WHAT IS EVOLUTION?

WHAT IS EVOLUTION?

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September 23, 1996 (Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, Michigan 48061, fbns@wayoflife.org) - The following is by Bolton Davidheiser and is reprinted from The Baptist Challenge, September 1996 --

In his textbook, Modern Biological Principles (1971), A.M. Winchester says:

"Evolution is something which is continuing and must continue or extinction of life will result ... Evolution is a necessary part of living. Let us illustrate by example how evolution takes place..." (p. 63).

The gist of his example is as follows. The number of bullfrogs remains about the same, although a female produces around 75,000 eggs in a lifetime. This means that only about two of 75,000 reach maturity. Those which reach maturity tend to be the ones fittest in escaping predators, most alert in finding food, and most resistant to diseases. This is "survival of the fittest." Therefore it is evolution, and the same principle applies to other creatures, including human beings.

According to this definition of evolution, everyone is an evolutionist in spite of himself. There are two fallacies here. (1) For the most part, this is not a matter of survival of the fittest. Many eggs are eaten and many pollywogs are devoured before they have an opportunity to profit from any superior traits that may be latent in them. (2) This is not evolution even among those which do survive. They still are bullfrogs and they are not becoming anything else.

This unethical brainwashing technique is being widely used upon the public and our young people today.