Bad Theory

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

It can be fairly said that a theory that claims that it explains the origin of all living things but can not provide a mechanism by which such origins can occur is a very bad theory. It is a certainty that many of the pictures that we as children in school can remember to reinforce evolutionary explanation have since been discarded.  Yet, they are still in books and kids are still being taught them, and such images are still etched in our minds. Do you remember those peppered moths? In your school text book you are presented with two photos, taken of a species of moth. One was taken a hundred years after the first one. The first one shows a black peppered moth well disguised against trees that have been blackened during the 19^th century coal-burning industrial revolution in London. You read below the photograph that these black ones are all that are left because the white colored moths have been picked off by predators, being contrasted against the dark, coal-stained surfaces in London. Next page you are shown a similar tree a hundred years later. The use of coal has greatly decreased and whitish lichen now covers the trees of London. Now, according to the photo caption, only white ones can be found in the city. Thus, natural selection is dramatically demonstrated.