If Kolbe people want to discuss six-day creation physics and Noah’s-flood biology, they should organize a conference about it, and not invite evolutionists!
Guess what… Kolbe Center did organize a conference to discuss the serious philosophical and scientific contradictions of evolutionary biology, such as have been developed on this thread. And evolutionists were invited to attend… and did… without being suppressed! However, none of the evolutionists who attended has been able to offer a persuasive rebuttal to the “scientific critique” of the evolutionary hypothesis offered by the KC speakers. Note: the issues with evol. were scientific contradictions, not creation conflicts.
On February 23, Catholic scientists, philosophers, and historians [note: no theologians] gathered in Rome at the National Research Council for a symposium entitled * The Theory of Evolution: A Critical Analysis *
Guy Berthault presented his experimental laboratory and field research which refute the fundamental principles of Lyellian geology and demonstrate that massive sedimentary rock formations around the world could have formed in a fraction of the time allocated to them by the conventional time scale.
Dr. Jean de Pontcharra demonstrated the unreliability of radiometric dating for long ages; the dating of rocks using radioactive elements requires very basic assumptions whose validity has not been demonstrated. In the particular case of the K/Ar method, the presence of excess Ar and the impossibility of correcting the bias so introduced call into question the entire ‘model ages’ results obtained during the last several decades in palaeontology.
A paper by Dr. Josef Holzschuh, Dr. Jean de Pontcharra and Hugh Miller presented the results of several years of research in the C-14 dating of dinosaur bones. The discovery of collagen in a Tyrannosaurus Rex femur bone was recently reported in the journal Science. When Triceratops and Hadrosaur femur bones in excellent condition were discovered by the Glendive (MT) Dinosaur & Fossil Museum, samples were collected for C-14 testing. From the bone collagen dates of 30,890 ± 380 radiocarbon years before present(RC BP) for the Triceratops and 23,170 ±170 RC BP years for the Hadrosaur were obtained using the Accelerated Mass Spectrometer. Samples were pretreated to remove potential contaminants and concordant radiocarbon dates were obtained. That the dinosaur bones consistently possess the same radiocarbon ages as other megafauna, such as mastodons, known to have been contemporary with man, flatly contradicts the evolutionary time scale according to which dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago.
Physicist Dr. Thomas Seiler approached the evolutionary hypothesis from a different perspective by evaluating its claims against the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Dr. Seiler demonstrated that while order may manifest in natural objects as a result of physical or chemical properties of those objects, specific complexity, such as the DNA code, has never been known to develop without intelligent direction.
An expert in biology, Dr. Pierre Rabischong then gave a fascinating description of the organization of the human body and concluded that the non-existent natural filiations among species and the high-tech nature of all living systems flatly contradict the evolutionary hypothesis.
As a population geneticist, Dr. Maciej Giertych evaluated the main evidence for the evolutionary hypothesis, namely race formation. He showed that macroevolution requires an increase of genetic variants, and that race formation, which depends on their reduction, is a process in the opposite direction, comparable to extinction. He showed that positive mutations, as a mechanism leading to new functions or organs, are an undemonstrated postulate. He argued that one can demonstrate many neutral and negative mutations, but no positive ones and questioned the claim that the appearance of resistance to man-made chemicals (herbicides, fungicides, antibiotics, etc.) is evidence of positive mutations on the ground that it belongs to the multitude of defense mechanisms (like healing or acquiring immunity) protecting existing life functions of an organism and not creating new ones.
Dr. Josef Seifert, rector of the Academy of Philosophy in Chile, offered critical reflections on evolutionism as a scientific or pseudo-scientific theory and as an atheist ideology.
Dr. Dominique Tassot demonstrated the numerous logical fallacies commonly used to defend the evolutionary hypothesis.
The proceedings of the symposium will be published in English and Italian in the **Year of Darwin **by the National Research Council.
None of the evolutionists who attended has been able to offer a persuasive rebuttal to the scientific critique of the evolutionary hypothesis offered by the speakers.
Pray with us that the truth presented in Rome at the symposium,
The Theory of Evolution: A Critical Analysis, will now be brought to the attention of Catholic civil, ecclesiastical, and academic leaders throughout the world, so that the evolutionary hypothesis can be consigned to its rightful place in the dustbin of bankrupt ideas.
AMDG
