Biology: Natural Selection

Natural Selection is a significant hurdle for Evolution to overcome. Did I hear "idiotic?" Please read on.

Natural Selection was actually discovered by (creationist) Edward Blythe twenty years before Darwin. But Blythe did not fantasize that Natural Selection could add information to the code structure of life. Instead, he believed Natural Selection was a wonderful conserving force to keep current species from going extinct.

Darwin ignored Blythe and instead invented his own idea of Natural Selection. Darwin's idea included an illogical belief that with drastic amounts of time, and enough mutations, Natural Selection would actually create entire new body systems.

Natural Selection cannot create entire body systems. In fact, Natural Selection keeps new body systems from being produced. Nearly every body system, from the largest dinosaur to the tiniest amoeba, takes multiple components to accomplish its job. For instance, eyesight is based on an incredible chemical reaction in the retina. The reaction actually reloads itself multiple times every second. There are nearly a dozen chemicals involved. If even a single one of these chemicals did not get mutated simultaneously with the rest, Natural Selection would annihilate the organism. The organism would be at a severe disadvantage because it expended energy on useless scraps of protein.

But would the disadvantage really be very severe? Perhaps the production of several extra chemicals would actually enhance a function which was already existing?

This idea falls short because there are many body systems which are absolutely necessary to life. One example is the very source of energy in every cell: the production of ATP. ATP can be compared to a "pellet" or "particle" of energy. Along a huge assembly line, enzymes work together to build every molecule of ATP. If only one of the enzymes did not occur simultaneously with the rest, not only could ATP not be created, but life itself could not exist as we know it.

Natural Selection keeps complex systems from forming on their own. Apparently, it even keeps life from starting in the first place. The only alternative is that each body system in each life form has been specially designed to do what it does, and has been created from its beginning with all its pieces already in place.


-R. Josiah Magnuson