The majority opinion where i come from is that intelligent design is a scientifically and intellectually indefensible position. We have been indoctrinated to believe this way since the age of 5 through the public school system, lying textbooks which keep known frauds and other falsehoods in the textbooks many years after their exposure and teach aspects of the theory as fact when really it is guesswork based on assumptions (such as with ages of rock layers and fossils). Also through museums (which do the same), the government and of course propaganda's best friend, the media.
Universities are as an evangelical tent meeting for the ideology of evolution and the young and highly impressionable minds are inundated by really smart "old people" who speak with such authority and who "must know what they're talking about because they're the experts". The tent meeting gets underway and the preacher gets up and says something like this: "Praise the Lord brothers and sisters and hallelujah, let me share the good news with you. We all evolved from a single celled organism billions of years ago which arose from non-life and we specifically arose most recently from apes with a very clearly drawn creative artist's depiction taking us from apes to ape men to healthy muscular cavemen beings to pot bellied beings that walk fully erect... which is us today".
Since most people have been indoctrinated into evolutionary perspective and have perhaps never seen any of the science from a creationist point of view, i have included a few videos in the hopes that they might be viewed with an open mind, with eyes to see and with ears to hear. Since i fear that the following reality would in no way be assumed due to such obstacles as preconceived notions and even propaganda, let it be known that though they are greatly outnumbered and sensationally out-funded, the scientists on the creationist side are smart individuals with phd's too.
A few videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1iCjKWzeEE&list=PL2CE0F5F1AB4948AD&in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_GFMoUTzUc&list=PL4C78B96D9FE6B6FB&in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA7cXloFBQQ&list=PL4C78B96D9FE6B6FB&in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YtBSI8CZUU&list=PL2CE0F5F1AB4948AD&in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hgDyrY7TKw&list=PL2CE0F5F1AB4948AD&in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BVoo_bpg6o&list=PL4C78B96D9FE6B6FB&in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c7ezkn0wXA&list=PL2CE0F5F1AB4948AD&in...
Hi Chavey,
Sex is natural now that it exists, nobody contests this. But the question is how did it get here? Is it natural that one or more asexual organisms slowly evolved blindly over millions of years to become sexua| with everything that is involved for those transitions to take place and knowing that until ALL of the aspects and capabilities of this system were fully functioning SIMULTANEOUSLY, every part of the system together, there would be no benefit whatsoever and thus no reason whatsoever for the "emerging species" to ever select towards it?
The emergence of males and females in the first place from gender neutral organisms is itself astonishing, all of their parts that happened to develop simultaneously and in perfect harmony and compatibility one with another (all the while not working or accomplishing anything at all until they were all fully in place since each system as a whole, both the male's and the female's are irreducibly complex and there is added irreducible complexity in the fact that the male and females parts, eggs and sperms must be compatible one with the other and come together with the preordained purpose (without intelligent design) of joining together in a union to form a new life, something that had never been done before. The idea that through an unintelligently designed blind process, sex became the incredibly pleasurable experience that it is, that the various essential organs all remarkably emerged, the ability to produce eggs and sperms somehow developed along with each genders ability to keep them alive, that each knew to have only half the chromosomes of the dna that were and are in every other cell, that the woman's body blindly developed the ability to nurture and nourish the growing baby without any functionality along the way and before the first baby was ever conceived!, that a place for the baby to be safe throughout the pregnancy was perfectly in place, that a canal was in place to birth the baby through (before the first baby was ever born!), the knowledge of when to birth the baby and the ability of the body to make all of the necessary adjustments to enable this birth... and the astronomical improbability of all of this happening go on and on... and yet we insist on believing that we were not created as we are, with everything all in place fully functioning simultaneously (as is required). The only scenario which resolves absolutely every mathematical impossibility 100% (along with many other mathematical impossibilities associated with us being here today including life arising from non-life in the first place)... is an intelligent designer.
