If Darwin Would Have Known
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If Darwin Would Have Known
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Darwin’s Theory of Evolution remains just that, a theory, despite nearly two centuries of searching for proof of transitioning species. The gaps between all species have only widened.
I wrote What Darwin Didn’t Know, when I, as a physician, realized many people have no clue how complicated the human body actually is, and how we could not have come about by undirected forces and random accidents. Humans are way too complex. There is obvious forethought, foresight, and fore-planning in our design. In a sense, we are a Do It Yourself kit (DIY) with the instructions mostly in our genes.
I believe Charles Darwin was honest but mistaken. He had promised a second book to scientifically prove his point, but he never wrote it. His Theory of Evolution remains just that, a theory, despite nearly two centuries of searching for proof of transitioning species. The gaps between all species have widened. Also, no one has ever seen (or caused) one species to evolve into new species. Groups might get faster, bigger, more camouflaged, or more slippery, but amoebae remain amoebae, rabbits remain rabbits, and monkeys remain monkeys. The determining genes are numerous and extremely complicated. They sometimes jump around and groups can be read backwards Nearly all changes require hundreds of thousands of microscopic and submicroscopic modifications, many of which must occur simultaneously or in tandem.
Darwin didn’t know why a child resembles his parents. He didn’t know that arteries carry oxygen which is exchanged for carbon dioxide at the cellular level; and, then carbon dioxide is exchanged for oxygen in the lungs. Special cells handle these processes.
During the nineteenth century, there was a strong craving for an alternative explanation for our presence that did not include a Creator. Darwin’s writings fit the bill and they came at the right time, in the right way. Looking back, they were only speculation. The drawings of a fish crawling out of the sea and progressing through a reptile, an amphibian, a mammal, an ape and finally a human being looked good, but didn’t prove a thing. No one knew how species transitioned from cold-blooded to warm-blooded. Or change from water-breathing animals to air-breathing animals, or from walking types to flying types, or from apes that ponder bananas and insects in scalps to humans who write songs, feel compassion, invent machines and ponder philosophy. None of these are simple steps.
Darwin might have known what a cell looked like (this is debatable, however), but he definitely didn’t know that every cell was a tiny collection of sophisticated factories, twisted chemicals and nano-machines. He couldn’t have known that the nucleus, or the command center, inside each cell was loaded with organized, genetic instructions that could replicate themselves trillions of times. He had no idea how select chemicals carry commands (directions) along nearly invisible highways to different submicroscopic factories throughout the cell protoplasm. Or there are nanomachines that make repairs and untangle any twisted DNA or RNA.
Darwin didn’t know every cell type has a specific function(s). White cells fight infection, pituitary cells in the brain put out growth hormone, especially in the growing years, thyroid cells make thyroid hormone which waxes and wanes as metabolic needs change, and the adrenal gland cells put out cortisol as need for stress and host of other needs. Trillions of nerve cells control everything muscular and memory. Specialized cells monitor blood pressure and signal other cells when the readings are too low or too high to make corrections. Other cells watch the heart rate, oxygen concentration, salt concentrations, kidney function and hemoglobin. None of this came about with random changes. And these are the simple examples.
For argument sake, take a moment to imagine a sudden, fully-melted Antarctica that goes from two settlers to over thirty-five trillion settlers (like cells in a newly conceived fetus) in nine months. Suddenly, multiple cities (organ systems) appear with populations that exceed one billion. There are a seemingly-infinite number of factories. The Capitol (the brain) has thirty-five to a hundred and thirty billion residents and is the governing body. All occupations are present. All institutions and all types of businesses, too. All of these new residents (cells) come from a variety of races, shapes, sizes and ethnic backgrounds. Yet, they all speak a universal language. Each individual is connected to as many as 10,000 other individuals chemically, mechanically and/or electrically.
Next, imagine how much designing/planning has to go into setting up electrical power, arranging grocery and other necessity procurements, starting farms (with support), setting up water systems, arranging telecommunications and other means of communication, digging sewer systems and disposal mechanisms, laying down streets/highways, establishing ways to control traffic, procuring cars and trucks, building homes, high-rises, hotels and shopping malls, etc, establishing rail lines and airports plus servicing, setting up and running multi-level government positions, making and enforcing rules, setting up a postal mechanisms, removing criminals and maintaining jails, arranging for repairs of all sorts, arrange painting of all sorts, cleaning the streets, setting up businesses, and so on and so on…. And all that is child’s play when compared to the creating a human being from day one in utero.
Darwin had no idea the beginning of human life was so complicated. I suspect he didn’t realize having a heart without a way to make red blood cells is useless. Having blood without 66,000 miles of piping for distributing nutrients won’t sustain a life. Having nutrients without a way to hunt them down, bite, chew and swallow them, chemically break them down, and absorb them from the G.I. tract won’t work. One can’t have a clotting system without a way to remove the clot later and heal the wound. And one can’t have spontaneous clotting. One can’t have a muscle system that only pulls and doesn’t push, or no means to fight off infections.
The examples are endless. If he would have known all the things science has revealed to date, one needs to wonder if he would have written The Origin of Species.
Dr. Geoffrey Simmons