Is Darwin's Theory of Evolution True? Part Three

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The message is that adaptation has occurred: due to the environmental pressures of hot or cold climates, people have evolved variations in skin color.
 
What if I asked you to make me a whale that had five finger bones despite not having hands? Could you do that?
 
And that’s the problem. Adding novel body parts to an existing creature. It has to be internally wired into the brain, the muscle system to make, say, wings work, would have to be there. Learning to use them would have to be there.
 
I don’t know enough about whale biology to answer the question. Do they have “finger bones”? Do they have something similar to a “finger bone”? How many?
 
The same as people. They also have two bones in their forearms. I say “forearms” because whales also have elbows.

It seems strange to me that an animal that is designed (intelligently!) from scratch to live in the water would need to breathe air and would have finger bones, forearms, and elbows, would make milk for its young and would share all the other features of mammals.
 
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You have to understand that all genetic advantages apply right here, right now. If a pegasus animal was to develop, let’s say, it wouldn’t have something kind of like wings, and eventually full wings. It would have say a mutated vertebra that made it harder for fairies to sit on its back or something. Maybe after that, it would develop the ability to move that vertebra around a little to even better fend of fairies.

The eye is a commonly held example. You don’t need a lens and all the working parts of an eye to start on that evolutionary journey. You just need an organism with some photo-sensitivity, which would have a statistical advantage due to that extra information it has access to. The “novel body part” can only occur if there are advantages every step along the way from that first development to the final fully-developed organ. But it’s only novel in the sense that one organism doesn’t have it, and its descendant millions of generations later does have it. There was never a time at which an eye just popped into existence due to a mutation.
 
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A whale is a mammal…a unique mammal that lives in the ocean, much like dolphins I think.

But compare the “fingers” to those of a dolphin or another sea creature with fins like that with which to swim.
 
Yep. They all have hand bones. Bats and birds have them too. For the most part, exactly 5 of them. That’s because they all share common ancestors. Bats are kind of funny because of the way their thumb bone sticks forward in the middle to serve as a little poker, whereas birds don’t have that. That’s how scientists can see that bats are more closely related to humans than birds are.
 
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Perhaps could you provide a length to a whale skeleton drawing that shows these features?
 
What do you mean? The physical dimensions of the image?
 
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Okay, but I can’t see how that can be demonstrated as true. Other creatures and insects have different eye types or characteristics.
 
But, I hope you see the issue.
Someone else could easily say,
“Yup, they all have fingers, five of them. That’s because they all have a common designer.”
All I had to do was switch ancestor with designer and suddenly most people would scoff at it.
 
If you mean one-time design at Creation, then it seems strange that a whale would need fingers bones at all. Why would God make the animals related in so many ways if they were from the start meant to be discrete creatures?

If by design, you mean that God made a basic structure that is particularly well-suited to adapting to many different environments on Earth, then we’re arriving at a much more compatible viewpoint.
 
Or “The Topic That Will Never Die.” You now know what ‘undead’ means. Bwahahahaaaaaaa…
 
People may actually be on the verge of designing animals. All it will take is the ability to lay down sequences of DNA artificially, and it’s going to be a wild world indeed.

And yes, I think if people were designing animals, they’d have to take an existing species, and modify as few parts as possible in order to get what they want without designing millions of sequences. But I wouldn’t expect the Lord to be that limited.
 
Very, very good point. Look at the following - all under the acceptable list:

Spores from space.

Meteorites brought life here.

Space aliens visited and did something.
 
But there are all sorts of creatures much different than whales.
For instance, I think sharks don’t even have bones but cartilage, despite being similar to whales on the outside.

And some creatures even have multiple different designs at once! Like those creatures who go through metamorphosis.

I feel odd arguing for this side, but I am mostly just having fun without being too serious. I normally am very serious!
 
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