Evolve This!

I haven’t posted anything on here about Gov. Palin, but I did want to point out one of the things she believes in. Creationism, as an actually science to be taught in public schools.

This is just insane. I found these questions on a Creationism site and thought I’d answer them. Or at least try, some of them do not make any logical sense so putting a logical answer behind them is difficult, but I’ll do my best.

1. Where did the space for the universe come from? It didn’t come from anywhere. It isn’t like God went down to the local Gundaker Realtor office and picked out a nice piece of space to build his ‘great’ plan. Also why is the universe so vast and basically empty? If God just did all of this so he could make man, then why even bother with all the extra space and millions of other starts and planets. It would just seem like a waste of time.

2. Where did matter come from? Matter came from a fundamental necessity of existence.

3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)? They came from physical objects reacting to each other and finding balance in their continued co-existence.

4. How did matter get so perfectly organized? Who says matter is perfectly organized?

5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing? Energy comes from negative and positive charges that exist everywhere. These are not magic tricks or miracles, they are simple reactions.

6. When, where, why, and how did life come from non-living matter? That is assuming that there is such a things as non-living matter. Once any living things dies and breaks down it becomes non-living. So I’m not there should even be a category difference between non-living and living matter. It is all just matter, it just depends on how it is used.

7. When, where, why, and how did life learn to reproduce itself? I’m not even sure how to address this question. For the simple reason that life does not ‘learn’ to reproduce, life just does.

8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce? This is an easy one, ITSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9. Why would any plant or animal want to reproduce more of its kind since this would only make more mouths to feed and decrease the chances of survival? (Does the individual have a drive to survive, or the species? How do you explain this?) Since I’m guessing you are not talking about human beings, because they love to reproduce many more mouths than can be feed. I’ll assume you are talking about ‘lower’ forms of life. If the need to reproduce was not part of nature, there would be no nature to speak of. And in that light, we wouldn’t even be here to speak about it.

10. How can mutations (recombining of the genetic code) create any new, improved varieties? (Recombining English letters will never produce Chinese books.) The best thing about DNA is that it takes a very simple few pieces and can form them into just about anything. Think of it this way if I want to build a basic ranch style home, I don’t take a sky scraper apart and try to conform the pieces into a house. But I can use the same exact building materials in their original forms to build either structure. Also there are millions of pieces in the genetic code we and nothing else on this planet even use. To your analogy, all written word is just moving around dots and dashes in different combinations.

11. Is it possible that similarities in design between different animals prove a common Creator instead of a common ancestor? I suppose like a painter may produce works that have similar characteristics a Creator could really like a design and stick with it. However, why would a Creator needed to develop different versions of the same thing? Why are there over 10000 species of birds in the world? Why isn’t there just one? Just for fun?

12. Natural selection only works with the genetic information 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? Species even today are born with ‘defects’ or mutations. When these mutations, accidents, give the individual animal and edge, he or she will then produce more off spring passing on its accident to the next generation. What you are saying is why haven’t we seen amazing mutations that advance a given species? Probably because we haven’t been paying attention for that long. And human involvement in many of these situations has broken down the process.

13. When, where, why, and how did:
o Single-celled plants become multi-celled? (Where are the two and three-celled intermediates?) When: Millions of years ago. Where: in the ocean Why: Because of a genetic accident. How: Refer to my pervious answer. The term multi-celled organism isn’t a static number of lets say, seven. So it isn’t that there isn’t or wasn’t three-celled organisms they just don’t thrive. Well actually they do thrive by dividing more and growing into more complex organisms.
o Single-celled animals evolve? I’ve already talked about that.
o Fish change to amphibians? More that likely it was a product of an over populated prehistoric ocean. When the food sources grew smaller and habitat grew over crowded a fish who could live closer to the land or even on it, would have thrived and had offspring.
o Amphibians change to reptiles? Same as above.
o Reptiles change to birds? (The lungs, bones, eyes, reproductive organs, heart, method of locomotion, body covering, etc., are all very different!) Same as above. They may seem very different but when it comes down to it. All of those things are built from the same blocks. Have you heard of stem cells?
o How did the intermediate forms live? Not very well, that is why they aren’t here.

14. When, where, why, how, and from what did:
o Whales evolve? I’m just going to sum this whole section up right here. It isn’t important how individual species or appendage evolved. The very fact that they exist today and thrive should be enough.
o Sea horses evolve?
o Bats evolve?
o Eyes evolve?
o Ears evolve?
o Hair, skin, feathers, scales, nails, claws, etc., evolve?

15. Which evolved first (how, and how long; did it work without the others)? Trial and error. This is for all the questions in the section.
o 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.)?
o The drive to reproduce or the ability to reproduce?
o The lungs, the mucus lining to protect them, the throat, or the perfect mixture of gases to be breathed into the lungs?
o DNA or RNA to carry the DNA message to cell parts?
o The termite or the flagella in its intestines that actually digest the cellulose?
o The plants or the insects that live on and pollinate the plants?
o The bones, ligaments, tendons, blood supply, or muscles to move the bones?
o The nervous system, repair system, or hormone system?
o The immune system or the need for it?

16. There are many thousands of examples of symbiosis that defy an evolutionary explanation. Why must we teach students that evolution is the only explanation for these relationships? Just because one or two things don’t fit perfectly into the puzzle doesn’t make the puzzle wrong, it just makes it extremly complex.

17. How would evolution explain mimicry? Did the plants and animals develop mimicry by chance, by their intelligent choice, or by design? By chance. The bug that looks like the tree doesn’t eat eaten as many times that the bug that is bright orange. So the tree bug gets to reproduce and prosper. While the orange bug quickly goes extinct.

18. When, where, why, and how did man evolve feelings? Love, mercy, guilt, etc. would never evolve in the theory of evolution. But yet it did.

19. How did photosynthesis evolve? I think the answers to the following two questions are defined quite vividly in any account of the basics of evolution.

20. How did thought evolve?

21. How did flowering plants evolve, and from that?

22. What kind of evolutionist are you? Why are you not one of the other eight or ten kinds? The sure fact that scientists are able to look beyond their narrow view of the word and let in other possibilities is a testament to finding the truth. If we sit back and do not search for the truth and take we are told as fact, then how can we grow (dare I say evolve)?

23. What would you have said fifty years ago if I told you I had a living coelacanth in my aquarium? Why haven’t you let anyone study it? Selfish much?

24. Is there one clear prediction of macroevolution that has proved true? Is there one clear perdition of the existence of God that has proved true?

25. What is so scientific about the idea of hydrogen as becoming human? I don’t even know what to say to that.

26. Do you honestly believe that everything came from nothing? Without any hesitation, yes.