Evolutionists teach that the similarity of organs in different species prove that they came from the same source.  Our five fingers on a hand correspond to the five extensions on the bats wing. And the five claws on many animals prove that we all are related.

In Origin of Species, page 404 Darwin wrote, “Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, (arms, legs, etc.) by utility or by the doctrine of final causes.  The hopelessness of the attempt has been expressly admitted by Owen in his most interesting work on the

‘Nature of Limbs.’  On the ordinary view of the independent creation of each being, we can only say that so it is; — that it has pleased the Creator to construct all the animals and plants in each great class on a uniform plan, but this is not a scientific explanation.”

Yet Darwin did not hesitate to reverse himself completely when his theory demanded it.  “… the eyes of cephalopods or cuttle-fish and of vertebrate animals appear wonderfully alike; and in such widely sundered groups NO PART OF THIS RESEMBLANCE CAN BE DUE TO  INHERITANCE FROM A COMMON PROGENITOR.” (Origins, p 176. emphasis mine.)

Lest you think I have taken a single quotation out of context, in  the same place he says, “As two men have sometimes independently hit on the same invention, so in the several foregoing cases it appears that natural selection, working for the good of each being, and taking advantage of all favourable variations has produced similar  organs, as far as function is concerned, in distinct organic beings,  which owe NONE OF THEIR STRUCTURE in common to inheritance from a common progenitor. (op. cit. page 177.  Emphasis mine.)

Note the incredible contradictions here.  Darwin easily hurdles the  seeming impossibility of the eye evolving by chance, even one time.   Though “insuperable to our imagination” and “absurd in the highest  degree” to quote the master himself, “it is indispensable that the  reason should conquer the imagination.” (Origin, pp168ff).

Stereo vision exists, so it must have happened by accident.  So, a pimple on the skin of a star-fish evolves into an eye!  Wow!  That eye becomes TWO eyes, coordinated for stereo vision!  My! My!  And then, to show how easy it was, Mother Nature does the same trick several more times, even evolving eyes without lenses for flies and other insects.

And while it is a flat contradiction of his argument that similarity of organs shows relationship, it does or doesn’t only as Darwin says so.  And that, ladies and gentlemen, is science!

Bill Carrell