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Was Darwin right or wrong about evolution?

I have read many times about Darwin formulating his hypothesis from observing the variety within finches on an island. However these ideas were already in his mind from work done by his father and grandfather. Darwin was looking for what he expected to see!

Darwin believed that through a process of incremental changes over thousands of years an animal species will change into a completely different species. No one disputes changes within a species. The variety of dogs in existence show how selective breeding can produce a different looking dog. So what could be seen in the finch population that would demonstrate the idea of evolution?

What Darwin saw was simply the finches responding to the environment (a period of drought) and those finches with certain characteristics (big beaks) surviving better than the finches with smaller beaks. If the environment changed then other characteristics could become dominant allowing those finches to survive better. Of course certain characteristics could be lost to the finch population as a result of environmental changes. An example could be a prolonged drought resulting in all the small beaked finches dying out thus losing the small beak DNA from the finch population.

If Darwin formulated any of his theories based on the variety of the colours of the finches and shapes of beaks then he did not understand basic genetics!

This period of drought could have killed off all the finches but there is no way that new DNA could have materialised from nowhere so that a finch suddenly becomes another species!

Who designed the DNA?

Darwin knew nothing about DNA. He knew nothing about the inside of a cell. If had this knowledge then he would never have been able to formulate his hypothesis. It really is as simple as that.

A single fertilised human cell will multiply rapidly and a perfectly formed baby is eventually born. From one fertilised cell! The programming within the DNA in each cell dictates the structure and purpose and function of that cell. Each cell in a foetus seems to know its purpose and migrates to the correct place in the body to form the appropriate organ within the body. Where did the knowledge of how do do this come from? It is a bit like a traffic system with all the individual vehicles listening to someone on the radio who tells them exactly where to go and park!

The Genes

Every human cell is made up of three billion base pairs that make up the 100,000 genes that form the 23 paired chromosomes within the nucleaus of every cell!

All living creatures are made up of billions of these cells, all obeying the instructions within them as to their purpose, and all knowing, somehow, their position within the body as a whole.
It raises the question "A cell replicates exact copies of itself. Yet cells have different functions. How does each cell know what it is going to do within the developing foetus?'
It is a bit like the bricks for a house all going to their allotted place in the walls without having any builders present!

So we have a situation where there is a massive amount of information within the DNA in each cell. This information is used to specify the purpose and function of each cell. This huge library of data is not there by chance!
Even if one could rationally accept that the whole design of a cell with the DNA etc was the result of random chance, then it impossible to see how each cell also knows its purpose in the body in which it is placed.

There are obviously control mechanisms so that all the cells don't turn into liver cells! The same control mechanisms make sure that enough cells do turn into liver cells.

If these control mechanisms are external to the liver cells then we have to accept that another level of design exists somewhere so that this control mechanism manages the growth of each creature OR that the DNA in each cell holds the whole design of living being it is part of.

And again a mechanism must exist to regulate what each cell becomes. In this case the cells would be able to communicate with each other and pass instructions to each other.

The Evolutionist has to explain how the cells and their DNA came to exist purely by chance because they have decided in advance that their theories will not allow for any hint of design to be present. Why? because that would infer the existence of a designer!

There is design to be seen all over the place!