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EVIDENCE #8
Natural selection has severe logical inconsistencies.
Natural selection has these and many other logical inconsistencies: (a.)
Although evolutionists say that organisms are suited for their environment
because they evolved into it, being suited for the environment is much
better explained by the fact that they were created for the environment
rather than that they evolved into it. (b.) The fact that living things
have similar patterns and design points to a common designer better than to
a common ancestor. In fact, such variety in the world could not have been
produced if we all come from the same ancestor. (c.) If we all come from
the same ancestor, we would all be murderers and cannibals by the simple
act of killing a cow. (d.) While small and undeveloped things do become
grown and developed (a baby to an adult, a seed to a tree) it is also true
that the small and undeveloped first come from the developed (a baby from
its parents, a seed from a tree). The pattern of growth is circular not
simply from the crude to the developed as natural selection proposes. (e.)
Our needs exceed those of survival. Needs for love and friendship, for
example, cannot be explained if all that we do is for survival. (f.) Order
and interdependence in the world argues for a designer and against chance.
1. That living things are suited for their environment better explains
the fact that they were created for it not that they evolved into it.
([22], p.)
2. Similarity among living things points to a common design by a designer
who used similar patterns.
3. Similarity among living things does not point to evolution. "There is
no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal
as there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a
cottage." ([4], p.357)
4. It only makes sense that there would be similarities among living
things since they all share the same environment. For example, since
we all share air, it makes sense that many would have lungs.
5. It only makes sense to create things similar since similarity allows
people to identify and work with other living things more easily.
6. In fact, if the environment controls natural selection and we are all
from the same ancestor (some single cell or whatever), why is there
such variety in the world? With the same ancestor and precipitator,
would all not have been brought to at least close to the same end?
Instead some living things are cells and plants, others are horses and
people.
7. In fact, since the environment is constant, it must be asked, `Why did
some species evolve and not others?' and `Why did lesser forms survive
and more developed ones die off?'
8. In response, statements such as "...the apes ...blew it through
indolence. No pain, no gain." ([13], p.70) and "...the gorilla and
chimpanzee gave up the struggle for mental supremacy because they were
satisfied with their circumstances." ([14], p.35)
9. "It is true that we do see all around us things growing up to
perfection from small and rude beginnings but then it is equally true
that the small and rude beginnings themselves always come from some
full grown and developed thing. All adults were once babies, true: but
then all babies were begotten and born by adults. Corn does come from
seed: but then seed comes from corn." "The first crude engine, the
Rocket, came, not from still a cruder engine, but from something much
more perfect than itself and much more complex, the mind of man..."
([4], p.388) Famous philosopher C.S. Lewis.
10. "In the world I know, the perfect produces the imperfect, which again
becomes perfect -- egg leads to bird and bird to egg -- in endless
succession. If there ever was a life which sprang of its own accord
out of a purely inorganic universe, or a civilization which raised
itself by its own shoulder straps out of pure savagery, then this
event was totally unlike the beginnings of every subsequent life and
every subsequent civilization." C.S. Lewis ([4], p.389)
11. "You have to go outside the sequence of engines, into the world of
men, to find the real originator of the Rocket. Is it not equally
reasonable to look outside Nature for the real Originator of the
natural order?" C.S. Lewis ([4], p.389)
12. We find that natural selection would have had to create not only
better survival abilities but also such needs as love, companionship,
and other things not bound to personal survival such as reproduction.
There is so much more to people than just survival abilities. How
could natural selection have produced this?
13. We find that the world was obviously made for humankind and this
demands more than change for survival but order, interdependence, and
design.
14. In addition, how is it that we do things harmful to ourselves if the
environment has created all that we are for our personal good and
survival?
15. If there are not fundamental distinctions in the living world, we must
be considered murderers when we kill even a cow and also cannibals
when we eat it.
16. Do we look at an airplane and say that the order and interdependence
could have come about by chance? How can we look at something
infinitely more complex (a person, for example) and say it?
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