{"id":555,"date":"2013-02-28T19:38:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T01:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/?p=555"},"modified":"2013-03-11T08:42:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T13:42:06","slug":"weakness-of-evolution-refuted-the-complete-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/2013\/02\/28\/weakness-of-evolution-refuted-the-complete-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Weakness of Evolution Refuted – The Complete List"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a week ago, I took on the task of refuting the claims of Texas creationists. \u00a0I used the so-called weaknesses of evolution from this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For your reference, I’ve included the complete list here. \u00a0If I do anymore weaknesses of evolution, I’ll add them to this list.<\/p>\n

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  1. Origins of Life<\/a> – the origins of life is not evolution, but chemistry and what are the odds involved.<\/li>\n
  2. Hydrolysis of Proteins<\/a> – a specific claim that water would destroy all the proteins before they could become life.<\/li>\n
  3. Homochirality<\/a> – handedness of molecules and why we have all left-handed amino acids and right-handed sugars.<\/li>\n
  4. Oxygen<\/a> – the toxicity of oxygen and the claim that there was oxygen in the early atmosphere which would destroy organic molecules before they could become life.<\/li>\n
  5. Randomness and Information<\/a> – the concept of information, how creationist misuse the term, and why evolution isn’t as random as people are led to believe.<\/li>\n
  6. The Cambrian Explosion<\/a> – the Cambrian time period seems to have produced a greater diversity of life forms, including all new body plans that never before existed, than other time periods and why none of that is really true.<\/li>\n
  7. Transitional Fossils<\/a> – what a transitional fossil actually is and the evidence for them.<\/li>\n
  8. Change Over Time<\/a> – how speciation works.<\/li>\n
  9. Induced Mutations<\/a> – a claim that no induced mutations have ever improved a population.<\/li>\n
  10. Most Mutations are Harmful<\/a> – this classic creationist falsehood.<\/li>\n
  11. Small Changes<\/a> – how small changes over time can result in larger changes and how do we know.<\/li>\n
  12. Complete Steps<\/a> – why we shouldn’t expect to have a complete step-by-step explanation for every single organism and every single protein\/DNA sequence.<\/li>\n
  13. Creationist Misunderstandings<\/a> – the creationists offer some helpful tips to avoid misunderstandings, but seem to have misunderstood the actual science themselves.<\/li>\n
  14. Why are there still monkeys?<\/a> – an add on ‘weakness’.\u00a0 A creationist asks, “If humans evolved from monkeys, why do monkeys still exist?”\u00a0 We explore a very little bit of how evolution actually works and take a brief look at humans.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you come across any other ‘weaknesses of evolution’, put it in the comments (and a link to it if available) so we can add it to the list.<\/p>\n

    Another excellent resource is the Talk Origins Archive”s<\/a> “An Index of Creationist Claims<\/a>“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    About a week ago, I took on the task of refuting the claims of Texas creationists. I used the so-called weaknesses of evolution from this page.<\/p>\n

    For your reference, I’ve included the complete list here. If I do anymore weaknesses of evolution, I’ll add them to this list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,8,28,76,6],"tags":[939,938,283,937,15],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-creationism","category-evolution","category-genetics","category-origins-of-life","category-science","tag-creationism","tag-evolution","tag-intelligent-design","tag-science","tag-skepticism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}