Evolution in Action
Evolution in Action
Evolution Says....
The Facts Are .....
(1) The scientific breeding of cattle is not an example of evolution. The genes for milk production and beef production are already in the species. Dairy cattle and beef cattle are just cattle. If they were all let go in a mob to indiscriminately breed for 10 years, they would all be scrub mongrels again. Cattle are only kept as high producers because humans selectively breed them in an artificial environment, and under artificial conditions. Natural selection and mutation plays no part in cattle breeding. [based on logic]
(2) Damaging plants by radiation and producing varieties with spots and blemishes on them is not an example of the formation of new species. The original species has neither improved, nor increased in complexity. [based on logic]
(3) Biologists from the University of Manchester have checked the colour of more than 1,800
peppered moths ( Biston betularia). They found that the area once dominated by the black moths is steadily shrinking, and the light-coloured moths are becoming more abundant. The cleaner environmental conditions occurring since the enactment of clean-air laws is believed to have been responsible for this change. These findings confirm that these moths are not an example of evolution in action. The genes for the black race were always in the species, and did not occur as a mutation response to the carbon deposits on the trees. Nothing has evolved, only the numbers of different coloured moths has changed - the species has remained Biston betularia from the start to the finish.
Science, Vol. 86, April, 1986 p:9
(4) "The experiments beautifully demonstrate natural selection - or survival of the fittest - in action, but they do not show evolution in progress, for however the populations may alter in their content of light, intermediate or dark forms, all the moths remain from beginning to end Biston betularia." Biologist L. Harrison Matthews, writing about the British Peppered Moth which changed to a black race during the industrial revolution. Recorded in the foreword of the 1971 edition of Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species".
(5) The development of insecticide resistance in insects is often used as 'proof' of evolution in action.
These are, however, just examples of screening processes, as the ability to exhibit resistance was already in the genetic code. The resistance did not show up until these chemicals were used, killing off those without the genetic resistance. These are no more examples of evolution than the selective breeding of new colours of parrots. Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 200, No. 11, June 12, 1967 p:42
(6) The resistance of Golden Staph bacteria ( Staphylococcus aureus) to penicillin is said by evolutionists to represent an example of evolution. The DNA information and the complex enzyme penicillinase which breaks down the antibiotic so that it can't harm the bacteria, had been discovered in the bacteria in 1940, before doctors started using penicillin. The resistance did not arise because of the presence of penicillin, or because of a mutation after its introduction, as it was already there in the genetic code. According to Dr Reiss-Levy (Director of Microbiology, St. George Hospital, Sydney),
"We did not create the resistant strains. We have just given them a selective advantage by the widespread use of antibiotic therapy". "Bacterial Resistance - Problems and Solutions", The Medicine Group, June 26, 1987 p:2
(7) "Supergerms, in other words, are not an example of evolution, but have been artificially bred by man, just as surely as Hereford cattle and Pomeranian dogs have been artificially bred by man. It was