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of my late husband, Russell Bixler.
I trust that the information in this presentation will be helpful
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-Norma Bixler
 CREATION
A Theory Requiring Faith
 EVOLUTION
A Theory Requiring Faith
BOTH CREATION & EVOLUTION
CAN’T BE TRUE!

(Can we prove or
disprove one?)
DISPROVING GOD IS
IMPOSSIBLE

(e.g. total non-

existence of a
“thing”)
 DISPROVING EVOLUTION IS
POSSIBLE
(e.g. based on
acceptable
laws of
probability)
 HARD vs. SOFT SCIENCE
• SOFT: Based on
observation & study

• HARD: Based on
empirical analysis
THE FOSSIL RECORD
THE CONTENTION

Gradual
Mutational
Change
THE FACTS

There Are
No Missing
Links
 CHARLES DARWIN
•“Why, if species have descended from
other species by insensibly fine
graduations, do we not everywhere see
innumerable transitional forms? Why is
not all nature in confusion instead of the
species being as we see them, well
defined?”
 MARK RIDLEY (zoologist)
• “The gradual change of fossil species has never
been part of the evidence for evolution …”
• “Darwin showed that the record was useless for
testing between evolution and special creation
because it has great gaps in it …”
• “… no real evolutionist … uses the fossil record
as evidence in favor of evolution as opposed to
special creation.”
 MICHAEL DENTON (MD, PhD)
• “Not only has paleontology failed to
come up with the fossil ‘missing links’ …”
• “… but hypothetical reconstructions of
major evolutionary developments – such as
that linking birds to reptiles – are
beginning to look more like fantasies than
serious conjectures.”
 (Evolutionary
GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON Paleontologist)
• “This (the gap in the proposed progression of horses)
is true of all thirty-two orders of mammals …”
• “The earliest and most primitive known members of
every order already have the basic ordinal characters,
and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence
from one order to the next known.”
• “In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so
large that the origin of the order is speculative and
much disputed.”
THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION
 FOSSIL HOAXES/MISTAKES

Piltdown Nebraska Java

Man Man Man
ANALYZING FIRST LIFE
SIMPLEST LIFE: Bacteria
DNA
AMINO ACIDS
(Protein Chains)
CHIRALITY
 Random Chirality
SIMPLEST BACTERIA Probability
• 100,000 minimum DNA base pairs
• 10,000 minimum amino acids

• Odds of 110,000 correct “flips” =

(1/2)110,000

• Odds = 1 chance in 1033,113

LIFE SPECIFIC AMINO ACIDS
One Chance in 10 6,021
CORRECT AMINO ACID, RIGHT PLACE
One Chance in 10 13,010
CORRECT GENETIC MATERIAL PLACEMENT
One Chance in 10 60,155
 SIMPLEST BACTERIA Multiple Probability
(one chance in …)
• Chirality = 10 33,113
• Life specific amino acids = 10 6,021
• Correct AA, proper place = 10 13,010
• Correct Material = 10 60,155
(right place for each gene)
• Correct gene sequencing = 10 528

TOTAL 10 112,827
THIS IS LIKE PICKING A SELECTED
ELECTRON FROM THE UNIVERSE

1,376 times in a row!