Recognizing “Evospeak”
Guests: Doug Sharp and Rich Geer
Description: RECOGNIZING EVOSPEAK
DEFT AND SUBTLE JARGON DESIGNED TO MISLEAD
EVOSPEAK WORDS:
ADAPTATION, ADAPTED
These words merely refer to observed circumstances that exist in the present, and no substantive explanation is given for why they exist.
ADVANCED
An organism is advanced only in the minds of the evolutionist.
ADVANTAGE
Evolutionists say that if an organism exists, it has an advantage over organisms that preceded it. Begging the question.
APE MEN
CAVE MEN
CREATION
Often used by evolutionists to convey the coming of something into existence of something new as if by some natural means.
COLUMN
Used in geology as if the fossils and strata were actually in that order.
COMPLEX
All organisms are complex.
DATE, DATING
DEVELOP, DEVELOPED
EVOLUTION – MUST BE PREFIXED BY MEGA, MICRO
HISTORICAL
HYPOTHESIS
Cannot be used where the idea is not testable.
INDEX FOSSILS
MEASUREMENT Estimate is more proper term
MECHANISM
MUTATION
NATURAL, NATURE
NATURAL LAWS
NATURAL SELECTION
OLDER, YOUNGER
OVERTHRUST
POPULATION
PRIMITIVE
RECONSTRUCTION
RECORD Not applicable to geology
RELATED, RELATIONSHIP
RELIGION
SELF-REPRODUCING
SCIENCE
SEQUENCE
SPONTANEOUS
THEORY
TIME PERIODS
TRANSITION, TRANSITIONAL FORM
UNCONFORMITY