SCIENTISTS WHO DON'T ACCEPT THE EVOLUTION - Converts from Evolution to Creation (Μεταστροφές εξελικτικών επιστημόνων)

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SCIENTISTS WHO DON'T ACCEPT THE EVOLUTION - Converts from Evolution to Creation (Μεταστροφές εξελικτικών επιστημόνων)

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SCIENTISTS WHO DON'T ACCEPT THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION and Scientists' conversions from Evolution to six 24-hours days Creation

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Επιστήμονες που δεν δέχονται την Θεωρία της Εξέλιξης και Μεταστροφές Επιστημόνων από την Θεωρία της Εξέλιξης στην εξαήμερη Δημιουργία (έξι 24ωρα)


Παρακάτω εν Χριστώ αδελφοί μου θα παραθέσω στα αγγλικά επιστήμονες οι οποίοι δεν δέχονται την Θεωρία της Εξέλιξης και μεταστροφές εξελικτικών επιστημόνων από την Θεωρία της Εξέλιξης στην εξαήμερη Δημιουργία (σε έξι 24ωρα).

Όλοι οι παρακάτω επιστήμονες πλέον δεν δέχονται τη Θεωρία της Εξέλιξης και τις διδασκαλίες της περί των μεγάλων χρονικών διαστήματων, των εκατομμυρίων ετών ηλίκιας της γής και ότι οι δεινοσαυροι προϋπήρχαν των ανθρώπων.

Αλλά δέχονται με επιστημονικά ευρήματα-αποδείξεις ότι η ηλικία της Γης και του Σύμπαντος είναι 6.000-10.000 έτη, ότι η Δημιουργία της Γης, του Σύμπαντος, των ανθρώπων, των φυτών και των ζώων έγιναν σε έξι 24ωρα και ότι οι γιγάντιοι δεινόσαυροι συνυπήρχαν ταυτόχρονα με τον άνθρωπο. Δέχονται δηλαδή αυτά τα οποία λέει η Αγία Γραφή και τα οποία κάποια στιγμή θα αναγκαστούν όλοι οι εξελικτικοί επιστήμονες να τα αποδεχτούν λόγω των επιστημονικών ευρημάτων τους.

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Ας γνωρίσουμε τους παρακάτω επιστήμονες οι οποίοι ΔΕΝ δέχονται την Θεωρία της Εξέλιξης και ας δώσουμε ένα τέλος στην ψευδή διδασκαλία ότι "όλοι οι επιστήμονες δέχονται την Θεωρία της Εξέλιξης". Καλό διάβασμα αδελφοί μου.



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Convert to Creation – Margaret Wieland interviews bird expert and former renowned evolutionist Dr Jon Ahlquist

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Convert to Creation

Margaret Wieland interviews bird expert and former renowned evolutionist Dr Jon Ahlquist


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Dr Jon Ahlquist

Dr Jon Ahlquist is a molecular biologist, ornithologist and artist who before his retirement specialized in molecular phylogenetics. With a B.S. from Cornell University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Yale University (all in biology) he subsequently taught and researched at Yale. He then held professorships at Ohio University, the University of Louisville (Kentucky), and several South Carolina universities. The subjects he taught include: ornithology, comparative vertebrate anatomy, avian biology, mammalogy, animal ecology, conservation biology, principles of systematic biology, systematic zoology, molecular evolution, and molecular systematics. In 1991, he and his frequent collaborator Dr Charles Sibley (1917–1998), formerly of Yale University, published Phylogeny and Classification of Birds, which presented a new and subsequently very influential phylogeny (evolutionary history) for birds. Known as the Sibley–Ahlquist taxonomy, it was based on DNA-DNA hybridization techniques. He is author or co-author of 62 scientific publications.

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Fig. 1: Jon at work on his painting of a Night Heron

It has been said, “If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity”1—a fitting comment on Dr Jon Ahlquist, whose life has so many fascinating details, they far exceeded the available space.

Early life

Born in 1944 to American offspring of Finnish refugees, Jon’s early life was one of stability grounded in a strong Lutheran faith. His parents gave him a King James Bible for his seventh birthday. A prodigious reader, Jon was determined to read it right through, though “it was not easy going for a kid.”

