The distinguished attention of Jeffrey Shallit

 

- Jeffrey Outlaw Shallit is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is an active number theorist and a noted critic of intelligent design. - Wkipedia

Dear Jeffrey Shallit!

I sent you a little intellectual tidbit about your critique of evolution, to which you replied:

Jeffrey Shallit's reply to Darhiwum
Subject: Re: Darwinism - worldview or science?
Go away, silly idiot ---

Well, thank you for the honourable compliment you paid me, if you couldn't answer anything of substance! Usually it is customary to disparage the other person when one has run out of arguments, but you started with an insult. Apparently your PH.D degree in mathematics does not extend to worthwhile arguments in the field of biology. [Besides, I'm the senior, so I'd ask for more respect if possible!]

Well, what did I send you? A bouquet of scientifically reasoned flowers, which you promptly threw in the trash. It does smell nice. Smell it again:

THE PROBLEM OF DARWIN'S THEORY OF SELECTION

"In 2024, Darwin's evolutionary theory of the origin of species will be 165 years old, and it is based on the idea that living organisms compete with each other for survival, with the most productive individuals passing on their genes through natural selection. However, a closer look reveals that this methodology is not suitable for describing the first species by the analogy of artificial selection, because it always involves "selecting for the most suitable trait of the species, those individuals of a species that possess traits of interest, in the hope that their offspring will inherit these desirable traits.

When a breeder starts a breeding process, the process must be practised by constantly selecting the necessary subjects, otherwise the breeding objective will not be achieved. See for example the breeding of Holstein-Friesian cattle. This cannot be done without intelligent planning and constant supervision!"

However, according to Darwinism, "... there is no more design in the operation of natural selection than there is in the direction in which the wind blows... Natural selection is the blind watchmaker; blind because it cannot foresee, because it does not plan consequences, because it has no purpose in mind... biological evolut ion is essentially a random wandering in a field of genetic possibilities."

If science were to produce a species of organism from a primitive cell, it would require a strategic pathway inch by inch in a particular direction, and as many species as it produced would each require a one-way strategic pathway of a particular kind until the desired species were fully evolved. And all this would have happened without any control in nature?

This completely calls into question the intelligent control of artificial selection! Therefore, the role of natural selection in the evolution of ancestral spe cies needs to be reviewed, because it is not suitable for this purpose, based on the facts. Darwin's theory of selection in determining the origin of species is a false path, and it is high time to confront it for the credibility of science!

See in detail: https://darhiwum.blogspot.com/2024/07/worldview-in-scientific-guise.html - 

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But if this is not convincing enough to prove my unconditional devotion to pseudo-scientific evolution, I would like to add the following additions to the previous ones:

FACTS, THAT MUST BE FACED

- Evolution has no purpose, but evolution is used for anti-God purposes by its defenders.

- Life does not arise anywhere by itself, and therefore neither do living things. Life cannot arise from the inanimate because life is not a set of material parts /just as a symphony is not a spontaneous arrangement of raw notes/, but a form of expression of the background spirit that dominates the parts - a temporary physical reflection of transcendent spiritual eternity.

- Those who carry life at the biological level are programmed, which is intelligence-dependent in relation to the complexity of the life they carry. So-called evolution is the adaptability of organisms already equipped with survivability within a given lifetime in response to ever-changing environmental selection pressures.

- You cannot retroactively develop abilities that are necessary from the beginning to start evolution.

- Mutation cannot create the genetic base in which mutation provides the raw material for the evolutionary process to unfold.

- The posterior mechanism of natural selection cannot be applied to the origin of DNA, because if natural selection is the child of evolution - it can only be validated by posterior division - it cannot also be its father - which creates the possibility of division!

- The universality of the genetic code -DNA- is proof of a common Author, as all the composers of all the symphonies in the world use the same musical notation, yet one symphony did not evolve from another, they have nothing to do with each other!

- There is spiritual content in the DNA code, as in all codes, because it contains the master plan of life on earth and the source of the wonderful diversity we see around us. The spirit of coding is personal, not raw chemistry. Without a personalised spirituality, no complex system can be explained. 

"... despite a long history of research and the accumulation of considerable circumstantial evidence, none of the three main theories about the nature and evolution of the genetic code is clearly supported by the currently available data." /The origin and evolution of the genetic code: the universal enigma/ -  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3293468/

- Tracking changes in nature is precisely not conducive to long-term evolution, because natural selection's strategic goal is to respond immediately to the challenges of an ever-changing environment, selecting for those best suited to that environment. So the divergent survival of organisms has nothing to do with the imaginary evolution that takes millions of years to evolve from some stem cell into millions of organisms with complex structures that can adapt to their environment.

- The more complex an organism, the more it requires specific, fine-tuned selection pressure. This cannot be provided by constantly changing natural forces, especially over long periods of time.

- In nature, the selection of the most favourable options, the selection of the most productive, is a matter of survival and not of achieving some strategic goal. Evolution that goes far beyond mere survival and aims to create entirely new species over millions of years exists only in the imagination, not in reality!

- Evolution does nothing more than keep in balance, through natural selection, the living things that already exist and have the capacity to survive from the beginning. Because if it could not survive, it could not be kept in balance. Natural selection can be compared to tuning a piano, not composing a tune.

- Man consciously selects subjects for his strategic goal, but nature cannot consciously select subjects, because its goal is not the evolution of a particular organism, but the survival of a particular organism, and it selects subjects for that purpose, so nature's strategic goal is to meet the challenges of an ever-changing environment immediately, and it selects the best suited ones for that purpose.

- The Darwinian selection of evolutionary theory for a strategic purpose is a fictional theory, at least it uses the stacking of short-term evolutionary steps to form the long-term strategic purpose, and attributes their existence to these stackings. /Microbe to microbiologist in millions of years./ But it cannot trace it back, because this stacking leading to a strategic goal is alien to nature.

