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Upside down map
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Sarfati
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Chess Pix
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Lewontin: bias against Creator
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Lewontin: bias against Creator
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 Don’t confuse me
with the facts …
  • ‘Even if all the data point to an intelligent designer, such an hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic.’
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 Evidence for Design?
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Jumbo jet in a junkyard?
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Enormous complexity of the Cell
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Feathers and scales
(magnified 20 times)
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Could feathers evolve?
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Bird and reptile lungs
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Bird and reptile lungs
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Bat sonar
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Bats:
No evolution!
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Bat sonar:
Volume control
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Dolphin sonar
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Dolphin sonar: no evolution!
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Gecko’s sticky feet
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Lobster’s unique eye
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X-ray beam:
Lobster eye in reverse!
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Brittlestars
Entire skeleton forms one big compound eye
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Joanna Aizenberg,
lead researcher
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Venus flower basket
Superb fibre-optics
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More design
  • Trilobite eye: looks like it was ‘designed by a master physicist’.  Allegedly 500 million years old.
  • Dragonflies track other insects so that they appear stationary.  An aeroplane would need bulky computer equipment to do that.
  • Spider silk: stronger by weight than steel and kevlar.   Made by liquid crystal technology.
  • Ant and bee feet: stick to surfaces with ingenious mechanical/hydraulic system.
  • Chameleon tongue: catapult and suction cap
  • Ear of tiny fly: inspired design of directional hearing aid.
  • Owl hearing: uses neurons that work like a microprocessor.
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Bad design?
  • No way!
  • Do we have all the information?
    • Panda’s thumb: excellent tool for stripping leaves off bamboo shoots
    • Junk DNA?  Lots of uses discovered — may be part of an advanced operating system
    • Human spine: lordosis (inward curve) is an advantage — we can support more weight for our size than a gorilla.  Modern McKenzie back exercises restore lordosis.
    • Appendix: lymphatic tissue, fights infection, especially in neonatal stage
  • Loss of information since the Fall.
    • Wingless insects on windswept islands
    • Fish in dark caves with shrivelled eyes.

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Backwardly wired eye?
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Backwardly wired eye?
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Müller cells: living optical fibres
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Blind spot in evolution!
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Flagellum animation
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Could the flagellum have evolved?
  • Kenneth Miller, Richard Dawkins: evolved from type-III secretory apparatus (TTSS)
  • Scott Minnich, world expert on flagellum, argues that TTSS must have devolved from flagellum, if one did arise from other.
    • Flagellum assembly machinery pumps out proteins in precise order; devolved machinery pumps out proteins (toxins) in more haphazard way.
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Could the flagellum have evolved?
  • Evolutionary experts also disagree with Miller and Dawkins!
    • ‘It seems plausible that the original type III secretion system for virulence factors evolved from those for flagellar assembly.’ [Mecsas, J., and Strauss, E.J., Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Virulence: Type III Secretion and Pathogenicity Islands, Emerging Infectious Diseases 2(4), October–December 1996]
    • ‘We suggest that the flagellar apparatus was the evolutionary precursor of Type III protein secretion systems.’ [Nguyen L. et al., Phylogenetic analyses of the constituents of Type III protein secretion systems, J. Mol. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 2(2):125–44, April 2000]
  • Evolution: liquid came before complex life.
  • So smimming gear had to precede parasitism.
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The DNA
molecule
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DNA colour
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DNA base pairing
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DNA - Help
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 Sir Karl Popper on the
origin of the genetic code
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Evolutionary tree of life
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Breeding of dogs―sorting pre-existing information!
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Natural selection reduces information!
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Dogs do change…
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Information specifies living things
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Mutations: bulldog’s face
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‘TNR’ mutant
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Mutations reduce information!
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Professor Dawkins lost for words!
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Similarity due to a common designer
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Designed to thwart naturalism!
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Designed to thwart naturalism!
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Human and frog digit development
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Haeckel forged embryo drawings!
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Fetal scan
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  Spontaneous generation:
Accepted by faith … (Yockey)
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Requirements of first life
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Enormous complexity of the Cell
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Michael Denton on the Cell
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 Origin of LifeProbabilities
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Sir Fred Hoyle:
Rubik’s Cubes and Blind Men
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Sir Fred Hoyle:
Rubik’s Cubes and Blind Men
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Miller–Urey experiment (1953)
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Miller–Urey experiment (1953)
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Miller-Urey experiment (1953)
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Miller-Urey experiment (1953)
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Miller-Urey experiment (1953)
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Amino acids to proteins
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Chain termination by unifunctional compounds
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Chain termination by unifunctional compounds
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Left- and right-handed amino acids
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 Homochirality
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Enzymes
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Enzymes
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 Chaperones and chaperonins
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 Address tags
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Primitive Soup:
 Failed paradigm … (Yockey)
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If I could synthesize life…3
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Chemicals to Living Cells DVD 01149
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The Wonders of Water
  • High specific heat
  • Enormous latent heat
  • High surface tension
  • Super solvent
  • Hydrogen bonding
  • Transition between two types at body temperature 37ºC



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The Sun: Our Special Star
  • Top 10% (by mass) of all local stars
  • If cooler, Earth would have to be so close that it would be tidally locked
  • If hotter, it would emit too much energetic radiation
  • Exceptionally stable for stars of its type
  • Ideal place in the galaxy—co-rotation radius
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Sign-on form
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Journal of Creation:
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Darwin’s Black Box
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In the Beginning was Information 00979
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