![]() When Charles Darwin examined a star-shaped Madagascar orchid, with its 11-inch nectar tube, he predicted that a moth would be found with an 11-inch proboscis that could reach the nectar. He stated this in his 1862 publication On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilized. In 1903, 21 years after Darwin’s death, the Morgan’s sphinx moth was discovered, and in 2004, Philip DeVries used an infra-red camera to film the moth’s nocturnal pollination of the orchid with its amazing proboscis. See video below. In 1867, Alfred Russel Wallace came up with the “theory” of co-evolution to explain the existence of symbiotic relationships such as flowers and their pollinating insects. This remains the myth that is promoted in museums and science textbooks today, as if any naturalistic method could possibly explain the origin of such amazing living things and such wonderful symbiotic relationships! Both the flower and the insect are fantastically complex. They shout divine creation at every level of their existence, from their living cells and DNA to processes such as photosynthesis and metamorphosis to the ability to see and hear and fly and reproduce. A vast amount of perfect genetic information is involved in producing an orchid and a moth that operate in such perfect harmony. What Darwinian process accounts for such a thing? “Natural selection” can act only within the parameters of existing genetic information, and mutations are known to be overwhelmingly negative and destructive. For all its huffing and puffing, Darwinian evolution has never proposed a “natural” creative mechanism supported by scientific evidence than can explain life. Evolutionary accounts of how life came into existence or how any creature originated are fictional “just-so” stories. They only thing they prove is that evolutionists have big imaginations. Further, if the flower and the pollinating insect did “evolve,” they had to have evolved at the same time--like in the same week or month--because they are dependent on one another for their very existence. Darwin was right about the moth’s existence and dead wrong about the process by which the moth came into existence. (Friday Church News Notes, May 16, 2014, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143)
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