Recognizing “Evospeak”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G52GwBSSQQ4

Guests: Doug Sharp and Rich Geer

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