Adam & Eve Meet Genetics - Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson

 

www.ICR.org | At the 2014 Creation Conference held February 21-23 at Cliffwood Presbyterian Church, Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson of the Institute for Creation Research gave a series of talks defending the literal reading of the creation account in Genesis. This is the fourth talk entitled, "Adam & Eve Meet Genetics."

The Non Mythical Adam and Eve - Dr Robert Carter, Ph.D.

In recent weeks (August 2011), we have received multiple inquiries about the historicity of Adam and Eve, including e-mail questions coming through creation.com,¹ questions after church talks, seminary courses we have given, call-in questions during radio interviews, and questions after conference presentations. This has been precipitated by a significant amount of press coverage of Francis Collins and the other members of his organization, BioLogos.² Collins was the director of the Human Genome Project, and is currently serving as the director of the National Institutes of Health, so he is no lightweight in science. Also, Collins claims to be an evangelical Christian. When a person of his caliber speaks on the relationship between science and faith, people sit up and listen.

It cannot be overstated that … the two theistic evolutionists are basing their conclusions on evolutionary assumptions.

Yet, the things he has been saying are completely opposed to what CMI believes and what the Bible clearly teaches.³ The rash of questions we have received of late center around his claims that there is no evidence for Adam and Eve and that there is no physical way we could have come from two ancestors in the recent past. A high profile article appeared in Christianity Today last June, in which the following quotes appeared:

“Collins’s 2006 bestseller, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief^[4] … reported scientific indications that anatomically modern humans emerged from primate ancestors perhaps 100,000 years ago—long before the Genesis time frame—and originated with a population that numbered something like 10,000, not two individuals.”

and

“In a recent pro-evolution book from InterVarsity Press, The Language of Science and Faith, Collins and co-author Karl W. Giberson escalate matters, announcing that ‘unfortunately’ the concepts of Adam and Eve as the literal first couple and the ancestors of all humans simply ‘do not fit the evidence’.”⁵

For the rest of this article, read The Non-Mythical Adam and Eve!: Refuting errors by Francis Collins and BioLogos

So Ya Think Yer a Chimp? CrEvo Rant #181 with Ian Juby

Newer studies blast the lie that human and chimp DNA are about 99% similar.

Random references:

Is the human genome nearly identical to chimpanzee?—a reassessment of the literature
http://creation.com/human-chimp-dna-s...

Genomic monkey business—estimates of nearly identical human--chimp DNA similarity re-evaluated using omitted data
http://creation.com/human-chimp-dna-s...

Chimp/human genetic similarity 70%:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/artic...

http://ianjuby.org
http://christianima.com

The Multidimensional Genome - Dr. Robert Carter - Creation Super Conference 2011

The Multidimensional Genome

The human genome is an incredibly complex computer program that operates in at least four dimensions. This includes the 1-D linear string of DNA, the 2-D interactions between different parts of the 1-D string, the 3-D conformation of the DNA in the nucleus, and the changes to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd dimensions over time (making the genome 4-D).

The complexity of the genome was not predicted by evolutionary theorists and their resistance to an increased understanding of this complexity has hindered scientific advancement. Not only that, but the level of complexity, even as currently understood, is extremely difficult for evolution to explain, and our knowledge of this complexity is increasing daily. In The Origin of Species, Darwin famously said, "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."

My challenge to the evolutionist is to explain the origin of the genome using a workable scenario that includes the source of informational changes, an account of the amount of mutation necessary, and a description of the selective forces necessary, all within the proper time frame. I claim the genome could not have arisen through naturalistic processes and, therefore, Darwin's theory absolutely breaks down.

Presented by Dr Robert Carter
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Dr Robert W. Carter

Speaker/senior scientist, Creation Ministries International (USA)

Education

• 2003 University of Miami, Ph.D. Marine Biology
• 1992 Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S. Applied Biology

