A splendid video about evolution

I stumbled across this video exploring the evidence against the idea that we (and every other living thing) evolved by RM+NS:

Here is what I wrote in a comment on this YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smTbYKJcnj8

I am not a Christian, but I really enjoyed this video!

I liked the experiment that demonstrated that e-coli could repair one point mutation in the gene for tryptophan after a large number of generations, but was totally stumped if two mutations needed fixing. This is exactly what one would expect from combinatoric considerations, and as Rob pointed out this illustrates exactly why NO genes could have evolved by natural selection!

I like to put it another way: As soon as the role of DNA/RNA in coding for proteins was discovered, it should have been obvious that Natural Selection was not an adequate explanation for any of the genes because a part-constructed gene has no advantage for the organism that contains it - indeed it is disadvantageous to the organism because it wastes its resources making junk!

I think all this is evidence that life has a non-material component - a spirit component if you life - but probably not a Christian spirit. Indeed I think multiple spirit-level creators makes more sense - think of the many predator-prey arms races - don't they make more sense if there are multiple designers at work?

Rob's video manages to get across the essence of the problem with RM+NS without getting into the complexities of DNA/RNA etc.

David

More about the video.

I got an email response from rob later the same day, saying that he was pleased we agreed on the science and wants to discuss my concept of spirit-level creators some more ):

I like anything that hammers across the message that DNA can't evolve by natural selection because there is no equivalent of the idea of incremental development.

Once I understood that, it sent a shiver down my spine —there really have to be entities that created life on earth (or conceivably somewhere else).

It is also obvious that many other people must have reached the same conclusion but kept quiet about it rather than rock the boat. I'll bet some or all of the "Third Way" crowd must know the truth.

David