Implications 1: Genesis and decay. (See Figure 8)
BQ: Using everything we've learned about genetics, we're going ask, "What are some important implications of genetic entropy?" Well, we have seen that molecular evidence is 180 degrees off from evolutionary theory. Instead, as we go backward in time, useful information increases, and harmful mutations decrease.
Remember how we see improvements as we go back in time instead of forward? In the Bible, people in old testament times were recorded as having longer life spans the further back in history one looked. Holladay and Watt ran numerical simulations on the listed ages of these people vs. the dates the timelines compute to, and found that there was an exponential decay curve in lifespans. The correlation coefficient with Biblical data was shockingly close (.94), and the formula of best fit was y=386.6835(e^-0.00462214x)+70.065.
This is unexpected and amazing because it is a biological decay curve. Either the data was recorded faithfully by the writer of Genesis, or he fabricated the info using advanced mathematics and a desire to show exponential decay. But why would someone want to show such a decay curve, especially without knowledge of genetics and mutations, and with no understanding of such advanced math? Is this an elaborate, stone-age fraud? Given that no reason is given for listing the numbers in the Bible, and the impossibility of someone at time having that sort of foreknowledge, it can't be be a fraud. Empirical evidence supports genetic entropy, while philosophical hand-waving about natural selection presents nothing. I'll leave the conclusion up to you—why does the Bible model genetic entropy in the same way that our molecular makeup does?
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Figure 8
Implications 2: Size of the genome.
BQ: In our look at the implications of genetic entropy, we can see that we have a problem: mutations accumulate at a rate of 600-6000 per generation. But wait, we have 6 billion nucleotides, so losing one ten-millionth of our information per generation isn't that bad, is it?
Well, as it turns out, out genome is much like a computer program. Computer programs can be millions and billions of bytes in size, yet can fail because of a single error. Much like like us, most sturdy programs can continue to function even with multiple errors. Luckily for us, our genome is incredibly robust and able to withstand many, many errors. However, in the evolutionary timespan since we allegedly evolved from chimps, we would have accumulated a minimum of 90,000,000 errors. It is inconceivable that we would still be functional with a 3% data loss in the genome.
Like any information, there must be an engineer/designer for it, and also like any information, it WILL decay. Consider the Chinese telephone game you played when you were a child: as the whisper was passed down the line, it was changed, and the net information was lost and distorted.
The very existence of the genome is a mystery in evolutionary terms. Information and polyfunctional complexity which far surpass our ability to understand are programmed into space impossible to see with the naked eye. It should be obvious that our genome did not arise spontaneously, which leads to only one conclusion: it is an engineered masterpiece. The engineer has been known since ancient times. He has written the book using genetic language of who we are. It is perfect in every sense to see Acts 3:15 describe Him as "the Author of life," as that is exactly what He is.
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Implications 3: The Titanic is doomed.
BQ: The messages on genetics so far have been two-fold, but a major portion of them focus on the fact that we are on board a sinking ship. It is horrific to think that every species is eroding away, like a sand castle on a beach, a beautiful creation that is slowly losing its form. Yet it is necessary to KNOW the bad news in order to know how to respond.
So how does someone respond? If the evidence is ignored, there is only one response: death and decay. Morality becomes meaningless other than to live physically a little bit longer, to avoid an early death. If your hope is in a sinking ship, your best response is merely to be on the last part that sinks.
But if the logical evidence is followed, and if you recognize that there is an "Author of life," as Acts 3:15 states, suddenly there is a lifeboat! There is no need to go down with the sinking ship. You see, apart from Jesus, there is no hope. There is only the inevitability of death. Science and physics cannot conquer it, but rather ensure it. Yet God made you alive. He made the heavens and the earth in the first place, so He can make you alive again, and when He promises a new heaven and new earth, He is able to meet that promise. Because He rose from the dead, we can also have that hope. And apart from that, there is no hope.
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