Professional Experience

• Between my undergraduate and graduate work, I spent four years teaching high school science at a large college-prep school in NW Georgia. In addition to my teaching load (including AP biology, chemistry, physics, and electronics), I spent the winter months coaching the swimming and diving teams and the summer months running the outdoor high adventure program.
• In 1996, I was awarded the three-year Maytag doctoral fellowship by the University of Miami. When that expired, I received a one-year fellowship from the Institute for Marine Science. While working on my PhD, I designed and performed many experiments in marine ecology and genetic engineering and helped to develop new protocols for the rapid cloning of fluorescent protein genes. The green and red fluorescent proteins my coworker and I cloned from hard and soft corals were used to create transgenic zebrafish. We patented one of these protein genes and licensed it to Promega, Inc. under the trade name ‘Monster Green’.
• From 2001-2004, I helped design and build an aquaculture facility for Caribbean corals at UM’s Experimental Fish Hatchery. During these years I also performed over 500 research dives on the shallow coral reefs of the Florida Keys and Bahamas. Many of these were done at night to study the mass coral spawning episodes that happen at specific times during the warm summers.
• I spent two years after obtaining my PhD working for an engineering company, mainly focused on impact mitigation for the Key West Harbor dredging project (since the channel runs right through the coral reef).
• Upon leaving Miami, I was hired by the Institute for Creation Research to help on their GENE project. While there, I wrote computer programs to analyze human genetic data and managed to get one publication on this work into the secular literature.
• In 2006, I was hired by Creation Ministries International as a scientist, speaker, and writer.

Publications and Patents

• Carter RW (2007) Mitochondrial diversity within modern human populations. Nucleic Acids Research 35(9):3039–3045.
• Gibbs PDL, Carter RW, and Schmale MC (2007) Fluorescent Proteins from Aquatic Species. US Patent #7,291,711.
• Carter RW, Schmale MS, and Gibbs PDL (2004) Cloning of anthozoan fluorescent protein genes. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C 138:259–270.
• Carter RW (2003) Cnidarian Fluorescent Proteins. PhD Dissertation. University of Miami.
• Manica A, Carter RW (2000) Morphological and fluorescence analysis of the Montastraea annularis species complex in Florida. Marine Biology 137:899–906.

Articles specifically on creation

• Platypus thumbs its nose (or bill) at evolutionary scientists
• Darwin’s dying legacy
• Taking a crack at the Neandertal mitochondrial genome
• The slow, painful death of junk DNA
• An Ancient textile factory?
• A gentle answer; and the latest on “mitochondrial Eve”
• Neandertal genome like ours (There may be Neandertals at your next family reunion!)
• Splicing and dicing the human genome: Scientists begin to unravel the splicing code
• The Neutral Model of evolution and recent African origins
• CMI ministers in the Caribbean
• CMI scientific blunder?
• The chimpanzee Y chromosome is radically different from human
• Y-chromosome Adam and Cambrian explosion
• Corals, genes and creation
• Darwin’s Lamarckism vindicated?
• Five concise responses to atheistic arguments
• NCSE Gives ‘Favorable’ Review of The Voyage the Shook the World
• Genetics and geographical distribution
• How does Göbekli Tepe fit with biblical history?
• The Non-Mythical Adam and Eve! Refuting errors by Francis Collins and BioLogos
• Can mutations create new information?
• Could Adam and Eve have given rise to all the ‘races’?
• Genetic entropy and human lifespans

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Mystery of the Genome - Dr. John Sanford - Creation Super Conference 2011

http://creation.com | Dr John Sanford, one of the world's foremost experts on genetics traces the history of human genetic decline due to mutations in our DNA. The evidence is startling to those who don't believe in the Genesis account of Creation because it refutes conventional dates for alleged human evolution. This is powerful evidence for the Bible's timescale for human history.

Presented by Dr John Sanford 

 

Dr John Sanford, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin)

Biography

Dr John Sanford, A Cornell University Professor for more than 25 years, John has been semi-retired since 1998. His Ph.D. was in plant breeding and plant genetics. While a professor at Cornell, John has trained graduate students and conducted genetic research at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, NY. During this time, John bred new crop varieties using conventional breeding and then became heavily involved in the newly-emerging field of plant genetic engineering. John has published over 80 scientific publications and has been granted over 30 patents. His most significant scientific contributions involve three inventions, the biolistic ("gene gun") process, pathogen-derived resistance, and genetic immunization. A large fraction of the transgenic crops (in terms of numbers and acreage) grown in the world today were genetically engineered using the gene gun technology developed by John and his collaborators. John also started two biotech enterprises derived from his research, Biolistics, Inc., and Sanford Scientific, Inc. John still holds a position at Cornell (Courtesy Associate Professor), but has largely retired from Cornell and has started a small non-profit organization, Feed My Sheep Foundation. A scientific convert to six-day creation, his groundbreaking new book Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-3-506) demonstrates why human DNA is inexorably deteriorating at an alarming rate, thus cannot be millions of years old.