Saturday, 23 November 2013

Going Round in Circles: God Versus Evolution


And on and on it goes, where it stops, everybody knows: back to the beginning of the argument. Nothing changes. It’s getting a little boring to be honest.

But why argue about this at all when the matter has already been settled?

Forget about the fossil records - those bones have been put in the ground by Satan to test us anyway. We don’t need Satan to distract us from what’s happening right now. That’s right: evolution is happening right before our eyes, but we’re spending too much time on Twitter to see it.

Here are seven examples of evolution in action:

Among them, elephants are losing their tusks, fish are becoming immune to toxic waste, lizards learn to dance, while others are learning to digest previously indigestible foods, and what’s happened to the peppered moth?

And here’s another site. Granted, some examples are the same as those linked above, but there are other, even more amazing ones:

You’ll learn of lizards giving birth to live young, an amazing arms race between crabs and mussels, stronger, faster toads, how butterflies deal with parasites and even an example of evolution happening in the lab.

If all of this wasn’t enough to convince you that evolution happens, how about hearing it from the leaders of your faith?

Let’s take the Pope. In 1996, John-Paul II stated that evolution happens.

Yes, yes, I know; the Pope’s the Anti-Christ. So how about all you Protestants out there? Well, the Church of England apologised to Charles Darwin in 2008. "The apology, which has been written by the Rev Dr Malcolm Brown, the Church's director of mission and public affairs, says that Christians, in their response to Darwin's theory of natural selection, repeated the mistakes they made in doubting Galileo's astronomy in the 17th century."

So really, why are we still arguing about this? Listen to your leaders! You do for everything else, so why not this?

Of course, the next argument will arrive: Intelligent Design. Good grief. People who promote this have studied very little biology, because if they did, they’d realise that yes, complex organisms are amazing biochemical machines, but by god are they messed up! If that’s Intelligent Design, then God was suffering from the mother of all hangovers when he sat down and made all those animals pop into existence.

What’s so intelligent about having a donut-shaped brain and passing your oesophagus through it? No, not ours, but the giant squid’s. If it swallows something too big, it runs the risk of brain damage. Clever.

I’ve borrowed these examples of our own anatomical intelligent design from Scott Atran’s site:





And if that’s not enough, I’ll leave you with the bunny, the creature god truly hates. This is part of the film “Flock of Dodos”:

So come on, the matter’s already been settled. Can we move on now?

Further Reading

In God We Trust ? (22 October 2012)


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