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Space Exploration Disproves Evolution
Does space exploration shed any light on the theory of evolution? Not exactly. It "sheds" more darkness than light.
The
phrase most often used by evolutionists is probably "billions and
billions of years:" "life evolved over billions and billions of years,"
"the solar system developed over billions and billions of years," "the
universe has been expanding for billions and billions of years." It
almost seems as if these accounts of the evolution of our universe are
intended to keep people from questioning unverifiable statements. That
is, how do you go about disproving what allegedly happened so long ago?
It's quite difficult to construct a planet in a laboratory and let it
lie around for billions and billions of years to prove that life will
not create itself. Unless, of course, you have a long lease.
If your lease expires within the next four and a half billion years, the following may be of interest to you:
*
In 1977 two scientists, in search of hot water spewing from the ocean
floors, crammed into a small research submarine named ALVIN and
descended to the bottom of the ocean near the Galapagos Islands.
Finding the first hydrothermal vent, an opening where water heated by
earth's molten interior is released into the ocean, was not nearly as
fascinating as what they discovered by accident -- the vent was
surrounded by animals never seen before. Closest to the vent, in the
midst of water which sometimes exceeds 450 degrees Fahrenheit, were
tube worms, some of which were up to eight feet long.
For any
living creature to thrive this deep in the ocean and in such scalding
water was mind boggling enough. But there was more. Most animals need
sunlight to survive this part of the ocean gets no sunlight whatsoever.
Then,
as if to laugh in the face of what's considered "normal" for biological
life forms, these tube worms had no eyes, mouth, or intestinal tract.
There may not be much to see in the dark, but how did these creatures
eat or digest food?
It took scientists years to figure out how
tube worms receive their nourishment. Without getting too involved with
the details, these tube worms have a symbiotic relationship with
bacteria which grow in profuse quantities near the underwater vent. The
bacteria find their way into the tube worms, literally between their
cells. The tube worms receive nutrition from the bacteria, and the
bacteria in turn receive some vital functions from the tube worm.
If
you think this sounds too bizarre, I don't blame you. Such creatures
really do exist. And you haven't heard the most astonishing aspect of
these creatures.
An additional factor in the area around the
vent makes it an even more hostile environment than described above (if
you can imagine that). The bacteria on which the tube worms depend,
thrive on a chemical called hydrogen sulphide, which is found in the
water coming from the hot vent. To most higher animals, hydrogen
sulphide is as poisonous as cyanide!
We've just described a
world which before its discovery was hard to imagine and certainly
impossible to predict. The hostile environment in which the tube worms
and their life-sustaining bacteria exist is truly "out of this world."
It makes one wonder if biological life forms are limited or restricted
in any way whatsoever to any kind of environment.
* Since 1977,
several more vents have been discovered on the ocean floors. Besides
tube worms, other exotic animals have been found thriving in the
immediate vicinity of the vents -- pink fish, snails, shrimp,
sulphur-yellow mussels, and foot-long clams. Similar animal populations
have since been discovered in waters only a few degrees cooler than
freezing. Scientists have since found quite a few totally new forms of
life and species.
In addition to the adverse conditions under
which these creatures live, life apparently can also survive in a wide
range of temperatures.
* Cacti are known to survive the most
difficult and unusual climates. Their ability to sustain themselves in
areas of little rainfall, hot dry winds, low humidity, strong sunlight,
and extreme fluctuations in temperature is nothing short of phenomenal.
It's almost as if the physical structures of these plants, which help
conserve the little water they receive and shed some of the excess
sunlight, were designed by someone. Some cacti can survive internal
temperatures of near 145 degrees Fahrenheit. Most plants haven't got a
chance where some cacti prosper.
* Lichens, a combination of
fungus and algae, have been found thriving in an area of Antarctica
where temperatures sometimes get colder than 70 degrees below zero
Fahrenheit. As far as hostile environments go, this seems to be the
extreme opposite of deep, dark, hot waters.
