EP078 Science Falsely So Called: Natural Selection (Part 1)

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What we find out is that God actually instilled into every living form or kind
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in the Bible the ability to
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pre-select its DNA to recode its body to survive in certain environments.
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So the culling mechanism just means that God will filter out those forms,
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those life forms, that won't survive in that environment.
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And the life forms that have the correct natural DNA structure will eventually,
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over time, will start to change.
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And this is what we believe. We believe that there are changes within the human
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structure because it's built into the DNA code. It's not brand new information.
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So that culling mechanism allow the most fit to survive.
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Now, we understand that as, you know, survival of the fittest.
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The mistake that evolutionists make is that they think it's a creation process.
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Welcome back to The Immutable Word. Today we're tackling one of the,
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probably the most misunderstood concepts, and both on the Christian side and
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our understanding, as well as the evolutionary side.
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So, as you might have guessed, we're talking about evolution in general,
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more particularly around natural selection.
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And we're often taught that it's some sort of creative engine in evolution,
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or of evolution. So if you've ever gone to college or even in high school,
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you'll see that in the textbooks, and it's taught as fact.
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And that it takes millions of years, and again, it's described as some sort
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of magical creative force, and you just need, conveniently, a lot of time.
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So that's something that we're going to explore today, and also find that that
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particular narrative just doesn't hold up under some scrutiny.
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And we're also going to discuss why natural selection is actually a conservative
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culling mechanism designed by God to preserve created kinds rather than that
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creative force of change.
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So with that, when somebody or an evolutionist talks about natural selection,
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it really is a bait-and-switch argument, and you'll see this just all over the
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textbooks that you'll see out there today.
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But we're going to talk about, in reality, that it's part of special creation,
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and also we're to use the authority of Scripture like we usually do to break this down.
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Anyways, I know, Robert, you've been studying this for some time.
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I know you've read a lot of books about this particular topic.
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I know we're going to be focused on natural selection itself and its definition,
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and we're going to break it down from there.
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But I figured you could take it from the top and maybe help us break it down
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why that evolutionary model falls apart.
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Yeah, I wanted to, you know, we want, we're just as an introduction for everybody.
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We're going to, you know, we're going to do a few podcasts in another series.
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So we're starting a series called Science Falsely So-Called.
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So the first one we're doing is what we're doing today is natural selection.
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And it happens to be that natural selection and mutations are the two pillars
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those are the fundamental pillars.
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That evolution the theory of evolution is built upon and and really,
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i figured you know the best way to help a christian or a believer you know defend
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creation biblical creation and we do believe in a special creation immediate
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creation as described in the bible we'll go into that a little bit later.
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But, you know, we believe in six 24-hour days, not six epics of time.
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We don't believe in a, you know, theistic evolution. We don't believe that evolution
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was the mechanism that God used to create. We believe that when God spoke the
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worlds into existence, it happened immediately, instantaneously.
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We believe that God is the ultimate cause for the materialistic universe that we see, right?
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You had to have an immaterial creator somebody that was outside of time and
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space in order to create time and space,
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I don't think people understand that if I were you know today they did the the
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introduction or the launch of the or I mean yesterday actually the launch of the the new iFold,
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the iFold fold yeah the fold their fold it's all the rage yeah.
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But, you know, Steve Jobs is the one that he's the one that started Apple,
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right? And he invented it.
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And here's a simple way to describe how God is separate from creation,
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because we see that in the very first verse of the Bible.
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The first verse in the Bible is Genesis 1-1. And that's where we see the universe,
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the one verse of the creation of the universe is in the first verse.
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But it says God created. If he created it, he has to be separate from creation.
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So we reject pantheism, you know, we reject naturalism, we reject evolution, obviously.
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We believe that there's a special, unique, personal, immaterial,
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universal creator who is consistent and who is outside of our time domain who
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spoke the worlds into existence.
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And so with that being said, God had to bake in to his universe the scientific
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mechanisms that we see at play.
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So physics, biology, chemistry, all that stuff was put into place when God created.
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So we're six-day creationists, meaning that we believe that when God created
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the universe and he created man in the garden, it was 6,000 years ago.
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Because if you look at all the chronologies in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation,
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it's consistent with a 6,000-year earth, 6,000 years of human history.
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And whether you disagree with that or not, I mean, that's not the topic of today.
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But what we want to do is approach and compare the biblical concept or principle
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of special immediate creation—.
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With natural selection, because in all honesty, there's a lot of believers out
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there that reject natural selection.
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Because as soon as you say natural selection, they immediately assume evolution, right?
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If you say natural selection and mutations, because I believe that,
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you know, evolutionists have hijacked that form, that word, natural selection,
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and they've adopted it into their theory of naturalism. And we'll talk about that as well.
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So anyway, with that being said, And, you know, I remember when I was in high
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school, I think, you know, and this is actually what got me into apologetics was evolution.
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You know, when I first got saved, you know, there was all kinds of teachers
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and stuff that would debate me in school.
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And, you know, one of my nicknames in high school was Senator because I would
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always debate my teachers, you know.
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But because I would carry in a big old Bible to school and I'd put it right there on my desk.
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And I had, I don't know if you remember, well, you weren't in high school there
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in Del Rio. No, I think it was in kindergarten.
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My Latin teacher was Mrs. Love, and I took Latin 1 and Latin 2.
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Why, I don't know, but I think it was because I was into role-playing and gameplay,
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and I was really into Roman and Greek gods for some reason. It was before I
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got saved. Were you a dungeon master?
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Something like that. I don't know what that means anymore. But yeah.
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But the point is, is that when I was there, Mrs. Love happened to be,
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she professed to be a Christian, okay? Okay.
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But she told me, as soon as I went into class with a Bible, she goes,
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you don't really believe that God created the earth in six days, do you?
