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Dear Thomas Freeman,Wow, you are an original thinker par excellence. I mean, you use the information you have to great effect, especially the outdated, and proven falsities of the evolutionary paradigm.
Evolution in not common sense, it is in fact uncommon senselessness. Really, is this all you have - Richard Dawkins.
I recently read a book of his called River out of Eden, dealing with the different "rivers of genetic variances". It was at best a bore fest of note.
There was nothing worthwhile in regard to scientific evidence. There was certainly a lot of was pseudo philosophical ideas. This philosophies started in ancient Greece and was only recently revived, due to the fact that there was a period of time called the dark ages, where there was no light because the Bible was suppressed and organised religion did indeed cause pain and suffering to millions.


I understand why some people would not want to embrace any form of religion because of atrocities committed in the name of God. Genocides, Wars, and ethnic cleansing  Many have died in the name of religion and for their religions. Let us therefore separate this from your so called fact of evolution and deal with that in another debate, because that one requires a little more time that these few words I have time to write.Evolution is once again I state, not common sense. Just go and have a look at the evolutionary transitional fossils you so would like to point out to the public. I personally laughed at the drawings they made of the various intermediates. There were a few images but not many.
Fantastic I say. You could actually find those in children’s story books. In actual fact Roald Dahl wrote a few children’s stories on how a few animals received their traits, like the camels hump, the elephant’s trunk and so forth. You see, just like those children’s stories are conjured up as fantasy, so is the Evolutionary Paradigm. The debate rages on. 
Two world views: Creation vs. Evolution.One is scientifically correct, the other not. It seems strange that the more we advance along the scientific road the more changes need to be made to explain the various laws that science has discovered over the past 250 years, and that has nothing to do with advancement of science. It rather has to do with how to fit everything that has been found into the evolutionary paradigm. A Famous evolutionist has stated:Stephen J Gould - “argues that Darwin’s theory is inherently anti-plan, anti-purpose, anti-meaning (in other words, is pure philosophical materialism). Also, that Darwin himself knew this very well and meant it to be so”
However that is nothing compared to this below: "The more one studies palaeontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based on faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which it is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion. “More, Louis T. [late Professor of Physics, University of Cincinnati, USA], "The Dogma of Evolution," Princeton University Press: Princeton NJ, 1925, Second Printing, p.160.
"In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists accepted it and many are prepared to 'bend' their observations to fit in with it. "H. J. Lipson, F.R.S. "A physicist looks at evolution" Physics Bulletin, vol 31, 1980'We have no acceptable theory of evolution at the present time.

There is none; and I cannot accept the theory that I teach to my students each year. Let me explain. I teach the synthetic theory known as the neo-Darwinian one, for one reason only; not because it's good, we know it is bad, but because there isn’t any other. Whilst waiting to find something better you are taught something which is known to be inexact, which is a first approximation. . .'Professor Jerome Lejeune: From a French recording of internationally recognized geneticist, Professor Jerome Lejeune, at a lecture given in Paris on March 17, 1985. Translated by Peter Wilders of Monaco."The secrets of evolution are time and death, time for the slow accumulations of favourable mutations, and death to make room for new species."

Carl Sagan, "Cosmos," program entitled "One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue.""Time is, in fact, the hero of the plot... given so much time the ‘impossible’ becomes possible, the possible probable and the probable virtually certain. One has only to wait: time itself performs miracles." George Wald, "The Origin of Life," Physics and Chemistry of Life, 1955, p. 12.With the failure of these many efforts [to explain the origin of life] science was left in the somewhat embarrassing position of having to postulate theories of living origins which it could not demonstrate. After having chided the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create a mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past."Eiseley, Loren C., [late Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania], “The Immense Journey," [1946], Vintage: New York NY, 1957, reprint, p.199.

"A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and palaeontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian than it is. This probably comes from the oversimplification inevitable in secondary sources: low-level textbooks semi popular articles, and so on.

Also, there is probably some wishful thinking involved. In the years after Darwin, his advocates hoped to find predictable progressions. In general, these have not been found-yet the optimism has died hard and some pure fantasy has crept into textbooks."Raup, David M. [Professor of Geology, University of Chicago],  "Evolution and the Fossil Record," Science, Vol. 213, No. 4505, 17 July 1981, p.289.
"In spite of these examples, it remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families and that nearly all new categories above the level of families appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences. Simpson, George Gaylord [late Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University], "The Major Features of Evolution,” [1953], Columbia University Press: New York, 1955, Second Printing, p.360.
STEPHEN GOULD, Harvard, "...one outstanding fact of the fossil record that many of you may not be aware of; that since the so called Cambrian explosion...during which essentially all the anatomical designs of modern multicellular life made their first appearance in the fossil record, no new Phyla of animals have entered the fossil record.", Speech at SMU, Oct.2, 1990
ARBITRARY ARRANGEMENT, R.H. DOTT, U. of Wis. & R.L. BATTEN, Columbia U., A.M.N.H., "We have arranged the groups in a traditional way with the 'simplest' forms first, and progressively more complex groups following.


