Batting cleanup, Dr. Joseph Mastropaolo. the impossibility of Evolution...

Dr. Joseph Mastropaolo has graciously consented to allow me to present portions of his material as I deem fit.  If you are not aware of the man, then you probably are not a devout Darwinist.  Joseph has been challenging Darwinists to back up their long list of mythologies for many years.  Many individuals and groups have been challenged to put up or shut up.  Sadly, they do neither. Gee, you would think the chance to pick up an easy ten grand would have them lining up at his front door, as sure as they sound of themselves, right?
There is also a one thousand dollar prize available:

$1000 Reward for finding an evolutionist that completes a Life Science Prize Mini-Trial.

$1000 Omniscient Originality Prize for two or more living things that are identical. It is predicted that this prize also will go unclaimed indefinitely because there is no such thing as a homologue, or an evolution sequence, or micro-evolution, or macro-evolution, or mosaic characteristics, or a common ancestor, by reason of the fact that all living things are devolving, dynamically engineered, unique inventions of omniscient originality. See Biology for the 21st Century and the Life Science Prize Tested Devolution, Evolution, and Genesis, 2005, p. 16. (Originality Prize offered on 3-18-07.)

"Default-judgment. Judgment entered against a party who has failed to defend against a claim that has been brought by another party." -Black's Law Dictionary.


It is still a free country.  If you want to preach the message of Darwinism you are free to do so.  But what is shockingly wrong is that young minds are being brainwashed in that the faith of Darwinism is being taught as established scientific fact.  That the atheist mindset does not have any reason to adhere to God's moral code means that they have no compunctions when it comes to what they say or do.  They will freely call the truth a lie and claim that a lie is true, for they do not concern themselves with eternal consequences.  

Ecclesiastes chapter three is pretty well known in the popular culture, as the Byrds wrote a song derived from the first nine verses of the chapter (ah, the days of bangs and girls ironing their hair and trying to look like Twiggy and Patty Boyd).   I am going to present verses 10-14 in the NIV:

"I have seen the burden God has laid on men.  He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.  I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live.  That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God.  I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him" 

Far wiser men than I have studied Ecclesiastes.  It was written by King Solomon, the son of David the King, the Psalmist and also the tragic.  Solomon sought wisdom from God and received it in abundance.  But he then sought pleasures under the sun.  "Under The Sun" is the key phrase to take from this book.  Solomon presents the experience of man during this present life.  He understands the vanity of temporal pleasures and the joys of eternal understanding.  Within the book he presents both carnal and spiritual worldviews of God and life on Earth.  I highlighted the above verses because even in this book clues to the brilliance of God's creation are found and also the spot within every heart that is aware that they belong to a Creator God.  Some of us drown out that still small voice within and some of us seek it and some of us, like me, run from it for many years before taking the time to listen.

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Now let us present, from Dr. Mastropaolo, a post I would term an oldie but a goodie:  Batter up!


Evolution Is Biologically Impossible
© Joseph Mastropaolo, Ph.D., 1999.2


Published in Acts and Facts 28 (11): i-iv, Impact #317, November 1999, Institute for Creation
Research, P.O. Box 2667, El Cahon, CA 92021.

Charles Darwin was daydreaming when he wrote that he could visualize “in some warm
little pond,” with all sorts of salts and electricity, the spontaneous generation of the first living
cell.2 Darwin’s dream of the magical powers of salts and electricity may have come from his
grandfather. Mary Shelley in her introduction to Frankenstein reveals, “They talked of the
experiments of Dr. Darwin . . . who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case, till by some
extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion.” She goes on to speculate that
galvanism (electricity) was the extraordinary means.9 All theories need testing so I bought some
vermicelli pasta, kept it in salt water in a test tube for a month and never saw any motion,
voluntary or otherwise. I also used a tesla coil to conduct “galvanism” through it to a fluorescent
bulb. The bulb lit and the vermicelli eventually began to cook, but never came to life.

“ Darwin’s bulldog,” Thomas Huxley, had a vision of himself on the early Earth as “a
witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from non-living matter.”6 In Huxley’s day, the cell
was blissfully considered simply a blob of protoplasm. Huxley also may have read Mary
Shelley’s subtitle to Frankenstein, “The Modern Prometheus.”9 Prometheus was the Greek
mythical Titan, who formed a man of clay then animated it. This myth may be the earliest
reference to abiogenesis, the animation of inorganic materials. In order not to leave that
possibility untried, I fashioned a clay man and directed the tesla coil spark over it to light the
bulb. The clay man was not animated.