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And don't you know that, you know,
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passages like in Song of Solomon and Ecclesiastes, that's just poetry.
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Why does everybody take it literally? I mean, she said this in front of class in front of me.
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And of course, I didn't know how to answer it. So I got really, really frustrated.
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So one of the very first books I ever got in 10th grade, okay nor 11th grade
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11th grade or it was 10th grade yeah it was 10th grade somewhere around there
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it was around the end of 10th grade when i got saved.
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And i got josh mcdowell's evidence that demands a verdict that,
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was the first book i ever got and man i it was and that's a big book it's a
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you know close to a thousand pages but i devoured that book man because i was
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i really wanted to understand you know this whole,
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you know apologetics stuff i didn't know what apologetics was at the time,
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but I wanted to know how did it adequately defend the faith.
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And to me, the biggest opportunity was evolution versus creationism,
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because there was, obviously, there was, you know, professing Christians that
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believed in theistic evolution.
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They believed that God created the earth and the universe, but he used evolution
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as the process for it. So...
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It's pretty common though, isn't it? I mean, you probably come across quite a bit. Yeah.
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It's very common. Hugh Ross is an apologist that I studied, I'd followed for years,
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and come to find out he won't say theistic evolution, you know,
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but he, for all intense purposes, believes in long periods of time in order
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for things to evolve over time.
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So if you were to talk to an evolutionist, whether it was a secular evolutionist,
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or a theistic evolutionist, and you say, what is the process of evolution?
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How do simple forms eventually evolve into these complex biological forms we see today?
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And they'll say, well, it's easy. It's two things, natural selection and mutations.
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And so that started my journey. Like, okay, what is it about this natural selection thing?
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And I got introduced to, you know, ICR, like Institute for Creation Research, creation.com.
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Those are really two strong, you know, biblical, early, early Christian,
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or I say, I'm sorry, young earth creationist apologetic ministries.
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And I would recommend any of our listeners go to creation.com and bookmark that
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site because they have, I mean, almost 20,000 articles,
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on their website defending almost every attack or objection on biblical creation.
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Now, they're not King James only, so I will admit that up front.
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And that's the problem with a lot of these creation ministries,
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especially young earth creation. They're good. They're really great.
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Get really good information.
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But you just got to be careful when they start running to the Hebrew and the Greek.
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I don't think you need to. And I've been studying this long enough to know that,
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the King James Bible is adequate. It is sufficient as a final authority to defend
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young earth creationism without having to go to the Hebrew and Greek.
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So anyway, all that being said, basically in modern debate today,
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you know, the secularists,
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and the evolutionists and the materialists, they're going to always use the
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concept of natural selection as the premier engine of evolutionary progress.
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Okay. So what we want to do is just kind of go through it. We want to look at
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what the Bible says about special immediate creation and how natural selection
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actually complements biblical creation.
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It's not antagonistic to it.
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So one of the authors that, and this is not just creation.com or Institute for
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Creation Research, but also the Biblical Science Institute, which is hosted by Dr. Jason Lyle.
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And Jason Lyle, Dr. Lyle, I mean, he's not King James, but I respect a lot of
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his argumentation because he is a presuppositionalist,
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as far as an apologist is concerned, but he's also a credentialed physics.
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I was going to say physician, but he's a physicist. I'm sorry, a physicist.
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But he's a credentialed physicist. He actually has a legitimate doctorate,
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I think is from Colorado University.
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I can't remember. I think it's Colorado University or something like that.
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But anyway, the reason why, and people, if you know anything about,
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especially some of our listeners, if they've ever been to the Ark,
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you know, the Creation Ark, the one they rebuilt the Ark there in Kentucky.
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Yeah, in Kentucky. And the Creation Museum there in Kentucky.
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Jason Lyle's the one that actually developed their astronomy.
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A lot of the astronomy presentations and stuff like that.
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And so he's the one that put that together. And he also, I think there's a documentary
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that you use for, there's a room that you go into and it's like one of those
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IMAX type theater things.
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And then the video they do on astronomy, I think he's the one that actually
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wrote that and authored it.
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And he also was a writer for both ICR and creation.com for a lot of their apologetics.
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So he's a legitimate physicist.
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He understands, matter of fact, he's written his doctorate has to do, I think it was with.
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You know, space light, light travel, or speed of light. Not speed of light,
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it's something along the lines of starlight.
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And so he's very, you know, adept at that and very trained and informed in that.
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Well, he also wrote a book called The Ultimate Proof for Creation,
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which is another book I would highly recommend that believers get because he makes,
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a very strong argument for creation and he shows the inadequacy of the materialistic
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worldview and what he shows and this is kind of like the basis of this series
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is that what people think is scientific evolution for example
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is actually a philosophy of natural naturalistic a naturalistic philosophy of
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science it has nothing to do with science at all so that's what we wanted to
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do is is start this series on science falsely so-called,
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to show you and demonstrate that the creationist and the biblical,
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you know, the biblical reader, the biblical Christian, the one that stands on
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the authority of the Bible actually has more of a scientific grounding than
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the evolutionists ever would.
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So we'll talk about some of that stuff. But anyway, today it's just literally
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looking at natural selection because this is the ground and pillar of the evolutionary philosophy.
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The other one would be mutations and we'll cover on the next episode.
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We'll cover mutations. So.
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Natural selection, and here's the irony that Dr. Lyle kind of pointed out,
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natural selection is not the engine of Darwinian evolution.
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Rather, it's the conservative culling mechanism, God designed that operates
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in direct opposition to evolution.
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So when we say culling, that means that whenever you cull a group or herd,
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what you're doing is you're filtering out the mechanisms and,
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you know, the biological organisms that will not survive.
