Iam constantly amazed at the proliferation on "Just-So" stories being foiseted off on the gullible public. I just watched a show on the Discovery Channel called "Evolve" that made me want to laugh out loud. The smoke, mirrors and outright contradictions being sold to the viewers was all quite professional; production quality was high end, experts were quoted, explanations all quite logical on the surface. If one listens uncritically it is all very believable and entertaining. On the other hand, if one lisens carefully, the inconsistencies are glaring.
They brought out one expert to discuss the transition from water to land animals. He pointed out that if evolution were correct, there ought to be a transitional form, then he brought out a fossil to demonstrate how that was exactly what we have.
Um... If evolution is correct there ought to me thousands of transitional forms, not a transitional form. This is still a massive unsolved dilemna evos face. And the big selling point of the supposed transitional form he brought out was the fact that it had a neck!
A neck.
Really? So we're supposed to believe that some lucky fish just happened to suffer the right genetic mutation to spontaneously produce a fully functional neck? That's your proof of evolution?! C'mon, I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but even I know that's just stupid.
What's that? Evolution depends on massive periods of time to slowly produce such changes? Oh, I get it. Sorry, I almost lost it there. But since that's the case I suppose the fossil record will reveal the tens of thousands of transitional forms that produced this necky fish animal. What's that? We don't have them? Um... again, isn't that a bit of a problem?
YES!
The other really amazing blunder I saw that caught me off guard was the expert on giraffes who pointed out that their necks were so long because they used their heads to fight. Never mind that plenty of other short necked animals use their reads exactly the same way, what floored me was his off-hand revelation that this is also why their horns are blunted. Sharp horns, you see, combined with long necks would inflict lethal wounds during male-dominance combat. "Evolution," he said, "does not kill. Only people do that."
Wow.
I'm not sure, but I'd bet that sounded stupid even to his evolutionist colleagues. Evolution doesn't kill. HA Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!! I think he was like a professor at the Carnegie Institute or something. Seriously, I think he was trying to point out that natural selection favors species who don't kill their own in large numbers, or something like that; evolution doesn't like intra-species warfare. Even that is debatable, but what he actually said looking into the camera was one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
What makes me worry though is that he sold it well. He stood in the middle of the African savannah, looked right into the camera and after his cedentials as an expert were established he said it like it was the gospel truth. He ought to be arrested for that kind of intellectual irresponsibility, but I'm sure he'll get away with it and thousands of people will see the show and tell their friends that giraffes have blunt horns because evolution doesn't favor killers (except people, of course.)
I love good science, but THAT is not good science. Lord, save us from 'experts' like that.
