Most people remember that Charles Darwin supposedly based
his theory of evolution on his findings on the Galapagos Islands (although Icontend that he adopted his grandfather’s ideas from his book Zoonomia). On
these islands Darwin observed the beaks of finches, and what he saw led to his
groundbreaking theory.
He noticed that different finches had different beaks,
varying in size and shape. More specifically, he noted that during times of
drought the finch would grow a larger beak. This beak growth became necessary
for the bird to find food in a drought.
But the foundation upon which Darwin built his theory is
cracked at best. Like the biblical foolish builder, Darwin chose sand as the
base for his theory; the winds have blown and the rains descended, and his
theory has been destroyed.
What textbooks and professors like to ignore is the fact
that after a drought these finches’
beaks will return to their normal size. Like the previously mentioned fruit flies
and peppered moths, this is not one species evolving into another. This is not
evolution.
When a dog grows a winter coat and sheds it in the summer,
no one says, “This dog is evolving!” For when he sheds his coat he is the same
dog he was in autumn. This is known as adaptation, not evolution. And how does
a dog know to grow a winter coat? How does a hungry finch grow a bigger beak?
How does a bird know to fly south for the winter?
Animals have instinctive behavior. Instincts are not
tangible and could not have evolved. If they needed to evolve then the first
animals would have starved to death, froze to death, and so on, and they never
could have reproduced after their kind. If they were born with instincts, then
they are too smart to be accounted for by random chance.
Instincts are a gift from the Creator, and they are one of
the clearest pictures of an Intelligent Designer. Darwin looked at finches’
beaks and chose to glorify the creation rather than the Creator.
The beaks that he drew so much attention to have become the
Rosetta Stone to showing us an Intelligent Designer—the one who created “in the
beginning.”
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