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Okay. So for example, if you went to the Arctic and you brought a bunch of short-haired
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dogs, eventually the short-haired dogs will die, right? Because of freezing to death.
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Right. They have no ability to survive on their own or they don't have the physical
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necessity of long hair to, you know, warm their bodies and insulate themselves.
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It's like you try to put a brown bear up in the Arctic or, you know,
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an Arctic bear down south or something like that.
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Yeah, they'll die because of their environment. However...
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What we find out is that God actually instilled into every living form or kind
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in the Bible the ability to basically,
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pre-select its DNA to recode its body to survive in certain environments.
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So the culling mechanism just means that God will filter out those forms,
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those life forms, that won't survive in that environment.
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And the life forms that have the correct natural DNA structure will eventually,
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over time, will start to change.
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And this is what we believe. We believe that there are changes within the human
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structure because it's built into the DNA code. It's not brand new information.
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So that culling mechanism, it's supposed to be there to survive,
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allow the most fit to survive.
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Now, we understand that as, you know, survival of the fittest.
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But the mistake that evolutionists make is that they think it's a creation process,
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right? So we'll talk about that.
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We're going to cover basically four main arguments, okay?
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So, number one is what's the true definition and creationist origins of this,
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concept of natural selection? And we'll define it.
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Then number two will be deconstructing the evolutionary misconceptions and their
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flawed arguments about natural selection.
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And then number three, the biblical rebuttal and the special creation proofs
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that the Christian should write down in their Bible and be ready to defend against
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the evolutionary arguments that they hear.
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And then number four is basically we'll summarize it and conclude that evolution
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as naturalism is not a science at all.
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So those are the four sections that we want to cover. Any thoughts, Alan?
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I think that's a great way to set the stage and foundation. As you mentioned, this is a series.
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And as with anything, when we start talking about stuff, it can go fairly deep.
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But I think that breaking it up into bite-sized pieces that it's easy to digest
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is a good way to go about it. So, I think the most obvious, though,
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is natural selection because that's what most people hear.
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And they immediately attribute it to, oh, that's, from a Christian's point of
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view, oh, you're talking about evolution and they automatically dismiss it.
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You don't want to do that, right? So, I think that's what we're going to emphasize
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here as we go through this, that it actually comes from Darwin stole it.
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Right. Do you remember when we did the apologetic stuff, right?
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One of the first rules that we had to set up was, you know, make sure that you
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define your terms, right?
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Because if you don't define the terms properly, you're going to talk past one another.
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And there's going to be a lot of misconceptions and straw men arguments,
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right? So it's important to define your terms.
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So right and i would say you know as a christian,
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you know you don't even have to engage a lot of times in some arguments until
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you force your opponent to define what they're talking about yeah and it's simple
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you just got to define exactly what it is that you're talking about so,
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what hey alan why don't you give us some of the questions you can ask to help define those terms,
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What do you mean by natural selection? That's it. That's it.
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That's simple. So this episode is dedicated to Mrs. Love. That's right.
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Hopefully she's listening.
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She actually passed away several years ago. My bad, sorry. I felt bad.
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I mean, she was a nice teacher.
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I want to, you know, I feel bad. I didn't mean disrespect there.
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And maybe one of these days I could tell the horrible story of what I did.
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I caused her to hyperventilate and lay down in the hallway. You were a terrible
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person back then too. So yeah, you can ask our other brother, Eric.
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He'll attest to it. He still has scars today to prove it. Yeah.
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Physical and mental scars.
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That's it. That's it. We'll bring him on for an interview. We need to.
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We need to do that. Honestly. He's an interesting guy.
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Yep. Eric, we like you. Hopefully you're listening. I love you,
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man, because you're my brother.
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All right. So let's talk about the definitions here, right?
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Again, to avoid talking past opponents or falling into logical traps,
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we need to establish what natural selection actually is.
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Because once you understand the actual definition of it, you'll know when somebody
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conflates or somebody equivocates, somebody changes the definition.
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So here's the Merriam-Webster definition of natural selection.
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It says, it's a natural process that results in the survival and reproductive
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success of individuals or groups best adjusted to their environment,
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and that leads to the perpetuation of genetic qualities best suited to that
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particular environment.
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And that's it. So here it is.
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Again, a natural process that results in the survival and reproductive success
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of individuals or groups best adjusted to their environment.
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And that leads to the perpetuation of.
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Of genetic qualities best suited to their particular environment. That's it.
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Natural selection is a selective process, right?
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So in simple terms, it's the principle that organisms possessing traits well-suited
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to their environment. So long hair, for example, right?
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The ability to breathe underwater, you know, that would be a trait that would
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allow something to survive, You know, something that can survive in harsh environments.
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Like, for example, that moth that Darwin had proposed because it was moths that
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had started developing spots.
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They were white moths, and eventually they started developing dark spots,
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and they could hide in their environment so they weren't open to predators.
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So that's what we mean by organisms possessing traits well-suited to their environment,
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and tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers than those that do not.
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In extreme cases, obviously, the poorly suited are driven to extinction.
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So you can imagine you have a very dark, camouflaged environment,
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and you have these bright white moths flying all over the place.
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Man, they would be a buffet to any bird that flew by. You know what I'm saying?
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But if the moths were able to hide and camouflage themselves from predators,
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then they have a greater, you know, percentage of survivability. That's it.
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That's what natural selection does. Yeah. It is.
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Just a quick question here. What are your thoughts on the term natural selection itself?
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I mean, does nature really select anything? Well, yeah. And that would,
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you know, it's not nature selecting.
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It's a natural selection. So I know there is sometimes there could be an equivocation there as well.
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But nature doesn't select anything because if you're doing that,
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you're presupposing that nature has the ability to make an intelligent decision.
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Yeah. Great answer. We didn't script that. so.
