2011-05-17 13:18:04 UTC
1.Formation of Life - Evolution doesn't explain the origins of life but rather the variety of life.
2.Design of Living Things - There are many quirks on how organisms develop that actually maintains throughout a variety of species. This is what is called poor design, it isn't fatal to the organism so it wasn't modified to make better. Examples of this is the blind spot in the eye, laryngeal nerve, pancreas, shortening of telomeres during cell devision, etc
3.Irreducible Complexity - There is in fact reducible complexity. Flat worms have photo sensitive cells or very primitive eyes but they do NOT have a brain just a cluster of neural networks. Also if you remove many proteins from the bacterium flagellum it still functions as a pump. Insects have a heart but open circulatory system and cniderians (jellyfish etc) have no brain or heart yet they do have neural networks and do eat.
4.Second Law of Thermodynamics - This is a complicated topic stating: the concept of energy in the first law does not account for the observation that natural processes have a preferred direction of progress. For example, spontaneously, heat always flows to regions of lower temperature, never to regions of higher temperature without external work being performed on the system. The first law is completely symmetrical with respect to the initial and final states of an evolving system. The key concept for the explanation of this phenomenon through the second law of thermodynamics is the definition of a new physical property, the entropy.
A change in the entropy of a system is the infinitesimal transfer of heat to a closed system driving a reversible process, divided by the equilibrium temperature of the system. --SO ALL IN ALL in a CLOSED system the amount of entropy will increase. The earth isn't a closed system. This law doesn't talk about what happens when you have a constant rate of energy coming into the system.
5.Existence of the Universe -- There are many mathematical system that support the possibility that the universe did come from nothing: google "A UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING
6.Fine-tuning of Earth for Life - Yes Earth is in the prime area for life but let me say this: if someone threw a pile of clothes at your feet with 10,000 pants and 10,000 shirts etc you are bound to find several outfits that fit you perfectly. There are billions of galaxies in universe and trillions and trillions of stars with X amount of planets...the probability that you will have planets in a goldie locks zone is pretty high.
7.Fine-tuning of Physics -- just because there are the laws of physics doesn't mean someone had to write them...but I am not a physicist so some else will have to take this one.
8.Abrupt Appearance in the Fossil Record - There are soooo many fossils showing feathered dinosaurs and transitional species. Plus the cambrian explosion lasted for 55 million years...which is a loooong time
9.Human Consciousness - yes this is unique to humans but just because we have a complex brain (which has been tweaked by evolution for 7 million years) doesn't give evidence of a creator. Emotions are the production of biochemical reactions in our brain, hence with the flow is amiss then you get depression, schizophrenia, etc
10.Human Language - Evolution of language is an anthropologic topic not biological. If you talk to an anthropologist they will give you many theories on the origins of lang. In addition animals have many many ways to communicate with each other...it's so advanced that itself is it's own topic/section within biology
11.Sexual Reproduction - The genetic advantages of sexual reproduction greatly out way asexual reproduction so it's a no brainer that particular mechanism was favored. Did you KNOW that bacteria also have sexual reproduction...this is termed conjugation...no male and female needed but bacteria get together and "swap" or inject their dna to the other bacterium.
12.The Bible's Witness - I have nothing to say about this one.
I AM STILL WAITING FOR ACTUAL EVIDENCE AGAINST EVOLUTION CREATIONISTS. I MEAN ALL YOU DO IS TALK ABOUT HOW FLAWED EVOLUTION IS BUT WHEN I ASK YOU SHOW ME HOW EVOLUTION IS ACTUALLY FLAWED YOU CAN'T PRODUCE.