Even
non-theists can see that fish-to-Frank evolution does not work. G.H. Harper is an atheist and holds to a
steady state theory of species. We
propose the stasis of Essential Types of Life (ETL’s). That is, what remains static in the living
realm is at a higher level than species.
Horses trot out more ponies, pigs are pigs again and sharks have a
hunger to reproduce more sharks.
Harper wrote
“Darwinism and indoctrination” and “Alternatives to evolutionism” in the
British education journal School Science
Review in the late 1970’s. [1][2] He
proposed that there were special geological conditions during the Cambrian that
favored the fossilization of trilobites for example. A better explanation consistent with
biological essentialism (basic types of life vary within limits) is that most
of the fossil bearing rocks are part of a Singular Epoch of Rapid Geologic
Activity (SERGA). We detail this
approach in our book YES: Young Earth
Science.
J.R. Downie
and N.J. Barron, writing in the Journalof Biological Education, note that, “Harper (1977; 1979) argues against the
teaching of science by 'indoctrination' and suggests a number of alternatives
to evolutionary explanations that could be used in discussion of species
origins.”
Antony Flew
(d. 2010) was a leading atheist for many years, but converted to Deism late in
life. Flew rejected evolution’s
explanation regarding the Origin Of Life (OOL):
“How can a universe of mindless matter produce beings with intrinsic
ends, self-replication capabilities, and ‘coded chemistry?’” [3] If evolution is wrong about the start of
life, maybe it is wrong about the Universal Common Ancestor (UCA) as well.
Notes:
1) Harper,
G. H. (1977) “Darwinism and indoctrination” School
Science Review, 59, 258-268.
2) Harper,
G. H. (1979) “Alternatives to evolutionism” School
Science Review, 61, 15-27.
3) There is a God by Antony Flew
(HarperCollins, NYC, NY, 2007), p. 124.
Special
thanks to Francis Schaeffer Hall for the second illustration.
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