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SOMETHING TO MEDITATE ON...~~ Douglas J. Futuyma (1998). |
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For those of you not yet convinced of God and the Bible, consider this simple question, apparently rarely proffered by evolutionists or its critics. How did the ability to reproduce “evolve”? Briefly, the theory first presented by Mr. Darwin is that various traits and features happened randomly through mutation. Those that “improved” the species, those that gave it an advantage or helped it survive, were passed on more frequently. Over billions of years, that process led to the development of everything we see on the planet. Using that model, I must point out the obvious. All things, plant, insect and animal, reproduce. The Bible suggests it is God who gave that potential, and in fact commanded things to reproduce according to their own kind. The following verse is but one example.
Interesting, though momentarily we stray from the point, this is what we observe in nature. Roses give birth to roses, cockroaches to cockroaches, seals to seals, mankind to mankind. There is not a single recorded instance in all of history, not a single fossil of the billions that have been discovered, that show any other outcome. That aside, let’s return to the real issue. Since reproduction would definitely give any organism an advantange, since all species reproduce, obviously this “trait” must have won out. But how? Considering, by definition, it is impossible for any living thing which does not reproduce to pass on variations leading toward that trait, how did it become established? Clearly, very clearly, an honest appraisal must come to but one conclusion. Evolution is impossible. Evolution has never been observed. Evolution is nothing more than an attempt to legitimize the denial of God. Evolution is a lie. Long before alternatives were considered, long before the invention of “science,” of computers, of all manner of exploration, God was willing to put forth a simple statement. It is He who created, He who allowed reproduction, He who declared “after his kind.” Were that instead the statement of mere men, a work of fiction promoting superstition, certainly it would have been demonstrated by now. No, the “work of man,” the “work of fiction,” the “superstition” confronting us all continues on day-by-day in laboratories and universities around the world. And yet the evidence is overwhelming and actually quite simple. “How did the ability to reproduce evolve?”
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