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April 28, 1998 |
The Enquirer reported that the National Academy of Sciences has issued
guidelines for public school officials encouraging them to teach evolution
as a fact, not a theory ["Panel urges schools to teach evolution," April
10]. If the evidence that they cited as proof of evolution is the best
they can offer, then the evolution theory is in much more trouble than
I imagined.
These evolutionary fundamentalists claim that because bacteria appear to "become" resistant to antibiotics, then this is evolution. But let’s look at the example of the popular antibiotic, amoxycillian. Scientists have observed that bacteria "become" resistant to this medicine when the bacteria produce an enzyme that breaks down the drug. However, the resistance to the antibiotic was already in the bacteria population right from the beginning of the experiment. |
In other words, the bacteria already had
the information in the genes to be resistant. This, then, is inherited
information and has nothing to do with evolutionary progression (which
requires new information).
What about the experiments in which bacteria develop a resistance to some substances over time due to mutations in the genes? Actually, this has resulted from a loss of information in the genes of the bacteria. This is the opposite of evolution, which requires an increase in information if evolutionary advancement were to occur. The bottom line: No one has ever shown an example in which information has ever arisen from disorder by chance. Evolution is therefore impossible. In the final analysis, what we see in God’s world agrees with what we read in God’s Word. The use of the scientific method clearly reveals that living things reproduce after their own kind. Kurt Streutker
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