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DUCATIONAL
DIFYING
VANGELICAL
Presented
by
Dr Thomas J Kindell
Founder & President of Reasons for Faith Ministries, Inc.
“Be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is
within you” I Peter 3:15
DESIGN IN
NATURE
A STUDY OF
THE BIRDS
“Biology is the study of
complicated things that
give the appearance of
having been designed
for a purpose.”
Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, W. W.
Norton & Co., New York, 1987, p. 1
“We have seen that
living things are too
improbable and too
beautifully ‘designed’ to
have come into
existence by chance.”
Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, W. W.
Norton & Co., New York, p. 43
DESIGNED
BY THE BLIND
WATCHMAKER?
Evolutions “watchmaker”
is both blind and
brainless.
The quick brown fox jumped
over the lazy dogs.
The duick brown aox jumped
over the lazf eogs.
The duick brosn aox iumped
over the lazf eogs.
“An accident, a random change, in any
delicate mechanism can hardly be expected
to improve it. Poking a stick into the
machinery of one’s watch or one’s radio
set will seldom make it work better.”
Theodosius Dobzhansky, Heredity and the Nature of Man, p. 105
THE NATURAL SELECTION
DECEPTION
Natural selection has no power to
create new and better biological
information. Rather, it is wholly at the
mercy of random, destructive
mutations to provide the necessary
new information. Since random
mutations cannot produce the needed
results, natural selection is left
helpless with nothing to select.
HAS
THE THEORY
OF BIRD
EVOLUTION
LAID AN
EGG?
PANDORA’S BOX?
PANDORA’S EGG ?
“The evolution of the amniotic
egg is baffling. It was this
decisive innovation which
permitted for the first time
genuinely terrestrial vertebrate
life, freeing it from the necessity
of embryological development in
an aquatic environment…
…Altogether at least eight quite
different innovations were combined to
make the amniotic revolution possible:
[1] the formation of a tough impervious
shell; [2] the formation of the gelatinous
egg white (albumen) and the secretion
of a special acid to yield its water; [3]
the excretion of nitrogenous waste in
the form of water soluble uric acid,
[4] the formation of the amniotic cavity
in which the embryo floats…
…(This is surrounded by the
amniotic membrane which formed by
an outgrowth of mesodermal tissue.
Neither the amniotic cavity nor the
membrane which surrounds it has
any homologue in any amphibian);
[5] the formation of the allantois from
the future floor of the hind gut as a
container for waste products and
later to serve the function of a
respiratory organ;…
[6]…the development of a tooth or
carbuncle which the developed
embryo can utilize to break out of the
egg; [7] a quantity of yolk sufficient
for the needs of the embryo till
hatching; [8] changes in the
urogenital system of the female
permitting fertilization of the egg
before the hardening of the shell.”
Dr. Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, pp. 218-219
THE FEATHER THAT
BROKE THE THEORY’S
BACK
shaft
barb
barbules
hooks
“It is not easy to see how an impervious
reptile scale could be converted
gradually into an impervious feather
without passing through a frayed scale
intermediate which would be weak,
easily deformed and still quite permeable
to air. It is true that basically a feather
is....a mass of keratin filaments - but the
filaments are not a random tangle but are
ordered in an amazingly complex way to
achieve the tightly intertwined structure
of the feather. Take away the exquisite
coadaptation of the components,
take away the coarrangement of the barbs
on the shaft and all that is left is a soft
pliable structure utterly unsuitable to form
the basis of a stiff impervious aerofoil. The
stiff impervious property of the feather
which makes it so beautiful an adaptation
for flight, depends basically on such a
highly involved and unique system of
coadapted components that it seems
impossible that any transitional feather-like
structure could possess even to a slight
degree the crucial properties.”
Dr. Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, p. 209
“I remember well the time when the
thought of the eye made me cold
all over, but I have got over this
stage of the complaint, and now
small trifling particulars of
structure often make me very
uncomfortable. The sight of a
feather in a peacock’s tail,
whenever I gaze at it, makes me
sick.”
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin 296 (F. Darwin ed. 1887)
SHOCK ABSORBER
SPECIALIZED
ROBUST
SKULL
EXCEPTIONAL
NECK
MUSCLES
UNIQUELY
DURABLE
BEAK
SPECIAL
FEET
UNUSUAL
TAIL
FEATHERS
Up to
1000 G’s
of force
occurring
hundreds of
times per
minute!