This is a massive problem for evolutionists to account for and the honest ones (those not given to wild propaganda like Richard Dawkins) fully acknowledge this. How could any organism slowly evolve a system of such immense complexity and nuance?... which being incomplete and thus completely unusable along the way... and thus providing no benefits whatsoever for millions of years as they were supposedly being selected for (benefits along the way... which according to the theory itself... are the only way the species would select and thus evolve towards these massive and innumerable necessary changes).
Here's another very good video which explains it better than i was able from memory: http://www.youtube.com/embed/bF7ODNmYF_g"
Greetings konstantine in the name of the Lord Jesus, the Son of God, the Lamb of God, the only Savior, the Good Shepherd, the gate, the narrow path, the resurrection, the way the truth and the life, the holy one of God!
Now onward to addressing your post.
None of this begins to explain how an asexual population of organisms can blindly without an ounce of vision towards a functional distant future goal and without beneficial selectability along the way to choose genetically towards unfunctioning and thus unbeneficial aspects of the eventual inter galactic journey of massive necessary inter-dependent changes.
How the asexual population blindly morphed into miraculously compatible males and females, arising anew from gender neutrality and blindly morphed entirely new (previously nonexistent) complex and completely inter-dependent reproductive systems with completely interdependent organs and functionality, both male and female independently to become sexual, sexually compatible and sexually reproductive while being womb and birthing canal ready.
No doubt you are familiar with that Darwinian tree of common descent drawing we all have seen with a singular base and with many branches one leading to another to another? The actual fossil record (cambrian explosion/biological big bang!) shows 40 completely separate trees with each fully developed phylum at the base and with no interconnecting branches between the trees. No transitional forms leading to any of the 40 are contained within the fossil record of 250 million specimins. It is "as if" they all just appeared as stated by various evolutionists. It is thus, by examining the evidence and making an honest interpretation, "as if" they all were created. At least that is what the actual evidence points to.
But since an intelligent design conclusion is prohibited in the evolutionist dominated community which demands a purely materialistic interpretation of all evidences in spite of what they are actually pointing to, evolutionism (i say "ism" because it is more of a wildly speculative philosophical ideology than an actual science) has to conjure up a very distant 2nd best interpretation... but without any actual evidence to back it up.
While it may make for genuinely wonderful bedtime stories, it is embarrassingly bad science. Unfortunately the textbook drawings and museum displays do not reflect the actual evidence and only serve to falsely indoctrinate a people.
As a pre-emptive declaration, i want to be clear that i fully embrace the fact that variability and adaptability within types of organisms is a reality and that selection, natural and otherwise along with mutations (damage to the dna) does in fact occur. We were well aware of variability and selection before Darwinian evolution ever arose as a theory and Jacob utilized this concept way back in Genesis. Thus i fully acknowledge what is called "micro" and i also acknowledge that the line between micro and macro is fuzzy semantically, so there are borderline micro examples that evolutionists might declare as examples of macro (like finches that become finches and salamanders that become...wait for it... salamanders!). I think we can all agree that asexual populations becoming sexua| and morphing full reproductive systems is an example of macro (or a population of reptiles morphing wings, warm bloodedness and other necessary systems and becoming birds) and this is what i am saying does not happen.
Back to the appearance of sexuality from asexual gender-neutral organisms, extremely rare and unlikely to be passed on beneficial random mutations and natural selection can not get this extraordinarily massive job done, thus macro evolutionism does not have the mechanism.
For more information about this, i refer you to my post with an accompanying video: http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1938281#i
See also this excellent 2 part video on the amazing complexity of the sperm. Watch honestly with a heart for the truth and ask yourself if this all happened without an intelligent designer.
Disclaimer: the maker of this video implements a couple of koran verses and i being a follower of the Lord Jesus am not promoting the koran.
http://youtu.be/6kGN2dcjNUY
http://youtu.be/OgGzFkHb91w