1. Prediction: vestigial organs as ‘left-overs’ of evolution. Evolutionist Weidershein made a list of 180 supposed vestigial structures in 1890. However, a lot of these predicted vestiges of past evolution that are no longer considered useless organs. They identified many candidates, such as the human appendix, tonsils, ‘tailbone’, whale hip bones, etc. This is a massive humiliation of evolutionary biology.

2. Prediction: no wheels would be found in living things. The famous evolutionary population geneticist, J.B.S. Haldane, proclaimed in 1949 that mutations and natural selection (neo-Darwinian evolution) could never produce “various mechanisms, such as the wheel and magnet, which would be useless till fairly perfect.” But ‘wheels’ far more sophisticated than Haldane could have imagined, such as subcellular rotary motors and the bacterial flagellum have been discovered.

3. Prediction: similarities, being due to common ancestry, would show a clear pattern of phylogeny, aka the tree of life. This is not so; there are numerous ‘homoplasies’, which are similarities that do not fit any pattern of common ancestry, or phylogeny. Homoplasies are so common that evolutionists invented the rescuing device of ‘convergent evolution’. A comparison of the genes involved in bat and dolphin sonar found 200 similar genes. ¹ Since there is no possible sonar-equipped common ancestor of both, these similarities must have evolved independently, by chance mutations. This is impossible for ‘convergent evolution’ to do.

​4. Prediction: Richard Dawkins predicted there should only be one genetic code. However, there are over 32 genetic codes in living beings. ²This This is a massive fail under Dawkins’ own criterion.

5. Prediction: there would be little genetic resemblance between extant and ‘primitive’ life forms (biochemical homology). Thus, Ernst Mayr stated in his 1963 book Animal Species and Evolution “the search for homologous genes [derived from the same ancestor] is quite futile except in very close relatives.”38 This was a strong prediction, but it has been falsified repeatedly. One example: humans share a gene involved in eye formation with flies. Walter Gehring, University of Basel scientist, remarked: “Much to our surprise, the same gene causes eyeless[ness] in the fruit fly. That came as a total surprise, because we thought that the fruit fly eye was in no way a homologous, a similar structure as in humans.”

¹ Pennisi, E., Bats and dolphins evolved echolocation in same way, news.sciencemag.org, 4 September 2013.

² Elzanowski, A. and Ostell, J., The genetic codes, NCBI, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Utils/wprintgc.cgi, 7 Jan 2019.

³ Walter Gehring: Master control genes and the evolution of the eye, pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/04/4/text_pop/l_044_01.html (Accessed 11 Oct 2023).

Can you guys believe its been 10 years since vidcon 2016? Alex Clark apologized 3 years ago. I wonder what Jaiden thinks looking back.

In Genesis 38, Judah meets a Caananite woman and begats two children: Er and Onan. After that, he finds a wife named Tamar for Er. (Genesis 38:1-6)

After that, Yahweh kills Er for "being wicked". How was he wicked? No one knows! (Genesis 38:7)

Anyways this leaves Tamar up for grab. In ancient Jewish customs, if a man died the before his wife, then his brother was supposed to take her for himself. Now my question first for Christians is, is this practice justified?

Anyways after that, Onan doesnt want to "go in unto" Tamar becuase legally they dont wont be considered his kids. So instead of spilling his "seed" into Tamar's "box", he spills it on the floor. And for this crime, Yahweh kills Onan.

Now my second question for Christian's is: Was the killing of Onan justified?

YECs claim that there was a global flood around 4400 years ago. However, we know for certain there couldnt have been a global flood at that date. This is because of the Giza Necropolis. The Giza Necropolis (Pyramids) were constructed around 4500 years ago. We know this because of multiple independent dating methods. There is also no break in the archeological record in Egypt around that time. They just transitioned into their Sixth Dynasty like nothing happened. So how de YECs explain this. Also, focus on the argument, not the person.

I have never understood this.

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And if they exist how mainstream are they?

All jokes aside, what do you guys think is the most mundane evidence that the Earth is more than 6000 years old?

By most mundane, I mean evidence that people are most likely to encountet in their day-to-day life and requires the least background knowledge to understand?

Around 30 minutes ago İ was rewatching Gutsick Gibbons's video "teaching" Will Duffy whale evolution when İ heard Duffy's argument on the bacteria preserved in the supposedly 250-million year old Salado formation.

İ tried to see if the were any posts refuting this evidence for a young Earth because İ desperately wanted to keep my faith in an Old Earth. However, İ then realized this was an extremely big problem for an Old Earth. And thus, İ become a YECist.

THIS IS NOT A JOKE, IT IS NOT A TROLL POST, IT IS MY GENUINE OPINION. From now on, if İ post a pro-old Earth post, PLEASE ban me from the subreddit. İ will keep my old posts up for archival reasons.

With all that said, let's get to formatio and see how it completly precludes an old Earth.

The Salado Formation precludes old-Earth Evolutionism

The Salado formation is a Permian era formation which demolishes Darwinism. The formation shows bacteria being viable, which acccording to evolutionist dating methods, after 250 MILLION YEARS. The oldest bacterium in the formation is Bacillus 2-9-3. (Vreeland et al., 2000)

There are two things about this discovery which preclude old-Earth evolutionism.

