Darwin was wrong, a group of scientists argued at a conference in southern California.

Scientists presented evidence over the weekend refuting Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution on many levels – including fossil record, natural selection and the origin of man – and his works in geology and other science areas.

“Natural selection happens but it does not do what Darwin needed it to do,” said geneticist Dr. John Sanford. “Darwin built a worldview that has come to be the governing paradigm of the intellectual community; that worldview is now collapsing in the face of new advances in science.”

Sanford was among a number of scientists who spoke at the “Darwin Was Wrong” conference at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, Nov. 13-14. The two-day event, organized by Logos Research Associates, Inc., was held to mark the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species, which people around the world have been celebrating this year.

“It is amazing to me that in this ‘year of Darwin,’ the whole world is bowing down to this man even while modern science is proving him wrong on all fronts,” said Sanford.

On one front, Darwin was wrong about the origin of man, Dr. Robert Carter argued Saturday.

Carter refuted Darwin’s three main arguments, as laid out in Descent of Man, of homology (similar features shared among similar species), embryonic recapitulation (embryo goes through evolutionary stages), and vestigial organs (organs that have no apparent nor predictable function).

He further asserted that Darwin was a “brilliant writer” but not such a great scientist.

“Darwin’s greatest gift is not as a scientist; it’s as a wordsmith,” Carter maintained.

The Atlanta, Ga., scientist, who serves at Creation Ministries International, also shot down the discoveries of “Lucy,” “Ida,” and “Ardi” as possible missing links between apes and humans.

Some evolutionists say Lucy was actually a man, citing the shape of the pelvis, Carter pointed out.

“So if they misclassified her as a female do we know if she walked upright or not?” Carter posed, noting that evolutionists conclude from the pelvic bones that Lucy walked upright.

With questions being raised, Carter believes evolutionists are pushing Lucy off to the side and “preparing her to go away.”

“They never remove one of these ancestors until they have a replacement,” he noted.

Last spring the bones of “Ida” were revealed. She was a lemur-like creature that was labeled as another missing link between apes and non-apes, said Carter. But when the fanfare and media hype died down, scientists realized the skeleton was just a lemur, he pointed out.

More recently, the media has been all over “Ardi,” which has been touted by some as the earliest known human ancestor of modern-day man and by far the most complete among those of the earliest specimens found. But Ardi was actually discovered nearly two decades ago.

“Why the media blitz now?” Carter, who didn’t grow up a young earth creationist, asked. “I think because they’re trying to find a replacement … to put more missing links in the chain.”

So what’s left? “Not much,” he maintained.

In addition to shooting down evolutionary arguments, Carter offered a “replacement” on the origin of man, using the Bible. The Bible records three historical biblical “main events” that would have left an indelible mark on our genetic makeup: Creation, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel. Research in modern genetics underlines the reality of these events, he offered.

Other arguments presented over the weekend included “Darwin was wrong about science,” “Darwin was wrong about God” and Darwin was wrong about the disastrous social and moral consequences of his ideas.

The conference was designed to present scientific evidence highlighting Darwin’s mistakes and also to equip Christians with such knowledge.

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READ MORE ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

This DVD seminar will include presenters from all over the science community. Topics will include: geology, microbiology, sociology. Here is a list of the speakers.

John Baumgardner, Ph.D. in Geophysics, will introduce the conference, revealing that science is now debunking every aspect of Darwin’s hypothesis.

E. Thomas McMullen, Ph.D. in History and the Philosophy of Science, will show that Darwin used creative speculation and unbounded extrapolation in place of the scientific method, and that his approach was the antithesis of good science.

Steve Austin, Ph.D. in Geology, will show that Darwin was profoundly wrong about the origin of the Santa Cruz River Valley in Patagonia, and about the geologic record in general. Darwin’s speculations of slow and gradual biological change were based on the false idea of slow and gradual geologic change.

Marcus Ross, Ph.D. in Paleontology, will point out that while Darwin admitted the fossil record in his day contradicted his theory, he held out hope that future discoveries would come to his rescue. Now, 150 years later, the problem of missing intermediates is even more glaring.

Robert Carter, Ph.D. in Marine Biology, will speak on Darwin’s naïve belief that life is fundamentally simple. Since Darwin’s day, science has revealed life to be so staggeringly complex as to render Darwin’s foundational speculations clearly untenable.

John Sanford, Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and in Plant Genetics, will show that Darwin was wrong about natural selection. Darwin proposed that heritable variation and natural selection account for all biological complexity. But he knew nothing of genetics, of mutations, or, most crucially, of the extreme limitations of natural selection.

Jerry Bergman, Ph.D. in Human Biology, will show that Darwin was wrong about his proposed “Tree of Life” – a diagram purporting to show how all life forms diverged over eons of time from a primordial common ancestor. DNA studies are not supporting well-defined lines of descent among major groups of ancestors as Darwin imagined. The confused and scrambled genomic patterns instead imply a tangled bush. In other words, genetic evidence for common ancestry is missing!

Dr. Charles Ware, President of Crossroads Bible College, will show that Darwin regarded “races” other than his own as inferior and destined for extinction. But DNA studies reveal genetic differences between major people groups are only superficial, smaller than variations within these groups. Genetically, we are one race – the human race.

Robert Carter, Ph.D. in Marine Biology, will return to discuss Darwin’s speculation that humans descended from ape-like ancestors. Contrary to Darwin’s speculations, modern genetic evidence points to a “Mitochondrial Eve” and a “Y-Chromosome Adam” only thousands of years ago, and also to a very recent divergence of the world’s major people groups out of the Middle East.

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