Creation is a lot more believable than One-Common-Ancestor Evolution, Dad

Dear Dad,

I have sent you all kinds of clips & factoids about this, hoping you might reconsider your Atheist  position that everything slowly, but spontaneously generated out of nothing, but I haven’t perhaps made terribly clear what conclusions all this points to.  I’d really rather not have to spell things out, but I’ll take a crack at a couple of things here.

For example, fundamental Evolutionary Theory says that lemurs bred into monkeys, monkeys bred into apes, and apes bred into  man. Now, it’s pretty obvious that creatures can evolve to adapt to new surroundings, but Evolutionists claim that ALL living things were bred from a single simple living thing. 

This has never made sense to me.  After many enquiries as to why they believe that (including a double Doctorate “expert” in Evolution), the answer they give is that “Mathematical modeling of compound probabilities shows that  the creation of life is so unlikely it is essentially zero.   Nevertheless, we exist.  Therefore we must say there is only ONE COMMON ANCESTOR  for ALL life forms.  Our task is to provide the mechanics of how that can be accomplished.”   I have asked many, many  “top academics” about this personally, and this is about the nub of it.

I’d say evolution can only occur within creatures of a single  chromosomal number; and the at the plethora of chromosomal numbers point to a plethora of common ancestors.  The series of ascending chromosomal numbers  is

Monkeys: 42 chromosomes,  
Man: 46 chromosomes;
Apes: 48 chromosomes. 

This tells you a few things.  None of these can be blood relatives.  The progression of chromosomal number does NOT match the progression of “The Ascent of Man”.  If you were a Theist, you’d almost think God was setting up a joke on Atheists.

I conclude that the only hypothesis grounded in testable fact is that each observable chromosomal number came from at least one Ancestral Pair.   A creature of one chromosomal number cannot be drawn from parents of another chromosomal number.  To create offspring, Mom & Dad have to have the same chromosomal number. 

If by way of complete chance a “Hopeful Monster” of a different chromosomal number was created, this new line of offspring has the problem of finding a mate:  i.e. a “Bride of Hopeful Monster” of the opposite sex having the same spontaneously generated chromosomal  abnormality and occurring at some point in time and location proximal to our beloved “Hopeful”.  Bride of Hopeful Monster then has to be healthy, fertile and willing to be impregnated by this peculiar looking creature coming after her.  The joint probabilities of this occurring, I believe, has to be functionally zero. 

By the way, Dad, to answer you favorite Life Magazine picture of a Skeletal Man and Skeletal Horse which you say proves Evolution (and Atheism) for you:  a Horse has 60 chromosomes.  We have 46.  We are clearly not blood relatives.   I suggest that the commonality is not the their Ancestor, but their  Designer, and the common environment we were designed to exist in.. 

For another example, I have also given you lots of information about monstrous GIGANTISM of familiar species in the fossil record, such as the Meganeuropsis Dragonfly shown above.  Every one of these creatures would suffocate in our present atmosphere due to the inadequate gas pressure in it’s lungs to support it’s mass of body tissue.

What really stuck in my mind was the gigantic bugs, who have no lungs, and are utterly dependent on gas pressures to supply oxygen to their body tissues through little membranes on their sides.  We’ve got Fossil Dragonflies like Meganeuropsis well over a foot long, thicker than your thumb, and thirty something inches in wingspan in museums.  Centipedes three feet long, and as thick as your arm.

These monstrous insects point to a monstrously higher gas pressure which points to a monstrously deeper Atmosphere, which strangely enough is entirely feasible when you look at the Lapse Rate Diagrams I sent you. 

It shows the locations of TWO layers of atmospheric water: one above the ozone layer, and one below.  These are called the Mesosphere and the Troposphere. 

Clearly something happened to dramatically reduce the depth and volume of our Atmospheric bubble and asphyxiate the Giants.   You will understand dramatic shifts from one point of stability in a system to another point of stability as the trip towards minimum system energy is felt out.  It seems pretty clear that the extinction of these Giants had something to do with the loss of a major fraction of our Atmospheric gas. 

