If you’d post some specific arguments that you want disproved, it would help a lot. A bunch of URL’s and no discussion doesn’t go over all that well here.
That said, here’s right back at ya: http://www.talkorigins.org. Search there on anything you want to know about.
And now for something completely different…
The fact is, no one can prove evolution, or any other scientific theory, to be correct. There’s always another theory that could be right, or predicts a certain subset of the data more accurately, or what have you.
On the other hand, one repeatable reading would be enough to invalidate the whole theory. That’s the way science is. However, the evidence for evolution of some kind is that it’s been studied for roughly 130 years, and no one’s managed to disprove it.
And just cause I know this is gonna come up, let’s talk about facts and theories. A fact is a statement of the way things are. A theory is a statement about why things are the way they are. Most often, theories are a statement about how something works. “Most people see the sky as blue” is a statement of fact. “People see the sky as blue due to atmospheric scattering” is a theory. Does that make sense?
That last one is crap. As are all the others. I would suggest, as a good starting place, the obligatory Talkorigins site for prime debunking material. As Jack Chick tracts make my teeth itch from reading them, if there’s anything in particular you’d like to see refuted, feel free to ask. There are several here who could make short work of Chick’s dubious science.
This 2½ foot long poster from the two middle pages in BIG DADDY? uses humor and facts to show the foolishness of evolution. Exposes the truth about Heidelberg man, Piltdown man and others. Teens love it!
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Text From Poster Above (Left to Right)
Heidelberg Man - Built from a jaw bone that was conceded by many to be quite human.
Nebraska Man - Scientifically built up from one tooth and later found to be the tooth of an extinct pig.
Piltdown Man - The jawbone turned out to belong to a modern ape.
Peking Man - 500,000 years old. All evidence has disappeared.
Neanderthal Man - At the Int’l Congress of Zoology (1958) Dr. A. J. E. Cave Said his examination showed that the famous Neanderthal skeleton found in France over 50 years ago is that of an old man who suffered from arthritis.
Cro-Magnon Man - One of the earliest and best established fossils is at least equal in physique and brain capacity to modern man…so what’s the difference?
Modern Man - This genius thinks we came from a monkey.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools - Romans 1:22
Here is a good site with lots of useful info on human origins and evolution.
And here is another. Chick’s version of human evolution is a fantasy made up by, and only adhered to by, creationists.
Well, the title page of “Big Daddy” shows an ape with an evil leer on his face, and the title next to it asks, ironically, “Big Daddy?” Meaning, “Were we descended from apes?”
Heidelberg Man - Built from a jaw bone that was conceded by many to be quite human. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/mauer.html Nebraska Man - Scientifically built up from one tooth and later found to be the tooth of an extinct pig.
One of the great and persistent lies of certain Creationists. The tooth was, indeed, that of a pig. Pigs and humans have quite similar molars. The tooth was correctly examined and reclassified as a pig’s tooth fewer than nine months after it was discovered. No paleontologist ever tried to establish that it was from an ancestor to humanity. (When it was first reported, a magazine printing the story of the early speculation that it might be human included an “artists rendering” of a “possible” cave man, but that was purely literary (not scientific) speculation. Still, Chick and company continue to lie that it was a “error” of evolutionary science.) Piltdown Man - The jawbone turned out to belong to a modern ape.
Piltdown man was a deliberate fraud and was generally not accepted by the paleontological community even before the fraud was exposed. Most scientists expressed severe reservations regarding the placement of that jaw and that skull. Peking Man - 500,000 years old. All evidence has disappeared.
Peking Man is homo erectus of which over 100 examples exist. During WWII, the specific bones called “Peking” disappeared (the perils of war). Creationists like to hint darkly that they were destroyed or hidden, but the truth is more mundane. The bones had already been photographed and categorized and they certainly match the other examples of homo erectus. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/peking.html
**Neanderthal Man - At the Int’l Congress of Zoology (1958) Dr. A. J. E. Cave Said his examination showed that the famous Neanderthal skeleton found in France over 50 years ago is that of an old man who suffered from arthritis. **
Another Creationist smoke and mirrors claim. Some early discoveries of Neandertal had suffered bone diseases (although the original claim on that point is in error) and made it into the popular imagination as the hunchbacked “cave men”. However, the distinction between Homo sapiens sapiens and Homo sapiens neandertalensis is based on the skull and other features not associated with the curved spine. The two are clearly different–and there are a lot more Neandertal skeletons than that are not diseased. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/a_neands.html
**Cro-Magnon Man - One of the earliest and best established fossils is at least equal in physique and brain capacity to modern man…so what’s the difference? **
There is no difference. Cro-Magnon is recognized by all reputable paleontologists as Homo sapiens sapiens. So what is Chick’s point?
Perhaps this could be called a hijack, but here goes anyway.
I sense a lot of negativity against creationists by the posters in this thread. I know that I don’t particularly care for Jack Chick’s opinions and little comic strips. He doesn’t speak for all of us (certainly not for me). But I must ask, why the negativity against creationist thought?
