The critique is by Ashley Camp and appears at
http://www.trueorigin.org.
Douglas Theobald has already drafted a response, and it can be found at
Theobald Response.
John Paul wrote:
What you want us to believe is that small changes + eons of time = great transformations.
In the movie
The Man Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain a small village becomes upset that the British geological survey has discovered that their local mountain, in which they apparently take great pride, is not actually a mountain but a hill, because it falls a few feet short of the required height of a mountain. Through trickery and skullduggery they delay the filing of the surveyor's report, then mobilizing the entire town and using shovels and wheelbarrows and whatever they can find add 20 feet to their hill and turn it into a mountain.
The movie was based upon a true story, and while the movie was being made it was discovered that settling and erosion had again reduced their mountain to a hill, and so the final scenes of the movie show the modern town once more restoring their mountain.
The point of this brief tale is that, yes, indeed, small changes accumulate over time into large changes. Erosive forces eventually reduce all mountains to range. The Alleghenies were once a taller mountain range than the Rockies, but they're much older and hence now much smaller.
What
I find puzzling is why any rational person would question that small changes eventually accumulate into great transformations. If you save a few dollars a week you can eventually retire. If you start walking you will eventually reach the opposite coast (or if you're starting in the middle, pick a direction). Michael Jordan began his NBA career with 0 points, but by accumulating points 1, 2, 3 and sometimes 4 at a time, he eventually amassed his current total of nearly 30,000. This isn't rocket science.
--Percy