Evolution: An illogical worldview? (revised)

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To get this out of the way up front, I don’t believe in evolution. It’s not a religious thing, it’s a logic thing.

Most people will stop reading right now. That’s fine with me, I understand that there is no theory held dearer to the hearts of the people who believe it, than the theory of evolution.

This maybe the most wildly unpopular article I ever write, but if you’re still reading now, than you likely either know me and have read enough of my articles to know that I’m a thinker (maybe an odd and unconventional thinker, but a thinker all the same). Or maybe you’re already a cynic of the theory and are looking to find some ideas to confirm your already held beliefs. I suspect there will be another much smaller group still reading who will want to debate (or scoff at my inferior intelligence).

Evolution has become a world-view and it has been settled. There is no room for doubt or even a thought at this point. If anyone doubts evolution, they are considered “simpletons” and lose all hope of being considered a thoughtful scholar.

Now you may be thinking. OH NO, not more Ben Stein!

No. Absolutely not. I saw Ben Stein’s Expelled and I was thoroughly disappointed. I could’ve done a much better job myself. If I had a couple million dollars lying around, I probably would.

I don’t believe that Creationists, which are considered “the other camp” have it all figured out either. Which leaves me with no theory to call my own, but I figure, no theory is better than a wrong one. There’s no sense in making assumptions about the unknown, it just makes us look ignorant, which is clearly what we’ve been doing for years now.

The first thing that must be understood about evolution is that evolution doesn’t have intention. There is no mind behind evolution; there’s no purpose or goal. For example, if we are going to paint a picture, we have in our mind an idea in which the art becomes. Natural selection works in a way that there doesn’t need a purpose; it doesn’t have a brain; it cannot think ahead about what it would like to create; it’s just survival of the fittest. The longest beak gets the most worms, while the shorter beaks die off. This makes good sense and there is no doubt that it takes place.

The second thing that we must keep in mind is that evolution works very, very, very slowly. It would take millions or years and thousands of generations of an organism to make a measurable change.

The questions I raise here are about how things like horns, antlers and wings develop (which is excluding many other inconsistencies with the theory).

To explain my point, I will give you a chart similar to any other evolutionary chart we’ve all seen, this one involves the evolution of the rhinoceros.

Now at first appearance it looks quite legitimate, we’re so used to seeing these and accepting them, we never give them a second thought. But now we will. Let’s take a look at the change from the Trigonias to the Dicerorhinus. Here’s a closer look.

The most noticeable difference is the fact that one has no horn at all, and the other, clearly does. Now there is obviously millions of years and many, many generations between them, so let’s think about the implications that go along with this.

Since natural selection is the method used, we must ask how these things developed. Now keeping in mind that evolution doesn’t “know” what it’s creating, we must rely on the idea that the beginnings of a horn must have some advantage over not having the beginnings of a horn.

We also must remember how long the process would take to create a horn, we can imagine that the beginnings of a horn or antler would be just a simple bump on the creature’s bone structure.

The first thousand generations of having this “horn” or “bump” in this case, it would absolutely do the creature no good. It would have no advantage. So with that knowledge, it would not be advantageous of the organism for another couple million years, when it would have a horn big enough to help it defend itself. Why would the creature continue to evolve a little bump that wasn’t giving it an advantage in being the most “fit” for the environment? Natural selection would do away with this bump, not evolve it into a horn.

This thought can also be applied to wings too. Below is a picture of a prehistoric dinosaur supposedly linked to birds and the beginning stages of aviation in the animal kingdom.

Why would wings use several million years to develop, if flying wouldn’t be possible until the wings are complete? It does seem possible that before the wing would be developed enough for flying, it could give it some propulsion on the ground to make it faster, but there would still be several million years that the wing-like thing would be completely useless, and actually get in the way. It seems to me that that is adding a characteristic to evolution that it doesn’t have by nature. Intention.

There are folks who believe in an intelligent designer who evolved creatures into what they are today. I wonder about this view because I think it has been developed to try to link religion with the “indisputable scientific evidence that supports evolution”. With this thought, you are giving up the idea of Natural Selection as the evolutionary tool to evolve creatures, which is the common mindset in the scientific community. You are giving up natural selection because you are assuming that God did it instead. If you believe that God created natural selection then my argument above still holds strong.

I’m not a scientist and don’t pretend to be one. Still, in my simple mind, these examples seem to poke at the weak underbelly of the theory of evolution. I can’t help but wonder how people keep confidence in such a disputable theory. It’s become a world view. I don’t know how something this scientific, this big, could be accepted without more scrutiny. Perhaps I do know, perhaps it has happened before.

“The great mass of people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.”
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”

-Adolf Hitler

http://www.natcenscied.org/resources/articles/images/cej16_06.jpg

http://www.geologyrocks.co.uk/tutorials/origin_and_early_evolution_birds

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/adolf_hitler.html

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My Thoughts on UFO Flying Saucers.

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You know, that title actually sounds legitimate, even though it says, “My Thoughts on Unidentified Flying Objects Flying Saucers” which is quite redundant and doesn’t really make sense.

But I bet you didn’t notice.

That’s because nobody notices subtleties.

I don’t know if UFO’s and aliens are real or not, but I will tell you that since I don’t want to believe in them, I don’t.

No matter how much evidence was given to me on the subject, I would still be skeptical of it. If it came down to me meeting an alien, being lead to the Mothership, having testing done on my body, and then being gently descended from the sky on a large column of light, I still wouldn’t believe. I would probably think I was a schizophrenic, and I would drive myself straight to the mental hospital (which is quite close, I must add).

Despite the fact that I don’t believe in aliens, I did some thinking about them and thought about “what if” they were real. Like, really real. Because I believe there are two types of real in the world nowadays, there are real things and then there are real Photoshopped things.

I must admit that ever since Adobe Photoshop has come out, UFO pictures are looking more realistic than ever.

A thought I had was, if aliens made it here to Earth from somewhere, they must have an extreme amount of advanced technology. This technology is amazing too; we’ve never been able to make a saucer looking object fly, without throwing it. I mean, we have frizbees, but all of our planes have…wings.

They also must be either very cautious or very shy, since they have not had any real contact with humans. What I wonder about though, is if they are so cautious or shy, why they continually use bright lights on their spaceship at night. Do they not have night vision technology? They’ve made a round object, like a saucer, actually fly but they don’t have night vision? I mean, come on.

Since aliens must have much more advanced technology than we do here on Earth, it’s not out of the realm of possibilities that they are reading this now just as you are. They certainly must have wireless internet connections in their saucers. They are probably connected to my unsecured wireless network right now, like all of the homeless people in the area.

Yes, there are homeless people with laptops. I saw a couple in Starbucks the other day. And I’ll tell you, there’s nothing more encouraging than to see homeless people with laptops, cell phones and drinking a $3.00 cup of coffee. God Bless America!

Ok, so in the picture at the top, I admit, it’s not a real UFO sighting. But, like I said, nobody notices subtleties. You looked at it and just assumed that it was a “UFO sighting”. Don’t lie, I know you did.

I Photoshopped the picture of the Goodyear blimp below and turned it into a UFO sighting.

Or was it this one?

I may have got them mixed up since I labeled them both UFOSIGHTING.JPG.

I can’t remember. It was one of the two.

http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2006/07/7406.html

http://www.ufopictureblog.com/2007/October/Why-Not-All-UFO-Pictures-Are-Real-Alien-Spacecraft.htm

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2718384/2/istockphoto_2718384_alien_pilot.jpg