Dr. John Sanford, a retired Cornell Professor, shows in Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome that the "Primary Axiom" is false. The Primary Axiom is the foundational evolutionary premise - that life is merely the result of mutations and natural selection. In addition to showing compelling theoretical evidence that whole genomes can not evolve upward, Dr. Sanford presents strong evidence that higher genomes must in fact degenerate over time. This book strongly refutes the Darwinian concept that man is just the result of a random and pointless natural process.
If Sanford's phoney "Primary Axiom" is any indication it does not bode well for the rest of his book. Evolution does not start with axioms. It starts with observations of the real world. It seems an epic understatement to call life "merely" anything given the dazzling diversity from extremely humble origins. What can "evolve upward" even mean, and how can it be measured? For that matter what can "evolve downward" mean? What does "higher genome" mean and how can it be distinguished from a "lower" genome? Judging from the abstract Sanford has a lot of explaining to do.
If you see "higher genome" as being more complex, you realize that the complexity of a genome has nothing to do with the complexity of the organism, right? The genome of the marbled lungfish 130,000,000,000 base pairs. The Japanese pale-petal plant has 150,000,000,000 base pairs. Humans have only 3,200,000,000 base pairs. There are many more examples.
If I repeat this often enough maybe it will soak in.
[biological] Evolution: An explanation of biodiversity through population mechanics, summarily defined as �descent with inherent genetic modification�: Paraphrased for clarity, it is a process of varying genetic frequencies among reproductive populations; leading to (usually subtle) changes in the morphological or physiological composition of descendant subsets, which �when compiled over successive generations- can increase biodiversity when continuing variation between genetically-isolated groups eventually lead to one or more descendant branches increasingly distinct from their ancestors or cousins. It is not "How life began without God." It�s not "how life began" at all, and it certainly isn't 'anti-god'. Neither does it have anything to do with the origin of the universe. It�s simply how generations of branching lineages change and diversify over time; that's all!
One unerring mark of the love of the truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. John Locke, 1690
