By COSGRIFFC
Updated: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:51:00 UTC

Mods' note - A short while ago we had a discussion thread on 'Stupid and clever questions for people who understand the physics'. We envisage that this thread could turn into an equivalent for biology, with some of the questions below as a jumping-off point. This type of question arises again and again, so it might be good to be able to use this thread as a resource in answering them.

Please don't feel you have to tackle ALL of the questions below! But if answering any of them, it would be good to quote the specific question first before giving your response.

http://creation.com/question-evolution

The above website discusses a new creationist ad campaign that seeks to inspire doubt among rationalists and perpetuate ignorance. They are creating shirts and pamphlets containing 15 questions meant to "shut down" rationalists such as we. I believe it is our duty to not only thoroughly answer these questions but to respond in anyway possible with the truth regarding this foolishness. The questions are printed as follows:

How did life with specifications for hundreds of proteins originate just by chemistry without intelligent design?

How did the DNA code originate?

How could copying errors (mutations) create 3 billion letters of DNA instructions to change a microbe into a microbiologist?

Why is natural selection taught as ‘evolution’ as if it explains the origin of the diversity of life?

How did new biochemical pathways, which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence, originate?

Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists know that they were not designed?

How did multi-cellular life originate?

How did sex originate?

Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing?

How do ‘living fossils’ remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years?

How did blind chemistry create mind/intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality?

Why is evolutionary ‘just-so’ story-telling tolerated as ‘science’?'

Where are the scientific breakthroughs due to evolution?

Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as the operational science?

Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes?

TAGGED: BIOLOGY, EVOLUTION