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Darwinian evolutionMORE THAN JUST A THEORY?
DO YOU AGREE?
A WORLD VIEW/IDEOLOGY THAT IS IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH RELIGION?
Because if true… it changes
everything!
An evolutionary explanation for
religion?
Everything we do, everything
bit of our behave could be explained evolutionarily
“Certain features of the universe and of living things
are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an
undirected process such as natural selection."
“An evidence-based scientific theory about
life's origins" rather than "a religious-based idea"
INTELLIGENT DESIGN
“A science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions"
Irreducible complexitySpecified complexity propose
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.
INTELLIGENT DESIGN
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.”
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
“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”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwew5gHoh3E
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-evolution-of-the-eye/6017.html
Behe states…
“Thus while I argue for design, the question of the identity of
the designer is left open”
Specified = something that conforms to some kind of patternComplex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence
WILLIAM DEMBSKI
SPECIFIED COMPLEXITY
Specified = something that conforms to some kind of patternComplex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence
H
Specified = something that conforms to some kind of patternComplex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence
Gepandajoiptuaspccmasokduaerbn
Specified = something that conforms to some kind of patternComplex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence
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 cheeks
Within 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.
William Dembski in summary…
Specified = something that conforms to some kind of patternComplex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence
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.
Combination Lock…
Specified = something that conforms to some kind of patternComplex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence
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
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!
What is the best
explanation for this
complexity?
One Cell - Human DNA• 8 Billion letters, 8,000,000,000• 500 million words, 500, 000, 000• 8 thousand books, 8000
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
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”
“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=WE0Y1hpEA-4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbiLmPJuU6Q
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”