Evolutionists currently invoke the “primeval soup” to expand the “warm little pond” into
a larger venue, the oceans. They aim to spontaneously generate the first cell so they must
thicken the salt water with (take a breath) polysaccharides, lipids, amino acids, alpha helixes,
polypeptide chains, assembled quaternary protein subunits and nucleotides, all poised to selfcombine
into functional cellular structures, energy systems, long-chain proteins and nucleic
acids.1 Then during an electrical storm, just the right mix of DNA, mRNA, ribosomes, cell
membranes and enzymes are envisioned in the right place at the right time and the first cell is
thunderbolted together and springs to life.5 That marvelous first cell, the story goes, filled the
oceans with progeny competing in incredible polysaccharide, lipid, amino acid, nucleotide and
cannibalistic feasts. The predators thereby thinned the soup to the watery oceans we have today
while the prey escaped by mystically transmuting themselves into the current complex animals
and plants, or perhaps vice versa because no one was there to record it. We are assured by the
disciples of Darwin and Huxley that the “once upon a pond” story to obtain a blob of
protoplasm is still sufficient for the spontaneous generation of the cell as we know it today. All
demur when asked for evidence. All balk when asked to reverse-engineer a cell in the laboratory
in spite of the fact that laboratories rival nature and reverse engineering is orders of magnitude
easier than engineering an original design. One wonders why they balk if cell stuff is so easily
self-generated and carbon molecules seem to have such an innate tendency to self-combine.

To test simply the alleged self-combining tendency of carbon, I placed one microliter of
India (lampblack) ink in 27 ml of distilled water. The ink streaked for the bottom of the test tube
where it formed a dark haze which completely diffused to an even shade of gray in 14 hours. The
carbon stayed diffused, not aggregated as when dropped on paper. At this simple level there is
no evidence that the “primeval soup” is anything but fanciful imagination.
In science, the burden of evidence is on the proposer of the theory. So although the
evolutionists have the burden of providing evidence for their fanciful tales, they take no
responsibility for a detailed account or for any evidence demonstrating feasibility. Contrarily,
they go so far as to imply that anyone holding them to the normal requirements of science is
feebleminded, deranged or evil. For example, Professor Richard Dawkins has been quoted as
saying, “It is absolutely safe to say that, if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in
evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).”7
Instead of taking proper responsibility for the burden of evidence, the evolutionist propagandizes
by the intimidation of name calling.

To set a better example, let us take up the evolutionist’s burden of evidence to see where
it leads. Our first observation is that apparently all functions in a living organism are based
largely upon the structures of its proteins. The trail of the first cell therefore leads us to the
microbiological geometry of amino acids and a search for the probability of creating a protein by
mindless chance as specified by evolution. Hubert Yockey published a monograph on the
microbiology, information theory and mathematics necessary to accomplish that feat.
Accordingly, the probability of evolving one molecule of iso-1-cytochrome c, a small protein
common in plants and animals, is an astounding one chance in 2.3 times ten billion vigintillion.
The magnitude of this impossibility may be appreciated by realizing that ten billion vigintillion
has 75 zeros. Or to put it in evolutionary terms, if a random mutation is provided every second
from the alleged birth of the universe, then to date that protein molecule would be only 43% of
the way to completion. Yockey concluded, “The origin of life by chance in a primeval soup is
impossible in probability in the same way that a perpetual motion machine is impossible in
probability.”10

Richard Dawkins agreed with Yockey by stating, “Suppose we want to suggest, for
instance, that life began when both DNA and its protein-based replication machinery
spontaneously chanced to come into existence. We can allow ourselves the luxury of such an
extravagant theory, provided that the odds against this coincidence occurring on a planet do not
exceed 100 billion billion to one.”3 The 100 billion billion is 1020. So Dawkins’ own criterion for
impossible in probability, one chance in more than 1020, has been exceeded by 50 orders of
magnitude for only one molecule of one small protein. Now that Professor Dawkins has joined
the ranks of non-believers in evolution, politesse forbids inquiring whether he considers himself
“ ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.”

Let us proceed to criteria more stringent. For example, Borel stated that phenomena with
very small probabilities do not occur. He settled arbitrarily on the probability of one chance in
1050 as that small probability. Again according to this more stringent criterion, we see that
evolving one molecule of one protein would not occur by a wide margin, this time 25 orders of
magnitude.4

Let us go further. According to Dembski, Borel did not adequately distinguish those
highly improbable events properly attributed to chance from those properly attributed to
something else and Borel did not clarify what concrete numerical values correspond to small
probabilities. So Dembski repaired those deficiencies and formulated a criterion so stringent that
it jolts the mind. He estimated 1080 elementary particles in the universe and asked how many
times per second an event could occur. He found 1045. He then calculated the number of
seconds from the beginning of the universe to the present and for good measure multiplied by one
billion for 1025 seconds in all. He thereby obtained 1080 x 1045 x 1025 = 10150 for his Law of
Small Probability.

