Climbing Mount Improbable, by Richard Dawkins - A Critique

[Chris]

^^^1. You don't understand Darwinism. The "environment, which is always changing" hasn't affected dragonflies and insects, unchanged for scores of millions of years, coelocanths, unchanged for scores of millions of years, alligators, and crocodiles and countless other reptiles, unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, trilobites, and horshoe crabs, and bacteria, and molds, and fungi, and .........

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Horseshoe crab, unchanged for 500 million years, despite "constantly changing environment" - yeah, right.

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Scientific experiments over countless millions of lifetimes of bacteria, to "evolve" something new and more advanced, have all ended in failure, as have the same kinds of experiments on fruit flies, so selected because of their rapid reproductive cycles, and the ease of creating artificial mutations, which Darwinists refuse to admit are the only creative component of the "mutate>select" process.

Some environments don't change in ways that force selection.


You mention dragonflies and declare they have not evolved. Wrong.

14 Fun Facts About Dragonflies

...1 ) Dragonflies were some of the first winged insects to evolve, some 300 million years ago. Modern dragonflies have wingspans of only two to five inches, but fossil dragonflies have been found with wingspans of up to two feet.

2 ) Some scientists theorize that high oxygen levels during the Paleozoic era allowed dragonflies to grow to monster size.

3 ) There are more than 5,000 known species of dragonflies, all of which (along with damselflies) belong to the order Odonata, which means “toothed one” in Greek and refers to the dragonfly’s serrated teeth.

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Dragonflies - living fossils: Evolution and Ancestors

It is believed that the entire kingdom Animalia evolved from the same ancestor. This ancestor is believed to have been a colonial flagellated protist, found in the Precambrian era, more than 700 million years ago. One hypothesis proposes that the ancestral protist that evolved into the first animal developed an infolding of the cellular wall. This infolding created an inner pouch, which became the animal’s digestive system. (Campbell, Reece &, Mitchell, 1999, p.590) Animals rapidly diversified during the late Precambrian and early Cambrian (500 – 540 million years ago) periods. (Campbell et al., p.595)
Tachopteryx thoreyi belong to the phylum Arthropoda. Arthropoda have segmented bodies and an external skeleton. Also, most of them have compound as well as median eyes. Their body is open on the inside. They breathe through their body surface, gills, tracheae, or book lungs. Fertilization is internal for the majority. Most lay eggs, and many go through metamorphosis of some type. Fossils of ancestors of the phylum Arthropoda have been found in the Vendian period (540 – 600 million tears ago). During the Cambrian period (500 –540 million years ago), arthropods diversified rapidly. Paleodictyoptera, considered precursors of odonata ancestors, lived during the Upper Carboniferous period (280 - 360 million years ago). These large sturdy insects had wingspans of 20 to 50 cm across.....

Scientific experiments over countless millions of lifetimes of bacteria, to "evolve" something new and more advanced, have all ended in failure, as have the same kinds of experiments on fruit flies, so selected because of their rapid reproductive cycles, and the ease of creating artificial mutations....

That's an argument against Intelligent Design.

...which Darwinists refuse to admit are the only creative component of the "mutate>select" process.

You missed one: Mutation, selection, replication.

And then much more:

[Starman]

The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins

This ignorant book simply repeats many of he same superficial arguments Dawkins makes in Climbing Mount Improbable.
He can't even keep his science straight.

Page 37: “Our modern hypothesis (evolution) . . .”
(Ah yes, that “modern” hypothesis - evolution. 1859.)


P. 46 “I don’t know who it was first pointed out that, given enough time, a monkey bashing away at random on atypewriter could produce all the works of Shakespeare.”

(Elsewhere Dawkins defines "impossible" as one chance in 10^40th power or less. Let's accept his definition.

Your keyboard has in excess of 50 characters, counting letters, numbers, characters, and punctuation.
A sequence of only 100 keystrokes therefore has a space of 50 x 50 x 50.... 100 times.
50 to the 100th power = 10^169

For just the first 100 characters of a Shakespearean work to be typed by a monkey has a probability of 1 in 10 to the 169th power.

Surely Dawkins can do such superficial math as this, if he weren't so blinded by his own ignorance and arrogance.

P 81: “An ancient animal with5% of an eye . . . used it for 5% vision.”
(Sorry, but 5% of an eye, or even 50% of an eye is still blind. More scientific ignorance by this blind atheist.)



P. 139: “Given infinite time or infinite opportunities, anything is possible.”
(Our universe began 15 billion years ago, say scientists. So there has NOT been "infinite time" and there certainly are not
"infinite opportunities" since there are only 10^90th fundamental particles in the universe. Don't trust atheists. They lie and then they lie to cover up their lies. Disgraceful. Anti-scientific and anti-intellectual. I won't go on with his many other loony comments and mistakes. That would be, to quote Dawkins himself, "multiplying up examples.")