Feels the author knew he was writing bullshit and tried to actually sneak the truth in, in a way that's undetectable to the extremists vetting the thing.
My favorite thing about the "even humans can't make life" argument is that when you point out that we have actually made the kind of rudimentary precursors to life in laboratories, they just say "see? It needs an intelligent mind to make it!"
Oh? I've seen several similar claims in media that always, on closer look, ended up as some combination of already organic/live parts with synthetic parts. Did we ever managed to make somehing "alive" strictly from something synthetic/dead?
I am talking about the Miller-Urey experiment. They didn't create life, but in the words of Forrest Valkai, we have steps 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, and 100 for abiogenesis. Creationists right now like to say "haha, you don't have step 3!" But when we do reach step 3, they'll still be able to point to 6, 7, 8, 9, and so on. And when we do reach all those steps, creationists will pivot, and say "haha! You admit that life was intelligently designed!" As if the laboratory conditions that scientists use aren't simulating the mineral and nutrient rich conditions of the pre-life oceans, and as if there weren't billions of cubic meters of water for it to randomly happen in over hundreds of millions of years
The chapter is titled "evolution" and the fact that we're on figure 24.16 leads me to believe there are at least fifteen other images in this chapter. If that's the case, it seems unlikely this section would be so far back in the chapter.
The section above literally talks about the results of natural selection on speciation.
When comparing content between the two sections, the top had lots of scientific vocabulary and creates valid points. The below section has multiple misspelled words and bad grammar. Tonally, very different.
Most obviously, the line spacing in this section is about half what it is in the above section.
My favorite part is that the first paragraph presents an example of evolution, and then the second paragraph said "evolution is bullshit." They probably took a preexisting evolution-believing textbook and squeezed in a paragraph here and there, but they can't keep the book self-consistent.