>One of the claims of evolutionists is that we Creationists don’t want to listen to the evidence, and that evolutionists do listen to the evidence. They claim that we are unreasonable in dismissing their attempt to establish common descent by simply grouping living beings with similar characteristics together.
They claim that they are not simply dogmatically asserting common descent, and that their hypothesis is falsifiable, if we find an example of something that eludes their clading – explaining similar features by common ancestry.
We point to things like octopus eyes as an example that shows that their system of clading cannot be right, since humans and octopuses do not have any alleged common ancestors that have eyes. They simply claim that this is an example of parallel evolution. By remarkable coincidence, the eye evolved by chance at least two different times.
But the absurdity can be seen to be even greater than that. Recently, it was announced that a study had determined that sea sponges share human genes – and not just one or two. The study claims that sea sponges share 70% of human genes (link to report of study).
This sort of evidence ends up getting waved away by evolutionary dogmatists. Who cares about sea sponges, chimps have 99.something % of our genes, they’ll tell us. But then when you bring up articles on chimp studies that suggest that there are problems with the hypothesis that gene similarity means we are close relations to chimps (first article, second article), they tend to simply wave them off as well.
And then, of course, they’ll accuse you of anti-intellectualism because you don’t uncritically accept the dogma of evolutionism on faith. Oh, the irony.
– Turretinfan