At around eight years old, Jon made a personal commitment to Christ:

"It was in the basement Sunday school of our Lutheran Church; we were watching a movie about the life of Christ. I was taught a belief in a literal six days of creation, a real Adam and Eve (as well as a real Job and Jonah), a worldwide flood, and the veracity of the patriarchs. None of the Bible’s history was allegorized".

Developing interests

Once I got it into my thick skull that Darwinism is just one more humanistic philosophy from the Enlightenment, designed to write God out of everything, the battle was over.
Thanks to his fifth-grade teacher assigning each of his class of 10-year-olds to “create a bird book”, a budding ornithologist was born. From that grew a life-long interest in watching, listing, drawing/painting, and photographing birds. And a scientific career devoted to birds.

As Jon grew, so did his talent as an artist (figs 1, 2). At just 15, a mentor organized a one-man show of 30 of his best paintings. Especially given his age, Jon’s efforts were seen as newsworthy. His now much higher profile helped him sell most of the paintings he produced throughout high school, where he wore his faith on his sleeve.

Editor of the school’s weekly newspaper, he wrote many editorials touching on spiritual matters. He still has a copy of his valedictorian graduation speech:

"It was evangelical. The message in a nutshell was: ‘You are now going out into the world. What are you going to choose—God or mammon?’ There are about a dozen direct references to Christ. The gymnasium burst into applause at the conclusion. I’m sure there were unbelievers in the audience, but in those days nearly all accepted the principle that our nation was founded largely by believers and guided by biblical principles".

University—and alcoholism

Jon began his tertiary education in biology at Cornell University. A large part of him would have simply preferred to take up his first love, painting, full-time. Jon thinks he would have quit by the end of the first semester except for the family pressure to succeed.

Then, amazingly, his studies took a turn for the better. He joined Dr Charles Sibley’s ornithology course in his second semester. Suddenly, birds and biology made sense—albeit in the framework of evolution—and so he ‘hung in there’. A ‘theistic evolutionist’ at this point in his life, Jon moved on to Yale in 1966, following Sibley. The two began a collaboration that would last for many years and produce fame and some fascinating science.2

But Jon wasn’t truly happy and, early in his uni years, he began drinking heavily.

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Another of Jon’s paintings, ‘Long Shadows’. The bird depicted is a young crow.

"Alcoholism is a sin; it puts something else in the place of God. … I was cutting off my conscious contact with God and grieving the Holy Spirit. To cut a very long story short, I found Alcoholics Anonymous and, with the help of God, following AA’s 12 steps with a Christian emphasis, and some very fine friends, I found my way back to both sobriety and sanity".

In 1988, during his tenure at Ohio University, Jon and Charles were awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences for their work on the application of DNA hybridization techniques to bird classification (fig. 3).3 This revolutionized taxonomy by seeming to show at last how to distinguish similarities due to relatedness from ‘convergent’ similarities or homoplasies, i.e. those in which creatures happened to ‘converge’ on the same design, but without any possible common ancestry (evolution) explanation.4

From theistic evolution to creation

Once it was pointed out to me that it meant the existence of evil and death before Adam and Eve, and was therefore biblically impossible, I felt quite stupid.
Despite espousing evolution at the time, he says he was not an atheist:

"I was a ‘theistic evolutionist’. I thought I could simply place the DNA evidence on a secular time scale. You could reasonably accuse me of ‘fence sitting’ and be correct".

But, he says, he did not think deeply about the ramifications of theistic evolution:

"Once it was pointed out to me that it meant the existence of evil and death before Adam and Eve, and was therefore biblically impossible, I felt quite stupid".

He was also challenged on the science by an astute Bible teacher. This man pointed out to Jon that the problem was not with the data, it was the interpretation forced upon it. For example, he said that the evolutionary ‘family trees’ Jon was producing for birds proved nothing, since they were generated by an algorithm (formula) that “is instructed to make a tree. It will produce a tree out of any numbers you give it.”

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Fig. 2: Airbrush painting by Jon of a silvery-cheeked hornbill (Bycanistes brevis) after a photo he took at the Berlin Zoo. Hornbills are renowned for their unique nesting habits, and live in forests of northeastern and coastal eastern Africa.

