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We have already referred to evolutionist Derek Hough’s excellent little book “Evolution – a case of stating the obvious” which provides interesting insider insights into the current terminal state of evolutionary thinking. Hough’s main concern is the inability of Darwin’s theory to explain the utter complexity of any and every organism and the need, therefore, to find a new mechanism – a quest which appears to have taken him back to the ideas of Larmarck that we looked at earlier.

The Human Eye and the Hand of God
Oddly, although Darwin himself admitted that the idea of even the human eye being created by the action of Natural Selection was “absurd in the highest degree”, he still felt forced to embrace such insanity – admitting on one occasion that his mind was “haunted” by the idea of evolution!

Derek Hough’s rejection of Darwinism, after having been a “true believer” of missionary zeal for many years, has nothing to do with the Bible or geology or rock strata or fossils or extinct life forms or the age of the earth.

It is just that with the discovery of the micro-structure of the cell and its constituent parts, as made visible by the electron microscope, biologists now realize that even “simple” organisms have an inner complexity far more massive than anything Darwin ever dreamed of in his worst nightmares. . [Ed: I bet he had a few of those, G-Man. Poor chap.].

A Pile of Scrap Metal
According to Hough, the chance of any plant or animal cell having been developed by the fortuitous combination of zillions of DNA copying “errors” is just not credible, especially to mathematicians, who, he says, regard the acceptance of such impossibility thinking by biologists as ignorance and “sheer arrogance”.

The mere possibility, he asserts, is as likely as “throwing ten tons of scrap metal into the air and having it come down as an aero-engine”. Clearly mindful of the desperate and highly publicized claims of his more illustrious fellow believer, he adds: “No, Mr Dawkins, you would not get an aero-engine in a thousand years, not in a million years, not in the total age of the universe”. [Ed: Actually, G-Man, I think Derek is misquoting the great Fred Hoyle, a confirmed atheist, who actually said that the chance that “a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein” was more likely than the simplest living cell assembling itself.” ]

The Missing Mechanism
Nevertheless, Hough affirms his faith that “Evolution” must somehow have occurred, because the only alternatives are magic and divine creation, and he is not prepared to accept either of those. And so his search for a credible creative mechanism continues – and it seems unfortunate that some Christians, blinded by science, so kindly let evolutionists off the hook of their own error and provide the missing miracles by suggesting that perhaps “God made it happen that way”, when the Bible plainly that he did not

A Creative Genome
The intellectually honest Hough therefore postulates the existence of a “Self Developing Genome” -- a complex master controlling mechanism in cells that somehow orchestrates and regulates the DNA copying process in order to prevent “errors” and the creation of “unfit” forms that would then have to be weeded out by a process of Natural Selection. That genome, Hough predicts, is “likely to consist of a complex multi-hierarchal process which will astound us with its ingenuity”. [Ed: Hold on a mo, G-Man, I want to write that down. It will “astound us” by its “ingenuity”! And yet it made itself by an accident of evolution??? ]

Again, Hough is simply trying to explain why the fossil record does not demonstrate the existence of zillions of “unfit” organisms, the discovery of which Darwin said would be absolutely essential to the truth of his theory, and that he predicted would very soon be found. [Ed: It’s time to face the facts, G-Man -- Evolution ain’t never happened. Not nowhere, not no how. ]

Meaningful Mutations
If Hough is correct, then it becomes clear that “mutations”, the sudden unexpected changes in organisms, which resulted in Mendel’s smooth and wrinkly pea seeds, for example, were not due to accidental “DNA copying errors” as cells divide and multiply, as evolutionists have hoped, but are purposefully generated by an astonishing meta mechanism – the “Self Developing Genome”—which can actually sense and respond to the needs and pressures of the organism’s environment.

But where does Hough think the first magical Self-developing Genome came from? Since it must be far too complex to have possibly evolved on earth, he suggests that it may have arrived on a comet from a distant galaxy, or one of the infinite number of parallel universes cosmologist talk about . [Ed: No prob, G-Man. Steve Hawkin dream up dozens of parallel universes every day! ]

Notice that Hough envisions the self-developing genome as a totally creative mechanism, always coming up with something new and different – but might it not be possible that the mysterious mass of “junk DNA” in every organism could also hold in store a range of useful mutations already engineered into it and tucked away in the closet, ready to appear or re-appear when the time is right? That is clearly the inference of the Genesis statement that would have organisms reproducing “after their kind”.

Darwin’s Invisible Ink
Troubled by the occasional and sudden emergence in organisms of significantly different mutational forms, called “sports”, and in an attempt to speed up the work of Natural Selection, Darwin came up with the Pangenesis theory we examined earlier – mystically suggesting that the “germ” or sex cells, were: “crowded with invisible characters . . . separated by hundreds or even thousands of generations from the present time – and these characters like those written on paper with invisible ink, lie ready to be evolved whenever the organization is disturbed by certain known or unknown conditions”. Did he but know it, Darwin was talking G-Theory there. [Ed: What a shame the poor guy was so deluded. ]

Gene Switching
Astonishingly, an article in the “Economist” reports that just such a possibility, a “gene switching” mechanism, has now been discovered in dogs – a mechanism which can explain how one ancient pair of dogs could have made possible all the breeds we now have, all of which are still “dogs”, a Genesis kind.

