Even with all of the explanations I can find in my college textbooks and Youtube videos I can’t see how #evolution is supposed to work. I actually feel scammed by my college professors and wish I had the questions I have today while I was still in school. Which is fine, since it all supports my belief in #creationism.
Evolution hinges on mutation and natural selection. Pretty much a given. There are plenty of Youtube animations demonstrating this. So, here is my contention.
I don’t believe that mutations could have yielded anything useful. Let me explain.
When they taught me in school they’d tell a story like this: A fish has a mutation and grows a bump, the bump further mutates to a protrusion, the protrusion mutates to a limb, the fish climbs out of the water.
What they don’t tell you is that there is no such thing as a singular “bump” mutation. It is actually a collection of thousands of insanely precise protein mutations all working in unison. Each when viewed alone, assuming it doesn’t sacrifice another critical protein, has absolutely no reason for natural selection to act upon it.
Oh look, we’ve got a new protein! What does it do? Well it appears that if a certain molecular group gets too close it will bind to it. And then? Well, nothing. That’s it. I suppose another chemical interaction might break them apart, but that’s it.
The actual “bump” mutation is much like a recipe. It requires instructions for initiating the bump, gathering ingredients, storing ingredients, targeting a location to assemble, assembling, and signaling the completion of the assembly. And that’s a simplistic summary. And all of this must be recorded in the DNA in perfect order or it will never happen.
So, without referencing changes based on a pre-existing “recipe” how do believers in evolution explain how anything could have initiated? I can’t even see this happening if you start with an organic soup.
