ABRACADABRA..........wave of the wand , "hey presto .............."
I
asked my son what the babies ( Kept it simple by using the word babies )
of the following animals will be elephant , monkey , horse ,
whale , human , finch , shark , dog , cat etc . And guess what ? He
laughed and said ..."Elephants produce elephants , monkeys produce
monkeys , horses produce horses , finches produce finches , cats produce
cats , dogs produce dogs ."
(Ok , we do know that there is variation within the created kinds but there are horizontal boundaries within living organisms that can not be passed .)
So , why is it Darwin took from his imaginary world , where a bear can
turn into a whale and applied it to the real world by claiming a bear
can really turn into a whale given enough time ?
Charles Darwin :
" In North America the black bear was seen by Hearne swimming for
hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in
the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects
were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist
in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being
rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure
and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced
as monstrous as a whale." (On the Origin of Species (1859), original
edition, p. 184)
Charles Darwin :
"I still maintain that there
is no special difficulty in a bear's mouth being enlarged to any degree
useful to its changing habits." ("More Letters of Charles Darwin," 1903,
page 162)
This
quote by Darwin himself is based on pure imagination and wishful
thinking . When Darwin wrote , he was not aware of ....... genetic
homeostasis .....because if he was he would have known this is
impossible . The entire external and internal structure of the bear
would have to be re - modeled in order to get from land dwelling to
water dwelling . To do this would take more than blind random chance and
accident .
I find this amusing how an adult loses the abilty to
differentiate between fiction and reality , but a child recognizes it
immediately .
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