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I found information about the talk by Kurt Wise at UNC in October, 2000. This is taken from the TASC Newsletter:
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Kurt Wise in the Lion’s Den
Dr. Kurt Wise, a paleontologist and professor at Bryan University, gave a super lecture at UNC-Chapel Hill, which was well attended, including several professors and staff members. The lecture was well received, and a spirited discussion followed.
Dr. Wise gave a powerful presentation and major predictions of what the fossil record should look like if evolution were true versus if there was a totally randomized process of fossil deposition. Dr. Wise limited his discussion to fossils of marine invertebrate organisms (having no spinal chord), which make up 95% of all fossils ever found.
In virtually every case, the predictions of the randomization model were born out by the fossil record, while the evolution model’s predictions were the exact opposite of what is actually observed. Of particular interest was a discussion of the “order of appearance” of fossil organisms in comparison to their “evolutionary order of appearance” expected on the basis of hypothetical “trees of life”. Not only were virtually all fossils out of the expected order of appearance, the order of appearance was statistically random.
As expected, the professors all opposed what Dr. Wise said, but what they complained about mostly amounted to picky details. No one even attempted to refute any of Dr. Wise’s major theses. One heckler tried to embarrass him by quoting from a Creation Ex Nihilo magazine article where Dr. Wise had stated that all theories must conform to the Bible. Dr. Wise’s opponents tried to claim that science must never seek explanations that invoke any kind of divine intervention. However, many in the audience (including your editor) argued that to categorically eliminate divine intervention as an explanation for certain phenomena comes from a biased position that can be plainly seen by all.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I found information about the talk by Kurt Wise at UNC in October, 2000. This is taken from the TASC Newsletter:
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>
Kurt Wise in the Lion’s Den
Dr. Kurt Wise, a paleontologist and professor at Bryan University, gave a super lecture at UNC-Chapel Hill, which was well attended, including several professors and staff members. The lecture was well received, and a spirited discussion followed.
Dr. Wise gave a powerful presentation and major predictions of what the fossil record should look like if evolution were true versus if there was a totally randomized process of fossil deposition. Dr. Wise limited his discussion to fossils of marine invertebrate organisms (having no spinal chord), which make up 95% of all fossils ever found.
In virtually every case, the predictions of the randomization model were born out by the fossil record, while the evolution model’s predictions were the exact opposite of what is actually observed. Of particular interest was a discussion of the “order of appearance” of fossil organisms in comparison to their “evolutionary order of appearance” expected on the basis of hypothetical “trees of life”. Not only were virtually all fossils out of the expected order of appearance, the order of appearance was statistically random.
As expected, the professors all opposed what Dr. Wise said, but what they complained about mostly amounted to picky details. No one even attempted to refute any of Dr. Wise’s major theses. One heckler tried to embarrass him by quoting from a Creation Ex Nihilo magazine article where Dr. Wise had stated that all theories must conform to the Bible. Dr. Wise’s opponents tried to claim that science must never seek explanations that invoke any kind of divine intervention. However, many in the audience (including your editor) argued that to categorically eliminate divine intervention as an explanation for certain phenomena comes from a biased position that can be plainly seen by all.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>