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TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Overview
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2. What Is Evolution • Inside the Doctrine: • Is Evolution a Religion?
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3. Gradualism: Slow Change, Lots of Time, Many Generations • Biological / Geological Gradualism > Widespread Rapidly-Deposited Strata > The Theory of Catastrophism - Polystrate fossils - Fossil evidence - The Grand Canyon and Cataclysmic Rapid Formations
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4. Written in the Rocks • Rocks and Fossils > Determining the Age of Rocks > Alternatives to Rock Dating Methods • Transitional or Intermediary Fossils > “Feathered” Dinos / the Dinosaur to Bird evolution > Tiktaalik roseae > Whales • DNA Comes Back from the Dead • The Cambrian Explosion: the Biological Big Bang
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5. Remnants: Vestiges, Embryos, and Bad Design • Bird and Whale Vestiges • Human Vestiges > Questions for Evolutionists: Embryology and Homologous Structures • The Appendix • Vestigial Genes, Pseudogenes - commonly referred to as “Junk DNA” • More on Bad Design (further elaborated) > Peppered moths > Other notables include
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6. The Geography of Life • The Molecular Clock and the Out-of-Africa Population Bottleneck • Continental Drift vs Sprint
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7. More FRUADS: Horse evolution; Lucy, H. habilus and eructus; Peking, Java, & Nutcracker Man; Neanderthal; Man vs Chimp; Trace Fossils and OOPA's (Out of place artifacts) 183 • Horse evolution 191 • Lucy, Homo habilus, H. eructus; Nutcracker, Peking & Java Man, and Neanderthal 193 • The Emergence of Homo erectus (in Lucy's backyard) 206 • Nebraska Man, Piltdown Man, Nutcracker Man, Peking Man, and Java Man 214 • The Neanderthalis and Homo erectus Connection 217 > DNA Test Results of Early Man (Neanderthalensis) 219
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Man vs Chimp DNA > The Y-chromosome bombshell > Contamination > Newer Studies - Genetic Recombination and Phenotypic Differences - Other DNA tid-bits or “Loose Fitting Genes” … Trace Fossils (called Ichnology) and OOPART's > What does this reveal? Dinos and Man really? > Giants or Nephilim
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8. Breeding, Adaptation, Natural Selection and Speciation • Abiogenesis = Spontaneous Generation > Miller-Urey Experiment > Natural Probabilities > The Levinthal Paradox, Old and New Versions - Exponents Gone Wild - The Conundrum For Early Life • Why Evolution: “will the real theory please stand up?” > “Why should we believe in Macroevolution if Nobody understands it?” • The Lenski E. coli Adaptive Mutation Studies • Understanding The Mutation Process
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9. By Design: the Science of DNA (simplified) and Thermodynamics • The Laws of Thermodynamics and its Implications > The Implications of the Second Law - Misconceptions About Open Systems - Ilya Prigogine and the Myth of the "Self-Organization of Matter" ~ The Difference Between Organized and Ordered Systems ~ The Absence of Controlling Mechanisms ~ Open or Closed Systems Do Not Matter ~ Crystal Formations • The Difference between Matter and Information > What is Information Theory (simplified) - The Essentials of Information Theory and Biological Machines • The Irreducible Complexity of DNA • Entropy, the Mystery Gene, or Mutational Meltdown
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10. Evolution - the Philosophy of Science, the “Uncaused Cause” and Future Implications: 452 • The Law of Causality 460 > The Causality of Laminin: “The Molecule That Binds Us Together” 462 > Causality of the Universe 463 • “The Uncaused Cause!!” 481 • Future Implications 488
Evolution Answered: (Walking in Faith) Our Education Centers throughout the world teach Evolution Theory as “fact” but are the “facts” actually supported by the