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108 Origin of Instinct

There is no dif fer ence be tween this 320-mil -
lion-year-old fos sil cock roach and mod ern
spec i mens. To the right can be seen a 145-
mil lion-year-old fos sil ized fly.

to spec i mens alive to day. One sci en - "How did they ac quire these in -
tist who ex am ined these find ings stincts?" "How did in stinc tive be hav -
com ment ed that they "looked like ior first emerge? "how is such be hav -
they might have died yes ter day." 107 ior trans mit ted from one gen er a tion
Of course, the way that these to an oth er?" al ways go un ans wered.
crea tures, pos sess ing flaw less de - The ev o lu tion ist ge net i cist
signs, ap peared sud den ly on Earth Gordon Rattray Taylor makes this
can not be ex plained in terms of ev o - ad mis sion re gard ing the di lem ma
lu tion. (See, Origin of the Flies.) For rep re sent ed by in stincts: "When we
that rea son, ev o lu tion ist sci en tist ask our selves how an in stinc tive pat -
Paul Pierre Grassé, says that "We are tern of be hav iour arose in the first
in the dark con cern ing the or i gin of place and be came he red i ta ri ly fixed,
in sects." 108 In con clu sion, the sud den we are giv en no an swer." 109
ap pear ance of in sects clear ly con - Certain oth er ev o lu tion ists do not
firms the fact of cre a tion. make such ad mis sions. They try to
gloss over these ques tions with
veiled an swers that do not ac tu al ly
ORIGIN OF INSTINCT mean any thing at all. According to
Evolutionist sci en tists use the ev o lu tion ists, in stincts are be hav iors
word in stinct is to de scribe cer tain pro grammed in liv ing things' genes.
be hav ior that an i mals pos sess from According to this ex pla na tion, a
birth. However ques tions such as hon ey bee, for ex am ple, in stinc tive ly

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