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WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL? IS THERE EVIDENCE AGAINST EVOLUTION?

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1 WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL? IS THERE EVIDENCE AGAINST EVOLUTION?

2 Quotes : “NOT ONE CHANGE OF SPECIES INTO ANOTHER IS ON RECORD….WE CANNOT PROVE THAT SINGLE SPECIES HAS BEEN CHANGED” CHARLES DARWIN- MY LIFE & LETTERS “NO MATTER HOW NUMEROUS THEY MAY BE, MUTATIONS DO NOT PRODUCE ANY KIND OF EVOLUTION.” PIERRE-PAUL GRASSE- EVOLUTIONIST

3 MORE QUOTES; “A GROWING NUMBER OF RESPECTABLE SCIENTISTS ARE DEFECTING FROM THE EVOLUTIONARY CAMP…. MOREOVER, FOR THE MOST PART THESE “EXPERTS” HAVE ABANDONED DARWINISM, NOT ON THE BASIS OF RELIGEOUS FAITH OR BIBLICAL PERSUASIONS, BUT ON SCIENTIFIC GROUNDS, AND IN SOME INSTANCES, REGRETFULLY”. WOLFGANG SMITH- PhD physicist & mathematician

4 AND MORE QUOTES: “THE PATHETIC THING IS THAT WE HAVE SCIENTISTS WHO ARE TRYING TO PROVE EVOLUTION, WHICH NO SCIENTIST CAN EVER PROVE”. DR. ROBERT MILLIKAN- NOBEL PRIZE WINNER & EMINENT EVOLUTIONIST

5 DARWIN’S TREE OF LIFE

6 PEPPERED MOTHS

7 INDUSTRIAL MELANISM- PEPPERED MOTHS

8 KETTLEWELLS EXPERIMENT- PROVING NATURAL SELECTION KETTLEWELL’S EXPERIMENTS IN THE 1950’S WHERE HE RELEASED SEVERAL HUNDRED MARKED MOTHS OF BOTH COLORS DURING THE DAYTIME ONTO TREE TRUNKS. SET TRAPS AT NIGHT TO RECAPTURE THE MOTHS AND COUNT PERCENTAGES OF EACH. * as expected the recapture of dark – colored moths in polluted areas was about twice that as light colored moths. * critics though have long pointed out that changes in relative size of moth populations tell us nothing about how such populations originated in the 1 st place.

9 KETTLEWELL’S EXPERIMENT IN THE 1980’S RESEARCHERS DISCOVERED THAT PEPPERED MOTHS ALMOST NEVER REST ON TREE TRUNKS. INSTEAD APPARENTLY REST ON THE UNDER SIDES OF SMALL HORIZONTAL BRANCHES IN THE TREE CANOPY. PEPPERMOTHS ARE NIGHT FLYERS AND NORMALLY FIND RESTING PLACES BEFORE DAWN. * by Kettlewell releasing the moths onto tree trunks during the day- he created an artificial situation. When released during the day the moths chose their resting places quickly- often choosing the wrong place. Making them easier prey for birds.

10 KETTLEWELL’S EXPERIMENT The credibility of the photos displayed in textbooks where you have moths resting on tree trunks is under- mined. Some are made using dead specimens that have been manually glued or pinned to the trunk. Since peppered moths are quite lethargic in daylight they remain put. These methods have used for television documentaries. One biologist admitted to the Washington Times reported in 1999 that he glued dead specimens to a tree trunk for a TV documentary on peppered moths.

11 LUCY ? MISSING LINK?

12 IDA – LEMUR ? MISSING LINK? TOWARDS HUMAN EVOLUTION? FOUND IN GERMANY BRIDGES THE EVOLUTIONARY SPLIT BETWEEN HIGHER PRIMATES SUCH AS MONKEYS, APES AND HUMANS AND THEIR MORE DISTANT RELATIVE LEMURS. CAME FROM THE EOCENE PERIOD WERE THERE ARE VERY FEW FOSSILS. Believeded to be 47 m Scientists who feel this is the missing link state: she has opposable thumbs, size of a racoon, has fur and is about 95% complete, has a long tail

13 LUCY- MISSING LINK – FOUND IN 1974, AFRICA

14 What’s up with Lucy?

15 CILIA

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17 FLAGELLUM

18 SINGLE FLAGELLUM

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