Lesson No. 5b - Flaws in the Darwinian Evolution Theory

Darwinian Evolution: n, a theory that explains current day biological / cosmic variation as a product of unguided, random happenings that is leading toward both speciation of the living and their concurrent genetic improvement.

Below are some snippets of erroneous examples for Darwinian Evolution that I ran across while in college. Once I understood their argument, I was dumbfounded by the blatant, gross academic leaps that are required to accept them as valid theory.

During this time of enlightenment, I also decided to visit some local Jr. High and High School science classrooms; I was afforded the opportunity to peruse current texts. I was again taken aback when I found these same examples littering secondary school text books.

Again, these are just a few examples that are currently used by Darwinians in an attempt to capture the minds of young budding (pardon the ‘yeast’ reference!) scientists. The problem with them is that following in-depth discussion, they do not come close to ‘holding water’ yet they continue to appear in text books at all levels of education.


Inaccurate examples classically used in high school and college textbooks to support DE.

1. Peppered Moth – discovered to be erroneous and flawed, published in Nature, 1998.

2. Beak Variation in Galapagos Finches – this is at best a microevolution issue and therefore does not support DE’s theory of speciation.

3. Resistance in Bacteria to Antibiotics in Humans – this is a microevolution issue. Bacteria that posses resistance to 1 antibiotic are not killed while all the others that are susceptible do die. The ‘bug’ population then micro evolves to a resistant population.

4. Viruses – the reason that you have to get a yearly flu vaccine is that the virus or virus population micro-evolves. In this way, viruses typically start to express the variation found in their RNA (or DNA). The viruses remain however a virus containing both H and N protein (these are how flu viruses are identified as different).

5. Mitochondria – mitochondria provide the ‘energy currency’ for human cells to function & are hypothesized to have been originally independent cells that were engulfed by a larger cell. The theory says that the current day mitochondria then lost all of its ancillary abilities, focusing solely on producing energy. One major problem with this theory is that DNA / functionality did not increase; it decreased as the engulfed cell lost all of its previous abilities. The ‘energy currency’ is similar to that of gasoline used to power an automobile. This theory has never, to my knowledge, been displayed in a lab (this of all DE theories ought to be recreated in the lab) and in my opinion is not likely to have happened. There are too many biochemical anomalies that would not favor such an event. Also the DE theory requires gained DNA; here it is only lost.



If any of these topics, or another, interests you, please speak up and we will have a more in depth discussion about the intricacies involved. You can also search your local library for publications concerning these issues or you can look through the 'Recommended Reading' list here, on the right side of this blog