* There are insects
in the Antarctic which produce natural "antifreeze" to keep from
freezing at lower temperatures. Another insect in the Antarctic
produces anti-antifreeze. When temperatures get so low that other
insects freeze to death, this natural compound allows this insect to
freeze gradually. When temperatures get warmer, the insect thaws and
lives on.
* Bacteria have been found growing an amazing 25 feet
underground. For life to survive such depths is incredible, to say the
least.
* There are animals and insects which carry venom strong
enough to cause disease and death in other living organisms, yet these
carrying organisms are unaffected by the venom. Mosquitoes spread
yellow fever, malaria, dengue, and encephalitis to animals thousands of
times their size. But no mosquitoes have been known to die of these
diseases. Snakes, too, discharge venom which kill other animals, yet
they themselves are unaffected by the poisons they carry.
*
Earth now has millions of species of plants and animals. The sheer
number of species is overwhelming. The precise number of living
organisms is nothing short of mind boggling. And the diversity of these
creatures -- from such monstrosities as whales right down to
microscopic life forms such as the amoeba -- is probably beyond the
imagination of even Steven Spielberg.
IT IS BELIEVED . . .
In
the course of earth's history, about a half billion animal species have
been in existence. That's a half billion before you even bring plant
life into the picture.
IT IS ALLEGED . . .
The sun,
earth, and the other planets in our solar system, according to
scientists, were formed about four and a half billion years ago. It is
further alleged that the most primitive forms of life already appeared
on earth about three billion years ago. Huge creatures such as
dinosaurs roamed our planet as far back as 200 million years ago. They
ruled for an enormously long period of over 100 million years. Finally,
humans appeared about two to three million years ago. That is,
something as complex as the human brain has allegedly been around for
at least a staggering two million years. An optical instrument as
sophisticated as the eye (of the non-human variety) has been around
even longer.
VERIFICATION
Now, how does one verify how
all these living organisms came into existence? That is, if you can't
build your own planet and cultivate it for billions of years, what's
the next best thing? Finding a planet in outer space which has been
around for as long as earth? No, that's not the next best thing. That's
even better.
Why?
Because the science of planetary
evolution, if you can call it that, is far from an exact science, to
say the least. After many years, scientists still question the
generally accepted view of the composition of earth's atmosphere in
that alleged period of three and a half billion years ago. For a long
time scientists believed that earth's primordial atmosphere contained
little or no oxygen. Then, some studies suggested that earth's
atmosphere may have contained one million times more oxygen than
previously believed, and the ultraviolet rays of the sun may have
pounded earth at levels thousands of times higher than today.
Whether
the new interpretations make any more sense than the old assumptions is
irrelevant. What is relevant here is that laboratory simulations and
scientific deductions of primordial conditions on earth are obviously
based on much guess work and unverifiable assumptions. So why resort to
such vagrant concoctions when a real "living" planet tells the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
LIFE ON MARS
Two
Viking spacecraft landed on Mars as early as the summer of 1976. Viking
1 landed in the Chryse Planitia region and Viking 2 landed in the
Utopia Planitia region. One goal of these missions was to find life or
evidence of life on Mars. The spacecraft spent months analyzing the
Martian soil and atmosphere, with no luck. More recent spacecraft on
Mars produced the same results -- no life on Mars. Not a trace of past
or present life was found. No dinosaurs. No microorganisms. No
carcasses. No bones. No fossils. Absolutely nothing. It's become
obvious to scientists that for evidence of life to be found on Mars,
they'd have to send KFC up there to pluck their chickens.
Of the
planets we've explored to date, Mars seems to resemble earth more
closely than any other planet does. If life were to have existed
anywhere else in our solar system, Mars would probably have been the
place. But no trace of life has been discovered on Mars, or any other
planet, for that matter.
