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Convergent Evolution: a convenient twist to an old lie December 13, 2012

I don’t believe that when Charles Darwin wrote his famous book on evolution, he had any idea that the theory would become an all-powerful deity. The powers of evolution today are absolutely astounding; evolution can do anything regardless of mathematical and scientific impossibility, even at the cellular level. Not only can evolution create life from nothing, but it can create massive physical changes in a species all at once and it can take two or more unrelated species and separated by continents and oceans and develop them so identically that only until recently were scientists able to tell the difference.

You see, when Darwin first wrote his book, he believed evolution to be a slow (really slow)(really really slow) process where beneficial mutations brought on by environmental challenges could change a species into a completely different species over time; like the ability to breathe air instead of using gills, the ability to walk upright instead of down on all fours, the ability to make powerful computers instead of killing things with rocks. If given enough time, he believed, evolution could explain all the variety of life we observe on the earth. But he also knew that if the fossil record did not support this premise, i.e. showing transitional species,  his theory would not hold water. This frustrated him because in his day, the fossil record showed no transitional species ( you won’t be told this, but there are still no transitional fossils – they don’t exist; but you didn’t hear that from me).

But the all-powerful evolution was not about to let down it’s high priest. It simply came up with a solution. It would simply change species into something else entirely and do it really fast ( I mean really fast) (I mean really really fast). Of course Darwin can be forgiven for sticking to his slow slow slow process – evolution forgives him. It simply waited for a guy named Stephen Jay Gould to evolve so that he could propose Punctuated Equilibrium as an explanation for all those species that stubbornly refused to evolve even after millions of years and then suddenly evolved into something else. It was a master stroke of convenience. Now all those pesky Creationists could shut their pie-holes over the severely lacking fossil record.

But then another frustrating problem popped up. Scientists started discovering that species they thought were the same but living in completely different locations and environments but looked exactly the same or exhibited the exact same characteristics, were now, oh horror of horrors, not the same at all but different species. This prompted even the famed evolutionary crusader Richard Dawkins to complain, “For just the same reason, it is vanishingly improbable that exactly the same evolutionary pathway should ever be traveled twice. And it would seem similarly improbable, for the same statistical reasons that two lines of evolution should converge on exactly the same endpoint from different starting points”.

Have no fear, Mr. Dawkins, the all-powerful evolution has come to the rescue. This can be easily explained and easily named (conveniently so). It is called Convergent Evolution. Just like Punctuated Equilibrium can explain those pesky missing transitional fossils, Convergent Evolution can explain how two different species can look the same or act the same but not be the same (how stupid of us to think they were the same).

Here are two articles you can peruse for your enlightenment: one on  Sea Snakes, and another on Poison Frogs.

What is interesting about the sea snakes article is that while it talks about how the two snakes look the same, DNA shows that they are different species. This is a sneaky way of trying to make you think the snakes are  different (really different)(really really different)(just a shame that they still happen to be snakes). It is also interesting to note that the same antivenin will work on bites from either snake (reality check). Why is all this interesting? It’s interesting because of all the verbal gymnastics that scientists and authors go through to convince you that what they are telling you is true.

They do the same in the frog article when they are referencing the frogs ability to eat poisonous ants and use the ant poison for their own froggy defense; which is cool because the frogs don’t produce poison on their own. They marvel that these separated frogs do the same thing. Evolution is truly a master creator of ingenious  innovations in critters. The verbal gymnastics reveal themselves in phrases like, “Then the frogs had to develop a resistance to the alkaloids–instead of spitting out the ants or passing the alkaloids through their systems, the frogs became able to keep their ant dinners down. Then they evolved to make use of the alkaloids themselves.”  Sounds suspiciously like those darned frogs had this thing figured out all along and knew what to do.

It amazes me when reading all this rubbish the lengths that the proponents of evolution will go to in explaining a failed theory. They continually steal language from the Christian camp; words like: create, designed,  invented, and use sentences that read as if evolution is actively engaged in the design of it’s created invention. The organisms themselves are described as being active participants in their own development.

It amazes me that so many still cling to the theory of evolution even after it has been scientifically proven that evolution cannot work at the cellular level(see here), and it cannot overcome the problem of mathematical probability. Simply adding a few more millions or even billions of years to the equation is not scientific or even intelligent. The numbers of probability needed to even explain the Big Bang are so large they can’t be written out.

Yet evolution is all-powerful and able to accomplish amazing feats.

It is my sincere hope and prayer that you do not buy the lie at face value when reading these silly articles. Do some investigation. Find out what the science really says instead of what the author says or what the artist paints. Try to ferret out the nuggets of wisdom that tell you snakes are snakes and will always be snakes and have never been anything but snakes regardless of location and environment and snaky differences and science hasn’t shown they used to be anything else but snakes. Evolutionists have tried valiantly to use dogs to support evolution when any random moron knows we have the variety of dogs around us due to specialized breeding and not evolution. Dogs have always been dogs and nothing else but dogs. Fossil records actually prove this.

Convergent Evolution is just another convenient lie sold to the unsuspecting masses to cover up inconvenient problems to the theory of evolution. There really is no mystery to the variety of life on earth. The mystery is why so many willing choose to ignore the evidence and continue to choose the lie. Seems to me the Apostle Paul had it right all along. . .

^“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.” Romans 1: 18-25

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