Is there Design in the Universe or is it all Random Chance?
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Irreducible mechanisms
Darwin said that the presence of irreducible mechanisms would prove that his ideas of evolution were wrong. Why? Because evolution requires multiple components of a mechanism to evolve at the same time in the same animal population.
The attributes that 'evolve' in animals in particular are very complex. It is very easy for an evolutionist to say that some animal feature develops very slowly over thousands of generations. But look at what it involves!
First the intended feature has to do something! There are no examples of features developing to do nothing or to do something totally useless. In fact it is not easy to think of an example of something useless that could evolve!
But imagine an animal who evolved over many, many generations appendages that were the equivalents of tennis rackets! Don't question this example! Is it any different to evolving vision or hearing in an animal species which did not have any concept of sight or sound before these items appeared?
Somehow the tennis racket appendages would slowly appear. Of course they are useless and get in the way. But somehow, a bit like magic really, tendons and muscles etc will form in these appendages, and more amazingly, nerves will carry signals from these messages to and from the brain. Quite lucky really that the brain can interpret these signals and over generations the animals learn to wave their rackets around in a controlled manner.
So now they can play tennis. The end result is fantastic. Even though the animals didn't know what tennis was, nor did they have any concept of a tennis ball, they have evolved the rackets with the muscles and tendons, integrated them into their nervous system, coordinated all movements with their vision, and developed the brain activities to wave the rackets around in order to hit the ball.
Wimbledon here we come!
Remember, evolutionists cannot prove that their theories are true. They are looking back over a very long period of time and assuming certain events happened in an assumed order. Evolutionists are no more able to prove their theories that Christians can prove that their God exists. The one difference of course is that Christians have had a personal experience of God, so they know Christianity is real but they cannot prove it to other people!