EVOLUTION
(See also Creation; Darwin, Charles; Dating [Scientific]; Fossils; Geology; Paleontology; Spontaneous Generation)
(Note centered heading below: Quotations)
accepted as fact: w94 9/1 4; g90 1/22 8-10; g87 7/22 10-11
adaptation of living things not proof: ijwbq article 165
ape-men: lf 27-29; wi 5; rs 125; g87 7/22 11-12
Amphipithecus: w86 4/1 18-19
brain size: lf 28
dating of finds in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: g86 9/22 20-21
Homo habilis contemporary with Homo erectus: g 4/08 30
Man of Orce (Spain): g94 1/8 24-25
Neanderthal man: g 11/11 29; lf 28
Piltdown man: g97 7/8 31
reconstructions: lf 28-29; rs 125
appreciation for Awake! articles on: g98 2/22 30; g98 4/8 30; g96 3/22 30
appreciation for Awake! position against: g90 7/8 30
bacteria:
odds against simplest bacterium forming by chance: g87 1/22 8
Bible view: it-2 303, 882; g 10/15 8-9; pe 72; rs 86-87, 127-128; g88 12/8 26-27; w86 4/1 11-12
contrast regarding human nature: g98 6/22 8-10
contrast regarding meaning in life: lc 29
contrast regarding morals and values: g04 6/22 12
Genesis “kinds”: ijwbq article 165; g21.3 12; it-2 152-153, 882; g 3/14 5; lc 19, 27-28; g 9/06 13-14, 20
whether God used evolution: ijwbq article 165; g 10/15 9; g 1/14 13; g 3/14 5; lc 27-28; w08 1/1 14-16; g 9/06 9-10, 20
birds: it-1 316; g 7/07 25; g87 7/22 12
feathers: g 7/07 24-25; g90 10/22 16
finch: lc 20-21; g 9/06 15-16
fossil fraud: g 7/07 24; g00 7/22 28
blood clotting: g97 5/8 6-7
book Darwin on Trial: g91 10/22 28
book The Origin of Species: g95 8/8 3-9
brain: lf 28; g04 8/8 11-12; w86 4/1 16-17
cell: lf 5-21; pc 9-11; ct 32-34; g97 5/8 5-6, 8-9; g87 1/22 4-9; w86 4/1 13
chance: ct 30; g97 5/8 11-12
chemical evolution: mrt article 4; g 11/11 7-8; lf 4-6; w08 1/1 16; g02 3/22 26-27; ct 32-44, 48; g97 5/8 7, 10-11; g89 3/8 29; g87 1/22 4-9
color perception: w13 10/1 15
comparative anatomy: g87 7/22 12-13
contrasted with creation: ypq 27-29; lc 29
cosmic evolution:
universe structure defies theory: g90 6/22 29
criticism of:
by professors: lf 4-5; g 11/10 5, 9; g00 6/8 31; w87 8/15 30; g87 7/22 10-13
by scientists: lf 4-6, 12, 22-25; g 11/10 5; w07 10/15 20; g04 6/22 8; g98 3/8 11; g98 8/8 31; w94 9/1 4-5, 32; wi 5; g92 4/22 29; rs 121-122; w86 7/15 3-4
crossbreeding:
hybrids no proof of evolution: g88 7/8 29
sterility barrier: it-2 152-153
Darwin: gm 104-106; w86 4/1 5, 11-13
dating methods: g90 2/8 11; g90 2/22 28; g86 9/22 17-27
radioactive dating: rs 94
dinosaurs: ijwbq article 138; g90 2/8 10-11
discussion: mrt article 4; ypq 27-29; g 1/15 4-5; lc 18-23; lf 3-29; g97 5/8 3-17; g95 8/8 3-9; gm 104-110; pe 70-72; rs 121-129; g87 7/22 10-13
DNA: lf 13-21
information content: g 8/15 5; w13 10/15 9-10; g 12/13 16; lf 16; g99 9/8 6; g95 10/22 6; g87 1/22 8; w86 4/1 13
“junk” DNA: g 11/11 5-6; g05 2/22 21; g05 12/8 30
not produced by chance: g04 6/22 6
odds against nucleotides forming by chance: g87 1/22 6-7
one male and one female ancestor of all mankind: ct 98; g86 8/8 30
doubts concerning: g18.1 12
effects of belief in: ijwyp article 33; g95 8/8 4-8; w86 4/1 12
anger theories: g87 5/8 21
evolutionary psychology: w01 3/1 5; g98 6/22 3-4
Marxism: g95 8/8 5-6; w86 4/1 12
moral breakdown: g 4/07 5; g98 6/22 4, 7; g93 8/8 5; w89 4/15 21; w86 7/15 6
philosophy: g95 8/8 5-6
social Darwinism: g95 8/8 5-6; g87 3/8 14; g86 2/8 19
violence theories: g03 7/8 6
experiences:
biochemists from China: w91 9/1 32
consultant surgeon: g 5/14 10-11
Witness presentations in school: w16.03 28; g 9/09 32; w00 2/15 32
fossils: lf 23-27; g 9/06 16-17; rs 123-124
Cambrian: lf 22-24; w86 4/1 13-14
completeness of record: lc 22
failure to support gradual evolution: lc 22
Great Barrier Reef: g91 7/8 28
lack of transitional forms: g04 6/22 7-8; wi 4-5; w90 2/1 6; gm 106; w86 4/1 14, 18
fraudulent: g90 1/22 8-15
genetic code: mrt article 4; g99 9/8 10
geology:
work by Charles Lyell: g95 8/8 4
