This is my first post on this forum, though I have been reading for about a month now. The post by Apostate Kate pulled me out of the shadows, because I can not stand it when people casually make declarations that they know nothing about...
Funkyderek already made some excellent points directed at one post, but there were a couple other statements that Apostate Kate made that need to be addressed. Statements that she made almost always get me going because she is almost certainly telling these things to other people, and is miseducating them in the process, but also because spreading misinformation is the same thing that the WTS does, and that is what we are all here to fight anyway...
To quote Apostate Kate (AK) "The second law of Thermodynamics, Entropy, erases any chance for the theory of evolution to be proven." There was a link provided to the talk origins website, and this website is a phenominal education rescource, assuming that is what someone is actually interested in. If AK can "read and reason" then she should enjoy that article. And though Talk Origins can say it a million times better then I can, AK should have listened to those biochemists that tried to explain closed environments/systems to her. The Earth does not come close to using all of the energy supplied to it by the sun, so it is not a closed system. It really is that simple. But read the article...it is phenominal...
And also, statements like this one drive me crazy "Where did they come from? An accidental big bang from nothingness?" The big bang has nothing to do with evolution. It has everything to do with cosmology. They are not related at all. But, why would the big bang have to be an accident? Do you equate belief in the big bang with athiesm? Why? What evidence do you have? What does the bible say about the mechanism that God used to create the universe? Why dont you like the big bang?
And though Funkyderek already addressed the statement that "DNA is set in stone", AK also said that "there is still no science to backup the evolution of DNA to progress to a more complex species." If the following REAL LIFE example does not completely prove these two statements to be wrong, then I do not know what will. The example has to do with bacteria. As everyone posting here no doubt knows, bacteria are known to consume anything from crude oil to our own tissues. What they can or can not consume depends upon the instructions contained in their genome. In 1975, Japanese scientists reported finding a bacteria that could even consume Nylon. This would not seem to be too extraordinary of a finding except for the fact that Nylon is completely synthetic. It did not exist in nature prior to 1935 when it was manufactured by Dupont. So where did the genetic information come from? The bacteria did not lose the ability to consume what it was able to consume previously, but it gained the ability to consume this new, synthetic, material in addition to what it could consume previously. This new ability within the bateria Flavobacterium is the result of an additional Thymine nucleotide to be added to the DNA sequence of this bacteria. In my mind, this proves that not only is DNA NOT set in stone, it also proves that order can arise from chaos, and that evolution does occur in order to cause one species to progress into a more complex one. Because, just because the bacteria evolved on the micro level, it still became more complex in the process. This is a real life example of the one thing that creationists insist that evolution can not do, add new genetic information, and yet here it is! The genome for this bacteria actually grew and became more complex by the addition of the Thymine nucleotide! This really isnt any surprise to scientists and other people that like to actually learn, but in my mind this is proof on the most basic level that creationists for some reason insist that they need...
