© 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.