Page 162 - The Miracles of Smell and Taste

160

sons. No explanation is offered
of how acquired experience or
the alleged changes were
handed on to subsequent gen-

erations. There is no need
even to touch on the question
of the properties possessed by
the tongue, the perception sys-
tems and their mechanisms, be-
cause one cannot find the slightest ex-
planation of their evolution in any Darwinist
reference.
The above fantasy is important in terms of revealing the methods
that Darwinists employ in seeking to account for such a complex mecha-
nism. Evolutionists generally resort to one of two tactics:
Some prefer not to mention such matters at all, while
others shelter behind clichés of the sort given
above, and are careful to add these accounts to

scientific findings.
An example of this is the expressions
employed by Diane Ackerman, author of
A Natural History of Senses, in claiming
that we are indebted to the oceans for
our sense of taste. 147 It is clear that her

The senses of taste and smell are too com-
plex to have emerged by chance.

The Miracles of Smell and
Taste