Here ye, here ye! This meeting of the Church of the Infinite Chasm is fixin’ to commence. As usual, our mission here is to gently offer people who believe in evolution food for thought that calls into question belief in their doctrine. We believe there is not only an unbridgeable chasm between creation and evolution; we also believe there is a similar gulf between what evolutionists believe and what they can prove. Like many so-called Christians, evolutionists often swallow a doctrine without giving it a careful examination.
On previous occasions (visit this link for one: http://www.augustarx.com/news/?p=3224 ), we have expounded on problems with the simplistic “man evolved” viewpoint versus the much bigger picture, which is that every single element making up the human body also had to evolve. Perhaps that sounds like stating the obvious, but consider the implications:
• the heart evolved • the lungs evolved • the liver evolved • skin evolved • eyes evolved • the brain evolved • shoulder joints evolved • the vascular system evolved • muscles and bone evolved • knees evolved • ears and the sense of hearing evolved • and so on and so forth, ad infinitum. In each case, the end result was a system or a structure or a series of interconnected structures that physicians and scientists find to be marvels of design, miniaturization, efficiency, strength, or some other measure of excellence. The odds of any one of them evolving is, by all accounts, astoundingly high. The odds that all of them evolved – independently or in concert – is a number so high as to stretch the boundaries of believability.
I wrote once before in this space about something extremely mundane – plain old spit – which scientists study in humble admiration. Today I intend to lower the bar even further.
Science writer Mary Roach’s book Gulp is a book I have referenced previously (See “spit” above). I’d like to quote from it again, this time discussing the anus: “Anal tissue is among the most densely enervated on the human body. It has to be. It requires a lot of information to do its job. The anus has to be able to tell what’s knocking on its door. Is it solid, liquid, or gas? And then selectively release either all of it or one part of it. The consequences of a misread are dire…. People who understand anatomy are often cowed by the feats of the lowly anus. ‘Think of it,’ said Robert Rosenbluth [a physician], “No engineer could design something as multifunctional and fine-tuned as an anus. To call someone an asshole is really bragging him up.'”
I have no idea what Rosenbluth’s personal beliefs are on the subject of evolution, but but if he believes in it, he would not be the first scientist to say, “the most brilliant engineer couldn’t design this” …and then believe that random, blind chance could.
Does that make sense to you?
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