A deceptively simple word that has transformed the way we look at ourselves and everything around us. Once considered unique, man has been reduced to little more than another animal, thanks to evolutionary theories. Textbooks present evolution as fact—indisputable, inevitable, and incomprehensible unless you hold a PhD in a relevant field.
Don’t believe it. Anyone can understand evolution. And this book provides the tools!
Evolutionists push the idea that only religious zealots dispute evolution. The Evolution Conspiracy exposes the faults in evolutionary theories, the half-truths, and the inconsistencies through a secular lens.
The Evolution Conspiracy takes on the challenge to demonstrate the real facts:
- Evolution fails to meet standard criteria for a fact or a theory.
- No one can satisfactorily define what a species is.
- The usual definition of evolution is so vague as to be meaningless.
- No one knows how life originated, or where the original living cell came from.
- DNA is not infallible (despite what CSI would lead you to believe).
Read. Think. Decide for yourself. – ROM THE AUTHOR SITE
AUTHOR GUEST POST…Common Misconceptions About Evolution
We’ve all heard about evolution. The term natural selection has become a part of everyday language, Charles Darwin is a household name, and the image of humans gradually evolving from apelike ancestors has become ubiquitous. But how much do most of us really know about evolution? What are the top six misconceptions about evolution?
- Natural selection is evolution. While most biologists will say natural selection is the driving force of evolution, the two terms are not synonymous. Evolution means descent with modification, a fancy term for changes that get passed down from generation to generation. Natural selection is the engine driving those changes.
- Evolution happens gradually. Darwin described evolution as a ceaseless progression of tiny changes. Now, though, a growing number of biologists talk about saltations—sudden evolutionary leaps.
- The fossil record is virtually complete. Scientists have estimated fossils represent no more than 10% and perhaps less than 1% of all species that have ever lived on earth. In addition most fossils are incomplete, with large chunks missing, and even complete fossils are often found shattered in thousands of pieces.
- We know what a species is. Despite centuries of trying to solve the “species problem,” scientists still cannot define what makes a species. Yet, to prove evolution brought about the diversity of life we see today, scientists must be able to define the basic unit of evolutionary change.
- We know how life began. When it comes to the birth of life scientists have only hypotheses based on flimsy evidence. They can’t agree on what the first life-form was, when it emerged, or how it emerged. Even the birth of animal life remains a mystery.
- Evolution is a fact. But the biggest misconception about evolution, perpetuated by scientists themselves, is that evolution is a fact as irrefutable as the existence of gravity. Evolution fails to qualify as a theory, much less a fact.
No one can prove whether evolution, when defined as descent with modification, is powerful enough to have triggered the extraordinary diversity of living things that currently exist or once existed on earth. In The Evolution Conspiracy I tackle all the issues mentioned above—and more.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR…Lisa A. Shiel researches and writes about everything strange, from Bigfoot and UFOs to alternative history. She has been interviewed for big-city newspapers, national magazines, drive-time talk radio shows, and TV news. She has a master’s degree in library science. As a fiction writer, Lisa developed the Human Origins Series—which includes the novels The Hunt for Bigfoot and Lord of the Dead. Lisa’s other nonfiction books are Backyard Bigfoot: The True Story of Stick Signs, UFOs & the Sasquatch (a finalist in ForeWord Magazine’s 2006 Book of the Year Awards) and Strange Michigan. Her latest book, The Evolution Conspiracy, Vol. 1, marks the initial release in a planned three-book series.
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Website: EvolutionConspiracy.com
Twitter: @LAShiel
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this is a great post with great facts. the only thing i have to add is that you cannot add DNA to an animal, therefore you can only evolve species. which means, you can change from a wolf to a dalmatian, but not from a wolf to a cat. or a black person and a white person can have a brown person, but a white monkey and a black monkey are going to have… a brown monkey. not a brown in-between-monkey-and-person.
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Haley, thanks for your sharing your thoughts. Here’s something to ponder: Scientists have added DNA to animals to create transgenic animals (which have DNA from another species inserted into their genomes). They’ve made glow-in-the-dark rabbits, among other things. Very weird!
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