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vided the living species in question with a consciously determine an objective befo-
slightly greater advantage, and it will thus rehand, the whole theory depends on li-
be favored by way of natural selection. ving systems being capable of “being re-
Yet another small, accidental change will duced” to small, advantageous changes.
later take place, and that will also consti- That is why Darwin said, “If it could
tute an advantage and improve the indivi- be demonstrated that any complex organ
dual’s chances, and the whole process will existed, which could not possibly have
continue running along those lines. been formed. . . .”
Thanks to this process, according to Given the primitive level of science
the Darwinist claim, a species that initi- in the 19 th century, Darwin may well ha-
ally had no eyes at all would come to ve thought that living things did have a
possess a flawless pair, and another spe- reducible structure. However, 20 th cen-
cies previously unable to fly would de- tury scientific findings revealed that
velop wings and take to the air. many systems and organs in living things
These evolutionist scenarios are rela- were actually irreducible. This phenome-
ted in a very convincing and reasonable- non, known as irreducible complexity,
seeming style. Examined in slightly grea- definitively demolished Darwinism in
ter detail, however, it appears that there is exactly the way that Darwin feared.
a major error in place. The first miscon- The human eye’s structure cannot be
ception is that mutations are destructive reduced to a more simple form, and is a
occurrences, rather than beneficial ones. clear example of such a system. The eye
In other words, the idea that random mu- cannot function at all unless all its com-
tations affecting a species can endow it ponents exist together and function pro-
with some advantage—and continue to do perly. The consciousness that produces
so, thousands of times in succession—is a such a complex structure needs to calcu-
violation of all scientific observations. late beforehand the benefits to be obtai-
However, there is a still more impor- ned at the very final stage. It is absolu-
tant error at work. Note that Darwinist tely impossible, however, for the mecha-
theory requires every stage in the prog- nisms of evolution to produce complex
ression (for instance, from a wingless organs through consciousness and will.
animal to a winged one) to be advanta-
geous. Thus in any evolutionary process
Isolation
from A to Z, all the intermediate stages—
B, C, D … through to W, X and Y— must When populations are divided by so-
all bestow separate advantages on the me geographic obstacle, the gene pools
species that evolves. Since it is impossib- (representing the populations’ genetic
le for natural selection and mutation to structure) of populations living in the

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