Kevin Cobb posted a great comment on the blog:
“Saying that the existence of information is proof of the existence of God is like saying that the fact that we see 7 colors is proof that 7 is a spiritually significant number.
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Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species had an unfortunate title.
It was a great book for its time, and is roughly correct about what evolution looks like in the rear-view mirror.
Though if you want to know how we actually get a new species, the explanation in there is very incomplete, at best.
Natural selection — perhaps Darwin’s most important concept — explains the “survival of the fittest” but nothing Darwin wrote ever really explained the “arrival of the fittest.”
Especially how it happens so fast — orders of magnitude faster than randomness and probability would predict.
That’s why I believe Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Barbara McClintock’s work is WAY more interesting and enlightening about what’s really happening with evolution than Darwin ever was!
The atheist community has become as dogmatic as the religions they attack.
Internationally famous atheist Jerry Coyne heard about the publication of my book, Evolution 2.0. And he decided to write a review… After ONLY reading the Amazon.com book description.
The gist of his review? “Move along folks, nothing to see here.”
He couldn’t bear to even read it before passing judgment — an arrogant and intellectually irresponsible move from someone who calls himself a “scientist.”
Listen, I grew up a Creationist. And although I admittedly hoped to find some evidence of design in the inner workings of evolution, that’s not what I committed to in my search for the truth. Heck, I was ready to accept “God is dead” if that’s where the facts clearly led.
I decided to use science — the latest post-Darwin, 20th and 21st Century science — to understand what’s really going on with DNA and evolution. And perhaps, to find out where we came from.
I was willing to go wherever the truth took me.
And what I found was that folks like Jerry Coyne were leaving out the absolute most interesting bits about evolution because they don’t fit into his tidy little atheist box.
Watch this video, and discover the real reason why I believe Jerry Coyne is telling people to “move along”…
Click here now to get 3 chapters from my new book, Evolution 2.0, right now.
(Warning: This flies in the face of the mainstream understanding of Evolution from the likes of Richard Dawkins, Jerry Coyne, Bill Nye, and others.)
I made sure my fight with atheists would be the opposite of a political debate.
In the average political debate, the candidates take soft-pitch questions from friendly moderators, and easily get by with half-cocked answers to serious questions.
As soon as I started developing the theory that would grow into Evolution 2.0, I knew I’d catch flak.
After all, ANYBODY who claims to have a theory of where we came from and how evolution works (or doesn’t) is going to catch flak — from creationists, atheists, and everyone in between. If my theory couldn’t hold up to everything thrown at it, I wanted to know.
So I decided to take my theory on DNA and evolution straight to my staunchest opponents — and let them try to rip it to shreds.
I wrote an email series called “Where does the universe come from?” and I got it into the hands of anybody I thought would have a strong opinion — and encouraged them to pound on the ideas as hard as they could.
Here’s the story… And the breakthrough it led me to…
Click here now to get 3 chapters from my new book, Evolution 2.0, right now.
My brother and I grew up Creationists. He went to China to do missionary work, and within 4 years became a bitter agnostic bordering on Atheism.
This bugged me. We fought.
I asked him how he thought random mutations and natural selection led to the incredible creatures we are today. His answer was textbook Darwinism.
I tried to argue… But found I couldn’t use science to answer him. Yet.
But I would. So I went down the rabbit hole, investigating how evolution really works (based on post-Darwin, 20th and 21st Century science), and what that means.
Watch this video now to see how I’m using modern science to turn the evolution debate on its head…
Click here now to get 3 chapters from my new book, Evolution 2.0, right now.
This radiation-mutated fruit fly has legs growing out of its head where its antennae should be. Radiation provoked lots of random mutations… but none that conferred significant advantages to the insect. Photo by Thomas Kaufman
I’ve been debating Derrick Rohe and Dan Listermann on Facebook. My challenge to them:
“Show me evidence that random mutations produce beneficial evolutionary events. New features, new organs, better adaptations.”
They can’t prove the random part. Read more »
I got in a Facebook tussle with reader Frank Pettit about Larry Moran. This revealed even more fraud in evolution than I had even realized. Brace yourself.
In part one I criticized Larry Moran for evangelizing obsolete Old-School Darwinism. What is that? Moran’s article “Evolution By Accident” describes it perfectly. Read more »
First, a confession: I am no fan of Larry Moran. He’s an evangelist of old-school Darwinism, which is rapidly being plowed under by Systems Biology.
Moran’s strident promotion of the now-discredited “Junk DNA” theory alone should give all of us pause. The man is still trying to save Junk DNA from extinction. (The ENCODE project killed it dead three years ago.)
PREDICTION: Ten years from now, when we understand twice as much about the genome as we do now, most scientists will be reluctant to admit they ever entertained such anti-scientific superstitions.
Well lately Moran is in a gladiator fight with Ann Gauger of the Discovery Institute. And he makes a valid point.
Moran fires a missive:
“Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses 
me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wondrous universe, including man with his capacity of looking backwards and far into futurity, as a result of blind chance or necessity.
“When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.
“But then arises the horrid doubt– can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe, been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?”…
“I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic. “
-From The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882
Subscriber Les asks: Perry, I did read your book. What is God’s role in the model of evolution that you propose?
Is he just the designer of the laws of nature according to which life originates by chance and then evolves in an unguided manner?
Do you believe that God interferes into his creation by e.g. originating the first life form?
