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A creationist response to a National Academy of Science’s Teaching About Evolution and a Nature of Science. The latter, distributed national to thousands of open propagandize teachers, is an bid to sate students with evolutionary concepts. Refuting Evolution is a reasoning rebuttal, delicately examining a points lifted in a NAS booklet: scholarship and religion; healthy selection; bird evolution; astronomy; a age of a earth, etc.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #144526 in Books
- Published on: 1999-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 143 pages
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199 of 262 people found a following examination helpful.
By Carl Flygare
Sometimes we can tell a book by a cover. The painting gives all away. A ominous furnish labeled "SCIENCE" is crashing by a potion window that represents evolution. Implicit in a picture is a guarantee totally emptied by a essence of this book - that 'science' (as deformed and dissipated by a author) somehow refutes evolution!
Cynically dictated to apart uncritical creationists from their income and a tangible facts, this aggressively common announcement is typeset in a immeasurable 'Weekly Reader' rise and format that keeps your fingers constantly bustling flipping from page to page. Which is suitable given "Refuting Evolution" is radically content-free.
If Jonathan Sarfati has any honest cards to play in a clearly unconstrained diversion of whack-a-mole that scientists are forced to play with Young Earth Creationists (YECs for short), he should write them adult and contention them for counterpart examination in a convincing systematic journal. He won't since scholarship is tough work and Sarfati can make an easy vital by holding ungrounded pot shots during evolution.
The threads of blunder woven into Sarfati's tapestry of nonsense are large and perverse. Here are a few highlights:
Sarfati postulates that a miss of helium evading from a atmosphere of a earth supports a 'youth.' He deliberately ignores a justification NASA, and many others, have amassed on helium shun that deflates this lighter-than-air YEC balloon.
He also trots out a discredited canard about sea salinity ancillary a immature earth interpretation. Unfortunately this creationist gambit conveniently omits good famous mechanisms, such as basaltic lava quenching, that removes sodium from a ocean.
Another whopper posits that prohibited potassium and uranium are "easily dissolved" in H2O and that a leaching of these primogenitor radionuclides from rocks presumably disrupts radiometric dating calculations. Even if this was a box - and it isn't, a minerals these elements form has all to do with weathering and solubility - this diseased justification ignores lunar samples performed by Apollo astronauts from earth's airless and waterless moon.
Physics, chemistry, and geology reproduce Sarfati's hand-waving, assertions, and 'Jesus just-so' stories. How about biology?
Here Sarfati resorts to what we like to call a creationist 'argument from low self-esteem' - he attempts to nullify a molecular phylogenetics that uncover an unusually tighten attribute (98% commonality) between tellurian and chimpanzee DNA - and fails spectacularly.
From chromosomal alloy and pseudogenes to retroelements and transposons a systematic existence of expansion is voiced in a DNA of any chairman on earth (including Sarfati). These corpse (literally) are millions of non-coding segments of DNA, snippets of a genome that eloquently request common skirmish with odd clarity and flawless evidence.
Specifics embody how tellurian chromosome 2 resulted from a alloy of dual apart chromosomes (corresponding to chimpanzee chromosomes 2A and 2B) after a origin heading to complicated humans separate from a one heading to contemporary chimpanzees.
Transposable elements, also famous as transposons and retroelements (aka 'jumping genes'), such as Alu elements, HERV-K, CMT1A, and GULO yield harsh acknowledgment of tellurian expansion and a ancestral connection with other primates.
Pseudogenes (including unitary pseudogenes, duplication pseudogenes and retropseudogenes) also supply expressive justification for evolution. Comparisons of pseudogene sequences opposite class exhibit a unchanging pattern. Human pseudogenes are many identical to those in chimpanzee DNA, and are rarely identical to those of other primates. Species as anomalous as rodents and humans also arrangement some grade of ancient pseudogene likeness - additional justification of a common evolutionary story with consanguine primates, and some-more distantly associated mammals.
Genomics investigate addresses a evolutionary attribute between humans, chimpanzees and gorillas. Mitochondrial and chief DNA sequences both uncover that humans and chimpanzees are some-more closely associated to any other than possibly is to gorillas. Genome-wide comparison of a tellurian and chimpanzee genomes spectacularly confirms that a genes, chromosomes, transposable elements, and pseudogenes of humans and chimpanzees are strikingly similar.
Human mitochondrial DNA diversity, X-chromosome diversity, Y-chromosome diversity, and farrago of DNA sequences in all chromosomes unambiguously reveals that a evolutionary cradle of amiability is located in sub-Saharan Africa, and also marks successive migrations opposite a whole origination - primarily to a Middle East and Asia, afterwards Europe, Australia, and a Americas.