God rejected by evolutionists: w04 10/1 10; g90 1/22 11
gulfs between animal classes:
DNA of man and apes or monkeys: g03 12/22 29
insect wings: g97 6/22 18; w87 1/15 23
instinct: w86 4/1 14-15
irreducible complexity: g97 5/8 5-7
language: it-2 203; w13 9/1 11-12
lawyer investigates: g91 10/22 28
letters and replies on Awake! articles: g01 2/22 30
man unique: g21.3 7; w15 1/1 16; g98 6/22 3-11; gm 107
human qualities unexplainable: g 1/15 5; w07 10/15 20; w07 12/15 30; g98 11/22 13; gm 107
no link to subhumans: it-2 303
mathematical improbability: g21.3 7
mathematical models: g97 5/8 7
meaning of terms: w13 10/15 7; g 9/06 9; rs 121
microevolution, macroevolution: lc 18; g 9/06 13
species: lc 19; g 9/06 13-14
theistic evolution: ijwbq article 165
Miller, Stanley:
amino acid creation: lf 5; ct 34-39; g87 1/22 5-6
missing links: g95 11/8 29; gm 106; w86 4/1 14, 18-19
coelacanth no link to land animals: g89 5/8 28
leading to dinosaurs: g90 2/8 10-11
leading to man: it-2 303; lf 27-28
mutations: mrt article 4; lc 19-20; g 9/06 13-15; wi 5; rs 124-125; g87 7/22 10-11
natural selection: lc 20-21; g 9/06 15-16; w94 9/1 4; w86 4/1 11-12
no evidence of drive toward complexity: g93 9/22 28
not factual: g 9/06 13-17; g98 8/8 31; g93 5/22 14-15; wi 4-5; g90 1/22 9; w87 8/15 30; g87 7/22 10-13
not scientific: g 8/15 7
origin of life: mrt article 4; it-2 246; g 1/15 4; w11 1/1 6; g 11/11 7-8; lf 4-12, 22-23; g 11/10 5; pc 9-10; ct 28-44, 48; w94 9/1 3; gm 107-108; rs 121-122; g87 1/22 4-9; w86 4/1 13
convention of biologists in Paris: g89 5/22 28
convention of scientists in France: g92 4/22 29
International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life: w87 8/15 30
Pasteur’s experiments: ct 32; g96 12/8 24, 26-27
scientists critical of chance: lf 4-6, 12; g 11/10 5; w08 1/1 16; g 9/06 11-12; w05 2/1 6; la 16; ct 42-43; w94 9/1 32; pr 6-7
scientists critical of single origin: lf 22-23
theory involving hydrothermal vents in ocean floor: g89 3/8 29
religious acceptance: g95 8/8 5; g93 5/22 14-15; sh 332; w89 4/15 21; g89 10/8 24-25; w86 4/1 12-13
Catholic Church: g 5/08 30; g97 5/8 28; g97 5/22 28; g97 10/22 12-13; w86 4/1 12; w86 7/15 5; w86 9/15 26
Church of England: w86 4/1 12-13
preceded scientists’ acceptance: w86 4/1 12
Protestantism: w86 7/15 5
religious ‘evolution’: sh 22-29; gm 42-43; g89 10/8 25
reproductive stability: gm 106-107
reptiles: g87 7/22 12
energy used in slithering: g90 12/8 28
schools:
defending belief in creation: ijwyp articles 28, 33, 35-36; w24.12 18-19; w19.05 29; w16.09 23-27; ypq 27-29; w15 2/15 12; w13 10/15 10-11; yp2 300-303; g 9/06 26-28
instruction in: g98 8/8 31; g87 7/22 10, 13
survey on whether both evolution and creation should be taught: g87 1/22 25
teaching intelligent design as alternative held unconstitutional (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.): g 9/06 30
scientists’ views:
biochemist: w08 1/1 16; g 9/06 11-12; la 16
convention in France: g92 4/22 29
disagreements: w94 9/1 3-5; rs 122-123
disagreements between geneticists and paleontologists: w88 4/15 21
early acceptance: w86 4/1 5-6
human mathematical ability: ct 55
microbiologist: lf 12
molecular biologist: wi 5
paleontologists: lf 23; g00 1/22 14
physicist: g03 8/8 32
professor in physics and chemistry: g87 6/22 28
professor of entomology: mrt article 4; g 1/15 3
professor of mathematics: g 11/15 10-11
scientists who speak of creation and a Creator: g18.1 12; g 10/13 6-7; g 2/10 23; g 9/06 21-23; g04 6/22 3-9; rs 84-86, 146
sex: g04 6/22 6; g01 2/22 30; w86 7/15 3-4
social evolution: g89 10/8 25
species barrier:
gene that allowed some hybrids to survive: g88 7/8 29
surveys on belief (U.S.): g 9/06 30; g95 8/8 9
verification impossible: w90 2/1 6; gm 109
weaknesses inherent: w90 2/1 6-7
whether logical: g00 6/8 31
why believed: w08 1/1 16-17; w04 10/1 10; g95 8/8 4-5
by scientists: lc 22; g 9/06 17; g98 8/8 31; g97 5/8 12; gm 108-109; w86 4/1 5-6
failure of religion: w94 9/1 5-7
