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China freely and now openly controls and manipulates it's diaspora in Canada to it's own advantage. Liberals (and NDP) won't touch the subject because the political ramifications from the Chinese liberal/NDP vote might be negative and liberals/NDP simply do not know how to deal with it. They have removed powers from CSIS and the RCMP. Everything has become so political that should never be in the political realm. The security of the country should not be determined by politics. This is one of the negatives of an open society, democracy, and multiculturalism. I am not saying we shouldn't have democracy but we need to elect politicians who understand the situation and will protect our country from foreign control. That is not happening. This is an area where a totalitarian system like China's has an advantage. Western society is in great danger at the present because of this. We have very weak leaders who will not stand up for Canada if they think some votes might be lost.
Just read a saying: Common sense is a flower that doesn't grow in everyone's garden.
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1 hour ago, Moonbox said:
I have a suspicion that you have a lot of other really interesting theories like that.
I have a pretty strong suspicion the only reason you post on here is to be contrary.
Maybe you should try reading the article in the introduction. NO point in wasting time with you.
"The only real shock is just how brazen China appears to be in setting up physical police stations. But, then again, why wouldn’t it when our federal government, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and various levels of law enforcement consistently fail to address China’s aggression in any meaningful way?" -
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25 minutes ago, myata said:
Given that there's been a string of harassment episodes including with Canadian citizens on Canadian soil and he was explicitly asked to comment on it yes something should be quite obvious here.
And what about our famous safety security mandarins and czars what are they good for if not checking which foreign power is doing with permits? What if Al Quaeda sets up an office next door? Will they even know / care or wait that restaurant was really good yesterday? All good questions. How do we know.
I have a suspicion that our security apparatus has been defanged and under the total control of Trudeau.
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2 hours ago, robosmith said:
The key word is "believed." None ever said they have PROOF.
Like I said, people have always believed in god because it relieves their anxiety about not understanding reality.
And they have that anxiety because being driven to understand reality has always given man a survival advantage.
“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:” Romans 1:20 KJV
Many great scientists recognized that it took God to create the world they see around them. That is not rocket science. Just common sense. But many are blinded by Satan.
You are assuming why people believe in God, which is not correct. Believing in a Creator and believing he communicated with man and sent his Son into the world to save sinners is perfectly reasonable.
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16 minutes ago, Aristides said:
It isn't about placing blame, it's about acknowledging injustice. I don't feel personal responsibility but I do recognize it happened.
If you read the recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Committee report, you will find that they recommend natives be almost given the country back to them, including self-government and billions of dollars worth of everything they can think of. This is no small demand. The question is how far do you go in terms of following the TRC recommendations. The problem is many red power activists are jumping on this issue to try to get as much as possible out of Canadians and the government. The BC NDP have already passed a motion accepting the U.N.'s UNDRIP which has put B.C. in an awkward position. We don't know what this means or where it will take us. There is far more to this than acknowledging injustice of residential schools. Millions have already been paid to survivors. How far will this go?
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1 hour ago, robosmith said:
Testimony from ancients who believed the Earth was flat carry ZERO weight in the determination of REALITY.
Maybe you don't, but scientists know ORDERS OF MAGNITUTE more about reality today, than ANYONE who wrote the bible.
Sorry you are badly misinformed.
Many of the greatest scientists in history believed in God. There has been nothing discovered in science since they lived to nullify what they believed. Science and faith do fit together. It just depends how one looks at these things. Darwinism is not a discovery. It was only a theory that many scientists have rejected. Much of the world are heathen. If you go by them, you will be sadly misled. They do not know the facts. There are many facts that totally demolish Darwinism or evolution. I have already given you a few.
FAMOUS SCIENTISTS WHO BELIEVED IN GOD
- Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543)
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1627)
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
- Robert Boyle (1627-1691)
- Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
- Gottfried W. Leibnitz (1646-1716)
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
- Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
- William Thomson Kelvin (1824-1907)
- Max Planck (1858-1947)
- Robert A. Millikan (1868–1953)
- Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937)
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- Arthur Compton (1892–1962)
- Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976)
- Francis Collins (1950-present)
Not all had orthodox beliefs about God. Some were questionable or unbiblical in my view. The most important thing is what the Apostles and Prophets said in the Bible. That is the ultimate authority after all. What make you more knowledgeable is hard to figure out.