Jon was immediately convicted and says:

"He was right. How did he figure it out? Part of the answer was that he studied at Grace Seminary while Dr John Whitcomb (co-author of the creationist classic The Genesis Flood) was on the faculty.
Once I got it into my thick skull that Darwinism is just one more humanistic philosophy from the Enlightenment, designed to write God out of everything, the battle was over. It’s not even science, it’s political ideology and demagoguery—end of story. The Holy Spirit had forced me off the fence. I realized that young-earth creation (YEC) was the only truth.
Today my view is that old-earth ‘creation’ of any sort distorts the first 11 chapters of Genesis and, if taken to the logical conclusion, makes God a liar".

Jon thinks that with the world much more polarized than when he retired some 20 years ago, life in academia now, as a biblical creationist, would be much more difficult for him than when he was an evolutionist. He says, “I wouldn’t last a week in that environment now.”

DNA and bird kinds

Jon is collaborating with creationist bioresearcher (and Creationmagazine interviewee5) Dr Jean Lightner in seeking to outline the avian Ark kinds, combining the data from DNA with that from morphology/anatomy—and incorporating available information about which species hybridize. This will also involve avian biogeography—the distribution of bird kinds after the Flood, showing among other things how millions of years are not needed for this. Jon hopes to also write a popular book (and possibly children’s books) on birds from a creation viewpoint.

Jon says there are interesting problems for both creationists and evolutionists in bird relationships that highlight the way each interprets the data:

"One example concerns the Galliform kind (the “landfowl”: pheasants, quail, chickens, turkeys, etc.) and the Anatid kind (the “waterfowl”: ducks, geese, swans). Any creationist will agree that they represent two kinds. Any person on the street can tell the difference between a chicken and a duck. Any evolutionist will agree they represent two separate lineages.
However, every DNA study, including our own, shows that the galliforms and anatids more closely resemble each other than they do any other group (or kind) of birds. The evolutionist says this means that millions of years ago the waterfowl and landfowl had a common ancestor. As a creationist I would suggest that in God’s master plan of designing birds, there is a fundamental aspect of the body plan that requires similarities in their DNA.
The bird genome has around 2–3 billion nucleotide pairs, the function of which we know very little about. As we learn more, we may be able to discover why ducks and chickens need certain groups of genes in order to function and why there are differences in other kinds of birds, like parrots or hummingbirds. At least the creationist has the potential to discover answers, whereas the evolutionist is left bending the knee to his goddess of randomness".

Human and ape similarity?

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Fig 3: Charles Sibley (left) and Jon Ahlquist (centre) receiving the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the US’s National Academy of Sciences in 1988.

Drs Ahlquist and Sibley may well be best known to non-specialists for applying their DNA-DNA hybridization techniques to man,6 coming up with the well-known alleged ‘98% chimp-human similarity’. Many scientists, including creationists, have critiqued this,7 and the accepted figure these days, with more modern techniques, is in fact much lower.8 Ironically, at the time, there was concerted opposition from evolutionists who were convinced the gorilla was our closest relative. But even at the lower figures, the modern techniques show chimp DNA ‘closer’ to us than the gorilla. Unfortunately, however, the ‘98%’ result made a convenient ‘hammer’ for pounding home the myth that chimps are ‘almost human’, and was avidly seized upon for (and widely influential in) promoting evolution.

Dr Ahlquist says that when he was an evolutionist, he would have agreed with creationists who pointed out that even at 98%, the genetic differences were still huge; tens of millions of DNA ‘letters’. Also, great similarity of DNA is not surprising, given the similarity in form and function between the two. But that similarity is not evidence for common ancestry any more than it is evidence for having the same Designer:

"Molecular evidence of any sort proves nothing about evolution, in fact. All we are doing is measuring ‘God’s numbers’—or as Charles [Sibley, his long-term collaborator] used to call them, ‘nature’s numbers’ of genetic similarity or difference. The techniques used by phylogeneticists to make their ‘trees’ are laden with evolutionary assumptions. They simply assume that evolution is a fact and then stuff their data into their algorithms, which therefore will always produce an evolutionary result. Regardless, we all have the same data, the difference is how we interpret it.
The fact that our bodies have a Bauplan [body plan] like that of primates is not coincidental, nor does it have anything to do with evolution. To achieve our function we need to be bipedal, have a large cranial capacity, be omnivorous and have opposable thumbs. This produces certain constraints on our DNA, in the same way that the need to fly in certain ways restricts the design of birds, and thus constrains their DNA".

