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Lazy Sunday CCCLXXXVII: Against Darwinism

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The topic of Darwinian evolution and its staggering inaccuracies and inconsistences has been on yours portly mind of late. As such, it seemed appropriate to look back this Lord’s Day to some posts about (or at least related to tangentially) Darwinian evolution:

Happy Sunday!

—TPP

Human Teeth and Evolution

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What did people do in prehistoric times if something was lodged in their teeth?  Surely animal sinews and husks of grains ended up crammed in between hominid teeth, tightly packed and relatively flat as they are.

My love for popcorn sparked this thought on the drive to work.  Anyone who loves popcorn knows that it comes with a downside:  getting tiny bits of kernel husk caught between the pearly whites (or the coffeed yellows, as the case might be).  When brushing after eating popcorn, I’m a bit ashamed by the amount of kernels loosed from their cozy, gummy embedding.

It got me thinking further:  humans are really poorly adapted to live in wilderness conditions.  Yes, the Darwinists would argue that our big brains make up for our lack of power jaws, razor-sharp teeth, venomous chin sacks, natural swim fins, quick gazelle legs, and the like.  As with many things, the Darwinists are half-right:  our big brains do give humans a massive advantage over all other forms of life.  Where the Darwinists are wrong is in how we got here.

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Gelernter Gives up Darwinism

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Yale Computer Science professor and—as I found out today—Trump supporter David Gelernter has given up on Darwinism, finding it to be a “beautiful” but flawed theory.  Gelernter acknowledges that species make small adjustments based on their environment, etc.—adaptation—and that Darwin was correct in that regard, but that the process of new species developing from existing ones is mathematically impossible, even if the universe is trillions of years old.

For conservative Christians, skepticism of Darwin’s theory of evolution is something you keep quietly to yourself, lest you’re mocked roundly, or that you militantly espouse, which tends to turn people away—they tune out.  Regardless, the world at large has bought into Darwinism completely, even with holes in the theory (like the lack of a plethora of pre-Crambrian fossils that should, according to Darwin’s theory that all life descended from a common ancestor, be present given the Cambrian Explosion).

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