Dear Good News Reader,
Are they celebrating Darwin Day in your town Feb. 12?
According to the Darwin Day Web site, at least 419 events
are planned in 36 countries to celebrate the 200th anniversary
of the birth of Charles
Darwin, the man who made natural selection and evolution household
words.
Events range from:
- The Darwin Day Drink
in Amsterdam
- A "Darwin impersonator" at
Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
- A talk on "UnIntelligent Design" at
Dartmouth University in Hanover, New Hampshire.
- "Abe and Chuck's Birthday
Party" (yes,
Abraham Lincoln was born the same day!) in Houston,
Texas.
- And a discussion on "Did Darwin's
Discovery Make God Redundant?" in Rutherglen, Scotland
In discussions like that last one, does it sometimes seem
that the evolutionists and the modern crop of militant atheists
have the upper hand? After all, they have science on their
side, right?
Well, not so fast. Thousands of scientists look at the
incredible intricacies of living things and see evidence
of intelligent
design.
Consider something as simple, yet breathtaking, as a peacock
feather.
Did you know Darwin said, "The sight of a feather
in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes
me sick!" He wrote this to botanist Asa Gray on April
3, 1860.
You can't blame Darwin for feeling frustrated by
those feathers. How the extravagant plumage evolved is very
hard to explain. It certainly didn't give the peacock
an advantage in hiding or fleeing from predators!
As the "God, Science and the Bible" section
in the soon-to-be-published March-April Good News will
show, this led Darwin to postulate a new type of natural
selection: sexual selection. He assumed that the females
must prefer males with the most beautiful tail feathers.
Sounds good in theory, but what about in real life?
University of Tokyo researchers tested the theory and found,
to their surprise, that females mated with drab-tailed peacocks
as often as with flashy males! Results were published in
the April 2008 issue of Animal Behaviour and are
summarized in the next Good News.
Peacock feathers are only one of many chinks in the evolutionists' arguments.
Darwin was also stymied by the human eye. "To suppose," he
admitted, "that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances…could
have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess,
absurd in the highest degree" (Origin of Species, p.
146).
 Our carefully researched booklet Creation
or Evolution: Does It Really Matter What You Believe? describes
the amazing biochemical processes that convert light
into chemical impulses that travel at a rate of a billion
a second to the brain:
"The essential problem for Darwinists is how so many
intricate components could have independently evolved to
work together perfectly when, if a single component didn't
function perfectly, nothing would work at all."
This section on "The
Miracle of the Eye" gives more details to show
some of the major holes in Darwin's theories.
So stay tuned for your next issue of The
Good News, and in the meantime read, download
or request our valuable free booklet on Creation
or Evolution.
Will we celebrate Darwin Day? No way. We believe the other
man born on that day, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, was
on the right track when he declared a "day of thanksgiving
and praise to Almighty God, the beneficent Creator and Ruler
of the Universe."
Thank you for reading, and please let us know any way we
can serve you better.
Until next time,
Clyde
Kilough
President
United Church of God
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