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16 minutes ago, robosmith said:
Ok, you have fairy tales. Now how about evidence? LMAO
"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.” Psalm 14:1 KJV
“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:” Romans 1:20 KJV
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9 minutes ago, robosmith said:
LMAO So childish. WTH are "satanic powers"? Do you have evidence of them?
I'd really like to see that. LMAO
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According to Scripture, Satan does the following things to keep those who have not believed in Christ in spiritual darkness.
1. Deny His Existence
One of the favorite ways in which Satan operates is to get people to deny that he exists. He seems to be most effective when people do not believe there is such a creature as the Devil. If he can get people to doubt his existence, then he can do much of his work without their knowing.
Disguise
We find from the Bible that Satan has often approached people in disguise. For example, in the Garden of Eden he came in the form of a serpent to Adam and Eve (Genesis 3). Paul warned the Corinthians that he appears as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14).
To His Advantage
This unbelief in his existence works to Satan's advantage. When people are either uniformed or misinformed about the existence of the Devil, they become like the Sadducees in Jesus' day, who did not believe in angels or spirits. When someone rejects the idea of Satan's existence they are an easy target for him to manipulate.
2. Blinds People To God's Truth
The truth of the gospel is what sets people free. Satan attempts to blind people from that truth.
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God (2 Corinthians 4:3,4).
3. Energizes His Own Ministers
Satan gives power to his own ministers.
It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works (2 Corinthians 11:15).
4. Controls People's Hearts And Minds
Satan has the ability to control hearts and minds.
And Satan entered into Judas who was called Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve (Luke 22:3).
5. Hinders The Gospel
The message of the gospel is hindered by the Devil.
When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path (Matthew 13:19).
6. Prevents People From Hearing The Gospel
Satan's main goal is to prevent people from hearing the good news about Jesus. The message of forgiveness offered through Jesus Christ sets people free. Jesus said.
So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed (John 8:36).
7. Misrepresents The Truth
Satan lies, denies, and misrepresents the truth. To Eve he said.
8. Takes Away Gospel
And the serpent said unto the woman, You shall not surely die (Genesis 3:4).
He also takes away that which the unbeliever has heard.
And those by the way side are they that have heard; then comes the Devil, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved (Luke 8:46).
Satan attempts to get the unbeliever to think about subjects other than the gospel of Christ.
9. Encourages False Trust In Religion
Finally, Satan attempts to get people to falsely place their trust in themselves, religion, or good works. He wants people to feel religiously satisfied, but without having a saving knowledge of Christ. The Bible says.
There is a way which seems right unto a person, but the end thereof are the ways of death (Proverbs 16:25).
10. Goal Is Destruction
His ultimate goal is the destruction of people.
And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell (Matthew 10:28).
11. Hope For Escape
Fortunately, there is hope for unbelievers to escape the traps of the Devil.
And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the Devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will (2 Timothy 2:24-26).
Summary
Satan has his methods with unbelievers. He wants to keep them from hearing the good news about Christ - the forgiveness of sins. To accomplish this he prevents people from hearing, blinds them to the good news, takes away the good news once they have heard it, and has them falsely trust in something apart from Christ and His gospel. This is his strategy to keep people from hearing and believing the truth about Christ.unquote
How Does Satan Keep Unbelievers in Spiritual Darkness? (blueletterbible.org)
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The National Post reports in at least one article that China has opened three police stations under a different heading in the Toronto area. How is this even possible and why has Trudeau said and done nothing on this?
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7 minutes ago, robosmith said:
Do you even know what agnostic means? True reasoning is based on accepted FACTS. I do NOT accept god's existence as FACT, nor do I claim the opposite is FACT. It is UNPROVEN and thus UNKNOWN.
Only in your mind is it unproven and unknown. Any reasonable person can see the evidence all around them in the creation. But you are blinded by Satanic powers.
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3 minutes ago, robosmith said:
Do you even know what agnostic means? True reasoning is based on accepted FACTS. I do NOT accept god's existence as FACT, nor do I claim the opposite is FACT. It is UNPROVEN and thus UNKNOWN.
