Missing Pieces

As continued from my last entry . .

Design Requirements

The second area where erosion of the evolutionary theory is clearly evident has to do with critical missing pieces that simply can not be found. For instance, research in the field of genetics has consistently shown that the development and design of all biological life is controlled by stored information in the form of DNA. To use an engineering analogy, everything has a controlling "blueprint".

The problem for evolutionary theory is this: In order for the function or design of an organism (or appendage of an organism) to change, the controlling information must change first. (The blueprint determines the design)

Obviously, at the micro evolutionary level, certain changes only require that existing DNA information be turned on or off. For example, there are shrimp that live deep in underwater caves that have eyes which no longer function. The caves are always in total darkness and the eyes serve no purpose under these conditions. Somewhere in previous generations, only shrimp that had sight capability “switched off” survived or procreated. This determined the eyesight function for all future generations within that cave system. Technically, there is nothing to prevent sight being restored – if the controlling DNA is simply switched back on.

Devolution?

In some scientific circles, this is lauded as an example of evolution. In reality, it is an example of “devolution” – in other words, the opposite of evolution. It does not show genetic progress. Rather, it demonstrates a net loss of function, if not of genetic information.