In my twenties I read something that was current thinking vis a vis Darwin. It was obviously nuts. Very illogical. Very unreasonable. I dismissed it. This was 50 years ago by the way. In those days to read anything scientific one would go to the Library and read Science magazines. It certainly didn’t make me doubt Darwin though, who was unassailable. Some months later, same thing. Reading a Science journal I read something by an evolutionary Biologist. Equally illogical. Equally foolish. By the third article where this illogical thinking was revealed I was starting to wonder. So, I read Darwin’s great book ‘On the Origin of Species’. In the first few pages he cites evidence his further thinkings were wrong. I won’t go into that now. But, I had to consider whether Darwin’s basic thinking was true, or not.
I eventually, over a year or so decided he was not correct. Brilliant. Very observant. Creative. Certainly a genius. But, his basic theory is wrong.
I casually mentioned this to some people. Whoa! Was I in for it. I might as well have gone for a walk in Mecca and asked around saying ‘Mo was pretty good. But, it isn’t like he was perfect or anything.’ People were upset.
So began my debates. There is not one person I discussed this with who did not come around and admit Darwin doesn’t work. It is pretty obvious once you see past it. The problem was, and still is, it is a long debate. On average I would say it took about ten years for each person to come around. Way too time consuming to get into this with others.
The other reason why I stopped talking about it was because I couldn’t come up with anything better. The World created in a week? I do not accept that, unless ‘week’ is a week in God’s time and can mean anything in ours, which is just deflecting the question.
I think I do now have something better, but this post is not about that. It is though a first argument towards that. That is, why Darwin is wrong.
There are many reasons, but I want to focus on one VERY IMPORTANT ITEM. My prostate. (Okay…important to me.)
I didn’t know much about prostates. Men’s general sexual health is actually something most men don’t know much about. We learn about prostates the hard way. When they swell up and you can’t fully void your bladder. But, I have learned.
And, the entire male reproductive system refutes Darrwin.
A man’s reproductive system, which literally involves his entire genome, and multiple organs and glands, is centered around three SEPARATE parts of his body.
The Penis. ( I know…Duh!)
His testicles.
His prostate.
The prostate produces prostatic fluid. The prostate is what orgasms actually. Although the orgasm is not perfectly and fully understood, but it is the part of the body that spasms squirting the fluid it has produced upward and outward. The testicles produce the sperm and its nutrients. The penis is the deliverer of the sperm only.
The prostate spasms and squirts prostatic fluid, via the penis, and sperm it has picked up along the way, into the the waiting female. (Seminal vesicles produce a type of fructose needed too as nourishment). However….NO PROSTATIC FLUID, no pregnancy. The sperm doesn’t swim up the vagina on its own. It swims in the prostatic fluid. The prostatic fluid has to be properly chemically balanced for the sperm to live long enough to get to its blind date, the egg.
Likewise, no erection, no pregnancy as the erection moves the sperm and prostate fluid far up the canal. It also is the ‘barrel of the gun’ so to speak. How well would your pistol work if the barrel drooped, right? And, the seminal vesicles produce a form of fructose which nourishes the sperm for its journey.
There are likely thousands of genes involved in the structure, form, and utility of a prostate. Same as the testicles. Same as the seminal vesicles. Where do the seminal vesicles get the nutrients to give the sperm the energy needed for its arduous task? Why would they produce the fructose needed for the right amout of nutrients? Spontenously and randomly, don’t forget. For that matter, the testicles produce sperm, but the complexity of sperm is as complex as life itself. Think of the billions of events that would have had to happen to end up with a testicle that produces sperm.
There would be some overlap in the genes needed to make up a functioning prostate and a functioning testicle, and possibly overlap between those two and the penis. But, each requires likely thousands upon thousands of genes with many genes unique to each.
So, over time, due to evolution, ie random genetic mutation, thousands of genes have to spontaneously mutate in a specific manner. Spontaneously! In order for a functioning prostate to form. Along with prostatic fluid that is just right for sperm to swim in it. But, the prostatic fluid it produces has ZERO usefulness unless…..
Thousands and thousands of other genes, (and some the same), spontaneously mutate into forming a testicle. Which produces sperm. Which has ZERO usefullness without a fully functioning prostate! Furthermore….
Without an erectible penis, none of this would have any reproductive advantage. So, not only does the prostate and the testicle have to form through random genetic mutation, so does the penis. They all have to form independent of each other, yet work perfectly well together. Or none of the three has any reproductive usefullness.
Think of this. Tens of thousands of genes randomly mutating to form three separate structures. None of which have any usefullness (other than the penis for evacuating urine) without the other two RANDOMLY being generated.
How many millions of years would be required for this to randomly happen? Billions? Trillions? Can it even happen ever spontaneously?
Oh…but that isn’t even the big one. This has to be happening RANDOMLY also in a female in the same species! In the same region! And, it has to all come together in the same generation! Miss one generation and you don’t reproduce, right? And, all that evolutionary work comes to naught. So, it has to happen where the teenage whatever, female and a male, are within striking distance. And, like each other.
Don’t forget all this only works if there is a reproductive advantage. Bigger, stronger, okay. That is a reproductive advantage. Faster, trickier, smarter. Also, a reproductive advantage. (Thank goodness for those last two - trickier and smarter. Without those two being reproductively advantageous I’d likely still be a virgin.) Forming three separate structures which are useless without each other over tens of thousands of random genetic mutations, all forming in one individual, at the same time as this is happening in a nearby female of the same species, with an equally complicated physical set of requirements is not unlikely. It is IMPOSSIBLE.
Which is why Darwin’s theory works fine with simple changes to an individual species, but cannot possibly work with regards to major major evolutionary steps.
Later….a possible explanation of an alternate theory on how evolution took place, without resorting to religion.
Darwin made a theoretical observation. I don't think that Creationism and evolution are mutually exclusive.
Sorry if I have offended anyone 😔
Why without resorting to religion?