EVIL-UTION - Schooling your professor on the facts of evolution

1. Overview 5

2. What Is Evolution 16
• Inside the Doctrine: 17
• Is Evolution a Religion? 27

3. Gradualism: Slow Change, Lots of Time, Many Generations 33
• Biological / Geological Gradualism 34
	> Widespread Rapidly-Deposited Strata 44
	> The Theory of Catastrophism 49
		- Polystrate fossils 52
		- Fossil evidence 54 
		- The Grand Canyon and Cataclysmic Rapid Formations 56

4. Written in the Rocks 64
• Rocks and Fossils 67
	> Determining the Age of Rocks 70 
	> Alternatives to Rock Dating Methods 79
• Transitional or Intermediary Fossils 86 
	> “Feathered” Dinos / the Dinosaur to Bird evolution 93 
	> Tiktaalik roseae 97
	> Whales 103
• DNA Comes Back from the Dead 114
• The Cambrian Explosion: the Biological Big Bang 119

5. Remnants: Vestiges, Embryos, and Bad Design 135
• Bird and Whale Vestiges 135
• Human Vestiges 136
	> Questions for Evolutionists: Embryology and Homologous Structures 140
• The Appendix 144
• Vestigial Genes, Pseudogenes - commonly referred to as “Junk DNA” 150
• More on Bad Design (further elaborated) 157
	> Peppered moths 159
	> Other notables include 160

6. The Geography of Life 162
• The Molecular Clock and the Out-of-Africa Population Bottleneck 162
• Continental Drift vs Sprint 173

7. More FRUADS: Horse evolution; Lucy, H. habilus and eructus; Peking, Java, & Nutcracker Man; Neanderthal; Man vs Chimp; Trace Fossils and OOPA's (Out of place artifacts) 183
• Horse evolution 191
• Lucy, Homo habilus, H. eructus; Nutcracker, Peking & Java Man, and Neanderthal 193
• The Emergence of Homo erectus (in Lucy's backyard) 206
• Nebraska Man, Piltdown Man, Nutcracker Man, Peking Man, and Java Man 214
• The Neanderthalis and Homo erectus Connection 217
	> DNA Test Results of Early Man (Neanderthalensis) 219
• Man vs Chimp DNA 223
	> The Y-chromosome bombshell 227
	> Contamination 228 > Newer Studies 229
		- Genetic Recombination and Phenotypic Differences 233
		- Other DNA tid-bits or “Loose Fitting Genes” ... 235
• Trace Fossils (called Ichnology) and OOPART's 236
	> What does this reveal? Dinos and Man really? 239
	> Giants or Nephilim 256

8. Breeding, Adaptation, Natural Selection and Speciation 267
• Abiogenesis = Spontaneous Generation 292 
	> Miller-Urey Experiment 296 
	> Natural Probabilities 308 
	> The Levinthal Paradox, Old and New Versions 309
		- Exponents Gone Wild 311
		- The Conundrum For Early Life 315
• Why Evolution: “will the real theory please stand up?” 320 > “Why should we believe in Macroevolution if Nobody understands it?” 340
• The Lenski E. coli Adaptive Mutation Studies 350
• Understanding The Mutation Process 356

9. By Design: the Science of DNA (simplified) and Thermodynamics 359
• The Laws of Thermodynamics and its Implications 377 
	> The Implications of the Second Law 381 
		- Misconceptions About Open Systems 391 
		- Ilya Prigogine and the Myth of the "Self-Organization of Matter" 395 
			~ The Difference Between Organized and Ordered Systems 398 
			~ The Absence of Controlling Mechanisms 402 
			~ Open or Closed Systems Do Not Matter 406 
			~ Crystal Formations 409
• The Difference between Matter and Information 412
	> What is Information Theory (simplified) 415
		- The Essentials of Information Theory and Biological Machines 420
• The Irreducible Complexity of DNA 428
• Entropy, the Mystery Gene, or Mutational Meltdown 440

10. Evolution - the Philosophy of Science, the “Uncaused Cause” and Future Implications: 452
• The Law of Causality 460 
	> The Causality of Laminin: “The Molecule That Binds Us Together” 462 
	> Causality of the Universe 463
• “The Uncaused Cause!!” 481
• Future Implications 488