It's hard not to laugh at evolution, especially when you read about the recent so-called amazing discoveries in the newspapers lately. A fish found frozen in the artic ice, they THINK could walk on land. Big deal, so can a seal. Some bones in Africa they think were the missing link, until some DNA samples were taken, and all of a sudden you don’t hear about those bones anymore. And so on. Nothing yet found, has been concrete evidence of evolution in either man or animals.
Recently, Dr. Edward F. Blick - Emeritus Professor of Engineering, University of Oklahoma, wrote an article in the "Prophetic Observer" put out by the Southwest Radio Church, titled "Laughing at Evolution". We called and received permission to print the article in tote. as we believe along with Professor Blick, evolution is a joke.
"We all love to laugh, it's good medicine. We laughed at the Queen in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland"' who said, "I sometimes believe in six impossible things before breakfast." The Darwinists are even more hilarious - they not only believe, but also teach more than six impossible fairy tales in their biology classes. The history of their pathetic attempt to pump life into the Lenin-like corpse of evolution is full of laughs.
Charles Darwin was born into wealth. He spent two years in medical school, dropping out after spending too much time in bars. He had some divinity training but failed to make it as an Anglican minister. He was never a scientist but took a position as a naturalist on a ship and later wrote his racist books "The Origin of Species" and the "Preservation of Favored Races" and "Descent of Man" He was ignorant of genetics. He married his first cousin. All seven of his children either died young or had mental or physical disorders.
Without any facts, he conjured up his pangenesis theory. He assumed that species changed into other species because all cells produced gemmules. Gemmules supposedly arose by some kind of reaction to the environment. Each of these gemmules entered the sex cells of the sperm or egg (it must have been crowded in there), which later transmitted to the offspring. Big problem! No one could find Darwin's imaginary gemmules and pangenesis died shortly after birth!
In 1870, Adam Sedgewick, leading geologist of England, wrote Darwin: "I read your book with more pain than pleasure. Parts, I laughed at till my sides were sore; others I read with absolute sorrow, because I think them utterly false - you deserted the true method of induction." Induction is reasoning from facts to theory. Darwin reasoned from theory to facts! His writings were conjecture piled upon conjecture. "Maybe" and "perhaps" from the basis of his books!
Darwin's writings were not science but philosophical musings. But something had to be done to keep the world believing Darwinism. Prof. Ernest Haeckel tried by faking drawings of embryos (which he claimed repeated "fish to reptile to mammal" evolution), but fellow embryologists in his trial at Jena University discovered his fakes. Believe it or not, Haeckel's fakes are used as proofs of evolution in biology books today. His forgeries are like gonorrhea, a gift that keeps on giving!
The next attempt to resurrect Darwinism came in 1872. The British ship "HMS Challenger" had dredged sediments for four years looking for half formed fossils. None were found. Since none had ever been found on land, the evolutionary fairy tale of the gradual production of billions of fossils in sedimentary strata was quietly set aside. The Challenger did provide a momentary hope when it dredged up some blob from the ocean floor. it was a live microbe, some kind of missing link! They named it "Bathybuis Haeckeli" after the old king of biological fakery, Ernest Haeckel. In 1885, however, it was discovered not to be a life form, but a chemical precipitate of sulfate and lime. True to form, the discovery was carefully swept under the rug and hidden from the public
In the meantime Darwin had returned to Lamark's previously discarded idea, that giraffes developed long necks by stretching to reach those leaves on the top of the trees. This theory died again in 1883 when German biologist Leopold Weisman cut off the tails of white mice in 19 successive generations and the tails always reappeared. Similarly, after 4,000 years of circumcision, Jewish men still had foreskins. More bad news for poor old saint Darwin!
Who can rescue Darwinism? In 1930 Austin H. Clark tried to plug the gap with a new theory, "zoogenesis." Clark was a well respected Darwinist at the Smithsonian Institute. He had written books and 600 articles in five languages. However, to his dismay, he could never find any evidence of macroevolution in animals or plants. In his 1930 book "The New Evolution: Zoogenesis" he cited fact after fact proving macroevolution could not have occurred. He concluded, therefore, that plants and animals must have sprung fully formed from dirt and water! The evolutionary world was stunned into silence. Clark was the Carl Sagan of his day. He supposedly knew all the answers. Quickly they buried Clark's theory.
The next "batter up" was world famous geneticist Richard Goldschmidt, who tried to come to the rescue of the embarrassed Darwinians by attempting to prove macroevolution was caused by mutations. For 25 years he was the godfather to millions of generations of gypsy moths. He zapped them with x-rays and chemicals. He found mutations produced nothing but deformities. No new species! He concluded rats were still rats and rabbits were still rabbits. In his 1940 book "The Material Basis for Evolution". Goldschmidt exploded the ammunition box of evolutionary theory. He literally tore the theory to pieces. He was an honest atheist who faced the facts. But not wanting to acknowledge God, he proposed a new mechanism of evolution called the "Hopeful Monster Mechanism." One day an alligator laid an egg and a turkey hatched out! You've got to remember, boys and girls, this is science!
For the next 30 years evolutionists were in a turmoil because they had (1) no proof that evolution had ever occurred, (2) no reasonable mechanism to explain evolution, and (3) zillions of missing links! They had bitter arguments among themselves about possible theories. The embarrassment of Goldschmidt's crude theory caused Harvard's Stephen Gould in 1972 and a little later, Steven Stanley of John Hopkins University to "smarten up" Goldschmidt’s ugly theory by giving it a new name, "Punctuated Equilibrium" (Gould), and even better "Quantum Speciation" (Stanley). But it was still a monster by any name. "
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