Wednesday, July 30, 2014

2 Major Scientific Evidences Against Evolution


So I came across this on Facebook today. I won't be including the video, but I will provide a link. I like the quality and style of the animation, but it's quite distracting. It was made by Answers in Genesis, and like everything from them, attention getting, but far from actual science. I'm going to cut to the chase here and give you the two evidences.

1. Life has never been observed to come from non-life.
2. There is no known observable process by which new genetic information can be added to an organism's genetic code.

The first one is the easiest to deal with. It is simply not evidence against evolution. Evolution has nothing to do with the origins of life. Even if life was proven to have been shat out by a magic sky pixie, evolution still happened. Evolution is not dependent on life coming from non-life. If you want to argue against life coming from non-life, then you argue against abiogenesis. To claim that evolution is life coming from non-life is to create a strawman argument. A strawman, by the way, is when you redefine something to be something it is not, then argue against the redefinition. If someone is telling you that evolution is life from non-life, you make them right then and there look up evolution and find the part where it says life from non-life. On the other hand, if you are making this "life from non-life' argument against evolution, whether you knew it or not, you are employing a dishonest, fallacious argument and if that is what you have to resort to in order to make your case, your case isn't worth making.

On the second one,  "no known observable process by which new genetic information can be added to an organism's genetic code." This has been observed. It's called mutation. Or gene transfer. Or gene duplication. Or reproduction. This happens all the time and has been observed, tested, documented, peer-reviewed. You know, the stuff that real scientists who have real degrees and work in real labs and wear real lab coats do. To claim it has never been observed is a flat out lie. If you have to lie to push your religion, then the only logical conclusion I can come to is that your religion is a lie as well.

The video concludes much like Ken Ham's debate with Bill Nye, with the Bible. "I have a book!" Well that's nice that you have a book, but has a god ever been observed creating heavens and earth from nothing? Has a god ever been observed creating life? Has a god ever been observed at all? Claiming "Gawd done it!" is not a path to knowledge, it a trip to the dark ages. 'Nuff said.

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