More Fun With Tom Phillips

Here's some more debunking of the man whose Journal Sentinal editorial recycled the same-old garbage arguments:

**"Evolution also asserts one life form can change into another, higher form - something also never observed and thus unscientific. Instead, we always observe exactly what Genesis states numerous times: Life reproduces 'according to its kind,' i.e., cats beget cats, crickets beget crickets, etc. They never change into something else. "**

Honestly, does this really need to be debunked? Of course one life form cannot change into another. I cannot change into a bird anymore than a tortoise can change into a hare. That would be transmogrification -- not evolution. So how the hell is that even relevant? But the offspring of an animal can change slightly, and this often takes place. If the change is positive, it sticks around for generations afterward. If the change is negative, it dies off. As countless generations go by, the little changes add up. Eventually, something which was an ancestral cat evolves into something which is definitely not a cat, although it may retain some cat-like qualities. This is how evolution works. It is never "one animal changing into another" as the ignorant so mischaracterize it.

**"With microbiology, we understand why. All life contains DNA, a genetic blueprint containing information. But purely material processes cannot create information, which originates only from a 'mind.' Evolution proceeds via chance, the antithesis of information."**

Of course purely material processes can create information! Saying otherwise displays a lack of understanding of how information works. Information requires a recording mechanism, and something capable of reading it. That's it. Tectonic activity rifts a new faultline, essentially drawing or recording a "line" in the earth. Rain and snow "read" this line, and a new canyon begins to form. Yes, recording and reading information really can be that simple! The first analog recording devices invented by humans had a metal wire drawn across an electromagnetic loop to read and record differences in magnetic polarity in the metal. Today's tape-recorders work on the same principle. But this type of analog recording is happening every day as the oceanic sea-floor splits and spreads apart. As the magma along the rift cools, it records the magnetic polarity of the planet, just like a tape recorder. Information! As sediment collects on an ocean bottom, it creates a record of the kinds of life which get buried, creating a kind of analog recording. Information again! In fact, reading that information in the rocks helps confirm the truth of evolutionary change! Information is being recorded in nature everywhere. And DNA is only one small example.

**"The DNA in simple bacteria has several million specifications; man's has several billion.The DNA molecule, the most complex structure we know and unquestionably the most efficient copying device, with self-correcting processes, prevents one life form from 'changing' into another. We are all copies of a copy of a copy, etc., going back to the very first human parents.Genesis 3:20 says Eve was 'the mother of all the living.' Science proved we are descendents of one woman, whose genes are carried by all mankind. Even evolutionists accept the finding that all humans descended from a relatively recent woman whom scientists have taken to calling Eve, based on the DNA in our mitochondria, the cell's powerhouse. Mitochondrial DNA comes unmixed, only from the mother."**

Both evolution and six-day creation posit that there was a common ancestor for us all. So what? If science confirms this, it bolsters neither viewpoint, right? The point becomes utterly moot.

But DNA is not the most efficient copying device, nor is its self-correcting process perfect. We are not 'copies of a copy of a copy, etc.' Only half of one's DNA is copied from parent to child. In every case, one half of the DNA genetic structure is lost, while the two halves from each parent are "zipped" together. Sometimes, there is a mutation in that process, and then the self-correcting mechanisms work to reinforce the mistake rather than correct it.

Honestly, this is pretty basic stuff. How could anybody ignore these facts unless they deliberately blinded themselves to it in order to reinforce a religious worldview?

Eric