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Here's the analytic truth right so natural selection is what logicians call
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an analytic truth it's a principle that by that is true by definition like saying water is wet,
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so when we define fittest we define the fittest as those organisms most capable
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of surviving and reproducing,
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in a given environment therefore the phrase survival of the fittest translates
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literally to Survivor Survive, right?
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And then to deny that survivors survive is obviously logically absurd.
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Consequently, believing Christians should not deny the physical reality of natural selection.
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It is a highly observable and repeatable scientific fact.
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And this is where I think a lot of Christians fall flat on their face when they
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are, you know, attacked by an evolutionist.
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Because the evolutionists say, well, natural selection happens all the time.
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So if you reject natural selection, then what you're doing is you're rejecting
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a viable, reproducible, and observable scientific phenomenon.
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So you look like an idiot, basically.
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They don't know it's credible. That's it. That's why as an analytic truth,
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we're just saying that it is a true thing by definition.
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So just like saying water is wet, the sky is blue, or whatever it is, right?
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You know, we can breathe air. Those are analytic truths that are absolutely 100% true.
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Okay. So here's the other thing that's crazy. Okay.
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Most people assume that Charles Darwin invented the concept of natural selection.
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But in reality, a few years before Darwin even published The Origin of the Species,
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there was a creationist, biblical creationist scientist named Edward Blythe,
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who articulated and published the concept in 1835, more than 20 years before
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Darwin published On Origin of the Species.
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And Blythe's perspective, Edward Blythe's perspective, he saw natural selection
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as a conservative force of divine providence
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he argued that god created organisms perfectly adapted to their original environments
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in a post-fall degraded world natural selection acts as a quality control filter,
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culling defective variation so culling just means killing off the defect the
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defective variations and preserving this preserving the stable typical characters
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of each created kind That's what he believed. That was his theory.
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And Darwin misappropriated the term.
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He took Blythe's observable conservative culling mechanism and attempted to
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turn it into an active creative force,
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that could drive one kind of organism to transform into an entirely different
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kind over the process of millions of years.
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This is the foundational error of modern evolutionary theory.
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And so that's why you're going to run into a lot of evolutionists will say natural
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selection, natural selection, natural selection.
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Because if you say, well, what is the, what is the driving engine?
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What is the proof of evolution? And they'll say natural selection, buddy.
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And then you'll, you'll get the ignorant Christian that goes,
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no, there's no such thing as natural selection. That's false.
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You know, the fool has said in his heart, there is no God. You might at that
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point, if that's your answer and your response, I would just.
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Just bow out. Yeah. You're better to be seen than heard at that point.
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That's why you got to study. That's it. But, but it's, but again,
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I think it's really important for our listeners to understand that Charles Darwin
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didn't, he didn't invent the concept of natural selection.
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A biblical creationist did.
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That's why we're trying to tell you natural selection is not the enemy of the
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Bible. Natural selection is in support of the Bible.
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The Bible is the final authority, but guess what? God's word and God's world will never contradict.
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So what we see in nature is exactly what we will see emulated or reinforced in scripture.
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So that first section was, you know, we're trying to define it and showing where
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the actual origins of the concept of natural selection came from.
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So the second set of arguments is we're going to deconstruct the evolutionary
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misconceptions and the flawed arguments surrounding natural selection, okay?
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So evolutionists, they frequently, again, employ a series of flawed arguments,
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surprise, surprise, and scientific arguments to portray natural selection as
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a creative force, right?
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And what we mean is that they're trying to say, when we say,
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where did all life come from? They say natural selection.
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And we'll kind of highlight the flaws around that thinking.
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When you say, well, you know, where did all life come from? Well,
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that's easy, natural selection and mutations.
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And again it's the natural selection is not capable of designing complex life
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we just said just like blithe edward blithe's perspective was it was a conservative
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force of divine providence
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and that that these these created organisms were perfectly adapted to their original environments,
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and what he believed was that natural selection was a quality control filter
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culling defective variations. That's it.
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All it was doing was allowing the survivors to survive, right?
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So let's look at, we're going to look at four misconceptions,
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okay, that are part of this argument of natural selection being a,
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you know, a creative action or a creative force.
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So the misconception one, natural selection is a creative force.
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Okay? That meaning that it subtracts versus it's an additive.
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So there's, you know, that it actually adds information. It actually adds and
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creates things from nothing, okay?
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So the flaw, here's the flaw. The evolutionists were right that natural selection
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fashioned wings for flight or sculpted the human eye.
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And obviously, this is a biological impossibility. Natural selection has zero creative power.
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It does not generate new traits, nor does it alter an individual organism's DNA.
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In reality natural selection is a subtractive process it only removes unfit
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organisms and their corresponding genes from a population,
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so to for particles to people evolution to occur
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there must be massive increases in brand new genetic information
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like for example to write a code for comp you know complex eyes or bones or
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organs that single cell microbes lack you need In order for us, it's here's an analogy
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that, you know, us computer guys would know, right?
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If you write a program, right, or a script for a program, or we code a program,
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you know, in order for us to add any kind of features to that program,
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we have to actually add information.
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The program doesn't create the information on its own.
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Yeah, you have to have a mind behind it, a design and an intent.
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Right. And you have to actually add the additional information into it.
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The additional information to write the code or to create the program doesn't
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magically appear out of nothing.
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It's the same concept. So natural selection, again, it's a subtractive process.
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It's not a creative process.
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It's not adding new information. It's not, you know, increasing brand new genetic information.
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What natural selection can only do is decrease or eliminate genetic information
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as unfit genes are eliminated.
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You cannot make a profit by constantly losing money.
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And you cannot build new biological systems by constantly culling existing genes.
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So natural selection is not a creative force. Okay.