FAVORITISM IN NATURE
Now take
what is known, what is "believed," and what is "alleged," about earth
and compare it to what is known about Mars. What do you get?
Verification of theories? No. You get inexplicable contradictions! We
live on a planet where life proliferates in virtually every nook and
cranny. You'd be hard pressed to find a place on earth where there is
no life whatsoever. And the environment doesn't seem to matter either.
Life on earth thrives under the most adverse conditions.
Yet,
when we look at a planet right next to us in space, what do we find? We
find a barren world with no trace of life ever having existed. How's
that possible?
Are we to believe that this god called evolution,
who has given earth such a sophisticated organ as the human brain as
far back as two million years ago, has to this date not managed to put
forth on Mars so much as a dumb ass? Are we to believe that the same
evolution which has given earth living creatures the size of dinosaurs
200 million years ago has in a staggering four and a half billion years
not given Mars even simple one-celled organisms? Are we to believe that
this glorious evolution which has to this date given earth an
astronomical total of literally millions upon millions of plant and
animal species has in the same period not given Mars even one species
of plant or animal?
Sure the Martian environment is hostile. But
then, here on earth, two miles down at the bottom of the ocean near
vents which spew hot water mixed with hydrogen sulphide in total
darkness is not exactly my idea of a summer vacation spot, either --
it's about as hostile as an environment can get! But life thrives there
in complete defiance of what are normally considered ecological
adversities.
Antarctica is also a hostile environment. So is
25 feet underground. So is the desert. Furthermore, in that alleged
period of three and a half billion years ago, the entire earth,
according to scientists, was hostile. Life on earth allegedly began in
an environment which would be hostile to many of today's life forms.
And many of today's life forms live in conditions which would have been
intolerable to the organisms which allegedly brought life into
existence billions of years ago. But life on earth thrives in spite of
it all.
Life on earth goes even a step further. Some organisms
do not simply thrive in adverse conditions, they actually become immune
to conditions which are designed to kill them. Many bacteria become
resistant to antibiotics as a result of being overexposed to the very
drugs which have killed them in the past. In some cases, bacteria even
transfer this resistance to other bacteria which have not had such
exposure to the drugs.
There is a species of South American bee
which has become immune to DDT. The bees can carry doses hundreds of
times the amount needed to kill other bees without suffering ill
effects. Some mosquitoes are also immune to DDT.
So, you see,
life on earth is as potent as it is diversified. It pushes forward,
overcoming many seemingly insurmountable obstacles, and sometimes in
spite of these obstacles. Looking at the diversity of conditions under
which life on earth thrives, looking at the life forms which have
learned to fight environmental hazards and man-made poisons, it's hard
to imagine life on earth ever being completely wiped out by any kind of
disaster, natural or manmade. But somehow, life on Mars has either been
completely wiped out -- and the telltale traces mysteriously hidden --
or something prevented life from coming into existence. How do you
account for the complete absence of any trace of life on Mars? Does
evolution have favorites? It is totally inconceivable that something as
powerful and as diversified as life has not left its mark on Mars.
Where is all the evidence of an evolutionary process? If not currently
living creatures, at least bones and fossils.
Some find it
difficult to explain. But is it really difficult to explain? Maybe some
people are just looking for the wrong explanations. Maybe they're
looking for preconceived explanations and discounting the facts. The
fact is there is no sign of life or evolution on Mars.
NEW LIFE FORMS
Let's
take this one step further. Who made the life forms on earth the
standard for life? That is, why does life have to have anything to do
with oxygen, carbon dioxide, or even carbon compounds? As accidentally
as life allegedly formed of what was available on earth, life could
have formed of what ever happened to be available elsewhere in space.
After all, we're still having problems grasping the limits to which
biological life can go -- as is acutely demonstrated by tube worms and
other unusual biological life forms -- we're certainly not close to
understanding consciousness and intellect on a scientific level. We may
know that consciousness and intellect "attach" themselves to certain
biological systems, but we haven't the foggiest clue as to how or why
no scientist has yet shown any physical relationship between a
biological system and the psyche. So why isn't there life on the moon?
