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CHAPTER SEVEN
The believer in Biblical creation—instead of violating scientific sense—abides by the scientific method which is based on observation and experimentation. The fossil record says "Yes" to the Biblical account of creation. No valid evidence of transitional forms of life exists at any level. Rather, data indicating well defined and stable categories of the Genesis kind abound. Carefully orchestrated manipulations of genetics by intelligent scientists only demonstrate designed selection and not the "natural selection" proposed by evolutionists. In any case, the fruitfly is still a fruitfly. The moth is still a moth. The abundantly numerous "irreducibly complex systems" in nature make an irrefutable case for our Intelligent Creator. In the twentieth century, the logic flowing out of belief in the evolution theory justified the horrific consequences of unprecedented human degradation and beastly cruelty.
If the hundred and forty years of Darwinian research has proven anything, it is that evolution is unprovable. As evolutionists desperately compete with each other to prove the unprovable, they destroy each others' hypotheses of the mechanism that each believes makes evolution work. Cosmologists and astrophysicists have begun to come over to the side of reason in their awesome investigations of the harmony of the universe. Creation is the triumph of reason. Creation has triumphed over evolution. It is only a matter of time when all—including all the combined wisdom of man—will acknowledge this victory because, "All thy worksshall praise Thee. . ." (Psalm 145:10).
APPENDIX
Michael Behe invoked the idea of a "Rube Goldberg Machine" to describe how blood clots. A Rube Goldberg machine is a silly machine which operates in a complex and contorted fashion. A ball drops on a see-saw, which is a slide, which dislodges a rock sending it down the slide into a water tank which overflows, etc. All of these functions eventually end up doing something productive. But take any one of its "components" away and it will not function. We can see that a Rube Goldberg Machine is "irreducibly complex."
The following is an excerpt from Behe's description of this "irreducibly complex" micro-biological system (from page 85):
When an animal is cut, a protein called Hageman factor is then cleaved by a protein called HMK to yield activated Hageman factor. Immediately the activated Hageman factor converts another protein, called prekallikrein, to its active form, kallidrein. Kallidrein helps HMK speed up the conversion of more Hageman factor to its active form. Activated Hageman factor and HMK then together transform another protein, called PTA, to its active form. Activated PTA in turn, together with the activated form of another protein (discussed below) called con-vertin, switch a protein called Christmas factor to its active form.
Finally, activated Christmas factor, together with antihemopilic factor (which itself activated by thrombin in a manner similar to that of proaccelerin) changes Stuart factor to its active form. Like the intrinsic pathway, the extrinsic pathway is also a cascade. The extrinsic pathway begins when a protein called proconvertin is turned into covertin by activated Hageman factor and thrombin. In the presence of another protein, tissue fac-tor, convertin changes Stuart factor to its active form. Tissue factor, however, only appears on the outside of cells that are usually not in contact with blood. Therefore, only when an injury brings tissue into contact with blood will the extrinsic pathway be initiated.
A massive system of proteins work in concert to create the "blood coagulation cascade." When trying to simplify the sys-tem, we realize that the removal of any one of the proteins would cause the blood to clot inappropriately. The problem with simplifying the blood-clotting system is not the final result, but the control system. Even if we had a simple system, it would not be able to evolve to the more complex system because the introduction of a new protein "would either turn the system on immediately— resulting in rapid death—or it would do nothing, and so have no reason to be selected." Each protein has to be regulated with a proenzyme and enzyme. Thus, each step in the blood clotting system is also "irreducibly complex." After reviewing the attempts to explain the evolution of the blood-clotting system, Behe concludes:
The bottom line is that clusters of proteins have to be inserted all at once into the cascade. This can be done only by postulating a "hopeful monster" who luckily gets all the proteins at once, or by the guidance of an intelligent agent.