You just further give evidence of being an atheist. You do not accept God's existence as fact you say. There it is.
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3 hours ago, robosmith said:
It is you who is holding on to ^this childish STORY which cannot be proven.
In an infinite universe, EVERYTHING can and WILL happen through completely random processes.
Maybe some day you will understand, but I highly doubt it because you believe you already KNOW the answer is the story about god(s) that were invented to lessen the anxiety of the ancients who invented a god to explain the sun and everything else they didn't understand.
Your "scientist" started with BELIEF, and then searched for and invented a semi-rational explanation he calls science.
You give all the signs of an atheist. Very clear in your comments.
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1 minute ago, robosmith said:
Every hear of nuclear winter? Or do you also believe that won't affect the climate?
FWIW, I am NOT an atheist; I am agnostic. Because I don't allow mere belief to affect my judgement.
If a profit can be made sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere, they will SCALE IT UP and make a big difference. Duh.
Ever hear the Parable of the drowning man?
Ah, but you have indicated you are an atheist. You dismiss the reasoning I gave why God created everything. You mock such beliefs and dismiss them as ancient and without understanding. Sounds like atheism to me.
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33 minutes ago, robosmith said:2 hours ago, robosmith said:2 hours ago, robosmith said:
Just because YOU WANT to believe an ancient understanding of the world, does not make it true.
In ancient times, there were gods invented to explain everything that frightened man and he could not understand.
Educated people understand FAR MORE today. There is no NEED for the god default; it just holds back true understanding.
The question is are atheists demon-possessed? One chaplain said this the following. Quoted on an atheist website.
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Echoing what E W Jackson, one-time candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, had to say earlier this year, Christian right chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt said atheists are demonic on his June 6 program Pray in Jesus Name. The chaplain believes that atheists are possessed by demons and they do not realize this because the demons have blinded them from the truth.
“Atheists are possessed by demonic spirits but do not realize it because those demonic spirits are blinding them to the fact that they are possessed by demonic spirits. An atheist complainer, he looks at Jesus and doesn’t see the glory of Christ. He’s blind. And who has blinded him? Satan inside of him has blinded his eyes. It’s impossible for atheists to discern the demonic spirits,” said Klingenschmitt. Unquote
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Are Atheists Demon Possessed?
You belong to your father, the devil, He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. JOHN 8:44
When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path. MATTHEW 13:19
But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. MATTHEW 13:25
When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. MATTHEW 13:26
"The owner's servants came to him and said, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?' MATTHEW 13:27
"'An enemy did this,' he replied. "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them up?' MATTHEW 13:28
MATTHEW 13:29
"The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one." MATTHEW 13:38
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Are Atheists Demon Possessed? | CreateDebate
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27 minutes ago, robosmith said:
What man can do, we can undo. If only you had the faith in the ingenuity of man that you have in magic....
We now have machines that can suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, and maybe someday make a profit doing that.
You believe in the fiction that man is causing climate change when it always has changed. You can't suck the CO2 out of the atmosphere either. Maybe a tiny bit but that won't make any difference. Atheists are the last people on earth to listen to on the climate. They think man is like God and can do anything. Frivilous nonsense.
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Past governments were responsible for the residential schools. But todays Liberals and NDP are busy blaming Canadians today for what their forefathers did. They should own up to it and leave the rest of us alone. It's called blame shifting.
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48 minutes ago, robosmith said:
Implementing modern energy policy has nothing to do with 20th century fascists so take ^this shit and shove it.
Externalizing costs of fossil fuel energy pollution would be much more in that line.
The average US cost of weather catastrophes since 1980 has been $53B/year.
Over the last 5 years, it has been $158B/year.
Not to mention the LIVES LOST.
It would be STUPID to not switch to renewables ASAP where feasible.
That will never stop climate change. Man cannot control the climate. It is fiction to think he can. The amount of CO2 reduction will never affect the climate and a significant reduction is practically impossible. Only in the imagination of environmental radicals. Better to learn to adapt to climate change. The fall of mankind caused a faulty planet with all the severe weather. That cannot be stopped. Learning to adapt to it is the only thing that can be done.
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37 minutes ago, robosmith said:
You don't know what they "thought," all you know is what they told the sheeple.
