This is flatly untrue. The adult size of every land-based multicellular animal is regulated by its growth hormones, which are regulated by its genes.
This did not apply to the human species, he said, because they have a ‘special clock in their heads’ that determine their growth.
That clock is not a clock. It’s the pituitary gland.
He told how it was possible for ‘a man to live over 900 years in its perfect environment.’
This is also untrue. We now know that cells divide and replace old cells for a limited number of times during an organism’s lifespan. If the organism lives long enough to reach the end of that process, its cells will age and cease to divide. Death occurs shortly thereafter. In humans, this process takes roughly 100 years.
He described how a layer of water above and below the earth once preserved it in a perfect glass house. During the “great flood” the upper layer was released causing the perfect environment to gradually deteriorate.
This is inarticulate nonsense. ‘Above and below the Earth?’ Does Mackay believe the Earth is flat? A layer of water above and below? What holds it up or down so that we don’t all drown? Water is a liquid. It flows where it is not impeded. A glass house? I’d hate to live in such a hothouse on the equator. Global warming advocates, call your office. Perfect environment? Earth’s environment has always varied from region to region and age to age. We’ve never had a perfect environment (especially in Minnesota).
‘As the holes get bigger in the ozone layer, life spans become shorter,” Mackay told his young charges the flood story was found in all cultures.
More nonsense. Mackay connects the hole in the ozone with his ‘layers of water’ hypothesis. What does the ozone layer have to do with a layer of water? Human life spans have been growing rapidly during the time the hole in the ozone appeared and grew.
Flood stories may very well occur in all cultures. But that’s because real, non-Biblical floods happen to local cultures or their neighbors at various times in history. And the ancient stories grow more fanciful with each retelling.
‘Creatures aren’t evolving; they are devolving—on their way downhill.’
Mackay merely repeats his erroneous understanding of what evolution is. It is not better living through moral uplift. Neither is it degeneration through moral drift.
Mackay rejected evidence that revealed that chimpanzees and humans share 98% of their DNA. He said that ‘man has created the DNA code just as Morse created his code. The dots and dashes mean nothing. DNA doesn’t have any meaning at all.’
Humans did not create the DNA genetic code. Watson and Crick discovered the true nature of chromosomes in 1953 when, through careful experimentation and observations through the then brand new technology of the electron microscope, they determined that DNA is arrayed in a double helix. Later, they discovered the profound importance of this shape—that its chains were composed of four nucleotides, with adenine and thymine, and guanine and cytosine always bonding in pairs across the double helix. This means that each side of the double helix can be read as a ‘negative’ of the other. And this means that as cells replicate, the bonds of the double helix can zip apart, allowing each side to replicate the other in daughter cells.
This structure and sequence of nucleotides means everything. Biological evolutionists finally had what they sought since Darwin made his famous discoveries known: A mechanism for preserving and passing down genetic information from generation to generation. DNA does double-duty for evolutionary theory—in one fell swoop it explains retained characteristics and mutations in organisms.