We have a tremendous capacity to believe what we want to
believe. It seems that God has given us this capacity to sin by merely sticking
our heads in the ground and denying the obvious. Consequently, the Book of Proverbs laments that, “All the
ways of a man are clean in his own sight” (16:2).
I marvel at evolutionists who claim that there is no
evidence against their theory of evolution and that it is already a “proven
fact.” How can they be so blind! Well, we can rig the rules of the game so that
all of the facts can be lined-up in support of our theory.
For example, the persuasiveness of Darwinism rests on this
one idea: commonalities – genetic, fossil, and morphological – prove common
descent. However, Darwinists are also ready to admit that there are an
abundance of examples of commonalities that clearly are not the result of
common descent. On his blog, biologist Cornelius Hunter mentions one of them:
- By now this must seem tedious, but there is…evolution’s endless stream of failed expectations. This time it is striated muscles, in bilaterians and non-bilaterian eumetazoans. They seemed to evolutionists to have a common evolutionary origin. But now the molecular differences do not support that expectation. Instead, the considerable similarity across these various species would likely have arisen independently, via those random mutations. But evolutionists forget about this long list of false expectations. Evolution must be a fact, regardless of the evidence.
However, many evolutionists are unconcerned about this
gaping hole in their theory. When commonalities are clearly not the result of
common descent, they merely call these instances “convergent evolution.” This means
that the many commonalities are the result of something else, but they are
quick to assure us that these puzzling commonalities are the result of common
evolutionary pressures. For instance, birds and insects both fly because of the
common pressures to either find food or to escape enemies. In other words, if
they can explain how common structures are the result of common descent, they again
“win,” and if they can explain how these structures are the result of common
pressures, they again “win.”
How then can they loose? Well, they can’t! Heads, I win;
tails, you loose!
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