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New Scientific Theory Shows Complex Animals and Plants Originated from Prebiotic Chemistry
One of the goals of Changing the Face of Christianity is to help Christians gain a greater awareness and understanding of science. Far too many Christians aren’t informed about the world around us and that is a negative stereotype we are trying to reverse through education and discussion.
The following represents one perspective on the ongoing debate of science, evolution, and creation. So, we welcome any comments and also encourage you to make us aware of and recommend other science articles that represent opposing views.
Read this summary pulled from a PRWEB science press release about the flawed conventional theory of evolution. What impact does this have on Christianity and the relationship between God and science? Comment below.
(PRWeb December 15, 2010)
The conventional theory of evolution is fundamentally flawed
The conventional theory of evolution is fundamentally flawed, according to three publications by scientists working for Genome International that appeared today in Nature Precedings. All life did not evolve from a simple, single-cell organism – a foundation of Darwinian Theory. Research now shows that a parallel development of genomes during earth’s Cambrian Period led to numerous complex life forms originating en masse.
Dr. Periannan Senapathy, president and scientific director, said “genomics has shown that evolutionary mechanisms believed to have created the diversity of life on earth are fundamentally flawed.
Genome Theory Uproots Evolution Model
Research shows that modern genome data completely uproots the evolution model. It fully supports Senapathy’s theory of parallel origins of genomes that led to numerous complex life forms en masse directly from prebiotic chemistry. His theory shows how all of life’s complexity originated right from the primordial pond, without any need for the origin of the primitive bacterium-like microbe that had to evolve into all life forms on earth through laborious, untenable genetic mutations.
Dr. Senapathy explains that a key component of this shift is probability. The first genes, according to the theory of evolution, were contiguous and prokaryotic. However, an analysis of the amount of DNA needed for these sequences to occur in the prebiotic pool reveals it to be approximately 10-billion tons – which is simply impractical. The amount of DNA required when the genes are split is less than 1 milligram.
Furthermore, “a critical mistake of the theory of evolution was the assumption that completely distinct organisms could evolve from one common ancestor,” Dr. Senapathy said.
This article is open to discussion. What impact does this have on Christianity and the relationship between God and science? Comment below.
So, even if I take this paper at it’s word, then all of the life forms existing today evolved from the forms of the Cambrian period. The only life forms that existed in the Cambrian were arthropods, brachiopods, worms, and other pre-chordate life.
Just so you know, that means all mammals, fish, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds and all amphibians. So under this hypothesis, man still evolved from monkeys. Well, technically man is a monkey, but that’s another discussion.
The cambrian period is NOT when life first appeared on earth. It’s comparatively recent – only about 500 million years ago.
Complex (that is, multicellular) organisms already existed in this period. A change in our understanding of life’s development in this period is not enough to falsify common decent, because the single common ancestor would have existed about 3.9 BILLION years ago. Check out the wikipedia article ‘last universal ancestor’. It discusses what little we know about the last living thing that we are all descended from.
The term ‘horizontal gene transfer’ is also one that needs to be mentioned; it has helped shape our view of evolution at the single-cell level quite a lot.
Korny, on the phylogenetic tree:
Humans are a subset of apes. Apes are a subset of monkeys. Monkeys are a subset of Catterhines. Catterhines are a subset of pro simians. Pro simians are a subset of mammals. Mammals are a subset of tetrapods. Tetrapods are a subset of chordates. Chordates are a subset of eukariots.
I am a human, an ape, a monkey, a catterhine, a prosimian, a mammal, a tetrapod, a chordate, and a eukariot all at the same time. At least according to phylogeny.
Maybe I’m a little loopy, but I’ve never seen evolution and Christianity at odds with each other. The Bible clearly states that a day is like a thousand years to the Lord (2 Peter 3:8). So I can imagine a creation process that mankind will spend the rest of its days on earth trying to understand. And it is such a large and complex creation process that most of the fundamental assumptions about evolution might even fit within it.
The title is a bit misleading – bits and pieces of theories (like evolution) are falsified all the time. However, even if everything in the article is correct (I’m not enough of an expert to judge), this doesn’t falsify a lot of the things in biology that are the most theologically difficult (no Adam & Eve, yes we come from other apes, etc).
It would probably be best to start off with a series on the basics – here is how science works (and how it doesn’t), some historical perspectives on human views of reality and what caused us to discard them, and a basic primer on a few topics like chemistry and biology and physics/cosmology.
Really just a matter of re-writing a few wikipedia articles and adding better and more detailed explanations – maybe include some relevant videos from youtube. Even just that – seen in a comfortable and christian setting rather than the more sarcastic types of sites atheists like to make – could make a huge difference.
Incidentally I posted another comment on the site which was (and I suppose is currently) ‘awaiting moderation’. Wouldn’t it be better to have comment free, and block trolls and spammers only when necessary? It certainly would help dialogue to flow better.