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They claim that there is not a single scientific paper that criticizes evolution!

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They claim that there is not a single scientific paper that criticizes evolution!

What do you think of the anatomy of Darwinian evolution? Professor Joseph Kohn, a researcher at Baylor University Medical Center, published in 2012 a paper in the Baylor University Medical Center Lecturer's journal Dissecting Darwinism!

They claim that there is not a single scientific paper that criticizes evolution! What do you think of Darwinian evolution? Professor Joseph Kohn, a researcher at Baylor University Medical Center, published in 2012 a paper in Baylor University Medical Center’s Lecturer Journal entitled “Dissecting Darwinism”! The paper is available in full for free at this link in ncbi: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3246854/ The paper presents a number of challenges to chemical and biological development, including: 1) The failure of data on the chemical origin of life to explain the origin of DNA. 2) Failure of mutation and natural selection theories to explain irreducible cell complexity. (3) Transition species data fail to account for the many changes required for interspecies transmission. Regarding the chemical origin of life, Kohn mentions Miller-Yuri’s experiments, which he says “disproved the experimental conditions that make the medium reductive, low-oxygen and nitrogen-rich,” and he cites Stephen Meyer’s book, “The fundamental problem that Darwinian evolution cannot overcome is the incredible complexity of the DNA and the information inherited within it.” He also explains that “Darwinian evolution and natural selection cannot be the cause of life.” Dr. Kohn then went on to explain the concept of irreducible complexity, citing Michael Behe (Darwin's Black Box), writing: "Irreducible complexity suggests that all elements of the system must exist at once, not progressively evolve with successive improvements as Darwin's theory of evolution dictates." Moreover, "the fact that irreducible complex systems and organs are qualitatively encoded within DNA adds another layer of complexity." Kohn also explores the question posed about the common ancestor between man and monkey, citing Jonathan Wells's book The Myth of Scrap DNA and argues: “The similarity between human and monkey DNA is reported to be 96% when taking into account only the current map of protein sequences, which accounts for only 2% of the total genome. But the actual similarity of DNA when taking into account the entire genome, including what we have already mentioned from the “scrap DNA” (which has now been shown to symbolize supporting elements in transcription or expression) is approximately 70% to 75% and the difference of 25% represents approximately 35 million changes in single nucleotides.” According to Kohn, this would be an obstacle to Darwinian evolution because "the change from monkey to human would require a very rapid rate of mutations to form new DNA, producing thousands of new proteins, as well as innumerable changes in DNA at the cellular, neuronal, digestive, and immune levels, which would encode thousands of new functional proteins." Kohn also notes that the Cambrian explosion poses a challenge to modern Darwinism: "Thousands of fossil specimens were available in Darwin's time, while millions of specimens have been catalogued and studied in the past 50 years, but it is important to note that each of these specimens shows an actual explosion of almost all the people of the animal kingdom (35/40) over a relatively short period of time during the Cambrian 525 to 530 million years ago. Joseph A. Kuhn, “Dissecting Darwinism,” Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, Vol. 25(1): 41-47 (2012). — Source: Published on Facebook's "Braheen Center" page https://www.facebook.com/braheen.org/posts/pfbid0fbYGREjbv7Wexu7aEzSC2Pm1gaMEQwfGpFBpQyafi7mucSQCsJi5bqgsz8UvUBinl

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