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Die evolusieleer van Darwin en sy moderne proponente se weergawe daarvan is al vir ’n geruime tyd onder verdenking, om die minste te sê.

“Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established reality, it comes as something of a shock to realize that there is absolutely no positive evidence for its existence. The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.” -

Michael Denton, Evolusionis - Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (Bethesda, Maryland: Adler and Adler Publishers, 1986), p261, 264;

“However, the macromolecule-to-cell transition is a jump of fantastic dimensions, which lies beyond the range of testable hypothesis. In this area, all is conjecture. The available facts do not provide a basis for postulating that cells arose on this planet. We simply wish to point out the fact that there is no scientific evidence." –

David E. Green and Robert F Goldberger, Molecular Insights Into the Living Process (New York: Academic Press, 1967), pp 406-407;

Sommige evolusioniste gee te kenne dat ‘chance’ of ‘luck’ nie ’n rol speel nie, maar dat die nodige verbindings deur die werking van bestaande natuurwette (sonder om hulle te vermeld, natuurlik) tot stand sou kom. Maar in daardie verband, word dit ook as wensdenkery afgemaak:

“No one to date has published data indicating that bonding preferences could have had any role in coding the DNA molecules." –

Charles B. Thaxton, Walter L. Bradley, and Roger L. Olsen, The Mystery of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current Theories (New York: Philosophical Library, 1984), p. 148;

Oor aannames en assumpsie in die evolusieleer, is daar ook báie voorbeelde dat dié aannames gemaak word om die teorie te laat werk.

“Suppose that the actual structure of a DNA molecule were due to the fact that the bindings of its bases were much stronger than the bindings would be for any other distribution of bases, then such a DNA molecule would have no information content. Its codelike character would be effaced by an overwhelming redundancy … It is this physical indeterminacy of the sequence that produces the improbability of occurrence of any particular sequence and thereby enables it to have a meaning – a meaning that has a mathematically determinate information content equal to the numerical improbability of the arrangement ... the sequence of the bases [information content attributed to a DNA molecule] is deemed meaningful only because we assume with Watson and Crick that this arrangement generates the structure of the offspring by endowing it with its own information content. " –

Michael Polanyi, "Life's Irreducible Structure," Science, Vol 160, No. 3834 (June 21, 1968), p 1309;

“Following Darwin, modern neo-Darwinists generally accept that natural selection acting on random variation (or mutations) suffices to explain the appearance of design in living organisms ... modern biologists now describe cells as, among other things, "distributive real-time computers" and complex information processing systems. Darwin, of course, neither knew about these intricacies nor sought to explain their origin. Instead, his theory of biological evolution sought to explain how life could have grown gradually more complex starting from "one or a few simple forms." Strictly speaking, therefore, those who insist that the Darwinian mechanism can explain the appearance of design in biology naturalistically overstate their case. The complexities within the microcosm of the cell beg for some kind of explanation, yet they lie beyond the purview of strictly biological evolutionary theory which assumes, rather than explains, the existence of the first life and the information it would have required ... Thus, "self-organizing" bonding affinities cannot explain the sequential ordering of the nucleotide bases in DNA because (1) there are no bonds between bases along the message-bearing axis of the molecule, and (2) there are no differential affinities between the backbone and the various bases that could account for variations in sequencing. Because the same holds for RNA molecules, researchers who speculate that life began in an "RNA world" have also failed to solve the sequencing problem 7 -that is, the problem of explaining how information present in all functioning RNA molecules could have arisen in the first place.” –

Stephen C Meyer, PhD, Stigterslid en direkteur van Center for Science and Culture (CSC) van die Discovery Institute, Professor by Whitworth College, DNA and the Origin of Information, p114, 130-131.

Groete,
Kobus de Klerk