The bottom line, according to Jon today? “It’s all a part of the Lord’s amazing design.”

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Creation

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A former evolutionist: Dr Jon Ahlquist B.S., M.S., Ph.D. Molecular biologist, ornithologist and artist

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A former evolutionist: Dr Jon Ahlquist B.S., M.S., Ph.D. Molecular biologist, ornithologist and artist

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Dr Jon Ahlquist B.S., M.S., Ph.D.

Molecular biologist, ornithologist and artist.


Dr Ahlquist’s degrees are all in biology: B.S. (Cornell University), M.S., Ph.D. (Yale University), specializing in ornithology and molecular phylogenetics. A former evolutionist, he taught and researched at Yale, then held professorships at Ohio University, the University of Louisville (Kentucky), and several South Carolina universities. The subjects he taught while still an evolutionist include: comparative vertebrate anatomy, avian biology, mammalogy, animal ecology, conservation biology, principles of systematic biology, systematic zoology, molecular evolu­tion, and molecular systematics. In 1991, he and his frequent collaborator Dr Charles Sibley (1917–1998), formerly of Yale University, published Phylogeny and Classification of Birds, which presented a new and subse­quently very influential phylogeny (evolutionary history) for birds. Known as the Sibley–Ahlquist taxonomy, it was based on DNA-DNA hybridi­zation techniques. He is author or co-author of 62 scientific publications. He subsequently became a creationist and is now retired—see Wieland, M., Convert to creation (interview with Dr Ahlquist), Creation 40(3):36–39, 2018.

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A former evolutionist: Dr John Sanford, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin), USA

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Dr John Sanford, Ph.D.

(University of Wisconsin), USA

Biography


Dr John Sanford, A Cornell University Professor for more than 25 years, John has been semi-retired since 1998. His Ph.D. was in plant breeding and plant genetics. While a professor at Cornell, John has trained graduate students and conducted genetic research at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, NY. During this time, John bred new crop varieties using conventional breeding and then became heavily involved in the newly-emerging field of plant genetic engineering. John has published over 80 scientific publications and has been granted over 30 patents. His most significant scientific contributions involve three inventions, the biolistic (“gene gun”) process, pathogen-derived resistance, and genetic immunization. A large fraction of the transgenic crops (in terms of numbers and acreage) grown in the world today were genetically engineered using the gene gun technology developed by John and his collaborators. John also started two biotech enterprises derived from his research, Biolistics, Inc., and Sanford Scientific, Inc. John still holds a position at Cornell (Courtesy Associate Professor), but has largely retired from Cornell and has started a small non-profit organization, Feed My Sheep Foundation.

A scientific convert to six-day creation, his groundbreaking new book Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome demonstrates why human DNA is inexorably deteriorating at an alarming rate, thus cannot be millions of years old.

Interview

Plant geneticist: ‘Darwinian evolution is impossible’
Creation magazine interview with Dr Sanford
Review of Genetic Entropy

From ape to man via genetic meltdown: a theory in crisis
Further confirmation of genetic entropy

Carter, R.W. and Sanford, J.C., A new look at an old virus: mutation accumulation in the human H1N1 influenza virus since 1918. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 9:42, 12 October 2012 | doi:10.1186/1742-4682-9-42.
Carter, R.W., More evidence for the reality of genetic entropy (Journal of Creation summary perspective on the above)
Refutation of critic

Critic ignores reality of Genetic Entropy: The author of a landmark book on genomic decay responds to unsustainable criticisms.

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Former evolutionist: Biologist Dr. Gary Parker [Μεταστροφές πρώην εξελικτικών επιστημόνων στην 6ημερη Δημιουργία]

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Former evolutionist: Biologist Dr. Gary Parker, EdD, MS, BA [Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA]


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Dr. Gary Parker, USA

EdD, biology/geology, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA
MS, biology/physiology, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA
BA, biology/chemistry, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA

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Biologist Dr. Gary Parker began his teaching career as a non-Christian and evolutionist. The details of his spiritual and scientific conversion, From Evolution to Creation (available as a booklet and DVD), include comic incidents. For example, he was a participant in a debate where his science department, defending the Bible, debated the Bible department, which was defending evolution!