So many for 'science,' ala Sarfati though afterwards this book unequivocally isn't about scholarship during all. "Refuting Evolution" is a desperately biting and pandering hotchpotch of fundamentalist divinity and pledge hour apologetics, formed on a verbatim misreading of Genesis and other tools of a Bible.
'Truthiness' is no surrogate for a truth; systematic facts, however good upheld and tested by examination and inference, are customarily feed to Sarfati's faith-based shredder to clear his comprehensive and peremptory faith in an allegorical origination myth.
Earth to Sarfati - expansion is a solidly determined and widely supposed systematic speculation with immeasurable exegetic and predictive power, formed on a plain substructure of ancillary evidence. Get over it. You might as good repudiate sobriety (Newtonian or General Relativity). Worship as we greatfully and find devout condolence in Genesis if we contingency - though don't caterer scholarship to column adult your undiscerning and Gothic worldview.
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Like many creationist books that I've read, this one is full of facile errors in astronomy, chemistry, geology and a inlet of science. For example, when arguing for a "young" Universe, Sarfati (p. 113) claims that no theatre 3 supernova ruins exist in a or adjacent galaxies. However, 166.2+2.5, 180.0-1.7, 189.1+3.0, 279.0+1.1, and 290.1-0.8 are usually 5 undisputed examples of these "nonexistent" remnants.
Sarfati (p. 113) also claims that a "lack" of helium shun from a atmosphere supports a "youth." However, new NASA images uncover helium and other gases being SWEPT from a Earth's atmosphere into low space. One eventuality occurred on Sep 24-25, 1998 after a solar coronal mass emission.
So, since don't creationists use heavier gases (e.g. argon) that won't straightforwardly shun into space when they try to date a Earth's atmosphere? Perhaps, it's since a windy 40argon/36argon is unchanging with an ancient Earth (Dalrymple, 1984, p. 83; Krauskopf and Bird, 1995, p. 576) and it can't be twisted to support their interpretations of Genesis.
Using feeble famous numbers from his allies, Sarfati (p. 114) argues that salt concentrations in sea H2O should be many aloft if a oceans were billions of years old. This justification also fails. When prohibited basaltic lavas explode onto a seafloor, they mislay sodium from seawater as they quench. This process, called albitization, refers to a accumulation of sodium in a cooling rocks during quenching. Because creationists omit this critical sodium-removal mechanism, their salinity calculations blink a age of a oceans.
Sarfati (p. 110) also claims that prohibited potassium and uranium are "easily dissolved" in H2O and that a leaching of these primogenitor radionuclides from rocks presumably can interrupt radiometric dating calculations. However, as taught in any rudimentary chemistry course, (doesn't Sarfati reason degrees in chemistry?) H2O solubility and a ability of uranium, potassium, and other elements to continue out of minerals count on a compounds that enclose a elements and a burning state of a elements. For example, uranium (IV) is generally insoluble in water, though (UO2)+2 is rarely soluble (Langmuir, 1997, p. 495-496). Potassium chloride is unequivocally soluble in water, though potassium muscovite is not and it's low on Goldich's weathering series. Even if Sarfati's accusations were true, they're irrelevant to radiometric dates on rocks from a airless and waterless Moon.
88 of 122 people found a following examination helpful.
By Kevin R. Henke
Sarfati's book contains large errors and large dissipated references. For example, when arguing for a "young" Universe, Sarfati(p. 113) claims that no theatre 3 supernova ruins exist in a or adjacent galaxies. However, 166.2+2.5, 180.0-1.7, 189.1+3.0, 279.0+1.1, and 290.1-0.8 are usually 5 undisputed examples of these "nonexistent" remnants. Sarfati(p. 113) also claims that a miss of helium shun from a atmosphere supports a "youth." However, new NASA images uncover helium being SWEPT from a Earth's atmosphere into low space. One eventuality occurred on Sep 24-25, 1998 after a solar coronal mass emission. Considering these straightforwardly seen shun mechanisms and a effects of complicated helium pollution, a helium calm of a Earth's atmosphere in NO WAY conflicts with a ancient age of a Earth. So, since don't creationists use heavier gases(e.g.,argon) that won't straightforwardly shun into space for "dating"? Perhaps, it's since a windy 40argon/36argon is unchanging with an ancient Earth. Sarfati(p. 114) serve argues that salt accumulation in seawater indicates that oceans are "young." However, this justification fails since creationists have refused to scrupulously cruise a dismissal of sodium from seawater by erupting basalts (albitization). Albitization is genuine and EASILY identified in a potion rims of sham basalts. All of Sarfati's attacks on radiometric dating are also erroneous. As one example, Safati(p. 110) claims that with radiometric dating, potassium and uranium are "easily dissolved" in water. However, solubility and weatherability count on mineralogy and burning state. Uranium(IV) is generally insoluble, since UO2 +2 is rarely soluble. Potassium chloride is soluble, though potassium muscovite is not and it's low on Goldich's weathering series. Clearly, Sarfati does not know elementary chemistry.