I have not been able to find a criterion more stringent than Dembski’s one chance in 10150.
Anything as rare as that probability had absolutely no possibility of happening by chance at any
time by any conceivable specifying agent by any conceivable process throughout all of cosmic
history. And if the specified event is not a regularity, as the origin of life is not, and if it is not
chance, as Dembski’s criterion and Yockey’s probability may prove it is not, then it must have
happened by design, the only remaining possibility.

Now to return to the probability of evolving one molecule of one protein as one chance in
1075, we see that it does not satisfy Dembski’s criterion of one chance in 10150. The
simultaneous availability of two molecules of one protein may satisfy the criterion, but they
would be far from the necessary complement to create a living cell. For a minimal cell, 60,000
proteins of 100 different configurations would be needed.5,8 If these raw materials could be
evolved at the same time, and if they were not more complex on average to evolve than the iso-1-
cytochrome c molecule, and if these proteins were stacked at the cell’s construction site, then we
may make a gross underestimation of what the chances would be to evolve that first cell. That
probability is one chance in more than 104,478,296, a number that numbs the mind because it has
4,478,296 zeros. If we consider one chance in 10150 as the standard for impossible, then the
evolution of the first cell is more than 104,478,146 times more impossible in probability than that
standard.

Reproduction may be called a regularity because billions of people have witnessed billions
of new individuals arising that way, and in no other way, for thousands of years. The origin of
life was a unique event and certainly not a regularity. Therefore, according to the mathematical
logicians, the only possibilities left are that life either was generated by chance or by deliberate
design. The standard for impossible eliminated evolution so the only remaining possibility is that
life was designed into existence. The probability of the correctness of this conclusion is the
inverse of the probability that eliminated evolution, that is, 104,478,296 chances to one.
Although the certainty of design has been demonstrated beyond doubt, science cannot
identify the designer. Given a designer with the intelligence to construct a cell and all life forms,
it is not logical that he would construct only one cell and leave the rest to chance. The only
logical possibility is that the designer would design and build the entire structure, the entire
biosphere, to specified perfection. That seems to be as far as science can go.
Life was designed. It did not evolve. The certainty of these conclusions is 104,478,296 (1
followed by 4,478,296 zeros) to one. This evidence suggests a Designer who designed and built
the entire biosphere and, for it to function, the entire universe. Primary and secondary sources
from history properly provide additional information on the Designer because the biological
sciences are not equal to that task .

References
1 Behe, Michael J. (1996) Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, New
York: Touchstone, pp. 262-268.
2 Darwin, F., ed (1888) The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, London: John Murray, vol. 1, p. 83.
3 Dawkins, Richard (1996) The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a
Universe Without Design, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., p. 146.
4 Dembski, William A. (1998) The Design Inference:Eliminating Chance Through Small
Probabilities, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 5, 209, 210.
5 Denton, Michael (1986) Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Bethesda, Maryland: Adler&Adler, p. 263.
6 Huxley, Thomas H. (1870) “Biogenesis and Abiogenesis” in (1968) Collected Essays of Thomas.H.
Huxley, vol. 8, Discourses Biological and Geological, New York: Greenwood Press., p.256.
7 Johnson, Phillip E. (1993) Darwin On Trial, Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, p.9.
8 Morowitz, H.J. (1966) “The Minimum Size of Cells” in Principles of Biomolecular Organization,
eds G.E.W. Wostenholme and M. O’Connor, London: J.A. Churchill, pp. 446-459.
9 Shelley, Mary W. (1831) Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, London: Henry Colburn and
Richard Bentley, Introduction, p.9.
10 Yockey, Hubert P. (1992) Information Theory and Molecular Biology, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, pp. 255, 257.

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The thought of Darwin imagining life starting in some little pond in the indeterminate past reminds me of another 60's song, which began, "What a day for a daydream, what a day for a daydreamin' boy..."  John Sebastian and the Lovin' Spoonful.   Too bad Charles Darwin could not have confined his daydreams to a girl rather than a hypothesis which has been rendered an instrument of evil by antitheists around the world. 

This is just one tidbit from a terrific site that Darwinists avoid like the plague.  None of them have dared follow through on the challenge from the good doctor lest they lose a great deal of money!  Imagine that.