The Technical Accuracy of Genesis
If God did indeed engineer such mechanisms into each “kind” of organism, as he clearly did, then evolutionists now have even more massive complexity of which to explain the origins.

Meanwhile the new discovery serves to confirm the scientific accuracy of the Genesis account—namely that all the organisms we now know are simply breeding variations of the set of original “kinds” of organisms God created -- which is why dogs will continue to be dogs, and roses continue to be roses, no matter how exotic they become, and why endless breeding of fruit flies over zillions of generations has produced only more fruit flies.

Evolutionist Gordon Rattray Taylor comments: “In all the thousands of fly breeding experiments carried out all over the world for more than fifty years, a distinct new species has never been seen to emerge. Only in bacteria, where drug resistance emerges rather readily, too readily, and where the ability to subsist without some normal dietary component can emerge, do we see anything approaching evolution in the act. In short, the case for Darwin’s theory has never been conclusive.” [Ed: I’m making a note of that, G-Man. Do you spell that last word with two k’s or three?]

Taylor adds an even more telling comment on the failure of Darwinism when he says: “A still more extraordinary example of failure to evolve is found in the bacteria. Since they reproduce themselves, in favourable conditions, every twenty minutes, they might be expected to evolve faster than any other organism -- but fossil bacteria going back three and a half billion years, to the threshold of life itself, have been recovered and are virtually identical with modern forms.” {Ed: He cannot be serious, G-Man! No evolution over millions of years?]

The Nature of Life
Perhaps we should stress once again that all of this discussion of the physical structure of organisms ignores the fact that there is more to man and animals, than mere atoms and molecules -- and that there is more to intelligent life and consciousness than repetitive, self-sustaining chemical processes and organic electronic circuitry. Because, as the Bible tells us in both Old (Job 32:8, Ecclesiastes 12:7) and New (1 Corinthians 2:11) Testaments, there is a non-physical element in man at least, a human “spirit” that imparts intellect and which departs at death and returns to God who gave it. The inspired genius Solomon suggests that the situation may be just the same with animals (Ecclesiastes 3:21).

