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| | [[File:Darwin_monkey_cartoon.jpg|thumb|180px|Caricature of [[Charles Darwin]]. To date, no fossils of ''H. darwinicus orangutanishicus'' have been found.]] | | [[File:Darwin_monkey_cartoon.jpg|thumb|180px|Caricature of [[Charles Darwin]]. To date, no fossils of ''H. darwinicus orangutanishicus'' have been found.]] |
| − | The [[theory of evolution]] does not permit the existence of any counterexamples. '''If any of the counterexamples listed below is correct, then the theory of evolution fails'''. Moreover, if there is merely a 5% chance that each of these counterexamples is correct (and the odds are far higher than that<ref>Many of the counterexamples are indisputable, rendering each of their probabilities of being correct nearly 100%.</ref>), then the odds that these 73 counterexamples are ''all'' incorrect and that evolution is true is only 2.4%. | + | The [[theory of evolution]] does not permit the existence of any counterexamples. '''If any of the counterexamples listed below is correct, then the theory of evolution fails'''. Moreover, if there is merely a 5% chance that each of these counterexamples is correct (and the odds are far higher than that<ref>Many of the counterexamples are indisputable, rendering each of their probabilities of being correct nearly 100%.</ref>), then the odds that these 76 counterexamples are ''all'' incorrect and that evolution is true is only 2.4%. |
| | ==Counterexamples== | | ==Counterexamples== |
| | ===Logical examples=== | | ===Logical examples=== |
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| − | # The common "Chimney Swift" is a bird having behavior often mistaken for that of a bat<ref>http://www.suite101.com/content/facts-about-chimney-swifts-a25479</ref> -- a mammal -- and which migrates all the way from North America to Peru every winter, without any plausible guiding mechanism. | + | # The common "Chimney Swift" is a bird having behavior often mistaken for that of a bat<ref>http://www.suite101.com/content/facts-about-chimney-swifts-a25479</ref> -- a mammal -- and which migrates all the way from North America to Peru every winter, without any plausible evolution-based guiding mechanism. |
| | # There is excellent evidence indicating that [[dinosaurs]] and man coexisted.<ref>http://www.conservapedia.com/Dinosaur#History_of_dinosuars</ref> | | # There is excellent evidence indicating that [[dinosaurs]] and man coexisted.<ref>http://www.conservapedia.com/Dinosaur#History_of_dinosuars</ref> |
| | # No one has ever observed a new species emerge from an old one, either in captivity or the wild. Surely, if evolution were real someone, somewhere would have seen this. | | # No one has ever observed a new species emerge from an old one, either in captivity or the wild. Surely, if evolution were real someone, somewhere would have seen this. |