Biogenesis and Evolution/Creation Resolution

This item was submitted as an editorial letter to the Greensboro News and Record in June 2005. "Regarding the pro/con presentation in Ideas (5/15/05), and recent letters, as a practicing biologist with a Ph.D., the evolution/creation struggle seems more religious than scientific. These warriors have access to exactly the same data, yet somehow their respective models mutually exclude and passionately vilify one another. What do we know? Scientifically, the origin of life and species is biology (not paleontology, geology or astronomy). In 1998, the National Academy of Sciences abandoned its contention that origin of life could be God-less, yet the establishment still strongly insists that all of today’s plant and animal species originated from a single living cell (origin unknown). The issue is not about whether ‘monkey-like creatures’ became ‘human’; it’s about sexual reproduction, and it’s resolved in the Law (not theory) of Biogenesis. This Law states that sex can occur between a male and female of the same kind, through segregation of homologous (compatible) DNA, and it results in progeny that always differ from either parent, but are always the same kind. Despite trillions of challenges to this Law each day, Biogenesis has never been disproved; birds always make other birds. There is no reason to believe that biology has operated some other way in the past. This unequivocally supports intelligent creation of stable kinds, at some unknown time(s), and disproves the basic tenants of evolutionary theory. No known biological process(s), or any process ever proposed, has ever, or could ever, generate an amphibian from a fish, or a man from a single cell in any period of time."

Dan Nelson, Ph.D.

dnelson@qualityassociatesinc.com