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Darwinian evolution MORE THAN JUST A THEORY?

Darwinian evolution MORE THAN JUST A THEORY?. A WORLD VIEW/IDEOLOGY THAT IS IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH RELIGION?. DO YOU AGREE?. “Certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.".

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Darwinian evolution MORE THAN JUST A THEORY?

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  1. Darwinian evolutionMORE THAN JUST A THEORY?

  2. A WORLD VIEW/IDEOLOGY THAT IS IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH RELIGION? DO YOU AGREE?

  3. “Certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection."

  4. INTELLIGENT DESIGN “An evidence-based scientific theory about life's origins" or "a religious-based idea"

  5. “A science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions"

  6. INTELLIGENT DESIGN Irreducible complexity Specified complexity Fine Tuning – ‘just right’ Biological features are too complex to be the result of natural processes, and proponents therefore conclude that these features are evidence of design.

  7. Darwin’s Black Box… The conceptual tool in which, for one reason or another, the internal workings of a device are taken for granted, so that its function may be discussed. “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organism existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous and successive slight modifications my theory would absolutely break down.”

  8. Michael Behe Irreducible Complexity “No one at all can give a detailed account of how the cilium or any complex biochemical process might have developed in a Darwinian fashion. But we are here. All these things got here somehow; if not by Darwinian fashion, then how?” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWVALTJd1Eg

  9. “A single system which is composed of several interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, and where the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively stop functioning”

  10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwew5gHoh3E http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-evolution-of-the-eye/6017.html

  11. Behe states… “Thus while I argue for design, the question of the identity of the designer is left open”

  12. WILLIAM DEMBSKI SPECIFIED COMPLEXITY Specified = something that conforms to some kind of pattern Complex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence

  13. H Specified = something that conforms to some kind of pattern Complex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence

  14. Gepandajoiptuaspccmasokduaerbn Specified = something that conforms to some kind of pattern Complex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence

  15. SONNET 116 Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,That looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickle's compass come;Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,But bears it out even to the edge of doom.  If this be error and upon me proved,  I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Specified = something that conforms to some kind of pattern Complex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence

  16. William Dembskiin summary… H = A single letter of the alphabet is specified but not complex Gepandajoiptuaspccmasokduaerbn (i.e. a long sequence of random letters) = Complex but not specified A Shakespearean sonnet is specified and complex. Specified = something that conforms to some kind of pattern Complex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence

  17. Combination Lock… The more possible combinations of the lock the more complex the mechanism (the lock) and therefore the more improbable the mechanism (the lock) can be open by chance! A lock with 10 possible combinations is more likely to be opened by chance that a lock with 100,000 possible combinations Specified = something that conforms to some kind of pattern Complex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence

  18. To conclude… When we observe the universe we see complex specified information. This could not have occurred by chance. This would be just too unlikely to happen!

  19. What is the best explanation for this complexity?

  20. Fine-Tuning Argument “As we look out into the universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked to our benefit it almost seems as if the universe must in some sense have known we were coming.” Freeman Dyson

  21. Roger Penrose “if we combined all the laws that must be fine-tuned, we couldn’t even write down that number in full, since it would require more zeroes than the number of elementary particles in the universe”

  22. “The cliché that ‘life is balanced on a knife-edge’ is a staggering understatement is this case: no knife in the universe could have an edge that fine” Paul Davies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbiLmPJuU6Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE0Y1hpEA-4

  23. Antony Flew “What I think the DNA material has done is show that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements together. The enormous complexity by which the results were achieved looks to me like the work of intelligence”

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