This particular arrangement is arbitrary and depends on what definition of 'complexity' you wish to choose. ...things are alike because they are related, and the less they look alike, the further removed they are from their common ancestor." EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH, p.602
BOTHERSOM DISTRESS, STEPHEN J. GOULD, Harvard, Lecture at Hobart & William Smith College, 14/2/1980. "Every paleontologist knows that most species don't change. That's bothersome....brings terrible distress. ...They may get a little bigger or bumpier but they remain the same species and that's not due to imperfection and gaps but stasis. And yet this remarkable stasis has generally been ignored as no data. If they don't change, it’s not evolution so you don't talk about it."
DARWIN'S BIGGEST PROBLEM, "....innumerable transitional forms must have existed but why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth? ....why is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links?

Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain, and this perhaps is the greatest objection which can be urged against my theory". ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES.
REPTILE TO BIRD W.E. SWINTON, "The origin of birds is largely a matter of deduction. There is no fossil evidence of the stages through which the remarkable change from reptile to bird was achieved." BIOLOGY & COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY OF BIRDS Vol. 1, p.1. ORDERS, CLASSES, & PHYLA, GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON, Harvard,  "Gaps among known species are sporadic and often small. Gaps among known orders, classes, and phyla are systematic and almost always large.", EVOLUTION OF LIFE, p. 149NOT ONE ! D.S. WOODROFF, Univ. of CA, San Diego, "But fossil species remain unchanged throughout most of their history and the record fails to contain a single example of a significant transition." Science, Vol.208, 1980, p.716EVIDENCE A MATTER OF FAITH, A.C. SEWARD, Cambridge, PLANT LIFE THROUGH THE AGES, p.561, "The theoretically primitive type eludes our grasp; our faith postulates its existence but the type fails to materialize." "WE KNEW BETTER", NILES ELDREDGE, Columbia Univ., American Museum Of Natural History, "And it has been the palaeontologist my own breed who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: .... We palaeontologist have said that the history of life supports that interpretation [gradual adaptive change], all the while knowing that it does not.", TIME FRAMES, 1986, p.144 "UNEMBARRASSED", GOULD & ELDREDGE, "In fact, most published commentary on punctuated equilibria has been favourable.
We are especially pleased that several palaeontologists now state with pride and biological confidence a conclusion that had previously been simply embarrassing; 'all these years of work and I haven t found any evolution'. (R.A. REYMENT Quoted) "The occurrences of long sequences within species are common in boreholes and it is possible to exploit the statistical properties of such sequences in detailed biostratigraphy. It is noteworthy that gradual, directed transitions from one species to another do not seem to exist in borehole samples of microorganisms." (H.J. MACGILLAVRY Quoted) 
"During my work as an oil paleontologist I had the opportunity to study sections meeting these rigid requirements. As an ardent student of evolution, moreover, I was continually on the watch for evidence of evolutionary change. ...The great majority of species do not show any appreciable evolutionary change at all. These species appear in the section (first occurrence) without obvious ancestors in underlying beds, are stable once established." Paleobiology, Vol.3, p.136
'Biologists would dearly like to know how modern apes, modern humans and the various ancestral hominids have evolved from a common ancestor. Unfortunately, the fossil record is somewhat incomplete as far as the hominids are concerned, and it is all but blank for the apes. The best we can hope for is that more fossils will be found over the next few years which will fill the present gaps in the evidence.

'The author goes on to say: 'David Pilbeam [a well-known expert in human evolution] comments wryly, "If you brought in a smart scientist from another discipline and showed him the meagre evidence we've got he'd surely say, ‘forget it: there isn't enough to go on'."(Richard E. Leakey, The Making of Mankind, Michael Joseph Limited, London, 1981, p. 43)"The fossil record pertaining to man is still so sparsely known that those who insist on positive declarations can do nothing more than jump from one hazardous surmise to another and hope that the next dramatic discovery does not make them utter fools ... Clearly some refuse to learn from this. As we have seen, there are numerous scientists and popularizers today who have the temerity to tell us that there is 'no doubt' how man originated: if only they had the evidence..."(William R Fix, The Bone Pedlars, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1984, p.150)"As yet we have not been able to track the phylogenetic history of a single group of modern plants from its beginning to the present."(Chester A Arnold, Professor of Botany and Curator of Fossil Plants, University of Michigan, An Introduction to Paleobotany, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1947, p.7)"The more scientists have searched for the transitional forms that lie between species, the more they have been frustrated."(John Adler with John Carey: Is Man a Subtle Accident, Newsweek, Vol.96, No.18 November 3, 1980, p.95)"Despite the bright promise that palaeontology provides means of 'seeing' Evolution, it has provided some nasty difficulties for evolutionists, the most notorious of which is the presence of 'gaps' in the fossil record. Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them."(David Kitts, Ph.D. Palaeontology and Evolutionary Theory, Evolution, Vol.28 (Sep.1974) p.467)I could go on and on regarding these quotes, however I would only be rubbing salt on a wound if I did. That is not my purpose. Mankind has been given a brain far superior to any other life form. We have the ability to think and comprehend, and I personally think you haven’t yet comprehended your evolutionary paradigm. So until next time when we are going to discuss “Religion” I leave you with a quote:"For My hand made all these things, thus all these things came into being,” declares the LORD. Isaiah 66:2

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