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#1223 Spreading: What's His Name

Inkmonkey

on March 22, 2007

Just in case Ray thought he got out of this unscathed.

So last night I stumbled across this forum thread discussing a video called "Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution". Basically the premise is that certain animals have traits that are so specialized for their particular way of life that it must be impossible for them to have been created by the process of evolution as opposed to God.

Before you start to take this too seriously, keep in mind that their local scientist, Dr. Jobe Martin, is not a Biologist. He is, in fact, a dentist. Jobe is oddly fun to listen to, because he's so damn confident about everything he says. He's got this whole "evolution" thing figured out, and unlike those jerks at your High School, he's going to give you the truth.

Unfortunately for the children who are going to get exposed to this, all his "scientific" research has the fundamental flaw of a complete lack of understanding of what evolution entails. By Jobe's thought process, an animal that exists today would have to exist in the exact same manner millions of years ago. Just for example, he lists the giraffe as an animal that could not exist without a "creator" for it. Reason being; to pump the blood up a giraffe's enormous neck, it needs to fire it off from its heart like a shotgun. When it bends over to get a drink of water, though, it has that same force plus the force of gravity blasting blood directly at its brain. So to make up for it, a giraffe has valves in its arteries.

Now, for a giraffe to just "come into existance" would, of course, demand some kind of creator figure. What Jobe ignores, though, is that according to evolution, it didn't start out as a giraffe. It was some kind of horse-like prehistoric monster, and the ones with the longer necks stayed alive better, for whatever reason. It didn't start off with a hear that shot a lethal blast of blood at its own brain; it would have been a very gradual process over a series of millenia. Of course, that doesn't fit in with the whole Creationism angle they started out with.

Personally, I believe in the concept of a creator. Perhaps not "God" in a traditional sense, but I believe that there is some force behind all this. Thing is, though, I don't see why that means that evolution can't really be. I think it's very narrow-minded of some creationists to think that God (or whomever you're arguing for these days) is too stupid to think of Evolution. The dude can create the whole of reality, why wouldn't he be able to figure out a nice, natural way to get creatures from one way of living to another.