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their meaning in midargument, attacks on straw men, selective citation of ev-
idence, and so on. The theory is also protected by its cultural importance. 53
It is possible to give many examples of the rhetoric that Johnson men-
tions. One good example of the word games that evolutionist scientists play
to deceive people is the following statement by the Turkish Darwinist, Umit
Sayin:
Life originated in the Earth's sea or lakes; or the molecular information likely
to form life came from meteorites or comets falling from space. 54
Here, Sayin accounts for the beginnings of life in a very unclear way,
and based on no scientific evidence. He always uses equivocal expressions

so that, if evolution is not tenable in terms of this world, he can leave a door
open to outer space. From statements like these, it's clear that evolutionists
have nothing to say about the origins of life.
Another method Darwinists employ is to select examples that have noth-
ing to do with logic or reason and propose them as if they indicated some
major scientific reality. Evolutionists mislead the public by giving examples
from daily life to make illogical ideas seem reasonable. We looked at one ex-
ample of this—comparing a transitional fossil to a car in a parking garage—
earlier, but it will be useful to give further examples.
A pertinent example is one that Umit Sayin took from an evolutionist by
the name of Tim M. Berra. In his book, Berra showed a series of pictures of the
1953, 1962, 1978 and 1990 models of a Corvette and suggested that "the de-
scent with modification is overwhelmingly obvious" in this process and
that "this is what paleontologists do with fossils." 55
It's easy to see how irrational and unrealistic this example is. The au-
thor speaks about the "evolution" of a Corvette, never attributing it to the

long, coordinated work of engineers, designers, and computers—as if it
were wholly a result of the chance effects of mountain winds, lightening,
rain and sunlight. However, no Corvette appeared by chance. It is a beau-
tiful sign of creation. So Berra's example proves not the theory of evolution,
but Creation. The public in general has never considered these matters to

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