It was obvious by their actions they did not believe in God and the Bible. They were murderers and killed millions imposing their ideology. Is that what you want?
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2 minutes ago, robosmith said:
Just because YOU WANT to believe an ancient understanding of the world, does not make it true.
In ancient times, there were gods invented to explain everything that frightened man and he could not understand.
Educated people understand FAR MORE today. There is no NEED for the god default; it just holds back true understanding.
That's what Lenin, Stalin, and Mao thought.
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4 minutes ago, robosmith said:
All you have to have is VISION and the will to make it happen. Prime examples: Gore and Musk.
Prime examples are Lenin, Stalin, Chairman Mao, and Hitler with their visions. Killed 100 million people and put billions more into totalitarianism and no human rights. Vision without God and his word are evil. No thanks. Total failure.
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21 minutes ago, robosmith said:
It is you who is holding on to ^this childish STORY which cannot be proven.
In an infinite universe, EVERYTHING can and WILL happen through completely random processes.
Maybe some day you will understand, but I highly doubt it because you believe you already KNOW the answer is the story about god(s) that were invented to lessen the anxiety of the ancients who invented a god to explain the sun and everything else they didn't understand.
Your "scientist" started with BELIEF, and then searched for and invented a semi-rational explanation he calls science.
You picked a good pseudonym for yourself. robosmith describes yourself as a robot. You do not listen to reason or anything anyone else says. Just keep repeating childish one liner rebuttles. Total waste of time.
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2 minutes ago, robosmith said:
It is you who is holding on to ^this childish STORY which cannot be proven.
In an infinite universe, EVERYTHING can and WILL happen through completely random processes.
Maybe some day you will understand, but I highly doubt it because you believe you already KNOW the answer is the story about god(s) that were invented to lessen the anxiety of the ancients who invented a god to explain the sun and everything else they didn't understand.
Your "scientist" started with BELIEF, and then searched for and invented a semi-rational explanation he calls science.
You have answered nothing. You can't explain anything, but you hold onto the debunked theory of a complex universe and life happening purely by chance. Ridiculous and nonsensical. You answered nothing.
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3 minutes ago, robosmith said:
When EVERY building has a wind turbine and solar panels, there will be far less need for central power plants and the huge inefficiencies of power transmission.
Your belief in the "wisdom" of the ancients is entirely consistent with your complete lack of VISION for a BETTER future.
And you completely ignore the huge downsides of fossil fuel power energy POLLUTION, on the climate, air and water.
Coal is the most DEADLY form of energy production, but all other fossil fuels are nearly as unhealthy.
The fossil fuel power does not generate huge pollution. CO2 is not pollution. It is an essential part of life on planet earth. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere generated by man is miniscule. 97% of the CO2 is natural.
You do not build a better future by rejecting God and his revelation to man. Government cannot build a better future by imposing it's morally bankrupt ideology on people. Government cannot just impose a totally different source of energy on a world that is built on an established energy source that is proven to work produces millions of jobs. Government authoritarianism never works. The woke are bent on destroying society. Environmental radicals slash tires and block roads but it won't help. It is criminal anarchy.
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18 hours ago, robosmith said:
:LMAO: :LMAO: :LMAO:
You picked the wrong website if you're trying to CITE SCIENCE.
Creation Ministries International is NOT a science authority and has NO CREDIBITY on EVOLUTION.
creation.com is certainly a science authority. Don Batten is a highly educated scientist. He was the CEO and Managing Director of Creation Ministries International- Australia from 2015 to 2022. He is now senior scientist focusing on research, writing, and speaking.
"Don received both his B.Sc.Agr. (First Class Honours) and his Ph.D. from the University of Sydney. He worked for 20 years as a research horticulturalist with the NSW Department of Agriculture. His research included environmental adaptation of tropical/subtropical fruits such as mango, lychee and custard apple (Annona), floral biology, floral induction, breeding, environmental physiology (especially water requirements, effects of water deficits), plant taxonomy, and mineral nutrition. His research on floral induction of lychee and mango overturned long-held ideas which had been an impediment to the scientific understanding of these plants, as well as causing economic loss due to inappropriate management of these crops. He conducted a number of research projects that were externally funded, publishing his results in science journals.