That's right, the moon's own version of "biological" life. Perhaps
intelligent creatures made up of lunar soil which receive their
nourishment through cosmic rays?
And what about Venus? Sure it's
900 degrees there. But by astronomical standards, when you talk about
stars which burn at temperatures around ten million degrees, Venus
could be the "Siberia" of the Milky Way. Why are there no creatures
there which live in a 900 degree environment and drink sulfuric acid
for nourishment
If some of this sounds a little facetious, it is
not meant to be. Remember, we're not talking about a Supreme
Intelligence with a plan, design, and purpose, which would imply that
life was put precisely where it was meant to be and nowhere else for
reasons we may or may not fully understand. We're talking about a
mindless force of nature which purportedly creates life at random out
of inanimate matter. What made life on earth so "feasible" and life
elsewhere so "impossible?"
A PROBLEM IN LOGIC
To say that
it is "difficult to explain" why life is in such abundance here on
earth yet nonexistent elsewhere in the universe is just another case of
sticking one's head in the ground. Explaining why a cigarette lighter
will not work underwater is only difficult for someone who for some
insane reason remains convinced it will work in spite of all
contradictory evidence. Why it will not work is not difficult to
explain. The difficulty lies in explaining why one continues to believe
it will work. Similarly, why there is no extraterrestrial life is not
difficult to explain. Our space explorations have found the irrefutable
answer: the process we call evolution simply does not work. The
difficulty lies in understanding those who prefer to ignore the facts.
According
to NASA, microorganisms were inadvertently taken to the moon by an
unmanned spacecraft. When the equipment of this spacecraft was brought
back to earth more than two and a half years later by our astronauts,
it was discovered that an earth microbe had survived the lunar
environment, which is harsher than the Martian environment. Obviously,
for life to have thrived on extraterrestrial bodies there was no need
for nature to even resort to biologically "strange" creatures. In spite
of the hostile environments of these spheres, life forms with which we
are familiar could have survived. Yet, these worlds show absolutely no
signs of ever having been inhabited by any forms of life -- normal or
strange. So, where does all this leave evolution? Not on very solid
ground.
A HOSTILE EARTH
Strangely, even earth today,
which is considered a hospitable environment to present life forms,
only gives that appearance superficially. It took a twentieth-century
epidemic -- AIDS -- to make us aware of the true hostile nature of the
very environment modern man thrives in. AIDS is caused by a virus which
attacks the immune system and leaves the body susceptible to a host of
deadly diseases which are caused by other viruses and microbes. AIDS
accentuates the grim reality that earth today is so contaminated with
deadly viruses and bacteria that were it not for a complex and
ingenious immune system, the average human being, and probably a host
of other living organisms, could not survive beyond infancy. Is outer
space really more hostile than this? Hard to imagine. So why hasn't
life in outer space evolved and developed an immune system to ensure
its survival? Hostile environments apparently do not deter life.
Obviously, this process we call evolution is purely the product of
imagination -- it belongs in a Steven Spielberg movie, not in a science
textbook.
by Josh Greenberger This has been an excerpt from his free book on evolution at EvolutionDead.com
Josh Greenberger: As a computer consultant for over two decades, has developed software for NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, AT&T, Charles Schwab, Bell Laboratories and Chase Manhattan Bank. Has appeared, in the form of letters and articles, in The New York Post, New York Daily News, New York Times, Village Voice, Jewish Press, Hamodia and others. http://joshgreenberger.com Articles have ranged from humor to scientific to current events. Wrote a book disproving the theory of evolution (Human Intelligence Gone Ape a.k.a. http://wholettheapesout.com/mainline.php Who Let The Apes Out), available in stores and online. Has written several screenplays. http://innocenttarget.com/di_screenplay.php
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