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And this is why, you know, as a Christian, when somebody goes,
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oh, natural selection, well, you say, well, can you describe one biological
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organism that natural selection created from zero.
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When it had no information and that it actually invented a biological organism
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or the complexity was introduced into a simple organism by the method of natural selection?
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Doesn't exist. Yeah. You know, that's another form of after,
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what do you mean by natural selection is asking, how did you come to that conclusion?
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So the burden of proof is on them to explain how this is happening.
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Or if they say, oh, well, natural selection, well, can you define what that means?
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Well, you know, it creates, it created life or introduced complexity in life.
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Well, what do you mean by that?
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Or can you describe how that process works exactly? Yeah. Explain to me how
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natural selection, which is just as a selective process, it's not an inventive process.
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Natural selection literally in its own term means it's selecting information that's already there.
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And in this case, it's culling it out. It's filtering it out.
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It's removing unfit genes so it can fit in into an environment.
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It's not inventing new information.
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This is the problem. And this is scientifically laboratory tested and proved
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natural selection will never invent new information.
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Matter of fact, I would say, and I would argue, as one preacher said,
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if you can create life in a laboratory, you just stole the original product
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from God because he's the only one that's ever done it.
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And you have to do it in a lab. It doesn't happen naturally.
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Yeah. And nobody's been able to do this in a lab, by the way.
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Right. No one's been able to create anything new.
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They've not to go nuts to skip ahead, but outside of the kinds,
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nothing has never been done in terms of something new created. Right.
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So that's, that's the idea. And it kind of goes into misconception too,
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which is survival of the fittest explains, and this is the misconception,
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survival of the fittest explains the arrival of the fittest.
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So evolutionists you know evolutionists they sort of cite the survival of a
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well-adapted organism as proof that an organism came to exist that's,
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there's a problem with that because natural selection again doesn't explain
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how the fittest arrived it just explains how the fittest was called from a a
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weaker population that's all it is,
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it doesn't explain how the population came about in the first place.
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Okay. So if you have short-haired dogs and long-haired dogs in a cold environment,
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your long-haired dogs are eventually going to outlive and reproduce the short-haired dogs.
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But it doesn't explain how the dogs got there in the first place.
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So survival of the fittest doesn't explain the arrival of the fittest.
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And here's the reality of it.
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Natural selection explains why poorly suited organisms do not exist in a given environment.
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It does not explain why the well-suited organisms do exist in the first place.
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It has absolutely no effect on the probability of a favorable trait arising.
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Furthermore, natural selection cannot operate until self-replicating competing
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organisms already exist.
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So it's completely useless for explaining the chemical origin of the first living
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cell. Natural selection can't do that.
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It's very limited in its scope.
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So the fact that when somebody tells you, oh, evolution happens and the proof
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of it is natural selection, you better tell that person to slow their roll.
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Like, wait a minute, before we get any further, you're going to have to help
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me understand some things here. Because it sounds like you don't have a good
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understanding of how science operates.
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Because in in true in chemical science biological science it doesn't matter
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which science you're looking at natural selection never never never never never never,
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explains the origin of the first living cell it can't yeah,
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and so yeah go ahead no go ahead i lost my thought.
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You gotta find it man find your thought it's the natural selection of my brain
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cells i was gonna say you You culled it. You culled it out.
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You culled the weak thoughts out. It's like, you know, it's like the process
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within itself. Like, yeah, that's stupid. Don't even ask it.
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And then it makes me forget it.
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So anyway. So yeah.
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So misconception to survival of the fittest explains the arrival of the fittest.
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No, it does not. It does not explain it.
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It cannot explain it. And again, by trying to use that argument,
00:36:23.583 --> 00:36:27.501
what you're doing is misdefining natural selection. Okay.
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Misconception three this is alan's favorite and this is the fall fallacy of
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the synoctochie and synoctochie is,
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s-y-n-e-c-d-o-c-h-e and a synoctochie is simply it's a grammatical you know
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usage uh you know of kind of like a,
00:36:46.642 --> 00:36:52.338
it's referring to grammatic structure in itself yeah yeah and so so what it is is you're using a part,
00:36:52.872 --> 00:36:56.942
to represent the whole so we were talking about this earlier before the episode,
00:36:56.942 --> 00:37:01.462
but like, say, for example, you say, well, you know, the crown authorized that,
00:37:01.462 --> 00:37:05.822
you know, tactical strategy in Iraq, the crown, meaning what we,
00:37:06.502 --> 00:37:08.842
were referring to is we're using a part of.
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The UK government, the crown, the queen or the king.
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And we're saying that they authorized the attack on Iraq, or we could say the
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White House, authorize this attack.
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And what we mean is the current administration.
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So it's when you use the part of something to explain the whole thing.
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So what they do in evolutionary speak is when pressed, evolutionists will admit
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that natural selection cannot create anything.
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So in popular writing and textbooks, they'll use natural selection,
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the phrase natural selection as a synecdoche, using a part to represent the
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whole, to mean mutations and natural selection over time.
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So by doing so, they're deceptively transferring the imagined creative power
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of mutations to the culling process of selection.
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Remember, natural selection means it's just selecting and culling out the weaker
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biological forms that will not survive a given environment, right?
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It's a culling and it's not mutations and mutations is not natural selection.
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So this is a form, a fallacy that we call equivocation.
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They're changing the meaning of natural selection.
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And then taking one of those two pillars, the two pillars being natural selection
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and mutations, and they're making natural selection the entire process,
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both natural selection and mutations.
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So the reality is they're splitting
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the mechanism or they're taking the mechanism and combining them.
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But if you split the mechanism, it exposes the bottleneck here.
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So mutations, and we're going to go into the next series on the next episode,
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we'll go deeper into mutations, but mutations are merely copying mistakes.
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It's informational noise or static in the DNA software.
