Page 78 - Engineering in Nature

Engineering in Nature

• Evolutionists' Errors Regarding Instinct and Natural Selection
The salmon's migratory journey and direction-finding mecha-
nisms are just two of the many facts that place Darwinism in an insu-
perable quandary. Asked how salmon find their way, evolutionists
reply, "By instinct."

Instinct is a word behind which evolutionists hide, baffled in the
face of rational and conscious behavior. Yet the meaning and nature of
instinct are unclear. What is the origin of instinct? How did such be-
havior first emerge? Evolutionists are unable to provide a clear and
unambiguous explanation to such questions
Of course, the concept that evolutionists describe as instinct can't
possibly enable salmon to find their way "home." Instinct would have
to describe to a salmon every river it would pass and let it to find its
way without fail in the face of all the alternative routes. Such a
thought is manifestly illogical.
The behavior of salmon also deals a lethal blow to evolution's nat-
ural selection, according to which, all living things are engaged in a
ruthless struggle for survival, in which only the strong survive.
However, the altruistic and cooperative behavior among most or-
ganisms refute this evolutionist claim. The salmons' behavior, for ex-
ample, renders the natural selection claim meaningless.
Why do salmon risk their lives undertaking a journey of thou-
sands of kilometers (hundreds of miles)? Why do they abandon their

rich food supply in the sea? Why make a migration that provides no
advantage to them as individuals? Why do they lay their eggs in river
branches thousands of miles away, rather than in the sea where they
are at the time, or in the mouths of rivers?
According to evolutionists' theories, salmon should engage only in
behaviors that will help them survive. But on the contrary, salmon en-

76