Evolution

Wow, you have a lot of arguments... I suppose I will just give rebuttals to your new arguments as well as the old ones that I did not finish. OLD ARGUMENTS: 6. TRANSITIONAL LIFEFORMS- You presented several supposed gaps in transitional life form fossils: -Non Living Matter to Protozoan: No fossil record is left at such a molecular level; however, we can do experiments today (such as the Miller-Urey experiment) which do indeed prove that inorganic molecules can be combined into various organic compounds that are the basis for all life, including protozoans -Protozoan to Metazoan, Metazoans to Invertebrates, Invertebrates to Fish, Fish to Amphibians, Amphibians to Reptiles, Reptiles to Birds, Reptiles to Fur-bearing Quadrupeds, Quadrupeds to Apes, Apes to Man: READ UP ON EVOLUTION. All the "examples" you just named have actually already been found. You should watch the BBC documentaries "Walking with Monsters", "Walking with Dinosaurs", and "Walking with Beasts". Literally all the transitional species you think don't exist are named in those 3 documentaries 7. PETRIFIED LOGS- Wood takes any where from 10 to 15 YEARS to decompose.Any strong thunder/lightning storm can bring down trees, and a lot can happen to a log in 10 to 15 years, especially if it is near water, like a lot of trees are. Just because a log is really big doesn't mean that a huge flood came in, ripped down the tree, and buried it. The ripping down and fossilization of a log could have easily, and more likely have happened separately. Evolution definitely gives a better explanation for petrified logs. 8. POLYSTRATIC TREES- Unless I am missing something, it sounds like you just disproved your own theory. The ashes and igneous rock created by volcanic eruptions like at Mt. St. Helens preserved the trees... 9. EPHEMERAL MARKINGS- I hope you realize that Noah's flood isn't the only fast-moving catastrophic event that has ever happened. Any flash flood has the same type of effects on a local level. 10. BIOTURBATION- Here's an experiment for you to try. Go to the beach and walk to the area where the waves are stopping. Leave a footprint in the wet sand right after a wave recedes, and then watch how long it takes for the next few waves to wash away the foot print as if it had never existed. Animal footprints on the beach don't last much longer than that. 11. SOIL LAYERS- Soil is much lighter than rock and is easily washed or blown away. Thus soil layers are not nearly as permanent as rock layers, and are not to be found millions of years later. 12. FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS- This doesn't have anything to do with evolution. This has to do with Cosmology. I personally side with you in saying that all of the mass and energy in the universe must have been made by God, but at the same time, an atheist can just as easily pose the question of where God comes from. No one has valid answers to questions about the beginning of the universe and there is a good chance that no one ever will unless time travel is invented. NEW ARGUMENTS: "Statistics are not Evolution's Friend" Basically, you have said that the Universe and all its phenomena (like Life) are way too complicated to have assembled themselves purely by chance. Here, I agree with you. It IS way too complicated to be assembled purely by chance. However, if we don't take scripture literally, we can logically see that God directed the creation of the Universe THROUGH the laws of science. He caused those "random mutations" in purposeful ways in order to advance the evolution of life. Most theists already know this. Only a small population of theists called fundamentalists continue to insist on a literal interpretation of outdated Hebrew mythology, rather than accept all the well-supported discoveries on the true workings of God's creation. "Short Primer of Probability" Again, I do not support a completely secular version of Evolution at all because of the reason you stated: the chances of such complicated life just evolving by pure chance are indescribably small. "Weasely Dawkins" Agreed. Evolution does not happen purely by chance. Back to you, Con. SOURCES: (1) http://www.paleobiology.si.edu... (2) http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us...