Sex? Evolution?

SEX? EVOLUTION? CAN'T HAVE BOTH?

A Protest By An Ordinary Man At All The "Evolution" Spin In Our World.

LIFE

There is something truly awesome about living things. Cars are pretty special, they go fast and look great. Computers keep improving, they now run airlines and send messages around the world in a second.

But cars and computers in no way reproduce themselves whereas every life-form does. Nothing that is not alive can do this. Most life-forms use two genders, male and female, who come together sexually and produce offspring.

EUREKA!

I had a 'Eureka!' moment while Trish and I were watching a TV show about babies. How very complicated, and nail-bitingly precarious, are our reproductive processes! While graphic and heart-stirring, the documentary also included many gratuitous references to "Evolution".

  

"How can this be?" I thought. "That which gives us life and ongoing generations cannot be the result of countless random, accidental, unplanned, spontaneous changes over millions of years. There has never been any scientific proof of evolution bringing new species". I felt violated at the distortion in this kind of commentary. As we all watch these lovely nature programs, a flood of intellectual, moral, emotional and spiritual corruption comes into our homes.

MEDIA AND CULTURE

Today we see a big increase in the air-time and print coverage given to the Theory of Evolution, usually it is presented as empirically proven scientific fact. Why is this? There is no body of empirical evidence which proves Darwin's "Theory of Evolution" or "Natural Selection". Moreover, even a quick look at life processes shows me, a very ordinary person, that Evolution simply cannot be real.

  

New technologies allow us to see into all manner of hitherto hidden life and activity. We can see the tiny bones inside an ear vibrating to effect hearing. Clear images show sperm cells battling their way up a birth canal until just one in many millions fertilises an egg. Spectacular!

  

WHAT'S MY BEEF?

Why do we see these wondrous displays of natural beauty alongside complete misrepresentation of the truth? How do clever, talented, highly educated people, (many with PhDs), not recognise the logical contradictions within the construct of the Theory of Evolution? How can they overlook all the soundly developed refutations and contrary evidence? Even Darwin had grave doubts about his Theory.

The TV show depicted human reproduction, from the twinkle in the eyes of the parents before conception, until the babies were born and feeding and bonding. For some days my thoughts were centred on these powerful images. Reproduction by two different genders is universal among complex life-forms, not just humans. It is also intricate and multifaceted, often symbiotic, and totally necessary for species to endure. Does reason suggest that this all came about accidentally and spontaneously, without need, design or will?

EVOLUTION: A Perspective

Let us try and see how Evolution might work. We have often been told that an evolutionary step would take hundreds of generations to develop. Jesus lived about eighty generations ago, 2000 years. Hundreds of generations would take tens of thousands of years, myriads. Can it be possible that for tens of thousands of years, random things with no purpose would be developing across an existing species which could still function in daily life? These developments would not be complete, and would not work in a useful way. They would also have to be exactly parallel to another gender of other purpose-less un-planned, spontaneous developments as complimentary life-forms. But generation after generation, they would continue to develop, for no reason, with no driving force.

Now let's consider the arrival of the first life-form ever capable of sexual reproduction. It would have to be the descendant of a simple life-form; only simple life-forms can reproduce asexually. But being simple, it could not have the many interdependent, life-giving, and life-sustaining systems necessary to support the potential of sexual reproduction. All the needed components, hormones and control mechanisms of complex organisms would have to develop in the same phase as its two gender sexual reproduction capability; a titanic leap! A leap too far?

  

Evolutionists tell us that new species appear, without need or warning, with brand new shapes, functions and capabilities. After the arrival of a new un-sought, un-planned and un-designed life-form, with no previous experience or external teaching, it would need to find suitable food and appropriate shelter to sustain itself, then mature, it also would have to find a mate, complete its own breeding cycle, conceive new life, and produce offspring to make their way through the next iteration of life.

MOSS

Mosses are one of the simplest life-forms to reproduce sexually. Here are the major working systems mosses need to have babies :

• Female structures must develop that produce egg cells (archegonium), or male structures develop that produce sperm cells (antheridium).

• Timing of these complimentary developments is vitally important, so that when the egg cells are ready, sperm cells are released.

• Sperms must be attracted to the eggs; because sperms each consist of just one cell, they are microscopically small and the relative distances they would need to travel are immense.

