http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp
Are any of the arguments presented here true? Is it just a strawman?
Chick’s so full of shit it’s a wonder his tracts aren’t all colored brown.
Check TalkOrigins for the actual science of the matter.
No. Yes.
Talk Origins provides this page by Cosmm Shalizi Fossil Hominids: Big Daddy? dealing with those claims.
Its a lot of the classic creationist arguments summarized in a silly comic format. They left out one interesting indicator in favor of evolution, tiny life forms. Very small forms of life can be created and observed in a lab setting where you can practically watch evolution happen. They live short lives and reproduce quickly so you can see the effects of change between generations as it happens. I’d love to hear more about this from someone who knows where we can cite the facts to refute the arguments in the comic.
Don’t be too hard on Jack. His comics alwasy give me a good chuckle.
Not really. No form of life has ever been created in a lab. Yet. The closest we’ve come is to put together some functional virus particles from their parts.
But I believe your point is that work with bacteria has provided evidence to support evolutionary theory, which is certainly true.
Personally, I am repelled by most of the Chick tracts, and–having read the “Big Daddy” tract 30 years ago–I would be appalled that a professor, in any field, would behave in such a manner. I’vbe had classes with outspoken professors but not one who engage in such a childish outburst.
Incidentally, I found a mention of Karl Marx, who asked Charles Darwin, in the 1870s, permission to dedicate the English edition of Das Kapital to him. Subject to correction, this squib came from Outlines of History by H. G. Wells.