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Darwinism has ruled science for over 150 years, but few today know the details of its less-than-stellar track record. Its proponents offer false predictions, plug colossal gaps of evidence with pure imagination, and, in some unfortunate cases, even use it to justify taking innocent lives. In Twenty Evolutionary Blunders, Harvard graduate Randy Guliuzza shines a light on many of these shortcomings.
Learn how Hox genes contradicted Darwinist predictions, fossil forgery is routinely tolerated in the evolutionary community, “useless” biological organs turn out to be functional, and other interesting stories from the history of evolutionary theory. Rather than supporting Darwin’s theory, an honest look at the evidence consistently undermines it.
Written in twenty brief chapters, this book offers an insightful but broad evaluation of Darwinism and its scientific merits.
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TWENTY EVOLUTIONARY BLUNDERS Dangers and Difficulties of Darwinian Thinking
Randy J. Guliuzza
Dallas, Texas ICR.org
TWENTY EVOLUTIONARY BLUNDERS Dangers and Difficulties of Darwinian Thinking BY RANDY J. GULIUZZA, P.E., M.D.
First printing: November 2017 Copyright © 2017 by the Institute for Creation Research. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be used in any form without written permission of the publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts in articles and reviews. For more information, write to Institute for Creation Research, P. O. Box 59029, Dallas, TX 75229. All Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version. ISBN: 978-1-946246-01-1 Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2017957395 Please visit our website for other books and resources: ICR.org Printed in the United States of America.
Table of Contents Introduction................................................................................................ 5 1 Evolutionary Predictions Fail the Reality Test................................ 9 2 The Eugenics Disaster................................................................... 19 3 The Imaginary Piltdown Man.........................................................29 4 Survival of the Fittest, Eugenics, and Abortion............................41 5 Our Useful Appendix—Evidence of Design, Not Evolution..........51 6 Are Whales and Evolution Joined at the Hip?.............................. 61 7 The “Poor Design” of Our Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve.................71 8 Berra’s Blunder............................................................................... 81 9 The Fatal Flaws of Living Fossils................................................... 91 10 Breaking Dollo’s Law.................................................................... 101 11 The “Degenerate” Genetic Code?................................................ 111 12 The Imaginary Archaeoraptor.......................................................121 13 Evolutionists Can’t See Eye Design............................................ 129 14 Haeckel’s Embryos Born of Evolutionary Imagination...............141 15 Imagining That Life Is Only Chemistry........................................ 153 16 Neanderthals Were Subhuman in Imagination Only.................. 163 17 Evolutionary Psychology for Serious Tabloid Readers............. 173 18 Convergent Evolution Is a Seductive Intellectual Swindle........ 185 19 Evolutionists Falsely Predict “Junk DNA”.................................... 197 20 Evolutionists Dismiss Evidence, Preferring Theory...................207 Image Credits..........................................................................................218 About the Author....................................................................................219
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