A report published on CNN.com on May 7, 2003, has revealed a major
contradiction. (i) Called ‘An Army as Old as the Dinosaurs,’ the
article reported the results of genetic analyses performed on army ants by
the Cornell University entomologist Sean Brady. Based on these conclusions,
CNN.com claimed that army ants, demonstrated to have undergone no change
for 100 million years, had evolved from the same source.
The fact is however that since they have remained the same for
100 million years there is no logic in equating army ants with evolution.
Since the theory of evolution maintains that species turn into other species,
the living things offered as evidence for the theory should actually be shown
to have ‘undergone change.’ How is it possible for creatures known
to have remained unchanged for 100 million years to be included within the framework
of the theory of evolution, itself based on the principle of change? In other
words, can ‘lack of evolution’ be regarded as proof of that same
evolution? That interpretation makes it clear just how powerful Darwinist prejudices
are. CNN.com is blindly convinced that all living things emerged by means of
evolution, and is actually able to insist that evolution constitutes the origin
of a creature in which no change has been observed.
Living things of this kind, present day specimens of which are
identical to specimens which lived as long ago as 100 million years, are known
as ‘living fossils.’ These represent one of the black holes of the
theory of evolution, since they give the lie to the theory, which maintains
that living things can turn into other living things by such natural processes
as mutation and natural selection. Rather than adopting the attitude which is
always to be found on CNN.com, evolutionists sometimes openly admit that living
fossils deal a heavy blow to the theory. In the April edition of Focus magazine,
for instance, the following lines appeared in one article: ‘When one thinks
how many times the (DNA) copying process has taken place over millions of years,
a most interesting picture emerges. According to the theory,
such various pressure factors as changing environmental conditions, enemy species
and competition between species leads to natural selection and the selection
of advantaged species subjected to mutation, and these species (living
fossils) should have undergone many changes over such a long period of time.
BUT THAT IS NOT THE CASE. Let us consider cockroaches as a case in
point. These multiply very quickly, their lives are short, but they have remained
the same for some 250 million years. Archaeobacteria are an even more striking
example. These emerged 3.5 billion years ago, when the earth was still very
hot, and are still living today in the boiling waters in Yellowstone National
Park...’ (our emphasis)
As we have seen, random mutations and natural selection have had
no effect on living fossils. In other words, evolution is a fantasy. Before
studies in support of evolution are published on CNN.com, we recommend that
the site should not neglect to perform a logical analysis of them. It would
thus be able to see that evolution is a theory based not on the scientific facts
but merely on blind faith.
