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From: rck@iham1.UUCP (Ron Kukuk)
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Subject: The Scientific Case for Creation (Part 3)
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Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 13:24:18 EST
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            THE SCIENTIFIC CASE FOR CREATION: 116 CATEGORIES OF EVIDENCE

       I.  (Life Sciences): THE THEORY OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION IS INVALID.

           A.  EVOLUTION HAS NEVER BEEN OBSERVED.

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               6.  No known mutation has ever produced a form of life  having
                   both  greater  complexity and greater viability [a,b] than
                   any of its ancestors [c-f].

                   a)  ''Do we, therefore, ever see mutations going about the
                       business  of producing new structures for selection to
                       work on? No  nascent  organ  has  ever  been  observed
                       emerging,  though  their origin in pre-functional form
                       is  basic  to  evolutionary  theory.  Some  should  be
                       visible  today,  occurring  in  organisms  at  various
                       stages up to integration of a functional  new  system,
                       but we don't see them: there is no sign at all of this
                       kind  of  radical  novelty.  Neither  observation  nor
                       controlled  experiment  has  shown  natural  selection
                       manipulating mutations so as to produce  a  new  gene,
                       hormone,  enzyme  system  or organ.'' [Michael Pitman,
                       ADAM AND EVOLUTION (London: Rider, 1984), pp. 67-68.]
                   b)  ''There  is  no  single  instance  where  it  can   be
                       maintained  that  any  of  the  mutants  studied has a
                       higher  vitality  than  the  mother   species.''   [N.
                       Heribert   Nilsson,  (Lund  University),  SYNTHETISCHE
                       ARTBILDUNG (Lund Sweden: Verlag CWK Gleerup, 1953), p.
                       1212.]
                   c)  Pierre-Paul Grasse, EVOLUTION OF LIVING ORGANISMS (New
                       York: Academic Press, 1977), p. 88.
                   d)  ''It is good to keep in mind...that  nobody  has  ever
                       succeeded  in  producing  even  one new species by the
                       accumulation     of     micromutations.''     [Richard
                       Goldschmidt,  THE  MATERIAL  BASIS  OF EVOLUTION (Yale
                       University Press). ]
                   e)  ''If   one   allows   the    unquestionable    largest
                       experimenter to speak, namely nature, one gets a clear
                       and incontrovertible answer to the question about  the
                       significance of mutations for the formation of species
                       and evolution. They disappear  under  the  competitive
                       conditions of natural selection, as soap bubbles burst
                       in a breeze.'' [N. Heribert Nilsson, p. 174.]
                   f)  ''If life really depends on each gene being as  unique
                       as  it  appears  to  be, then it is too unique to come
                       into being by chance mutations.'' [Frank B. Salisbury,
                       (Plant  Science  Department,  Utah  State University),
                       ''Natural Selection and the Complexity of the  Gene,''















                       NATURE, Vol. 224, 25 October 1969, p. 342.]

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          II.  (Astronomical Sciences):

                                      TO BE CONTINUED

         III.  (Earth Sciences):

	


					Ron Kukuk
					Walt Brown