why question evolution: ijwyp article 33
Witness view: g97 10/22 13
zebra stripes: g02 1/22 14; w88 7/15 31
Quotations
act of faith: w86 4/1 18
amazed to find Awake! contained shrewd criticism of Darwinism: w94 9/1 6
as if we had won a million-dollar lottery a million times in a row: g97 5/8 11
being questioned by reputable scientists: rs 123
can explain some secondary things but not the essential stages: g92 4/22 29
cannot explain the origin of complex organs: g97 5/8 11
Darwin:
if complex organ could not have been formed by slight modifications, my theory would break down: g98 3/8 11; g97 5/8 6
we do not even in the least know the final cause of sexuality: w86 7/15 3
Darwinian explanation for the mechanisms of life will forever prove elusive: la 16; g00 1/22 9
Darwinism means no ultimate foundation for ethics, for life: g02 6/8 3
Darwin never imagined the complexity at the most basic levels of life: g97 5/8 10
Darwin rid biology of the need for God once and for all: g90 1/22 11
dinosaur could shake the foundations of evolutionary biology: g90 2/8 10
evidence can still be placed inside a single coffin: wi 5; w86 4/1 18
evidence too scarce and too fragmented to support such a complex theory: w94 9/1 5
first man was a man: w88 4/15 21
fundamentally implausible that matter and energy organized themselves into living systems: ct 38
fundamental questions have scarcely ever been asked: w86 7/15 3
fundamental view of biology needs to change: lf 23
gaping holes in the evidence: w86 4/1 18
great divergence among biologists about the causes, even the process, because the evidence is unsatisfactory: rs 122
highly speculative, no hard scientific evidence: g97 5/8 10
human language is an embarrassment for evolutionary theory: ct 60
impossible to verify by experiment or direct observation: w90 2/1 6; gm 109
inadequate framework for the origin of biochemical systems: g97 5/8 11
it is a legend that Darwin solved the origin of biological complexity: g97 5/8 10
life was a deliberate intellectual act: w99 6/15 17; ct 41
links between major groups of animals simply aren’t there: g94 5/22 21; w90 2/1 6; gm 106
list of evolutionary mysteries is endless: g97 5/8 11
loud, piercing cry of design: g00 1/22 8-9; w98 5/1 3-4; g98 3/8 11
many scientists with private doubts: w94 9/1 4
molecular evolution not based on scientific authority: g97 5/8 10
nature has not been reduced to the continuum that the Darwinian model demands: g97 5/8 10
no closer to life than the substances that make up coal tar: w87 8/15 30
no evidence for any of the basic tenets: w94 9/1 4-5
no evidence that [Darwin’s] tree of life is a reality: lf 23
no intermediate stage between scales and feathers ever discovered: g90 10/22 16
no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral: g90 1/22 12-13; g87 1/22 7-8
no longer correct to say that those who do not believe it are ignorant: w94 9/1 6
not a trace of a common ancestor [for mammals], much less a link with any reptile: wi 4-5; w86 4/1 14
not the slightest empirical hint of evolutionary sequence among all the incredibly diverse cells on earth: g87 1/22 7-8
one of the great jokes in the history books in the future: g94 9/8 32
only acceptable explanation is creation: wi 6; rs 122; g87 1/22 10
open charter for any form of opportunistic behaviour: g93 8/8 5; g89 3/22 6
origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle: g87 1/22 10
origin of life more difficult than people envisioned: ct 35, 38
science that excludes creation ceases to be a search for truth: g97 5/8 10
seems as much a miracle as the Bible account: w94 9/1 5
sex is the queen of problems: w86 7/15 3
sexual reproduction in higher plants and animals is inconsistent with current evolutionary theory: w86 7/15 3
silence on how molecular machines developed: g97 5/8 7, 10
tree of life [Darwin’s] being politely buried: lf 23
universe structure so regular and immense defies current theories: g90 6/22 29