Let us clarify the differences between objective and subjective evidence.   What if I wander the North side of Chicago and ask people "which is the best baseball team, Cubs or White Sox?"  Most will name the Cubs.   Should I wander off to the South side of the city, the answer would normally be White Sox.   These people would have opinions and express their beliefs.   Now, if we had done this in the year 2005, after everyone gave me their subjective opinion, I could have provided objective evidence - The White Sox won 99 games out of 162 versus the Cubs 79 victories in 162 games.  The White Sox won through the playoffs to the World Series, where they were victorious and were crowned MLB Champions for the year 2005.  Objectively, in 2005, the Sox were better.  As I write this, in 2010 the White Sox have won 55 games and are in first place in their division, while the Cubs have won 46 games and are in fourth place in their division.  So both then and now, I would have objective evidence that the White Sox are a better team.   Objective evidence for evolution would be, for instance, a demonstration of life arising from non-life or one kind of animal having become another kind or for a simple organism to become a more complex organism via chance occurrence.  All of these things are part of the Darwinist belief system but not one of them has been observed to happen. 

You Darwinists make assumptions that you prefer to believe and call it theory or even fact.  When asked to present one piece of objective evidence for evolution actually happening, you fail completely.  You simply come up with longer and more convulated subjective just-so stories.  Then you jump up and down and call names and write in big bold letters while continuing to "epic fail".  Common sense and statistics and Occam's Razor and abiogenesis and the Biblical account of creation all stand on one side of the question.  Findings about the inner workings of the cell and the amazing inherent abilities of various kinds of organisms that defy random chance are all around us.   Not one piece of objective evidence for Darwnism can be found to exist.  Not one commenter has provided any observed macroevolution or other objective evidence that Darwinism might be labeled anything other than a failed hypothesis of a less-informed generation of men unfamiliar with modern science and the actual concept of the complexity of the cell and the reproductive process.

Why do I bother writing this blog?  A recent quote noted at creation.com is the answer:

“Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism, and every American school is a school of humanism. What can a theistic Sunday school's meeting for an hour once a week and teaching only a fraction of the children do to stem the tide of the five-day program of humanistic teaching?” (Charles F. Potter, “Humanism: A New Religion,” 1930)
and from Karl Priest's website:
By the time a child graduates from high school, they will have spent 14,000 seat hours in school; the largest block of time spent doing any one activity in their life, other than sleeping. Whoever controls those 14,000 hours effectively controls how the child's world-view is shaped. John Dewey, Charles Potter, and other political radicals have known this since the 1930's, and this is a major reason that so many social radicals have gone into education (Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorne are good examples); they knew whoever controlled the school curriculum controlled the worldview of the kids going through it. As Abraham Lincoln once said, "The philosophy of education in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." Thus, these radicals knew that the way to change the course of government was to indoctrinate the school children into their way of thinking. ( get in the battle) 

As it was in 1930, so it is in 2010.  Darwinist ignorance still prevails in public schools, but parents and church leaders and individual scientists of all disciplines are rising up against the ruling paradigm.  Tyranny is the enemy of freedom in all of its forms and by any label.   I am thankful for guys like Joseph Mastropaolo who have drawn specific lines in the sand and dared Darwinists to cross so that the world can see, should they care to look, who actually has science on their side and who is simply propped up by mounds of propaganda.

I taught my children to think critically, learn everything that the school teachers teach you and compare it to what I teach you.   I taught them to regurgitate the nonsense they were given on tests but to speak up for themselves in class and in essays.   All of my kids were honor roll students and I did not mind sending them to the local public school because it had a Christian principal and teachers allowed students to speak their minds (or the Dad was going to come down for a talk one on one) without being penalized with an F.  Most public schools are simply humanist thought factories and there are forces at work to change our local schools but thankfully all of my kids are graduates of high school (and two of them intend to teach in public schools as believing Christians in the fields of English and History, yahoo!) and have moved on to college or beyond into careers and marriages and begun cranking out grandchildren.   Grandchildren who are being taught to learn the Darwinist propaganda but believe the truth.  The responsible parent makes sure he is involved intimately in the education of his children or he is foolish indeed!


Children want rules and limits, even if they fight about them.  They want to be taught a set of rules and a belief system based on absolutes.   It is innate within us to want the parents to set a standard of both knowledge and behavior.   If you teach your children and care about them, you will instill within them the values that will allow them, as adults, to set their own rules and then teach their own children from their own core value set.  I am most happy that my children read my blog and that my students read it as well.  


This blog sometimes serves as part of a lesson plan for students and occasionally I publish part of a lesson on the blog since I am making up a powerpoint anyway.   Yes, commenters, I am one of those pesky creationists, teaching children and even adults to believe in creation by God rather than Chance, the Evolution Fairy!
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