Geologists know that sediments might be deposited solemnly or fast by mudslides, earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and other NATURAL catastrophes. Yet, Sarfati's(p. 105) discussions of a fast depositional eventuality during Mt. St. Helens are presented as news. Besides Pompeii, there have been large studies over a years that support fast NATURAL deposition, including a 1973 studies during Laacher See, Germany. Sarfati(p. 106) also mentions creationist Berhault's lab work on fast lees layering as if it's news. However, Berhault's formula are identical to layering in inauspicious turbidites, that geologist Bouma described in 1962. Sarfati(p. 105-107) is also incorrectly believes that internal healthy catastrophes can usually be scaled adult to furnish Noah's flood. As geologists detected by 1840, inlet refutes creationism (e.g., blueschists, varve cycles that conform beautifully with a Earth's 100,000-year eccentricity, thick non-hydrothermal salt deposits, archaic ephemeral radionuclides, deviation transformation from a Sun's core, hoary soils, metastable aragonite and obsidian, in place coral reefs and their expansion rings, silica cement, hoary dried ventifacts, and even polonium haloes according to a 1989 essay by Odom and Rink). Polystrate trees might form from complicated mudslides and hurricanes. However, sometimes, their arrangement is many slower than Sarfati(p. 107) realizes. For example, in 1700 AD, an trembler caused some seashore trees in Washington State to penetrate to a few meters next sea level. They're still station currently and are solemnly being buried to form polystrate trees. Other complicated polystrate trees start in Texas and during Mt. St. Helens, all though Noah's Flood.
Sarfati(p. 110) mentions how creationist Austin performed "anomalously old" radiometric dates from Mt. St. Helens. Austin's photographs CLEARLY uncover zoned feldspar and other damaged xenocrysts in a volcanics, that prove a prolonged history. Considering a huge array of little xenocrysts in a photographs, it's ignorant to explain that anyone could effectively mislay them before a samples were dated. No consternation Austin got aged dates. Interestingly, Austin's dates of a polluted vegetable fractions are unchanging with Bowen's greeting array and prove a LONG story for a volcanics.
Sarfati(p. 18) is scold that scholarship usually favors healthy explanations. Natural explanations are higher to a wild, untestable abnormal speculations that issue from a eternal imaginations of creationists. If creationists trust that it's suitable to plead abnormal explanations in biology, since don't they disciple their use in courtrooms, debate labs, sanitariums, and hospitals? Obviously, even creationists comprehend that germ improved explain diseases than demons. Furthermore, any invulnerability profession would be disbarred if he/she argued that a demon and not a think committed a crime. Whether we're traffic with a murder victim, thick salt deposits, or diseases, viable explanations don't engage gods, demons, Noah's Flood or Jack Frost. While creationists intent to a miss of eyewitnesses and repeatability in paleontology, how many of them will intent to a solitary use of forensics with a miss of repeatability and eyewitnesses in rapist trials? Murderers are mostly only convicted on debate justification though any watcher testimony. Indeed, DNA justification is higher to watcher testimonies, that mostly conflict. At a same time, debate scientists might have reduction justification for a genocide of a plant than paleontologists have for a genocide of a dinosaur. How many creationists will direct biased watcher testimony before suspects might be convicted and executed?
Sarfati(p. 15) claims that creationists rest on science, though they unequivocally rest on "god-of-the-gaps." Whenever scholarship finds healthy explanations and a opening closes, creationists simply remold their cosmetic Bible interpretations to explain that a Bible had a answers all along (e.g.,Sarfati,p.97-98) or that a apparently absurd verses are usually non-literal "poetry" (e.g.,Sarfati,p.100-101). Sarfati regularly attacks contemporary Christians that support an aged Earth in ways that are distant some-more childish than ANYTHING I've ever seen among evolutionists. At a same time, Sarfarti(p. 26) has double standards for famous unusual Christians of a past. For example, while disapproval Ross and other contemporary old-Earthers, Sarfarti praises Buckland, Cuvier, Agassiz and Kelvin. Kelvin, for example, believed that a Earth was comparison than 20 million years. Sarfati(p. 26) also admires Newton, though ignores his Unitarianism. Sarfati (p. 29) even praises Wernher von Braun, though overlooks von Braun's nazism. Galileo, Copernicus and Steno were creationists as Sarfati(p. 26) states, though deliberation a fatal dogmatism of Catholics and Protestants behind then, few (DaVinci, Buffon) were dauntless adequate to impugn creationism. Because of a large errors in "Refuting Evolution," this book fails to rebut anything.
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