En route to his BA in biology/chemistry, MS in biology/physiology, and EdD in biology/geology from Ball State, Dr. Parker earned several academic awards, including admission to Phi Beta Kappa (the national scholastic honorary), election to the American Society of Zoologists (for his research on tadpoles), and a fifteen-month fellowship award from the National Science Foundation.

He has published five programmed textbooks in biology and six books in creation science (the latter have been translated into eight languages), has appeared in numerous films and television programs, and has debated and lectured worldwide on creation.

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Former evolutionist: Jerry Bergman, PH.D., Biology, USA (Μεταστροφές εξελικτικών επιστημόνων)

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Former evolutionist: Jerry Bergman, PH.D., Biology [Professor at the University of Toledo Medical College in Ohio, USA] (Μεταστροφές εξελικτικών επιστημόνων που αρνήθηκαν την Θεωρία της Εξέλιξης)

I have always loved science, partly due to the influence of my engineer father, who was heavily involved in research and development. While growing up, my free-time diet consisted of Mr. Wizard, Disney nature films, and doing science experiments.

At Wayne State University, where I earned my bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees, I was exposed to evolution. Influenced by my atheist father and my professors, I accepted this worldview, as did most of my peers. We also accepted the atheist philosophy that came with it. The university invited a number of speakers to lecture on religion, at least tangentially, all of whom were quite negative toward Christianity. One even stressed that we have given Christianity 2,000 years to fix up the world, and it was high time to try atheism.

As I became more involved in the atheist movement, I got tired of hearing that all the problems in the world were the fault of Christianity and that if we got rid of all the Christians, the world would be a wonderful place. What especially bothered me was that my atheist peers were determined to suppress Christianity by any means, legal or illegal—first by banning it from the public square, then in the private domain. Atheists seemed to feel that the ends justified the means, so they ruthlessly sought to crush Christianity. I soon realized this goal was evil because in the end it always did more harm than good—and yet it has been tried in so many places.

As I studied evolution (the doorway to atheism), it eventually became apparent that the theory has some major problems. The first example I researched in detail was the “vestigial organ” claim. There are over 100 claimed vestigial organs. These are supposedly non-functional evolutionary “leftovers,” yet I found uses for all of them. I went on to study the fossil record, and then I examined the natural selection claim, concluding that natural selection only explains the survival of the fittest, but the essential problem in Darwin’s day, and today, is the arrival of the fittest.

Sexual selection, instead of explaining sexual differences between males and females, actually serves to reduce deviation from the average. It does not cause evolutionary development that requires deviation from the average. Research that documents this conclusion includes a computer program that combines the faces of many women to produce the most beautiful women; ugliness is viewed as a deviation from this average and thus is selected against.

After exploring all of the major arguments for evolution, I eventually concluded that Darwinism has been falsified on the basis of science and realized that the evidence demands an intelligent creator.

The biblical age question was more difficult to deal with, but in my mind a major factor that supported a young creation was the profound evidence for genetic degradation. It is well documented that each new generation of humans adds about 100 to 150 mutations (genetic errors) per person, and an estimated 99.9 percent of these mutations are near neutral, harmful, or lethal. Consequently, there is no way that life could have first evolved 3.5 billion years ago and still be around today because life would have become extinct long ago from genetic meltdown and cell catastrophe.

Another important finding that supports the creationist view was the discovery of soft tissue in dinosaur bones that were claimed to be over 65 million years old. This is a problem because destructive forces such as cosmic rays would have destroyed soft tissue long ago.

The evidence against Darwinism was a critical factor in my acceptance of creationism, which opened the door to my acceptance of Christianity, biblical reliability, and a young-earth creation worldview. Like many scientists who came before me, I discovered that the evidence supports the truth of the Bible.

Cite this article: Jerry Bergman, Ph.D. 2015. Creation Conversion: From Atheist to Creationist. Acts & Facts. 44 (2).

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