Kent R. Rieske, B.Sc. #fundie

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Scientific Fact No. 10 - Lack of Life on Mars Proves Evolution is Wrong.

Two NASA land rovers, named Spirit and Opportunity, explored Mars during 2004. The topography showed obvious signs of past liquid rivers flowing in numerous places. The rovers have proven that water was once abundant on the surface of Mars, but they have not been able to find any signs of life, or any signs of past life, on the planet. Mars has a proven history of flowing water on the surface with an atmosphere suitable to support life forms. The planet has had all of the conditions necessary to provide the "spark" of life according to the evolutionary theory. Yet, there is no life on Mars. The river beds and river banks show no signs of vegetation or trees. The ground has no fossils and no organisms. The place is absolutely sterile.

Well, Mars was once sterile, but it is not sterile now. The rovers and other probes sent to Mars have contaminated the plant with bacteria, viruses and other possible organisms. This contamination has destroyed the possibility of proving that these life forms evolved on Mars.

The chance of finding evidence of past life forms on Mars seems very remote, but even if life were found, it does not prove that life evolved any more than life on Earth proves evolution. It simply does not. Evolutionists have struck out again.

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old comment by solomongrundy

I wondered who Kent R Rieske was so I googled him. As well as being a fundie he's batshit insane about nutrition too, read his 'vitamin, mineral and supplement program' here: http://www.biblelife.org/vitamins4me.htm

Apparently, if you follow the 'USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005' you will have serious health problems as 'Neither the Food Guide Pyramid nor the RDA is based on scientific facts.' In fact,'If you follow the Food Guide Pyramid as your daily nutritional guide, you will encounter many related degenerative diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, bowel disease, autoimmune diseases and many more'. He doesn't mince his words, 'It’s all a scam. There is no hard science behind the establishment of the USFDA daily nutritional requirements...The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Guide Pyramid was developed by vegetarians with an agenda.'

No, what Mr Rieske says you need to do for excellent health is to eat nothing but meat and animal fat and take 52 different supplements at the right time of day.

old comment by Orion

I read the whole source page.

It's filled with weasel words like "evolutionists say" or "scientists say" or "experts say" without citation. The only citations are to point out facts like the existence of Tiktaalik without citing what exactly is wrong with it.

It's also filled with total misunderstandings of the ToE and blatant ignorance in claiming that the Big bang and abiogenesis theories are part of evolutionary theory. And at one point the author has the absolute gall to claim that evolution is wrong because it keeps getting revised, then compares biology to engineering as a science! Which is like comparing Medicine to Physics!

There's even one gem where he claims that Whales are fish. Oh and the whole thing is chock full of bible verses and claims that all people who believe evolution are brainwashed and that University's are big brainwashing facilities. He even claims (I love this) that Liberal thinking is a Mental Illness, citing a book from a "top" (weasel words) psychologist that describes why liberalism is a mental illness. Oh and he also defines Schizophrenia as "doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result".

He insists no legitimate transitional fossils have been found before later going on to say they have been found but there aren't enough, there should be lots! He also insists many of the legitimate ones are just now extinct species that God created, he even pulls out the "if evolution is true why are there still monkeys?" fallacy (but this time with fishes!).

Oh and he concludes that because we haven't detected any radio or x-ray (sic) signals from other planets with all our amazing monitoring devices in the few decades we've been looking that we will never find any and that this proves evolution is false for some reason. I mean living creatures don't actually emit radio or any other signals retard, we only started doing that very recently and we only monitor a very limited amount of frequencies and planets in the vain hope we'll strike lucky and make contact.

He also says that pride is the reason evolutionists reject all his evidence and refuse to admit they're wrong, which coupled with the "biology is wrong because it's always changing" bullshit makes it even stupider.

To sum up, this guy is your ultimate in creationist. Seemingly smart to the layman, but to the skeptical eye, totally facetious and false.

old comment by Journeyer

@Charni

While commonly correct, your statements are not entirely true.

There are bacteria that has been shown to be able to survive exposure to hard vacuum, and certain bacteria have even been proven to be able to survive re-entry unshielded. Sure, lots of them died, but some survived.

The same might be the case for Mars. We certainly don't expect to find possums or platypi out there, but microbial life is still within the realm of possibilities. Research extremophile microbes and you will see that certain kinds of life are far more resilient than previously imagined. Oh, and there are also certain kinds of bacteria that thrive bathed in the Cerenkov glow of a nuclear reactor.