ORIGIN SCIENCE ASSOCIATION

The Dogma of Deceit

Part Two

Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into

his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being."

Genesis 2:7

"...natural selection is incompetent to account for the incipient stages

of useful structures..."

Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species,

6th Ed.

Baptiste de Lamarck that Darwin owes the greater part of

thanks. Lamarck, botanist and zoologist at the Jardin des Plantes, a famous

natural history museum in Paris, was the first naturalist of his day to

abandon the biblical concept of fixed species.

Lamarck's theory was the

first complete conceptualization of evolution, but it is because of his

doctrine of acquired characteristics that he is remembered today. This

doctrine suggests that if your parents had exercised habitually you would

inherit large muscles, or that moles lost their eyes because they did not

need them in their dark tunnels.

That is it is the desire for the use or

disuse of bodily parts by man or animal which brings about modifications to

these parts. It is to his credit that Darwin initially rejected Lamarckism,

but by the sixth edition of his book he used it to circumvent the lack of

evidence and grave theoretical complications which plagued the theory of

evolution.

And yet, if Darwin's book had not become so immediately popular it

is doubtful that we would remember him as a geneticist. Like so many of his

contemporaries he believed in a Lamarckian like concept of a blending

inheritance because the theory of evolution by natural selection depended so

much upon the inheritance of characteristics.

Darwin's search for proof to bolster The Origin of Species was in his

theory of Pangenesis. According to this theory each part of the body

produced pangenes (gemmules) which were found in the blood and distributed

about the body by the blood. Reproductive cells then carried these traits

(from various parts of the parent's body) to the offspring; thus the child

acquired characteristics of the parent. It is clear that the ideological

search for proof by Darwin had little to do with the scientific method and

that he was more a philosopher on the nature of origins than a scientist

seeking out the truth.

The elevation of natural selection to the god of nature by Darwin was a

natural result of an atheistic bias against a Creator. The history of this

bias and the development of a purely naturalistic interpretation of God's

creative powers pre-dates the publication of The Origin of Species by

thousands of years. Man has from the fall searched for a way around

allegiance to the creator for if there were no God, if the world and all of

nature arose by chance, if all of life and breath were derived from the

formula: "Chemistry + Time + Energy + Chance + Natural Selection = Man," then

there is no God. It is in the search for an excuse not to believe that the

barren theory of Evolution was developed.