Darwinian evolution
MORE THAN JUST A THEORY?
DO YOU
AGREE?
Because if
true… it
changes
everything!
Everything we
do, everything
bit of our
behave could
be explained
evolutionarily
An evolutionary
explanation for
religion?
INTELLIGENT DESIGN
“An evidence-based
scientific theory about
life's origins" rather than
"a religious-based idea"
“A science consonant with Christian
and theistic convictions"
INTELLIGENT DESIGN
Irreducible complexity
Specified complexity propose
Fine Tuning – ‘just right’
Biological features are too complex to be the
result of natural processes, and proponents
therefore conclude that these features are
evidence of design.
Darwin’s Black Box…
The conceptual tool in which, for one reason or another, the internal workings of a
device are taken for granted, so that its function may be discussed.
“If it could be demonstrated
that any complex organism
existed which could not
possibly have been formed
by numerous and successive
slight modifications my
theory would absolutely
break down.”
Michael Behe
Irreducible Complexity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWVALTJd1Eg
“No one at all can give a detailed account
of how the cilium or any complex
biochemical process might have developed
in a Darwinian fashion. But we are here. All
these things got here somehow; if not by
Darwinian fashion, then how?”
“A single system which is composed of
several interacting parts that contribute to
the basic function, and where the removal
of any one of the parts causes the system
to effectively stop functioning”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwew5gHoh3E
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-evolution-of-the-eye/6017.html
Behe states…
“Thus while I argue for design,
the question of the identity of
the designer is left open”
WILLIAM
DEMBSKI
SPECIFIED
COMPLEXITY
Specified = something that conforms to some kind of pattern
Complex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence
Specified = something that conforms to some kind of pattern
Complex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence
Gepandajoiptuaspccmasokduaerbn
Specified = something that conforms to some kind of pattern
Complex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence
SONNET 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit
impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it
alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to
remove: O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on
tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every
wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his
height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips
and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass
come; Love alters not with his brief hours and
weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If
this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor
no man ever loved.
Specified = something that conforms to some kind of pattern
Complex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence
William Dembski in summary…
H = A single letter of the alphabet is specified but not complex
Gepandajoiptuaspccmasokduaerbn (i.e. a long sequence of
random letters) = Complex but not specified
A Shakespearean sonnet is specified and complex.
Specified = something that conforms to some kind of pattern
Complex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence
Combination Lock…
The more possible
combinations of the lock the
more complex the mechanism
(the lock) and therefore the
more improbable the
mechanism (the lock) can be
open by chance!
A lock with 10 possible
combinations is more likely to
be opened by chance that a
lock with 100,000 possible
combinations
Specified = something that conforms to some kind of pattern
Complex = Dembski means having a low probability of occurrence
To conclude…
When we observe the universe we see
complex specified information.
This could not have occurred by
chance.
This would be just too unlikely to
happen!
What is the
best
explanation
for this
complexity?
One Cell - Human DNA
• 8 Billion letters, 8,000,000,000
• 500 million words, 500, 000, 000
• 8 thousand books, 8000
Fine-Tuning Argument
“As we look out into the universe and
identify the many accidents of physics and
astronomy that have worked to our benefit
it almost seems as if the universe must in
some sense have known we were coming.”
Freeman Dyson
Roger Penrose
“if we combined all the laws that must be finetuned, we couldn’t even write down that
number in full, since it would require more
zeroes than the number of elementary particles
in the universe”
“The cliché that ‘life is
balanced on a knife-edge’ is
a staggering understatement
is this case: no knife in the
universe could have an edge
that fine” Paul Davies
http://www.yout
ube.com/watch?
v=lbiLmPJuU6Q
http://www.yout
ube.com/watch?
v=WE0Y1hpEA-4
Antony Flew
“What I think the DNA material has done is
show that intelligence must have been involved
in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements
together. The enormous complexity by which
the results were achieved looks to me like the
work of intelligence”