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	We have already referred to evolutionist Derek Hough’s excellent little book “Evolution – a case of stating the obvious” which provides interesting insider insights into the current terminal state of evolutionary thinking. Hough’s main concern is the inability of Darwin’s theory to explain the utter complexity of any and every organism and the need, therefore, to find a new mechanism – a quest which appears to have taken him back to the ideas of Larmarck that we looked at earlier. The Human Eye and the Hand of God Oddly, although Darwin himself admitted that the idea of even the human eye being created by the action of Natural Selection was “absurd in the highest degree”, he still felt forced to embrace such insanity – admitting on one occasion that his mind was “haunted” by the idea of evolution! Derek Hough’s rejection of Darwinism, after having been a “true believer” of missionary zeal for many years, has nothing to do with the Bible or geology or rock strata or fossils or extinct life forms or the age of the earth. It is just that with the discovery of the micro-structure of the cell and its constituent parts, as made visible by the electron microscope, biologists now realize that even “simple” organisms have an inner complexity far more massive than anything Darwin ever dreamed of in his worst nightmares. . [Ed: I bet he had a few of those, G-Man. Poor chap.]. A Pile of Scrap Metal According to Hough, the chance of any plant or animal cell having been developed by the fortuitous combination of zillions of DNA copying “errors” is just not credible, especially to mathematicians, who, he says, regard the acceptance of such impossibility thinking by biologists as ignorance and “sheer arrogance”. The mere possibility, he asserts, is as likely as “throwing ten tons of scrap metal into the air and having it come down as an aero-engine”. Clearly mindful of the desperate and highly publicized claims of his more illustrious fellow believer, he adds: “No, Mr Dawkins, you would not get an aero-engine in a thousand years, not in a million years, not in the total age of the universe”. [Ed: Actually, G-Man, I think Derek is misquoting the great Fred Hoyle, a confirmed atheist, who actually said that the chance that “a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein” was more likely than the simplest living cell assembling itself.” ] The Missing Mechanism Nevertheless, Hough affirms his faith that “Evolution” must somehow have occurred, because the only alternatives are magic and divine creation, and he is not prepared to accept either of those. And so his search for a credible creative mechanism continues – and it seems unfortunate that some Christians, blinded by science, so kindly let evolutionists off the hook of their own error and provide the missing miracles by suggesting that perhaps “God made it happen that way”, when the Bible plainly that he did not A Creative Genome The intellectually honest Hough therefore postulates the existence of a “Self Developing Genome” -- a complex master controlling mechanism in cells that somehow orchestrates and regulates the DNA copying process in order to prevent “errors” and the creation of “unfit” forms that would then have to be weeded out by a process of Natural Selection. That genome, Hough predicts, is “likely to consist of a complex multi-hierarchal process which will astound us with its ingenuity”. [Ed: Hold on a mo, G-Man, I want to write that down. It will “astound us” by its “ingenuity”! And yet it made itself by an accident of evolution??? ] Again, Hough is simply trying to explain why the fossil record does not demonstrate the existence of zillions of “unfit” organisms, the discovery of which Darwin said would be absolutely essential to the truth of his theory, and that he predicted would very soon be found. [Ed: It’s time to face the facts, G-Man -- Evolution ain’t never happened. Not nowhere, not no how. ] Meaningful Mutations If Hough is correct, then it becomes clear that “mutations”, the sudden unexpected changes in organisms, which resulted in Mendel’s smooth and wrinkly pea seeds, for example, were not due to accidental “DNA copying errors” as cells divide and multiply, as evolutionists have hoped, but are purposefully generated by an astonishing meta mechanism – the “Self Developing Genome”—which can actually sense and respond to the needs and pressures of the organism’s environment. But where does Hough think the first magical Self-developing Genome came from? Since it must be far too complex to have possibly evolved on earth, he suggests that it may have arrived on a comet from a distant galaxy, or one of the infinite number of parallel universes cosmologist talk about . [Ed: No prob, G-Man. Steve Hawkin dream up dozens of parallel universes every day! ] Notice that Hough envisions the self-developing genome as a totally creative mechanism, always coming up with something new and different – but might it not be possible that the mysterious mass of “junk DNA” in every organism could also hold in store a range of useful mutations already engineered into it and tucked away in the closet, ready to appear or re-appear when the time is right? That is clearly the inference of the Genesis statement that would have organisms reproducing “after their kind”. Darwin’s Invisible Ink Troubled by the occasional and sudden emergence in organisms of significantly different mutational forms, called “sports”, and in an attempt to speed up the work of Natural Selection, Darwin came up with the Pangenesis theory we examined earlier – mystically suggesting that the “germ” or sex cells, were: “crowded with invisible characters . . . separated by hundreds or even thousands of generations from the present time – and these characters like those written on paper with invisible ink, lie ready to be evolved whenever the organization is disturbed by certain known or unknown conditions”. Did he but know it, Darwin was talking G-Theory there. [Ed: What a shame the poor guy was so deluded. ] Gene Switching Astonishingly, an article in the “Economist” reports that just such a possibility, a “gene switching” mechanism, has now been discovered in dogs – a mechanism which can explain how one ancient pair of dogs could have made possible all the breeds we now have, all of which are still “dogs”, a Genesis kind. The Technical Accuracy of Genesis If God did indeed engineer such mechanisms into each “kind” of organism, as he clearly did, then evolutionists now have even more massive complexity of which to explain the origins. Meanwhile the new discovery serves to confirm the scientific accuracy of the Genesis account—namely that all the organisms we now know are simply breeding variations of the set of original “kinds” of organisms God created -- which is why dogs will continue to be dogs, and roses continue to be roses, no matter how exotic they become, and why endless breeding of fruit flies over zillions of generations has produced only more fruit flies. Evolutionist Gordon Rattray Taylor comments: “In all the thousands of fly breeding experiments carried out all over the world for more than fifty years, a distinct new species has never been seen to emerge. Only in bacteria, where drug resistance emerges rather readily, too readily, and where the ability to subsist without some normal dietary component can emerge, do we see anything approaching evolution in the act. In short, the case for Darwin’s theory has never been conclusive.” [Ed: I’m making a note of that, G-Man. Do you spell that last word with two k’s or three?] Taylor adds an even more telling comment on the failure of Darwinism when he says: “A still more extraordinary example of failure to evolve is found in the bacteria. Since they reproduce themselves, in favourable conditions, every twenty minutes, they might be expected to evolve faster than any other organism -- but fossil bacteria going back three and a half billion years, to the threshold of life itself, have been recovered and are virtually identical with modern forms.” {Ed: He cannot be serious, G-Man! No evolution over millions of years?] The Nature of Life Perhaps we should stress once again that all of this discussion of the physical structure of organisms ignores the fact that there is more to man and animals, than mere atoms and molecules -- and that there is more to intelligent life and consciousness than repetitive, self-sustaining chemical processes and organic electronic circuitry. Because, as the Bible tells us in both Old (Job 32:8, Ecclesiastes 12:7) and New (1 Corinthians 2:11) Testaments, there is a non-physical element in man at least, a human “spirit” that imparts intellect and which departs at death and returns to God who gave it. The inspired genius Solomon suggests that the situation may be just the same with animals (Ecclesiastes 3:21).
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