• Fertilisation must occur when the sperm and egg meet, from this a single cell zygote needs to form.

• The zygote will be the first cell of a new organism with its own genome. Two genomes, one from the male and one from the female, each comprising billions (yes, billions) of DNA bases will have to merge perfectly into one new fully functional genome, the core of the zygote.

• The zygote, or single cell of the fertilised egg, must then split and multiply many millions of times to develop into a new moss with the same characterises as its parents, including the ability to play its own role in reproduction. 

Complicated? Yes. Very.

These simple sounding steps incorporate an incredible array of complex components, hormones, enzymes and activities, each one exactly in co-ordination with others so they can work perfectly.

  

Imagine what it takes to produce an egg or a sperm cell; its structure and function would be completely unlike any other cell in the moss plant.

Then imagine the machinery to attract the sperm to the egg, then to fertilise the egg just once, (not multiple times by different sperms); how does this happen?

How do the billions of DNA bases from two genomes fuse into one new one?

How does the zygote's single cell become all the different cell types needed to make a new moss plant?

Accidentally? Spontaneously? Without need, design or purpose?

  

HUMAN RACE: Could Our Species Have Evolved?

An even more challenging question: "Where did the human race come from?" We know from learning about endangered species that a significant gene pool is needed to make a species viable and enduring.

How many human babies would need to suddenly exist? They would need to mature, this takes many years for humans, then be attracted into pairs, discover sex, and produce strong, fully formed babies of their own. They would also need to spend many years raising these babies to maturity, rather than considering them a handy source of food, or simply killing them "because they were different".

  

Would you need a hundred such babies? Babies randomly and accidentally formed, arriving within a few years of one another, and within walking distance of one another. Would you need a thousand babies? Humans are massively more complex than mosses, and we have seen that the complexity of "simple" mosses is awe inspiring. Ten thousand?

  

PHYSICAL AND TECHNICAL COMPLEXITY

You probably know couples who have never been able to have children because either the man or the woman has a seemingly minor malfunction in their body. There are so many interdependent and complimentary systems at work in us; systems to provide mobility, fuel from food and air, energy distribution, growth, waste collection and disposal, communications, memory and learning, immunity, healing and more.

The adult human body is made up of about 100 trillion cells, 206 bones, 640 muscles, 22 internal organs and 45,000 kilometres (28,000 miles) of nerve fibres. Twelve major systems must operate correctly for us to function from minute to minute and day to day .

  

My own recent dealings with doctors have made me aware of our 54 different and terribly important hormones, and the organs which produce and manage them. How could the pancreas, glucose control, insulin and insulin management grow randomly and without need? In the 21st century we know there is a need, but "less complex life-forms" could have no inkling; besides, they could not influence their own development in any way. We are wonderfully made.

  

SYMBIOSIS

A joy of learning about the natural world is to see the symbiosis present in every environment. In the rain-forest the tree canopy provides a home for the animals and birds and insects, and all the smaller plants, mosses, fungi and bacteria. Each of these is part of another creature's shelter, diet or breeding cycle. This same sprawling canopy, consisting of the leaves of millions of trees, must be big enough to attract the rain which is fundamental to every aspect of rain-forest life. Besides all this, the huge rotting trees which fell to the forest floor decades ago are the beginning of the entire food chain. For any of it to exist, it all must exist. How did such a great mass of inter-dependent life begin? Every ecosystem is symbiotic in a similar way.

  

ACCIDENTAL AND SPONTANEOUS

Remember, "Evolution", if it exists at all, has no intelligence, no authority, no virtue, no consciousness, no force, no design, no will. Neither does "Nature". Scientists and Evolutionary thinkers talk about "an Evolutionary need" or "Nature required" as though these concepts are a reality, but they are not real; they are simply concepts, ideas from hindsight. Indeed, two major planks of Evolutionary theory and teaching are that no intelligent design or creative will was ever part of how the Cosmos exists or the millions of species in our world came to be. No part.

So the idea that the whole natural world including bugs, plants, animals and humans, developed through Evolution just doesn't make any sense. It’s just too complex. All the media spin doesn’t change this.

  

There, that's what I see.

Praise Jesus.

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Amen.