Don joined the ministry in Brisbane, Australia in 1994 and has spoken around the world on the creation issue, showing the errors in the evolutionary ideas he was taught. He is co-author of The Creation Answers Book, One Blood, Answers to the 4 Big Questions, 15 Reasons to Take Genesis as History, and author of various booklets, including What about carbon dating? and What about arguments for evolution? Don is one of the three rotating editors of Creation magazine, and has written many articles for Creation as well as the in-depth Journal of Creation .
Dr Batten was the CEO and Managing Director of CMI-Australia from 2015 to 2022. He is now Senior Scientist, focusing on research, writing, and speaking."
creation.com has 14,260 articles and 874 videos produced by all kinds of highly educated scholars. It is nonsense to say this is not a scientific site. If you believe only people who agree with your worldview are scientists, that might be true. But that is a very narrow viewpoint.
The Folly of Ignoring Climate Change
in Federal Politics in the United States
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False claims or phrases without any substantial support will not win any debate in this field. Evolution according to the Darwinism or Evolution theory has never been observed or proven. There have been variations or mutations of viruses, and biological changes but not to the extent that they could prove evolution from one species to another. All the species have always remained within their species groups. There is no evidence a glob of matter in a pond became an animal or an animal such as an ape became a man. Many claims of finding fossils of "ape" man have been debunked or found false. That is a fact.
If it were a fact, there would be millions of transitional fossils to show how something evolved from one creature to another species, but they simply don't exist. There is nothing to show man actually evolved from another species or from a monkey or ape to man. Nothing. Finding a fossil or skeleton of something is not proof of anything. To prove such a thing would require a vast line of fossils proving gradual transition but they don't exist in the strata. Only separate species have ever existed. Dogs or canines for instance changed only in the type or breed of dog to a different kind of dog. But they are all still dogs. There is no in between. It is hilarious how people so easily bought into Darwinism. They will do anything rather than admit God into the equation.
You need to read some books on the subject. You obviously have no idea what many scientists are saying.
Here is one book explaining why Darwinism is untenable. Of course it is easier to read if you buy a copy and have it in your hands. But in the meantime, you can read introductions or brief outlines of chapters online here: There are also thousands of articles by scientists and scholars of all kinds on various aspects of it.
Refuting Evolution: Foreword & Introduction - creation.com
It is called Refuting Evolution by Jonathan Sarfati, Ph.D., F.M.
Foreword & Introduction
Chapter 1
Facts & Bias
See Study Guide, Lesson 1
Chapter 2
Variation and Natural Selection Versus Evolution
See Study Guide, Lesson 2
Chapter 3
The Links Are Missing
See Study Guide, Lesson 3
Chapter 4
Bird Evolution?
See Study Guide, Lesson 4
Chapter 5
Whale Evolution?
See Study Guide, Lesson 5
Chapter 6
Humans: Images of God or Advanced Apes?
See Study Guide, Lesson 6
Chapter 7
Astronomy
See Study Guide, Lesson 7
Chapter 8
How Old Is the Earth?
See Study Guide, Lesson 8
Chapter 9
Is the Design Explanation Legitimate?
See Study Guide, Lesson 9
Chapter 10
Conclusion
From lesson 2:
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For true evolution to occur, new information has to be added to the genome. Resistance to antibiotics has nothing to do with adding new genetic information. There are several ways that bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics. One way is that some bacteria already had the genes for resistance to the antibiotics. In fact, some bacteria, obtained by thawing sources that had been frozen before man developed antibiotics, have been shown to be antibiotic-resistant. When antibiotics are applied to a population of bacteria, those lacking resistance are killed, and any genetic information they carry is eliminated. The survivors carry less information, but they are all resistant. The same principle applies to insects 'evolving' resistance to insecticides. The resistance was already there, and the insects without resistance are eliminated.
Evolution in the molecules-to-man sense requires a net increase in genetic information. An overall loss of information is generally involved in the formation of a new species. See Q&A: Speciation for additional information. unquote
Scientists have discovered in the last part of the 20th century how important information stored in cells is. Information cannot be added to any degree without it being implanted at the time the cell was created. Evolution basically does not add the vast amounts of information a cell needs for it's various systems and machinery to operate.