Let's talk evolution, and no, I don't mean the Harley-Davidson V-Twin Evolution motor. I mean the "we came from a oil slick" kind of evolution.

There has been a lot in the news lately about the school district that tried to include "intelligent design" in their curriculum. Now granted, there is no doubt in my mind, nor apparently in the mind of the court, that this was a thinly disguised attempt to introduce "creationism" into the school. Now, you have to know from my previous post that I would see no problem with that. We have to endure the schools teaching evolution like it was a fact (it is science, yeah, my ass), and it is OK to teach courses like, "Introduction to Islam" and require the Koran as a text, but not Christianity and the Bible (more of that Anti-Christian Lawyers Union crap).

So, lets look at some problems with evolution. Probably everyone knows about Darwin and his theory of Natural Selection. I don't think this really is theory if you look at the basics, much of what he said appears to be true. Yes, species do change over time, no doubt but the application of natural selection to evolution doesn't work. Why not? Because natural selection requires there to be something to SELECT from! There has to be life and there has to be a change so there are two alternatives to choose from.

So, we are told that life arose out of the primordial slime from existing molecules that coalesced together and bingo, life! First, lets look at the bare minimum for life to live (survive). All living creatures require ATP (adenosine triphosphate) for survival. It is the molecule that gives everything energy. Some of you science based people will recognize it and the cycle it comes from, the Krebs Cycle. Cyanide is so deadly because it stops that cycle and you are dead in minutes. Smaller life forms are dead in seconds. Without the Krebs Cycle and without ATP you are dead! This is an EXTREMELY complex biochemical reaction. You have to have it to live. And it just happened by chance?! Please? I am not asking you to believe in God the creator here, just want you to look at the facts. That could never have happened by chance. The probability is so astronomical as to be insane.

Well, we are told, given enough time, it could happen. It is like looking at the blind watchmaker argument (oh wait, lets remember there is no such thing as a watch so how does the watchmaker know how to make a watch in the first place). Put all the parts (lets not forget these had to arise spontaneously on their own, separate from each other, but we have the parts anyway) to a really complex watch in the hands of that blind watchmaker (remember he has actually never made a watch nor seen the parts before) and given enough time he will make a watch. He doesn't even know what a watch is! If the ability isn't there, it doesn't matter how much time you have.

Perhaps you have heard of the second law of thermodynamics? Here is a really succinct explanation of the three laws of thermodynamics:

"The British scientist and author C.P. Snow had an excellent way of remembering the three laws:

1) You cannot win (that is, you cannot get something for nothing, because matter and energy are conserved).
2) You cannot break even (you cannot return to the same energy state, because there is always an increase in disorder; entropy always increases).
3) You cannot get out of the game (because absolute zero is unattainable)."

Basically, the second law says all things move from order to disorder. So for life to form, you have to break the second law. For our planet to form, you had to break the second law. If there really was a big bang, all the atoms produced from that would continue to move away from their origin and the second law says they would not form anything!

OK, so we have our planet forming in spite of the 2nd law, we have life overcoming the extremely unlikely formation of the Krebs cycle spontaneously (2nd law again). Now we have to produce genes. Forget all that. We need a new species. Any species that requires male and female to propagate. The male and female reproductive organs have to arise SPONTANEOUSLY in the same organism at the same time, in a short time span, and the organs have to fit together correctly, and the sperm and egg have to work together and it has to occur in ONE generation for it all to work. If it doesn't occur in one generation by two separate evolutionary, spontaneous genetic mutations, it won't work. The species will not survive, there can be no offspring. And folks, mutations are deadly. The vast majority of genetic mutations lead to death and those that don't give us conditions like Downs Syndrome.

You just have to look at the probability of any of that happening to wonder how it could have happened. It is like saying that given enough time and enough monkeys typing randomly on typewriters, that eventually they will create a book (heck, even one coherent sentence would be nice). There is not enough time for that to happen. Even the mathematicians would tell you the probability is past the limit of likelihood, way past.

There are so many other improbabilities to evolution that I really don't have the space to cover them here. So whether you believe in God, Allah, "divine intervention" or whatever, to believe in evolution as a spontaneous fact requires such a leap of faith that I admire you for that faith. But I would have to say it is ill-placed.