Perhaps the it was blown off into space by the same event that  created the Iridium layer (a global layer of iridium dust, above which no dinosaurs are found), be it the Chicxulub meteorite, or something like it.  A monster meteorite of that scale could very conceivably create mechanical and thermodynamic upheavals that would destabilize the upper atmospheric layer, dislodging it.

The destabilized upper gases, having become weightless in it’s purtebated location, would simply strip off into Space.  The gas pressures at the earth’s crust would drop proportionately.  With the weight of the Upper Atmosphere and the resultant incremental gas pressure at the crust (which kept the Giants oxygenated) stripped out, the giants would simply loose breath & suffocate.  The change to the present shallow, chaotic weather systems means that warm-blooded creatures then had the upper hand.   Quite apart from their ability to heat themselves, Mammals have a gene which tells their bodies to STOP GROWING.  Reptiles do not.

Now for another element in the process:  What happens when you drop the pressure above a mixture of solids and compressible fluids?  This is what would be happening at the Earth’s crust when the atmospheric pressure is dropping rapidly, by maybe 40%.  Popping the cap off a pop bottle provides an illustration. 

There would be a kind of effervescence happening with the loss of pressure, of course.   The now relatively large pressures below the surface in the primordial gas & water entrained there would drive these fluids to the surface, creating fountains and geysers of water and gas as the global system tries to stabilize after the dramatic loss of atmospheric pressure.  Any marginal volcanic and tectonic activity would be triggered.  These would be erupting generally all about the Globe creating geomorphic and hydrodynamic Chaos at a global scale.

Read Genesis 6 about Noah, and you find this modern, but non-technical man describing events like these from an eye-witness observer’s point of view.  He adds also that prior to the flood, there was NO RAIN as we know it – only drizzle.  We know this is an accurate description of the Mesozoic atmosphere from the fossil record.  Noah adds that after the Flood, there appeared in the sky a “Bow” promising that God would never again destroy the Earth by water.  (Next time it will be by Fire!)  We know this to be consistent with only the present weather systems, supposing there was this loss of atmospheric gas as indicated by the extinction of the Giants.

You and I both know, Dad, the weather systems of the Antediluvian times were very different from what they are now.   Giant ferns and horsetails can’t grow to such height when the wind speeds are what they are now.  We expect the weather then to be very still by modern standards.  We know that the convective forces are proportional to temperature gradients, and that low wind speeds are due to low convective forces, and therefore, to low temperature gradients. This is indicative of a deep, still atmosphere and is all pretty consistent with what we know of the Mesozoic and it's fossils.

We know that a “Rainbow” doesn’t form except in rather specific circumstances, which are NOT consistent with the Mesozoic.  The sun has to be behind your back.  Raindrops in front of you have to be falling with sufficient diameter to create the diffused refraction back to you of the sunlight behind you.  We both know that large water droplets can’t form without proportionally large convective uplifts which are inconsistent with gigantic flimsy fossil plants and the Mesozoic. Water droplets above a small angular altitude do not make a ‘Rainbow” for an observer on the surface.   The circumstances needed to create a Rainbow are not generally present in the Mesozoic.

So here’s the punch line.  We are technical guys, Dad.  Noah was not.  We know how atmospheric convection and rainbows work, Noah didn’t.  I ask you:  “How would non-technical Noah be able to invent the story of the Flood if he had not been an eye-witness of both environmental systems?  Everyone assumes that no modern man has observed the weather of the Mesozoic, and yet Noah is amazingly accurate in his description of the Antediluvian weather, and the contrast between it and modern weather.  He reports both the “Fountains of the deep” bursting up (after the confining atmospheric pressure was lost) and the appearance of the “Bow in the Sky”   He couldn’t  have just invented this story, of course, even if he tried.  This is strongly indicative that the story of the Flood is from an eye-witness, such as Noah.

Creation is a lot more believable than .. Evolution, Dad

Monkeys: 42 chromosomes,  
Man: 46 chromosomes;
Apes: 48 chromosomes. 

This tells you a few things.  None of these can be blood relatives.  The progression of chromosomal number does NOT match the progression of “The Ascent of Man”. 

Moe:  Funstuff:  Creation Vs Evolution, Dad