Ample evidence shows that adaptations can lead to natural selection. An adaptation must appear before natural selection can act on it. A shortcoming of natural selection is it cannot plan ahead – an advantage one day may be a disadvantage the next. This can lead to the extinction of a population.
Adaptations are not all that they are made out to be. As already discussed, most adaptations are negative. Those that are positive are rare, and have to and can only occur before that life form attains all it’s body parts. That is soon after fertilization of the egg. The struggle for survival is not between cheetah and antelope, but within the antelope population. Often it is a matter of luck which antelope survives the surge of the cheetah, but the antelope will never sprout wings or evolve into a winged cheetah. Natural selection can only “purify” the gene pool, and never add new genetic information to the gene pool.
The cases of fruit fly and influenza mutations are often used as examples of evolution. But these mutations cannot explain the increase or origin of information in the genetic pool. Too many mutations in for example influenza virus can and has lead to extinction.
The peppered moth
The peppered moth is a popular example still used today in textbooks.
The proportion of moths of different colour was shown to change as pollution changed the environment. As industrialization increased so the light coloured moths decreased, and the dark coloured moths increased because they were better camouflaged from predators on tree trunks. This it is said, is proof of evolution.
However, the light coloured moths would again become more numerous with a clean air policy. The moth would remain a moth. Interestingly, the peppered moth was one of evolution’s principal examples, but it turned out to be fraudulent. The light and dark moths had been glued to the light and dark tree trunks before the photos were taken. Moreover, these moths do not settle on tree trunks.
Defenders of the peppered moth scenario claim that, yes, the moths were glued to the tree, but glued for visual demonstration only. No so. Once the photo appeared in text books, it was presented a proof for evolution in stead of showing that a moth will always be a moth.
Sickle-cell anaemia
This is a blood disorder where the red blood cells are shaped like a sickle or a crescent. When it was discovered that people with this condition did not get severe malaria symptoms, evolutionists claimed that this was a beneficial mutation.
This form of anaemia is inherited from parents and is a serious medical condition. There is no cure and till now only the symptoms can be managed. These people suffer from numerous fatal circulatory disorders. This is akin to saying haemophilia is a beneficial mutation because haemophiliacs have a low incidence of ischemic heart disease (‘heart attack’). The overall effect of these mutations are not beneficial to the species, and will not lead to a more fit population.
Whale evolution
Darwin suggested that the whale evolved from a bear. Later suggestions were wolf-like creatures to hippos that became more and more aquatic.
All of the narratives explaining this evolutionary process read like ill scripted fairy tales, devoid of any supporting evidence. These fairy tales are believed because they are told by seemingly authoritative personas. Much like mother telling the kiddies about Santa. The obstacles for the process of a bear, or perhaps a cow, perhaps a hippo, perhaps water rat - evolving to a whale to happen includes: blubber formation, temperature regulation, special metabolism, counter-current blood circulation, fluke expansion, and other skeletal changes. The evolutionary movement of nostrils from the front of the animal to the dorsal region would require millions of anatomical, circulatory, chemical and morphology changes SIMULTANEOUSLY before any benefit to the creature would be achieved. There is no evidence of this in the fossil record, and were it possible to achieve all these changes, there are not enough billions of years for the process to happen.
Evolutionists also claim that the pelvic bone of the whale is a vestigial (redundant) leftover from the evolution from the hippo. However this structure is not a vestigial pelvis, it is required for reproduction in the whale, and originated from a different gene than does the pelvis of other mammals.
Horse evolution
The horse series has long been a showcase of evolution, but has become the best argument that can be presented against evolution from the fossil record.
A study of fossil horses reveals at least three groups of animals within the horse family Equidae, in addition to some unrelated animals such as tapirs. Most of these different kinds lived and became part of the fossil record nearly at the same time and, except for size, do not show much progressive change as far as horse evolution is concerned. None of the horses is a direct ancestor of any of the others.
However, evolutionists writing school text books, and palaeontologists setting up museum displays, always arrange the visual display from the smallest horse to the largest. This is incorrect as some of the smaller horses appear later, and some larger horses appear earlier in the fossil record. This kind of fraud would land the perpetrator in any other industry in jail.
South Korea have deleted the misleading horse evolution from their text books, but have unfortunately replaced it with the equally misleading whale evolution. Other text books have replaced the horse with camel, but the deception remains.
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