1. Survival of bacteria in a salt crystal for millions of years is impossible.
2. The bacteria do not show the sequence divergence from modern bacteria expected if they have been isolated for millions of years.

Both of these inconvinient truths conclusively show that the bacteria as well as the formations in which they were preserved are WAYYYYY younger than what the evolutionists claim. To quote Hebsgaard et al. (2005):

>"DNA from proteobacteria could not be obtained from samples older than 20 - 30 Kyr," which they argue should "bring into serious question the previous claims of multi-million-year-old bacterial DNA." ... "The sequences from Vreeland et al. show only 1 - 3 substitution differences from contemporary bacterial sequences, whereas known mutation rates... would have suggested ~59 differences."

Graur & Pupko (2001) argue that the incredibly low sequence divergence between 2-9-3 and its closest known relative Virgibacillus marismortui would require:

>"a reduction of FOUR ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE in comparison with the typical prokaryotic [substitution] rate." The authors continue "Such a low rate of nucleotide substitution has never been encountered in nature," and "We must conclude that the time of divergence... is quite short."

With all this evidence against their beloved "theory", evolutionists and old Earthers can go cope on the next Darwin day.

Remember when in 2012 everyone thought the workd was gonna end? Well İ was just a toddler them so İ don't remember.

Well, in that year, a paper titled "An Integrated Encyclopedia of DNA elements in the Human Genome" came out. The paper was by the ENCODE project.

In it, they found that 0.804 of the genome had functional biochemical activity.

Now to this, evolutionists claimed that most of those RNA transcripts were just background noise.

However, this paper disproves that argument.

https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/18/5/evag042/8498184

>Upon applying Puffin-D to these altered sequences, researchers noted that while some background transcription exists, predicted initiation levels of transcription remained sparse. In fact, these predicted transcription initiation levels were at least four times lower than the levels detected in the native human genome. Such a significant difference suggests that most transcription in humans is not simply the result of stochastic background noise.

Just like that, another evolutionist claim refuted.

It broke my head how everyone was watching the 3 fight and actually just enabling it. That fight would have been acceptable if it was in a public place , not a formal setting like a CHURCH. In a realistic situation Kel and Aubrey would have been told to be quiet long before they even got up churches dont tolerate talking and definitely not fights.

Then to top it all off all of these fully abled people are looking and saying "hey, look at this thing happening !" instead of trying to diffuse it. Its so hard to take that seriously. Again its not the plot thats bad its the PLACE. If this was in a public place and hell even the cemetery it wouldve been a good scene.

PREFACE: Why did you guys change the subreddit's profile picture? Please change it back. Also can you guys please give me the "Intelligent Design (no יחוח)" tag? Thanks. Reuploaded to fix typo.

In 2004, Neil Shubin as well as 2 other paleontologists found a creature called "Tiktaalik rosaea". It was said to be transitional and was celebrated as a massive win for evolution by the media. In his book Why Evolution is True pages 35-38, Jerry Coyne said:

>Tiktaalik was such a huge deal precisely because it was supposed to be a prediction (when and where it was found stragigraphically) that was marvelously fulfilled and a "stunning vindication" of evolutionary theories's predictive power.

>(It was) the most tangible evidence that evolution was true, it could have actually been a "direct link", and a "true transitional form", and that it actually "might have been your distant ancestor".

However in early 2010, some trackways were found in the Holy Cross Mountains of Poland which overturned Tiktaalik as a transitional fossil. The tracks were highly advanced, despite appearing 390 mya, and Tiktaalik being from 385 mya. Dr. Gregory Niedźwiedzki's reconstruction of the trackway maker was identical to that of Tulerpeton, a creature who lived 365 mya. [1] Even though this was already pretty embarassing, the real embarrasment came 2 years later when a research paper found the tracks to have been more advanced then Icthyostega, who lived 365 to 360 mya. [2] That would be like finding human footprints in the Oligocene.

This extremely embarassing fossil discovery should call evolution into question. On Monday İ will talk about Darwin's biggest embarrasment of 2011: The Basilosaurus discovery in Antarctica.

I have realized that a lot of the supposed "evidence" for evolution works just as well in an ID framework.

Let's take nested hierarchies for example. İ was taught online that nested hierarchies are evidence for common descent. But then İ did more research and found out that nested hierarchies also arise naturally in designed systems. A sedan resembles a hatchback more than a van or a boat. Engineers don’t intentionally design in hierarchical patterns, but similarities naturally group into nested categories. Similarly, biological hierarchies reflect design logic. Importantly, such patterns enable advances in medicine and research, and we rely on similarities between mice and humans, for example, to study disease.

EDIT: After looking at the GULO gene, as well as some more genetics stuff like the last nucleotide-codon in an amino acid sequence, as well as most importantly the nested hierarchichal pattern within the non-cobstrained region of the genome, I have come to realize that not just common descent within the phylum level but also universal common descent is most certainly true. However, I have also come to realize that without a Concious Mind guiding this process, the diversity of extant life could not have been produced. In my next post tomorrow, I will talk about how the Zachelmie Trackways in Poland preclude tetrapod evolution.