© Joseph Mastropaolo 2003
Published as:
Mastropaolo, Joseph. Biology Confronts Evolution.
Acts and Facts 33 (2): i-iv, Impact #368, February 2004,
Institute for Creation Research, P.O. Box 2667, El Cahon, CA 92021.
http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-368.htm
Evolution pretends to be biology but it
plays us for fools because it has no successful experiment.
Let’s see if there is one scintilla of scientific evidence
to support evolution. Most biology textbooks show a glass apparatus
in which the precursors for amino acids are boiled and electrically
sparked and after a week sure enough there are trace amounts
of a few amino acids. The implication is that if the boiling
and sparking were continued, then a living cell would evolve.
Such logic is like stating that automobiles evolved billions
of years ago by means of rubber sap, sand, iron ore, and coal
falling into a volcano. The iron ore and the carbon in the
coal made steel, the sand melted and made glass, and the sap
vulcanized and made rubber. Then after billions and billions
of trials and errors, the text may say, there evolved spontaneously
better and better pistons, cylinders, whole engines with spark
plugs and transmissions, axles on four wheels with rubber tires
under bodies of steel with glass windows, windshield wipers,
headlights, and tanks full of gasoline. The text might similarly
state that the first cell and all life evolved in the same
way. Scientists note that such a tall tale is a fantasy of
a peculiar type. If someone said he had bought a brand-new
car the night before and in the morning found it rusted and
rotted to a pile of powder, then we would note that his story
described correctly the direction of the laws of physics but
rust and rot do not occur that fast. Contrarily, if he says
that a pile of sand and iron ore evolved into a brand-new car,
then we recognize this as an inverted fantasy because it is
the exact opposite of the way reality works. So, the amino
acid and volcano car examples are not merely fantasies, they
are inverted fantasies. They are not the cow-jumped-over-the-moon
kind of tall tale because cows can jump a low fence. They are
the grass-ate-the-cow kind of tall tale, the inverted, upside-down
kind of fantasy. One way that scientists reject tall tales
is with observation. Scientists are persuaded by observing
cars coming off the assembly lines in Detroit and note that
no one has ever seen one spontaneously, nor purposefully, evolved
in or out of a volcano. Scientists therefore
unequivocally conclude that all cars were created intelligently and by the
similar observations so were all life forms.
But is biology sufficient to explain life or must it be supplemented by inverted
evolutionary concepts to fully describe the biological world? Let us pursue
this answer by examining the life cycle of a representative life form.
The monarch butterfly is a good illustration of biology because all observations
can be
verified. Its whole life cycle is from one allotment of deoxyribonucleic
acid (DNA) and can be
observed in 60 days. The monarch butterfly egg is an oval about one millimeter
long that hatches
in three days to a caterpillar which spins a chrysalis around itself then
hatches as the butterfly.
Now it has the ability to fly twenty-four miles an hour while navigating
a three-thousand-mile
migration with all the navigational equipment on board in the size of the
head of a pin. Shortly
after completion of their reproductive functions, both male and female become
dehydrated and
die.
The life cycle of the monarch butterfly teaches that in the seemingly inert
egg are all of
the genetic instructions to form a sixteen-legged caterpillar and a six-legged
butterfly. There was
no physical manifestation of the caterpillar when it was an egg just as there
was no physical
manifestation of the butterfly when it was a caterpillar. There was a manifested
morphology
while there were unmanifested in the organism’s genetic reserves meticulously
planned
transitional structures and different morphologies. To observe such remarkable
transformations
in 60 days teaches an important lesson on genetic reserves. These incredibly
complex
transformations, which no human engineer can blueprint, may be called sequential
genetic
reserves. They occur once in a rigorous order to attain adulthood and do
not occur again. Every
complex organism has them. Some do not transform from sixteen legs to six
legs, some do not
transform from pedestrians to flyers, but the transformations to adulthood
are no less remarkable.
Every multicelled life form must grow and develop from an egg or seed to
an adult configuration
and that requires continuous structural and functional alterations that are
molecularly planned,
organized, coordinated, controlled, and commanded beyond human comprehension.
We do not
know how the DNA did it, but we do know that such megengineering could not
have been done
brainlessly the way evolution pretends. There are other kinds of genetic
reserves.
When the arctic fox has a gray coat of fur in summer, which blends with the
tundra, it has
in its genetic reserve the white fur it will wear in winter. The fox’s
white fur in winter blends
with the snow but its genetic reserve still contains the gray fur for the
following summer.
Similarly, the rock ptarmigan draws from its genetic reserves to display
feathers of mottled
reddish-brown in spring, then brownish-gray in fall, then white in winter.
Trees leaf and bloom
in spring, fruit in summer, then drop their leaves in the fall. Birds nest
and rear young in spring
and summer, then migrate in the fall. These periodicities are from the organism’s
cyclical DNA
genetic reserves and go on repetitively for its lifetime with punctuality
and precision. The fox has
white fur for the first snowfall, not the last, and gray fur for the first
thaw, not a week or a month
later. And it never grows red or green or orange or blue fur by trial and
error like evolutionists
would have us believe. If its cyclical genetic reserves were not engineered
for precision and
punctuality, it could not survive one season.
