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Introduction
to the Mathematics of Evolution Chapter
2 The
Empty Box "And when you trust your
television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information,
oh They can bend it all they
want." Lyrics of "Waiting on the World to Change," by
John Mayer The Empty Box The
original theory of evolution supported the theory of "gradualism,"
which meant that new species would arise gradually; meaning new species would
appear for the first time on the earth evenly spaced over time. The original
theory also meant that a high percentage of fossils would be
"transitional" species, meaning species which were
"between" two other species.
Because evolution was supposed to have happened slowly, in small steps, large
numbers of transitional species were a requirement for the theory. However,
the fossil record, both before and after This is how
Charles Darwin explained why the data in his day did not support his theory: "The geological record [is]
extremely imperfect and [this] will to a large extent explain why we do not
find intermediate varieties, connecting together all the extinct and existing
forms of life by the finest graduated steps.
He who rejects these views on the nature of the
geological record, will rightly reject my whole theory." Origin of Species What
paleontologists did find both before and after Technically
this is called "punctuated," meaning in a short amount of time many
new species appeared; then for long periods of time very few new species
appeared on the earth for the first time. Nor did
paleontologists find the transitional species What
happened several decades ago was that the theory of evolution was dying because
a growing number of scientists were starting to question its validity due to
the fossil record (see: Darwin's Enigma - chapter 1). It should
be clearly understood by the reader that many key parts of Darwinism have been
completely disproven over and over. Many of the key concepts of If we
compare the theory of evolution of Paleontologists
removed two of these things from the theory of evolution box: gradualism and
transitional species. The third
and fourth items, natural selection and common ancestry; do not belong in the
theory of evolution box because they do not delineate between the theory of
evolution and creationism. In other
words they are "non-differentiating," as will be discussed in a
future chapter. Thus, the original theory of evolution box is
empty. There is nothing in it
that is valid from a scientific standpoint; as far as False Theories In most
cases, when integral pieces of a theory are proven to be false, the theory as a
whole is rejected by science. Even when
all pieces of a theory are absolutely true, theories are frequently rejected by
science because "science" is not always interested in truth for a
variety of reasons (generally pride and vested interests). Thus, when four
of the key pieces of Instead of
automatically rejecting the theory of evolution of What do you
think they did? The primary
goal of orthodox science is not truth, but the goal is to avoid, at all costs,
any mention of God. To abandon To abandon
Darwinism would have been an admission that God designed and created the earth
and all life on earth. Such an admission is totally repugnant
and unacceptable to the scientific establishment. It is totally unacceptable for science to
allow a discussion of God, much less to admit that He lives and that science
was wrong!! Thus, instead
of the obvious answer that science would flatly reject the theory of evolution;
science had no option except to try and "fix" the theory of evolution
in order to maintain its highly coveted "naturalism." And that is exactly what happened. For
example, when new species were consistently found to appear on earth in
"punctuated" clumps, two well known evolutionists, Dr. Niles Eldredge (of the American Museum) and the late Dr. Stephen
Jay Gould (of Harvard), coined the term "punctuated equilibrium" in
1972 to explain the fact that gradualism did not fit the data. Thus, rather than admitting the
theory of evolution was false, they modified the theory of evolution to fit the
data. Yet another
double-standard is pushed on the public. In other
words, the way science "fixed" the theory of evolution was to ignore
its flaws and replace false theories with recent discoveries. In other
words, they modified the theory to fit
the data. That is how they
"fixed" the theory of evolution. To revive
the theory of evolution, and to put something in its empty box, they converted
the term "gradualism" into the term "punctuated equilibria" or "punctuated equilibrium." DNA An even
more dramatic example of how the theory of evolution has been modified to fit
the data; is the discovery of DNA. At no
time prior to the discovery of DNA did the theory of evolution predict that DNA
would be discovered. At no time prior to
the discovery of DNA was any part of the mechanism
of DNA predicted by the theory of evolution. Yet, when
DNA was discovered, the theory of evolution suddenly became the proprietor
(i.e. owner) of the creation of DNA and it was claimed that the theory of
evolution explained how human DNA was formed by a long series of complete
accidents. This is
amazing considering that the theory of evolution did not even predict the
discovery of DNA or any of its many mechanisms. Essentially,
the term "evolution" was replaced with the term
"neo-Darwinism;" and later the term "neo-Darwinism" was
replaced by the term "evolution."
Thus, DNA gradually became part of the theory of evolution's empty box. As the
incomprehensible complexity of DNA is slowly unraveled, the theory of evolution
always gets the credit for creating the complexity. The reality
is that as discovery after discovery is made, the scientific evidence gets
further and further away from This is not
science, it is fraud. New
discoveries are simply put in the theory of evolution empty box, as if The "theory of evolution"
today is nothing more than a list of recent scientific discoveries.
Any time there is a discovery in science, the theory of evolution gets
the credit. The Theory of
Evolution is Unfalsifiable A
scientific theory is "falsifiable" if it can be shown to be
false. For example, if someone claimed
the moon was made of Swiss cheese; such a theory would have been proven false
when A theory is
"unfalsifiable" if it cannot be shown to be
false. For
example, the Big Bang, meaning the theory that the Universe was created by an
accidental explosion, is unfalsifiable because it is
impossible to prove or disprove a theory that the Universe was created by an
accidental explosion many billions of years ago. The theory
of evolution is also unfalsifiable, meaning it cannot
be proven to be false. As with the Big
Bang, the reason evolution cannot be
proven false has nothing to do with either truth or the scientific evidence. The
reason the theory of evolution cannot be proven false is because when a
discovery is made that disproves the theory of evolution; the theory of
evolution is simply modified to incorporate the new discovery. Any
discovery which disproves a portion of the theory of evolution is simply put
into the empty box of the theory of evolution or it is blacklisted. In other
words, the only reason the theory of
evolution is unfalsifiable is that it is a moving
target. The theory of evolution
is "moved," meaning changed, every time there is a new discovery. Sometimes it is moved so the arrow hits the
target and sometimes it is moved so the arrow will miss the target so the
discovery can be buried and blacklisted. This
behavior is unprecedented in the history of science. Instead of science looking for absolute
truth, science keeps changing a false theory to fit any new data. What is
happening is that whenever some new discovery is made in biology or
paleontology, the discovery is simply put into the evolution box. It is
incredible, but even DNA was put into the box and the claim was made that
random mutations of DNA, coupled with natural selection, allowed evolution to
create human DNA (this is neo-Darwinism in a nutshell). The concept
that human DNA "evolved" from the DNA of much simpler animals; was
put into the evolution box, even though there was absolutely no scientific
evidence that any new DNA has ever been created, or has "evolved," by
random means. The concept
of "natural selection" was always in the box, but even it was
modified to fit the discovery of DNA.
Some claimed that "natural selection" worked at the nucleotide
level; others claimed that "natural selection" worked at the gene
level; but most claimed it works at the species level after random mutations
had done their job. The result
of this scientific nonsense is that all
new discoveries in science are converted into "evidence" for
evolution or they are ignored and blacklisted. If the
theory of evolution were equated to a painting, the painting made by But this is
not science, it is a magic trick. Science has
not proven the theory of evolution is true; what science has done is modify the
theory of evolution to fit recent discoveries. |