• However, scientists don’t really know how life came to be. Even Stanley Miller, whose experiments are cited in most biology text books, says that the origin of life is still unknown. The idea that dead material can come to life all by itself is not consistent with scientific observation.

• The leading mathematicians in the century met with some evolutionary biologists and confronted them with the fact that according to mathematical statistics, the probabilities of a cell or a protein molecule coming into existence were nil. They even constructed a model of a large computer and tried to figure out the possibilities of a cell ever happening. The result was zero possibility! – Wistar Institute, 1966

• Professor Edwin Conklin observed, “The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.”

• Under normal circumstances, creatures give birth to the same kind of creatures. It is established scientific fact that like begets like. On rare instances, the DNA in an embryo is damaged, resulting in a mutant child that differs in some respect from its parent. Although a few mutations have been scientifically observed that are beneficial, most mutations produce inferior offspring. For the theory of evolution to be true, there must be a fantastic number of creative mutations that produce new kinds of offspring which are better suited for survival, and therefore are favored by natural selection.

• It has never been observed in any laboratory that mutations can cause one species to turn into another. Despite this, evolutionists believe that given enough time, some animals will eventually evolve into other creatures.

• Evolutionists claim that although we have not actually observed these things happening, that does not mean that they are impossible. They say it simply means they are extremely improbable. Evolutionists think the world has been around long enough for all these highly improbable things to happen.

• Sir Fred Hoyle, of Cambridge University stated that statistically the chances of one cell evolving was the same as a tornado passing through a junkyard and giving you a fully functional Boeing 747.

• Scientific evidence casts serious doubts on the theory of evolution, for example:

• The Fossil Record

• Living “Fossils”

• The Cambrian Explosion

• New T.Rex Discoveries

• “Missing Links”

• There are many creatures that defy evolution. All of the examples below illustrate complex and sophisticated biological structures. It is difficult to believe that these creatures could have evolved, since all of their systems had to have been in place at the start for them to survive.

• “Science now knows that many of the pillars of Darwinian theory are either false or misleading. Yet biology texts continue to present them as factual evidence of evolution. What does this imply about their scientific standards?” — Jonathan Wells (Recipient of two Ph.D.s, one in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California at Berkeley, and one in Religious Studies from Yale University. Has worked as a postdoctoral research biologist at the University of California at Berkeley and the supervisor of a medical laboratory in Fairfield, California. Has taught biology at California State University in Hayward.)

http://www.straight-talk.net/evolution/arguments.shtml

Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible brain disease marked by deterioration of nerve cells and eventual complete loss of cognitive functioning (thinking, memory and reason). Many Alzheimer’s patients have brain lesions called amyloid plaques, which consist of protein fragments called amyloid-beta. Small aggregates of amyloid-beta are thought to contribute prominently to the degeneration of brain cells in Alzheimer’s. But the fact is that we don’t know for sure the exact role that amyloid-beta plays. When all is said and done, amyloid may not be the cause of Alzheimer’s at all.

The discovery involves an amyloid beta fragment called AICD. Scientists have known that AICD controls expression of genes that contribute to Alzheimer’s, but how it did so was unclear until now.

The researchers at UT San Antonio discovered a protein molecule that communicates with AICD to turn on target genes, and I is hoped that scientists will exploit this knowledge to identify compounds or drugs that can disrupt these signals, leading to a novel and effective treatment for this disease.

Several drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration can temporarily slow worsening symptoms, but no treatment is currently available to slow or stop the degeneration of nerve cells that lies at the root of the disease.

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I had never heard of Louie Giglio until today, but I ran across the following clip from one of his messages from How Great Is Our God. If there had been no video, I would have sworn that I was listening to John Piper: the voice and the style sounds exactly like him, even Piper’s trademark usage of hyphenated phrases. Giglio is a powerful communicator, but more importantly he speaks of the power of God’s glory in His creation.

After watching this brief clip, my wife ordered this DVD for the Christian bookshop she manages in Pontypridd, Wales; and they seem to disappear as soon as she gets them on the shelf. The video excerpt below is just a small sample of the message.

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