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Deceptive teaching

Public schools teach macro-evolution and micro-evolution together under the umbrella of evolution. This is to emphasize the evidence for micro-evolution to cover-up the fiction of macro-evolution.

Micro-evolution is defined as changes within a species. An example is the different breeds of dogs. Macro-evolution is the belief that all living creatures emerged from one original organism developed by chance from non-living matter.

Examples of evidence against macro-evolution are that life could not have originated from non-living matter and irreducible complexity.

Michael Behe, who proposed irreducible complexity, used the bacterial flagellum as an example of an irreducibly complex organism. The bacterial flagellum contains a motor, which operates similar to an outboard motor, and a tail acting as a propeller.

If one of the parts of the motor is missing, it will not operate. Therefore, a bacterial flagellum could not evolve as Darwin theorized by numerous, successive, slight modifications.

The simplest living cell is another example of irreducible complexity. Its existence requires all its parts are present and in the right order at the same time.

Since a living cell must be complete to exist, it could not originate by naturalistic means through gradual steps from non-living matter.

Secular scientists proposed solution to irreducible complexity is the theory of co-option. Commenting on co-option, Allen Orr, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Rochester, stated we might think that some of the parts of an irreducibly complex system evolved step by step for some other purpose and were then recruited wholesale to a new function.

But this is also unlikely.

Ted Mahaffey

Montoursville

Submitted by Virtual Newsroom

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