One prominent evolutionist on the
editorial staff of a prestigious
scientific magazine confided to the
author after examining the
[woodpecker’s] skull, “There are
certain anatomical features which just
cannot be explained by gradual
mutations over millions of years. Just
between you and me, I have to get
God into the act too sometimes.”
Luther D. Sutherland, “Miraculous Design Features in Woodpeckers,”
Creation Research Society Quarterly, 12:183, 1976
Survival value or
specifically ordained
job?
A BREATHTAKING
PROPOSAL
“In all other vertebrates the air is
drawn into the lungs through a
system of branching tubes which
finally terminate in tiny air sacs, or
alveoli, so that during respiration
the air is moved in and out through
the same passage. In the case of
birds, however, the major bronchi
break down into tiny tubes which
permeate the lung tissue…
…These so-called parabronchi
eventually join up together again,
forming a true circulatory system
so that air flows in one direction
through the lungs. This
unidirectional flow of air is
maintained during both inspiration
and expiration by a complex
system of interconnected air sacs
in the bird's body…
…which expand and contract
in such a way so as to ensure a
continuous delivery of air
through the parabronchi. The
existence of this air sac system
in turn has necessitated a
highly specialized and unique
division of the body cavity of
the bird into several
compressible compartments…
…the structure of the lung in birds
and the overall functioning of the
respiratory system is quite unique.
No lung in any other vertebrate
species is known which in any way
approaches the avian system.
Moreover, it is identical in all
essential details in birds as diverse
as humming birds, ostriches and
hawks.”
Dr. Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, pp. 210-211
INSIDE THE BIRD LUNG (Diagramatic)
Airflow
Bloodflow
Lung
Front
air sacs
(Parts are
inside the birds
hollow bones.)
Rear air sacs
“In attempting to explain how such an
intricate and highly specialized
system of correlated adaptations
could have been achieved gradually
through perfectly functional
intermediates, one is faced with the
problem of the feather magnified a
thousand times. The suspicion
inevitably arises that perhaps no
functional intermediate exists between
the dead-end and continuous throughput types of lung.
The fact that the design of the avian
respiratory system is essentially invariant
in all birds merely increases one's
suspicion that no fundamental variation
of the system is compatible with the
preservation of respiratory function. One
is irresistibly reminded of Cuvier's view
that the great divisions of nature are
grounded in necessity and that
intermediates cannot exist because such
forms are incoherent and non-functional.”
Dr. Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, p. 212
BIRD MIGRATION:
A NAVIGATIONAL
NIGHTMARE FOR
EVOLUTION
Lesser White Throated Warbler
Lesser White
Throated Warbler
Manx Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
X
Black Poll Warbler
Black Poll Warbler
Black Poll Warbler
Waits for cold front
20,000 feet
High altitude
cross wind
Long
Tailed
Cuckoo
Long Tailed
Cuckoo
23% less energy required
WHAT ARE THE
SECRETS OF
MIGRATING BIRD’S
NAVIGATION
CAPABILITIES?
How well could you
navigate?
PREPROGRAMMED
PRECISION
NAVIGATION
BY RANDOM
MUTATIONS OR
DIVINE DESIGN?
RECOGNIZING DESIGN:
A DOUBLE STANDARD?
1. Which is more complex?
2. Which is more capable?
3. Which was designed and
which happened by chance?
DARWIN’S CONFESSION
“If it could be demonstrated that
any complex organ existed which
could not possibly have been
formed by numerous successive
slight modifications, my theory
would absolutely breakdown!”
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
DARWIN’S CONFESSION
CONCERNING INSTINCTS
Many instincts are so wonderful
that their development will
probably appear to the reader a
difficulty sufficient to overthrow
my whole theory.
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
Up to
1000 G’s
of force
occurring
hundreds of
times per
second!
INSIDE THE BIRD LUNG (Diagramatic)
Airflow
Bloodflow
Lung
Front
air sacs
(Parts are
inside the bids
hollow bones.)
Rear air sacs
Black
Black Poll
Poll Warbler
Warbler
Waits
Waits for
for cold
cold front
front
20,000
20,000 feet
feet
High
High altitude
altitude
cross
cross wind
wind
For ever since the creation of the
world His invisible nature and
attributes, that is, His eternal power
and divinity have been made
intelligible and clearly discernible in
and through the things that have
been made – His handiworks. So
[men] are without excuse –
altogether without any defense or
justification.
Romans 1:20 Amplified
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