- New species are always variants of a species, like many kinds of cars and many kinds of electric tram, but they do not cross paths, they do not evolve from each other and engineers do not evolve them from each other. Evolution is simply the practical realisation of a variation of adaptation to the existing natural environment, the validity of which has been confirmed by natural selection.

So why do scientists worldwide accept evolution as the only mechanism for the origin of species? Because there is no scientific alternative? Is the only scientific alternative the random wandering of a blind watchmaker in the field of genetic possibilities, adjusting to the blowing of the wind? This is deliberate misinformation of the general public!

If evolution did not create new species, then mankind would not exist, which is as silly as saying that if the designer did not create new kinds of cars, then there would be no trams, no trains, no aeroplanes.

The Bible does not mean to say that every form of plant or animal that humans see comes from the hand of the Creator, exactly as they see it. No, the multiple breeds of dog: fox terrier, dachshund, collie, were not created to remain the same forever, but the natural breed is the dog descended from the ancient wolf. The "kinds" of Genesis do not refer to the "regular" species defined by man, but to the natural species that the world is full of, which have the power to change within themselves in such a way that the members of the species are not all exactly alike, but which nevertheless cannot go outside the boundaries defined by the Creator. Evolution does NOT "create" new species, it modifies species. 

The God of love did not create living beings through a process of suffering evolution. In the present age, living creatures live in constant struggle and compulsively devour each other alive in order to survive, but in the beginning, evolution of survival was not necessary. Creation started with perfect harmony and will return to the same.Darwin's theory of evolution challenges both by making the transition permanent.

Christ also went through the path of suffering in order to bring the believer in him back to the intimate closeness of God through redemption, but this path became necessary because of the fall into sin. In the same way, evolution is part of the present world order; in the kingdom of Christ, the forced practice of evolutionary adaptation will no longer be necessary.

QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ANSWERED

- What is the origin of the genetic basis that allows evolution to take place?

- How did the unchanged state before genetic variation get into the genetic code, if it is exactly the deviation from it that drives evolution?! If variation is the point, how can variation initially cause the original invariance from which it subsequently deviates?

- Where did the first subjects of the initial organisms capable of evolution come from that could not have been created by evolution, because then evolution would have created its own capability by evolution!

- Where are the abilities by which the alleged evolution takes place? After all, evolution itself depends on the existence of these abilities!

- Why are living beings programmed to survive by the means provided by evolution, why do they strive to do so, if evolution is otherwise, according to Darwinian understanding, a completely purposeless process?

- "In the real world, beneficial mutations are rare. Most mutations have no effect or a detrimental effect."  - https://evolution.berkeley.edu/dna-and-mutations/the-effects-of-mutations

If the entire biological world that exists today is the result of selection from genetic variations /errors/, then what has been created from the flawless initial genetic base?

- Where does evolutionary theory get the idea that nature can guarantee one-way selective pressures over extremely long periods of time, over many generations? Genetic differences within a species are precisely a function of the direction of selection pressure, and genetic differences cannot be multiplied in only one direction, as evolutionary theory arbitrarily does.

- Why does evolution create legs if it doesn't know what walking is?

- Why does it create eyes if it doesn't know what sight is?

- Why does it create a reproductive organ if it doesn't know what reproduction is?

- If you don't know function, why do you create a function-filling organ?

- Why is evolution based on an explicitly deliberate, God-denying philosophy?

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Why you are an atheist, mister Jeffrey Shallit, I will tell you.

Because you are completely dominated and held in spiritual captivity by the credulity that confirms your unbelief. I have no problem with you being a materialist because of your belief in evolution, as it is legitimate, the Christian faith /based on the resurrection of Christ according to the authenticity of biblical revelation/ is a gift from God to sincere seekers of truth, but you are not one of them. Since you do not believe, you have nothing to fear - that is your guarantee and nothing more. If the Darwinian theory of the origin of species were true, it would offer a real guarantee, but that theory is not based on science, it is just posited as such.

Jeffrey Shallit, your refutation of Darwinism does not automatically give you a belief in God, because you must first be worthy to receive it, but your subjective commitment to evolution makes you unworthy. Because you specifically want to live without God!!!!

Why am I confronting you with evidence that refutes your position? Just so you are aware, you have been given a WARNING MESSAGE for your error, so that you cannot blame God for not warning you. Darwinian evolution is causing the damnation of vast masses, to which of course your propaganda contributes!

What is the will of God?

1Timothy 2:4 Who wills that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.

What is the message of God?

Acts 17:30 God therefore, having overlooked the time of this ignorance, now commands men everywhere to repent:

Acts 17:31 For he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he hath appointed, bearing witness unto all men, by raising him from the dead.

What is my responsibility?

Ezekiel 3:18 If you say to the unbeliever: Thou shalt die by the death of death, and thou wilt not admonish him, nor speak to turn the wicked man from his wicked way, that he may live: the wicked man shall die for his transgression, but his blood will I desire at thy hand.

Ezekiel 3:19 But if thou hast caused the wicked man to repent, and he turn not from his wickedness and from his evil way: he shall die for his transgression, but thou hast saved thy soul.

What will happen that no one on earth can do anything about?!

2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one of us may receive his reward or punishment for the good or evil he has done in his life on earth.

In the material I sent you, you received a scientific refutation of evolution that you say no one has ever disproved. [????] But if you have, you are in the same position as that alleged beached fish. And since the fish has not been transformed into a land creature in reality, your ability to adapt to the divine criteria for survival is also completely called into question.

Best regards:
A follower of the Apostle Paul

1 Corinthians 11:1 Be followers of me, as I am of Christ.