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It's as if you were writing a code and you got an error.
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You tried to run your program, your code, and it came back with an error because
00:39:15.168 --> 00:39:19.248
somewhere in your programming, you fat fingered something, right?
00:39:19.248 --> 00:39:23.578
You put in a wrong code or, you know, you put in, you know, an octothorpe or
00:39:23.578 --> 00:39:26.918
a pound symbol where you shouldn't have, or you put a space where you weren't
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supposed to put a space and it didn't read it correctly right that's a mutation,
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Mutation is not beneficial, by the way. And again, we will go deeper into that in the next episode.
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But observed mutations overwhelmingly scramble, reduce, or destroy existing
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genetic instructions, resulting in disease or sterility or something along those lines.
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They've never been observed to add copious amounts of brand new specified genetic information.
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And this is the problem with both natural selection and genetic mutations.
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Or mutations in general, is that it cannot add good, beneficial information to a living structure.
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And that's what, in order for you to go from, you know, molecules to man evolution, right?
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Fish to man evolution. In order for that to happen, you need to add massive amounts,
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of information to write into the code so that your DNA knows what to produce,
00:40:34.129 --> 00:40:37.212
you know, what color, you know, you want to produce an additional eye.
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Do you want to produce the complexity in the structure of that eye and so forth and so on?
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So if you don't have that, because DNA, you know, is the instructions to create
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proteins and proteins is the basis of all life.
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And what if you have an error in the DNA code it doesn't result in a stronger organism,
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it's interesting isn't it that the the narrative behind it is that man is getting
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better they are evolving to,
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their better best state but how can that be true if their position their argument
00:41:12.232 --> 00:41:13.862
with through natural selection is that.
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This is how things get better when it's it's never adding any more information,
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or anything new i mean that there you go.
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And the thing is, is the way that natural selection and mutations work together.
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So mutations, again, are copying errors, right? They're problems in the code.
00:41:32.810 --> 00:41:38.445
But what happens is natural selection just filters out the most destructive of those genetic bugs.
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That's all natural selection does. They don't complement each other in creating
00:41:42.690 --> 00:41:45.759
new information or more complex organisms.
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That has never been witnessed. You know what it kind of sounds like?
00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:55.060
Because we both have a background in tech, is when somebody writes code and
00:41:55.060 --> 00:41:59.371
they're making corrections, they're often debugging the code.
00:42:00.620 --> 00:42:04.280
That's a process that we use. That's a process. These people,
00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:06.436
the coders, they go and they call the code.
00:42:08.375 --> 00:42:14.870
Or bugs are introduced on purpose for destructive purposes. Yes, that's right.
00:42:15.503 --> 00:42:20.320
So that's another thing people need to understand. Again, if you have any concept
00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:25.540
of information theory, and this is why natural selection, or natural selection,
00:42:25.540 --> 00:42:29.824
but evolution, the evolutionary theory, especially Darwinian evolution,
00:42:30.500 --> 00:42:36.200
is under such great attack today, and their arguments are really growing weaker
00:42:36.200 --> 00:42:38.594
and weaker, is because of information theory.
00:42:39.151 --> 00:42:43.110
Because once you understand the complexity of information theory and that all
00:42:43.110 --> 00:42:47.638
living things need a genetic code, and when you code something,
00:42:48.184 --> 00:42:50.738
what you're presupposing is an intelligence.
00:42:51.405 --> 00:42:56.415
Because code doesn't happen on accident by itself through random chance.
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Because somebody on purpose, you know, deliberately put information in because
00:43:03.030 --> 00:43:06.677
they wanted a desired result. So that's engineering. That's,
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you know, that's programming at the heart of programming, right? So. Yep, that's it.
00:43:12.134 --> 00:43:15.866
So misconception three is the fallacy of the synecdoche.
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I want everybody to learn how to say that word and use it in a sentence this week. Synecdoche.
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Say it five times fast. Synecdoche. Don't think about it.
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Synecdoche times five. That's the way I do that.
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All right. So misconception four, flawed computer simulations.
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I love this, you know, information stuff, man.
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So, you know, so if you were to say the phrase, the to be or not to be,
00:43:39.692 --> 00:43:43.702
we're going to call the to be or not to be fallacy, and you were to put that
00:43:44.002 --> 00:43:48.478
phrase, to be or not to be, together with no spaces between the letters.
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So T-O-B-E-O-R-N-O-T-T-O-B-E, to be or not to be.
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And you'll understand this in just a second. So the flaw is to prove selection,
00:43:59.589 --> 00:44:01.915
can build complexity rapidly.
00:44:02.270 --> 00:44:06.462
And again, we say rapidly because it's tongue in cheek, because the basis of
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evolution is time. That's the hero of evolution.
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Anything can happen over billions of years.
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They say, well, it's impossible to go from a simplex organism to a complex organism.
00:44:17.387 --> 00:44:20.819
They go, ah, but if you had a billion years, it's possible.
00:44:21.138 --> 00:44:25.322
Super convenient. Yeah. Cause that's, that's a very scientific statement, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:26.437 --> 00:44:28.302
Just give it time. It'll work itself out. Just give it time,
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man. Come on. It'll work itself out.
00:44:29.733 --> 00:44:32.572
And you know, they're, they're, one of their, their favorite arguments against
00:44:32.572 --> 00:44:36.904
Christians is, you know, that we, we, uh, we commit the God of the gaps fallacy.
00:44:37.241 --> 00:44:42.838
That if we can't understand something, we just insert God to explain the gap. They just insert time.
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That's it. It's the time of the gaps fallacy because they just,
00:44:46.862 --> 00:44:50.256
all they have to do is they can't explain something. They just add time to it.
