1

F   There is no evidence of pre-biotic (organic) soup in the earliest sedimentary

rocks. [2][3]

B  God created man and every beast and bird from the ground. (miracles)

E   Life on earth had to begin in a pre-biotic soup. (natural materialist means)

2

F   The earliest dated rocks show that the Earth had an oxygenic atmosphere.[4][5]

B   First atmosphere intentionally created to support life.

E   Earth’s atmosphere had to be reducing (lacking significant amounts of oxygen) for chemical evolution to take place.  [6][7]

3

F  “(I)f every event in the universe over its entire history were devoted to producing combinations of amino acids of the correct length in a prebiodic soup” there would be “roughly 1 out of a trillion trillion - of the total number of events needed to have a 50 percent chance of generating … any functional protein of modest length.” [8]

B   Life began by special creation.

E  Life came about by random chance.

4

F   Cell life depends on the activities of at least 10s of 1000s and possibly 100s of 1000s of different proteins. [9] A cell forming by chance requires “at least one hundred functional proteins” forming “simultaneously in one place.”   An estimated probability of this happening is 1/10²⁰⁰⁰ [10]  

B   Life was not by chance but by the creative acts of God.

E   Life evolved by chance.

5

F   The genetic code is physically and chemically arbitrary and therefore not inevitable. [11]

B   Life was intelligently engineered.

E  The genetic code is an enigma for which evolutionists have made highly speculative scenarios attempting to explain its evolution.

6

F   Natural selection has no foresight. [12] Only intelligence can visualize a high-end objective and bring together what is needed to actualize the end point. [13]

B   Life was planned.

E   Life evolved by natural selection acting on random variations.

7

F   In terms of their basic biochemical design, the cell system of any organism is not primitive, or ancestor as compared to another’s. [14]

B   All kinds of plants and animals were created at the beginning.

E   The general evolutionary theory requires that organisms advanced from primitive ancestral forms.

8

F   There is currently no evidence that organic plant and animal life can exist outside the membrane of a cell. [15][16]

B   Organic plant and animal life started out fully developed and self-replicating.

E  Life must have evolved outside a cell or in a bubble.

9

F   There is no such thing as a simple cell. [17] All cells are extremely complicated whether prokaryotic or eukaryotic.

B   God purposely created everything necessary for life.

E   Life evolved from simple to complex.

10

F   Almost all animal phyla came into being in a relatively short period of time called the Cambrian explosion with no trace of any evolutionary ancestors in the Precambrian rocks.  [18][19]

B   God created everything in a very short period.

E   Number of animal phyla increase very gradually over time.

11

F   The fossil record is characterized by gaps with a lack of transitional forms. [20][21]

B   With special creation there will be a lack of transitional forms between kinds.

E  Requires a continuum of innumerable transitional forms. 

12

F   The fossil record shows no branching from one phylum to another. [22]

B   All kinds created were intended to reproduce after their kind only.

E  All life branches from common ancestors like a tree branches.

13

F   Based on comparisons of related molecules in different present-day species, nature’s basic order is circumferential not sequential. [23]

B   All kinds of organisms were made independently therefore sequential steps between the kinds will be nonexistent.  See Note [24] for an explanation of variations within kinds.

E   Evolution from one species to another theoretically requires very small sequential steps over millions of years.

14

F   Cambrian trilobites are as complex and sophisticated as modern crabs. [25]

B  Life was very good in the various kinds from the beginning.

E   Life evolved from simple to complex.

15

F  Mutations produce degradation of the information in the genome.  “(D)egradation is counteracted by natural selection that helps maintain the status quo.” [26]

B   God created everything very good.

E   At its core, Neo-Darwinism requires beneficial information gaining mutations in the genome [27] to take place as organisms evolve towards perfection.

16

F  Cilium, flagellum, and human immune system are irreducibly complex. [28]

B   Special creation had purpose that required fully functional complex organs.

E   Darwin’s theory breaks down “(I)f it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications…” [29]

17

F  Incredible ingenuity is so often manifest in the design of living organisms. [30]

B   Ingenuity involves cleverness and high intelligence.

E   Evolution results from random processes and therefore without the direction of intelligence.

18

F  At the molecular level, the pattern of diversity of organisms conforms to a “highly ordered hierarchic system.” [31]

B  God intentionally organized everything creating order out of disorder.

E   Evolution is undirected.

19

F   “Each class (of organism) at the molecular level is unique, isolated and unlinked by intermediates.” [32]

B   God specially created different kinds of organisms.

E   Evolution requires innumerable intermediates.

20

F  Almost every nucleotide (in the human genome) is associated with some sort of (biochemical) function. [33]

B   Predicts purpose and function for everything.

E   Predicts a lot of junk left over in the cell due to random processes.