Evolution: The Wicked Which of the West
By Roddy Bullock, founder of Creation Reformation
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And yet, what a wicked “which” flies out of evolutionary theory via focusing on natural selection to the point where it is often used synonomously with the term evolution.
The Natural Selection Paradox forces the truth claims of evolutionary theory into the light of reason. Of course, “the light of reason” evades those who love the darkness. But truth is not changed by love of darkness.
Here it is, slightly revised from a previous version because it is always evolving:
Despite natural selection’s role in nature, every current living thing evolved from a first life form solely by cumulative random evolutionary change.
Think about that. The Natural Selection Paradox must be true if evolutionary theory explains current living things. But this statement cannot be defended scientifically. So, a statement that must be true renders the theory of evolution scientifically untenable as an explanation for all species.
Thus, the paradox.
Note that we are not denying the “fact of evolution” or natural selection; evolution as change over time is real, and natural selection is observed to operate in nature. But the Paradox relies on a careful—and often ignored—distinction related to the roles of evolutionary mechanisms in nature.
Natural selection’s role in speciation, however described (filter, selector, eliminator, etc.) operates non-randomly to determine which genes move forward in evolutionary progress and which don’t. That is, for any given population of organisms representing a gene pool, natural selection operates to remove some of them, thus altering the available gene pool for future organisms.
But only random evolutionary changes, such as genetic mutations, operate to determine what genes are available in the gene pool to potentially move forward at each step of evolutionary progress.
Between which or what in nature, only one is of existential importance. And since Darwin’s day the which dominates evolutionary discussion, with the what caused by random genetic changes being relegated to the hopeful “occasional good mutations” discussion.
Without a “what” there is no “which” at all! And without a lot of good whats, the question of which whats becomes virtually irrelevant.
And yet, what a wicked “which” flies out of evolutionary theory via focusing on natural selection to the point where it is often used synonymously with the term evolution. The shadow of natural selection’s which hides the necessary faith-based hope in the unscientific reliance on random changes alone to explain the what of organisms to feed it.
The wicked which of natural selection has cast its shadow over the entire western civilization. Opposition to it seems futile. Several generations of students accept the scientifically untenable the same way we all do: belief without examination.
But I believe The Natural Selection Paradox brings the stark clarity that forces an examination of the only important claim of evolutionary theory: the origin of organisms as the raw material for the origin of species.
And when given a fair hearing, The Natural Selection Paradox always prevails. You can find our video recaps of attempts by evolutionists to refute The Paradox here, here, and here, as well as our previous Substack post here. (Note that in these videos we presented a slightly different version of The Natural Selection Paradox.) Enjoy!
Bottom line: Without the scientifically improbable cumulative, random mutations producing new genetic material to produce viable “whats” on earth from a first organism on earth, there can be no viable "which" of natural selection to explain all existing organisms on earth today.
Think about that.
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