00:44:50.570 --> 00:44:54.022
And, and, you know, I know they're going to, I know we're going to, you know, if there is,
00:44:54.702 --> 00:44:59.392
you know, a quote unquote scientific person listening to us or somebody that
00:44:59.392 --> 00:45:03.722
is evolutionary and thought, I know they're going to say we're oversimplifying
00:45:03.722 --> 00:45:08.102
the argument, but at the end of the day, I don't care how much,
00:45:08.802 --> 00:45:10.892
how many vocabulary words you want to throw at it.
00:45:11.659 --> 00:45:17.737
That is the simple conclusion, is that you just have to add time to fill in
00:45:17.737 --> 00:45:19.612
the gap. That's it. That's all you're doing.
00:45:19.990 --> 00:45:25.857
Because the bottom line is, again, you cannot prove that natural selection or
00:45:25.857 --> 00:45:29.501
mutations produces information. So this is how they do it, okay?
00:45:30.500 --> 00:45:35.077
So in order to prove that you can build complexity rapidly, immediately,
00:45:35.077 --> 00:45:41.774
evolutionists will use computer programs or models that randomly generate letters.
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And if a letter randomly lands in the correct spot to spell a Shakespearean
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phrase like to be or not to be, the program locks that letter in place and then
00:45:52.387 --> 00:45:55.259
continues to scramble the rest.
00:45:55.532 --> 00:45:58.937
And so they'll show, all you got to do is just let it run. And we'll just let
00:45:58.937 --> 00:46:04.390
this program run for, you know, 72 hours, you know, 190 hours.
00:46:05.334 --> 00:46:10.175
And then eventually, just through randomly cycling through all these letters,
00:46:10.791 --> 00:46:14.627
every time it finds a letter to put into the phrase, because we want to spell
00:46:14.627 --> 00:46:18.429
to be or not to be, it'll throw that letter in there and lock it in place.
00:46:19.045 --> 00:46:21.557
And you say, well, you know, that could take years. Well, yeah,
00:46:21.557 --> 00:46:28.064
but if it took 10 years, it still randomly created that phrase to be or not to be. No, you didn't.
00:46:29.557 --> 00:46:33.547
And here's the reality of that is that it's a false analogy because there's
00:46:33.547 --> 00:46:36.342
no parallel process like that in nature.
00:46:37.003 --> 00:46:42.807
Nothing in nature operates like a computer program that was predisposed and
00:46:42.807 --> 00:46:46.308
pre-programmed and pre-written by an engineer.
00:46:46.888 --> 00:46:52.753
And it has to have some pre-knowledge of what phrase to look for.
00:46:53.518 --> 00:46:56.777
That's right. How do we know it makes sense? Yeah. Right.
00:46:57.594 --> 00:47:01.727
There's there's got to be it's a cognitive process, because if you're trying
00:47:01.727 --> 00:47:06.591
to program a phrase, you have to have understanding of the phrase. Right.
00:47:06.882 --> 00:47:11.457
Cognition of the phrase. There's got to be I can't remember the the the wording
00:47:11.457 --> 00:47:15.727
for it, but there's got to be an understanding of the word or the phrase or
00:47:15.727 --> 00:47:18.753
the vocabulary to know it makes sense.
00:47:19.055 --> 00:47:21.307
Otherwise, you're just scrambling a bunch of letters together.
00:47:21.307 --> 00:47:23.385
Right. Well, that takes a mind to do that.
00:47:24.012 --> 00:47:27.409
So there needs to be consensus of information.
00:47:27.961 --> 00:47:33.096
So anyway, this is a false analogy because, again, there's no parallel in nature
00:47:33.259 --> 00:47:35.168
that will operate like that program.
00:47:35.796 --> 00:47:41.251
There's an assumption. And so, for example, the computer program has to be pre-programmed,
00:47:41.781 --> 00:47:45.142
to a targeted goal for the very start. Natural selection has no mind,
00:47:45.438 --> 00:47:46.971
no goal, or no foresight.
00:47:47.624 --> 00:47:53.757
But the program has a mind behind it, has a goal behind it, and has foresight
00:47:53.757 --> 00:47:57.400
of whoever the programmer is. It doesn't happen naturally.
00:47:58.098 --> 00:48:02.435
And if it did, what you'd be describing is Genesis 1.1. Okay?
00:48:03.351 --> 00:48:09.113
Yeah, we can't have that, can we? So number two, and again, this is why it's
00:48:09.113 --> 00:48:10.706
a false analogy, the program.
00:48:11.154 --> 00:48:17.381
The program preserves letters that are currently useless, but will become useful later.
00:48:17.688 --> 00:48:24.530
True natural selection only selects for immediate survival in the present, not down the road.
00:48:25.123 --> 00:48:28.643
It's not going to say, oh, you know what? Eventually, this form is going to
00:48:28.643 --> 00:48:31.793
need an eyeball in the next 10 million years.
00:48:32.014 --> 00:48:36.213
So we're going to go ahead and start selectively, you know, culling out those
00:48:36.213 --> 00:48:39.724
traits that would destroy the vision of the eyeball.
00:48:40.119 --> 00:48:41.924
No, no, that's not how it works.
00:48:42.481 --> 00:48:47.154
Natural selection will work over usually within a single generation.
00:48:47.839 --> 00:48:52.833
So the short-haired dog, long-haired dog, you take a generation.
00:48:52.833 --> 00:48:55.607
Let's just say a generation is 30 to 40 years, right?
00:48:56.170 --> 00:49:01.493
It would be 30 to 40 years if you brought in a whole bunch of dogs with different
00:49:01.493 --> 00:49:06.880
variations of hair lengths to where 30 or 40 years later, all you would have is long-haired dogs.
00:49:07.534 --> 00:49:12.013
Because natural selection would naturally cull out the weaker dogs that cannot
00:49:12.013 --> 00:49:13.194
survive that environment.
