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Wherever we look we can find evidence of design: the marvel of life, the great variety of life forms, and the miracle of flight in birds and insects. Even feathers have design features that could not possibly have evolved gradually. The list of biological wonders in the organism and cell organelle world that point to a Creator is endless, but for the purpose of this discussion we will only look at a few examples.
Coevolution or design?
If we look at the marvelous relationships that exist in nature between animals and plants, it is hard to envision how such harmony could have come about by strategies and counterstrategies of coevolution. Numerous plants can only be pollinated by specifically adapted insects that in turn are nurtured by the plants themselves. Evolutionists explain these relationships by suggesting that the two coevolved. However, what if the fortuitous mutations were out of synchronization? Then the species would not survive. Moreover, considering the millions of such relationships that exist in the world, the likelihood of them having come about by chance is extremely remote.
It seems logical to assume that such a finely balanced system is the result of a superb design. One reason we can assume this is that only certain animals are adapted to certain specific compounds. They choose the plants with those compounds as their food source, thus ensuring even distribution over the wide varieties of food sources. For example, koalas are attracted to eucalyptus oils, which other species avoid.
Conclusion
The beautiful and astounding complexities of nature point to a loving Creator God, not to a multi-million year evolution. However, organisms do have the capacity to adapt. The next article, Evidence for Transformation, explains the transformation of nature from perfect to hostile that occurred when sin and death entered the world.
The greatest evidence for design lies in genomes, which are strings of genetic material that exist in each cell of an organism. Scientists say that mutations in genomes are the nurturing ground for providing new and exciting genetic material, but only the opposite has been shown to be true in actual observations and experiments.
Some 3000 mutations have been identified in the fruit fly Drosophila alone, and all of them are either harmful or have no effect.i
None of the mutations produced more successful fruit flies. The most important nurturing ground for evolution thus seems hopelessly inadequate, or rather counterproductive, to the evolutionary process.
In addition, we need to remind ourselves that natural selection cannot create anything. It can only select from what is already there, and only if it is expressed in the phenotype. The entiregenome thus exudes design.
DNA is not alive. It is a dead molecule and needs the machinery of the living cell to make copies of itself. The information for that cell is, however, in thegenome, and the DNAis simply the carrier of the information. In order to read the information, there must be equipment to unravel it and translate it, and the information for that equipment is in the DNA itself. No matter how we look at it, design is the only solution.
Read about the cell and how it speaks of a Designer
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i. D. L. Lindsay and E. H. Grell, “Genetic Variations of Drosophila melanogaster” in Publication 627, (Carnegie Institution of Washington: 1967).
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