Exercise in the heat arouses the genetic reserve to synthesize heat-shock
proteins that
enable activity in the hot environment. Activity patterns arouse new proteins
for muscle actin
and myosin contractile filaments. Skeletal muscle hypertrophy and bradycardia
are aroused from
training, and skeletal muscle atrophy and tachycardia from bed rest. An increased
concentration
of red blood cells and 2,3-diphosphoglycerate are aroused by sojourns at
high altitude, then lost
by a return to sea level. New collateral coronary arteries are synthesized
in two months to get
around blocked arteries. New bone cells are aroused by fractures and new
scar tissue from
abrasions, cuts or tears. These are but a few of the innumerable DNA genetic
reserves manifested
by arousal that are built into each life form. They may be aroused in a matter
of hours, not
millions of years. They cannot be incorporated by evolution because the organism
cannot
experience what is needed until the event and it will not survive unless
the need is immediately
satisfied. Vacant-minded evolution cannot plan or organize or coordinate
or command or control
change because it is brainless. What is brainless cannot comprehend or act
in what is complex to
the extreme: life and survival.
From conception to death, the DNA of the life form makes available as needed
all genetic
reserves and there is no interference amongst them. For example, the life
form may arouse
simultaneously the separate proteins for heat shock and altitude as it climbs
a mountain in the
heat of the day as well as the proteins to withstand the bitter cold at night.
Always at the ready,
the abundant genetic reserves may manifest themselves in any appropriate
pattern at any time.
They provide each life form with remarkable arrays of morphological, functional,
and behavioral
mechanisms to meet punctually and precisely the variabilities of any environment
and to survive
the extremes. And they do it right the first time. They do not do it by magic
or brainless iteration
over alleged millions of years, as the inverted brainless evolutionist superstition
would have us
believe. If the arctic fox had to evolve its white coat for the first snowfall
by brainless iteration, it
would not have survived one day. Like every life form, it needed the versatility,
precision, and
punctuality of all its genetic reserves from conception or it would never
have survived even to
being born.
If a person exercises, the heart rate will increase and this the evolutionists
call, a
response. If a person trains for weeks with exactly that exercise, then the
heart rate will be lower
than the initial response. That lowered heart rate for the same exercise
the evolutionists call,
adaptation. If such a modified response is instigated by an environment,
then it may be called,
acclimation. If in response to a change in climate, then it may be called,
acclimatization.
Evolution misleads us because the immediate response is mediated by the autonomic
nervous
system, which is an integral part of the individual’s design from its
DNA. The modified response
is the revised expression of the individual’s ever-changing physiology
as continuously modified
by the arousal genetic reserves. Those reserves continuously synthesize the
appropriate new
proteins whether the stimulus comes from within, like the exercise, or from
outside like the
climate or something else in the environment. By inventing four names, the
evolutionists not
only mislead us but they also complicate what is in reality quite simple.
The dynamic
physiological design takes care or everything. Evolution has nothing to do.
Anyone can observe remarkable variation in biology. All brothers and sisters
are
different. Even identical twins have different fingerprints and behaviors.
The Chihuahua is not a
different species. It is a dog from breeding the runts of the litters. “Speciation” and “micro
evolution” are attempts to appropriate the immense variability of biology.
All Chihuahuas
devolve and die but not one will ever evolve to a cat or a raccoon or anything
else. So too
“ macro evolution,” the fictional extension of the micro evolution
fiction, is the fraudulent
misrepresentation that has never been seen because it is an inverted fantasy
like grass eating a
cow.
As anyone can observe, the Primordial Law of Biology is minor vita ex vita,
life arises
only from life and always with less vitality. Biology is under the jurisdiction
of the laws of the
universe, the propaganda of evolution notwithstanding. The Primordial Law
of the Universe is
natura semper scalas descendet, nature always descends, that is, devolves.
Therefore,
devolution, never evolution, is the relentless, inescapable law of the universe.
The true nature of
the universe, and therefore biology, is devolution, the exact opposite of
masquerading evolution
interloping in public school and university biology textbooks.
The history of each individual in each generation is the same as for the
population, but on
a smaller scale. The individual is conceived with its greatest vitality and
progressively devolves
that vitality until death, that is, its extinction. Just as no individual
can live forever, so no
population can live forever. All life forms individually and collectively
are fixed and mortal.
From environmental pollutions that cause genetic disorders, populations lose
their vitality
until they cannot reproduce viable offspring. That is the advent of extinction.
By contrast, the
evolution superstition in biology textbooks is a multi-inverted fantasy because
it not only teaches
that life can spring up like the volcano car but that life and the car can
perfect themselves forever
like fictional perpetual motion machines.
As we have seen, biology is the best explanation of life. It is the most
complete, the most
observable, and the most verifiable with experiments. There is no need to
employ any of the
unnecessary, misleading, multi-inverted, and unobservable complexities of
evolution
superstition. Biology completely eliminates evolution.
Mastropaolo, Joseph. The Rise and Fall of Evolution, A Scientific Examination.
2003. Pp. 115-
123.