I have been reading this topic with great interest hoping someone would bring Hovind into this. I couldn't find any direct quotes, etc. I could trace directly to Hovind in JF's statements but am suspicious of the constant references to 'textbooks and lies'. Anyway, a search of Hovind's site found the following statement:
When Stanley Miller produced a few amino acids from chemicals, amid a continuous small sparking apparatus, newspaper headlines proclaimed: "Life has been created!" But evolutionists hid the truth: The experiment had disproved the possibility that evolution could occur.
The amino acids were totally dead, and the experiment only proved that a synthetic production of them would result in equal amounts of left- and right-handed amino acids. Since only left-handed ones exist in animals, accidental production could never produce a living creature (R. Milner, Encyclopedia of Evolution, 1990, p. 274).
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This brings up my point. So the creationist camp makes the claim that the Miller experiment is twisted and lied about to make the evolutionist claim seem valid. Well, reading the above makes me wonder who is twisting the facts and lying. The amino acids were dead? Are they alive in the first place? Who ever claimed this experiment created life? How does this experiment disprove evolution could occur? How did evolutionists hide the truth?
The fact is that a thorough reading of this shows only two things that ARE true (loosely defined). Miller had a sparking device and proteins are composed of left-handed aa's.
The take home message to would-be evangelicals is that the people who supply your informations are not honest, often lie, and are using you for fodder for their own personal gain and political aspirations. Believe or not (best to learn it here where you can get the views of a diverse knowledge base) LIFE IS NOT A CHICK TRACT where evolutionist are deluded megalo-maniacs whose belief system is going to crumble the first time someone says dinosaur tracks were found with human or other such nonesense.
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