Morris and Parker, "What is creation science?"
On pages 7 & 8, paragraphs 9 & 1, Morris says,
While we admittedly cannot prove creation, it is important to note that all the above facts offered as evidence against evolution (gaps between kinds, no evolutionary mechanism, increasing entropy, etc.) are actual predictions from the creation "model!"
Morris' "facts" do not actually constitute any evidence of any sort, except perhaps of his own capacity for dissimulation. Evolutionary biology doesn't define "kinds", so pointing out "gaps between kinds" is not making a critique that is accessible within a biological framework. Beyond that technical point of logic, there is the fact that speciation has been observed in occur in modern organisms and the fact that transitional sequences of fossils have been identified. As I pointed out previously, evolutionary mechanisms have been identified and observed to occur, including natural selection and speciation via polyploidy. "Increasing entropy" is no problem for evolutionary mechanism theories, since thsoe don't postulate any decrease in entropy due to their operation. Anyone who has read the rest of this series may have come to an appreciation of just how little substance Morris puts into his "etc."
Morris goes on to claim that various items discussed are somehow "predictions" from "the creation 'model'". This is an interesting claim. First, the notion that Morris' "creation 'model'" is capable of generating predictions is something of which I remain highly skeptical. Second, as I noted above, Morris' examples do not actually illustrate what he claims they illustrate. If each of the examples actually represents a "prediction" from the "creation 'model'", then that "model" is in deep trouble. Existing links are far more of a problem for SciCre than missing links are for EMTs. Existing identified mechanisms of evolution counter another "prediction". The fact that entropy increases has no bearing, since EMTs don't postulate a decrease.
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