorists now so FRUSTRATED that they look to extraterrestrials as possible SOLUTIONS to problems about the origin of life that can’t be resolved? Moreover, this just puts the difficulties one step FURTHER AWAY. It doesn’t answer the question, ‘How did these extraterrestrials come to be?’” (9) The third area into which flaws of evolution can be separated is the way Darwinian evolutionary theory has been used as the FOUNDATIONAL BASIS for POLITICAL SYSTEMS like Nazism and communism. Those governmental regimes adopted the idea of atheism. (10) What were the consequences of the governmental regimes of Nazism and communism? Nazism caused the Holocaust thereby destroying over 6 million Jews and perhaps 10 million Christians. Josef Stalin left seminary after having read Darwin’s book becoming an atheist in the process. Ultimately over 18 million Russians were killed under Stalin’s regime in Russia. Marxism/communism in China under Mao destroyed over 100 million Chinese. Marxism/communism was responsible for Pol Pot’s killing fields in Cambodia whereby over half of the population of Cambodia were destroyed. (11) Darwin’s theory of evolution also was the FOUNDATION for theories like SOCIAL DARWINISM and EUGENICS. You may know that eugenics advocates for the elimination of individual people DEEMED SOCIALLY UNFIT. The theories of social Darwinism and eugenics have been used to JUSTIFY DISCRIMINATION and have contributed to some of the most RACIST social programs over the last 167 years. (12) “Darwin’s Black Box” by Michael Behe.

This is episode 287.