00:49:13.881 --> 00:49:15.228
Tell me that doesn't make sense.
00:49:15.973 --> 00:49:20.913
Why does this make sense to us as Christians? But yet we're the ones that are
00:49:20.913 --> 00:49:27.197
said that we're superstitious and we believe in some fake god in the sky it's a logical captain.
00:49:29.147 --> 00:49:34.173
Frustrating yeah it is so so here's another the third reason why this is a false
00:49:34.173 --> 00:49:36.630
analogy the whole program to be or not to be,
00:49:37.274 --> 00:49:43.213
if a reptile were evolving into a bird the immediate the intermediate half-formed
00:49:43.213 --> 00:49:45.433
features would be actively
00:49:45.793 --> 00:49:52.103
harmful a half scale half feather would hinder running and climbing without
00:49:52.103 --> 00:49:56.361
allowing flight, making it a bad leg before a good wing.
00:49:56.785 --> 00:50:02.063
Natural selection would immediately eliminate such a transitional form rather
00:50:02.063 --> 00:50:05.452
than waiting around for millions of years for the rest of the wing to form.
00:50:06.370 --> 00:50:10.399
That's the process of natural selection. I mean, it's like, try building a plane
00:50:10.399 --> 00:50:13.460
like that today. Right. Half a wing.
00:50:13.977 --> 00:50:18.157
Yeah, half a wing. You wouldn't get very far. Yeah, you don't build things in flight.
00:50:18.813 --> 00:50:21.721
And I would never test that out. I would never test that theory out.
00:50:22.568 --> 00:50:26.626
Yeah. Hey, welcome, ladies and gentlemen. We're in the process of eventually,
00:50:26.806 --> 00:50:30.063
over the next 150 years, building the perfect plane that will fly.
00:50:30.243 --> 00:50:33.479
So right now, all we have is a propeller. Yeah. One propeller,
00:50:33.479 --> 00:50:37.469
no wing, but we have a propeller. and it's sitting here in the cockpit with us.
00:50:38.129 --> 00:50:42.109
Yeah. Enjoy your flight. Would anybody like some peanuts? Anyway.
00:50:42.109 --> 00:50:45.405
If you feel some slight turbulence, don't mind it. Just stay buckle.
00:50:45.835 --> 00:50:50.473
So there was a great, I heard a great analogy about this, this concept, right?
00:50:51.189 --> 00:50:54.559
Of partial. And we're going to eventually, we're going to cover something called
00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:58.222
irreducible complexity, but partial complexity, right?
00:50:58.872 --> 00:51:04.529
And I said, imagine you have these, you know, ancient worms that had no eyes,
00:51:04.529 --> 00:51:07.694
no features, There's no mouth, but over time,
00:51:08.251 --> 00:51:14.607
over the next two to 3 million years, it starts developing an eye so it can see, right?
00:51:14.758 --> 00:51:17.910
It can see its enemy, for example, a bird swooping down to kill it.
00:51:18.969 --> 00:51:24.009
But over the next million years, it's just going to form and it's going to evolve
00:51:24.009 --> 00:51:27.204
black spots that will eventually become eyeballs. Okay.
00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:35.297
So let's just say you have these worms and you have another population of worms
00:51:35.297 --> 00:51:40.037
that have half evolved eyeballs, but you can't, they're just black spots on the body.
00:51:40.377 --> 00:51:42.452
They serve no function and no purpose.
00:51:42.962 --> 00:51:46.457
And they're basically still relatively blind. They can't see anything.
00:51:47.026 --> 00:51:51.507
That population would be destroyed and eliminated by its predators before it
00:51:51.507 --> 00:51:53.017
evolved into the next phase.
00:51:54.817 --> 00:52:02.253
It's logically absurd To think about this Slow process of evolution Surviving,
00:52:02.747 --> 00:52:06.427
And matching natural selection Natural selection And the way that God designed
00:52:06.427 --> 00:52:08.823
it Is that population Would naturally call out,
00:52:09.897 --> 00:52:14.679
They would eliminate themselves Within a generation That's right I mean.
00:52:15.904 --> 00:52:22.382
You start thinking through it You start seeing it being reduced To absurdity Right In terms of logic,
00:52:23.062 --> 00:52:27.991
so so this this these four misconceptions natural selection is a creative force,
00:52:28.625 --> 00:52:32.537
survival of fittest explains doesn't explain the arrival of the fittest,
00:52:33.085 --> 00:52:37.447
and the synecdoche the bait and switch the equivocation of natural selection
00:52:37.447 --> 00:52:42.347
and mutation and then the flawed computer simulation all show that,
00:52:42.817 --> 00:52:46.747
there's a bunch of misconceptions and fault flawed arguments around trying to
00:52:46.747 --> 00:52:52.017
explain what natural selection is it doesn't adequately explain it matter of
00:52:52.017 --> 00:52:54.377
It's based off of a lot of false,
00:52:55.217 --> 00:52:58.601
assumptions and presumptions, unfortunately, flawed arguments.
00:52:59.348 --> 00:53:03.967
Hi, Alan here. We are having a bit of an intermission with this episode,
00:53:03.967 --> 00:53:09.137
and we wanted to split this one into two parts just because it went pretty long
00:53:09.137 --> 00:53:12.537
and there's a lot of information in this episode. And so we want to break it
00:53:12.537 --> 00:53:14.247
up into more bite-sized.
00:53:14.682 --> 00:53:18.497
So not to worry, we have the second part that's going to be published the following week.
00:53:18.497 --> 00:53:22.017
So keep an eye out for that. And then following that in this series,
00:53:22.017 --> 00:53:26.187
we're going to also have mutations. So another great one to look forward to.
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So we appreciate you listening. Thank you for your support. And we'll see you on the next one.