Chapter 22. Evolutionists' Confessions Regarding the Invalidity of the Claims of Homology

Efforts to provide proof of the theory of evolution have included the interpretation of similarities among living things as evidence of some common ancestor. On the basis of this mythical tale of the horse that evolutionists have invented, all similarities between life forms have been interpreted as evidence of an evolutionary relationship.

Of course similarities between living things are not evidence for evolution. In order to be able to make such a claim, evolutionists need to be able to explain how that evolution came about, and to provide evidence for it. It will be useful to recall here that not a single intermediate form that might represent evidence for the claim in question has ever been found, and that evolutionists are unable to account for the emergence of even a single protein.

Moreover, scientific discoveries made over the last 20 to 30 years show that resemblances between life forms constitute no evidence for the theory of evolution:

  • 1- There are homologous (similar-looking) organs even between classes between which evolutionists cannot trace any familial relationship,
  • 2- The genetic information in bodies of different life forms with similar organs is based on very different genetic codes, and
  • 3- These organs are very different from one another during the course of embryological development. This shows that homology provides no basis for evolution.

These similar structures in very different life forms, among which no evolutionary links can be established, represent a serious problem for evolutionists. Indeed, they frequently refer to the discomfort this causes them:

Frank Salisbury is Professor and Head of the Department of Plant Science at Utah State University:

Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's bad enough accounting for the origin of such things once, but the thought of producing them several times according to the modern synthetic theory makes my head swim.403

William Fix, an evolutionist biologist:

The older textbooks on evolution make much of the idea of homology, pointing out the obvious resemblances between the skeletons of the limbs of different animals. Thus the "pentadactyl" [five-fingered] limb pattern is found in the arm of a man, the wing of a bird, and flipper of a whale, and this is held to indicate their common origin. Now, if these various structures were transmitted by the same gene couples, varied from time to time by mutations and acted upon by environmental selection, the theory would make good sense. Unfortunately this is not the case. Homologous organs are now known to be produced by totally different gene complexes in the different species. The concept of homology in terms of similar genes handed on from a common ancestor has broken down.404

Dr. Christian Schwabe Schwabe is professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Medical University of South Carolina:

Molecular evolution is about to be accepted as a method superior to paleontology for the discovery of evolutionary relationships. As a molecular evolutionist, I should be elated. Instead, it seems disconcerting that many exceptions exist to the orderly progression of species as determined by molecular homologies: so many in fact that I think the exception, the quirks, may carry the more important message.405

Footnotes

403- Frank Salisbury, "Doubts About the Modern Synthetic Theory of Evolution," American Biology Teacher, September 1971, p. 338.

404- William Fix, The Bone Peddlers: Selling Evolution, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1984, p. 189.

405- Christian Schwabe, "On the Validity of Molecular Evolution," Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Vol. 11, July 1986, p. 280.

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  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Charles Darwin's Confessions Regarding His Theory
  • Chapter 2. Evolutionists' Confessions Regarding Darwin
  • Chapter 3. Evolutionists' Confessions Regarding the Invalidity of the Theory of Evolution
  • Chapter 4. Evolutionists' Confessions Stating that They Espouse the Theory of Evolution for Ideological Reasons
  • Chapter 5. Evolutionists' Confessions Stating that Natural Selection has No Evolutionary Power
  • Chapter 6. Evolutionists' Confessions Stating that Mutations Have No Evolutionary Power
  • Chapter 7. Evolutionists' Confessions Regarding the Dead-End of Molecular Evolution
  • Chapter 8. Evolutionists' Confessions Regarding the Sudden Emergence of Life
  • Chapter 9. Evolutionists' Confessions Regarding the Lack of Intermediate-Form Fossils
  • Chapter 10. Evolutionists' Confessions Stating that There Is No Evidence of a Transition from Invertebrates to Vertebrates
  • Chapter 11. Evolutionists' Confessions of the Impossibility of a Transition from Water to Dry Land
  • Chapter 12. Evolutionists' Confessions of the Impossibility of Reptiles Evolving into Birds
  • Chapter 13. Evolutionists' Confessions Stating That the Theory of Evolution Cannot Account for the Origin of Mammals
  • Chapter 14. Evolutionists' Confessions Regarding the Invalidity of the "Horse Series"
  • Chapter 15. Evolutionists' Confessions Regarding the So-Called Forebears of Man
  • Chapter 16. Evolutionists' Confessions Stating that the Human Soul cannot Be Explained in Terms of Evolution
  • Chapter 17. Evolutionists' Confessions Stating that Complex Organs cannot Appear by Way of Evolution
  • Chapter 18. Evolutionists' Confessions Stating that the Theory of Evolution cannot Explain Animal Instincts
  • Chapter 19. Evolutionists' Confessions Stating that Plants Cannot have Arisen by Way of Evolution
  • Chapter 20. Evolutionists' Confessions Regarding Variations
  • Chapter 21. Evolutionists' Confessions Stating the Non-existence of Vestigial Organs
  • Chapter 22. Evolutionists' Confessions Regarding the Invalidity of the Claims of Homology
  • Chapter 23. Evolutionists' Confessions Stating that the Evolution Theory Violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics
  • Chapter 24. Evolutionists' Confessions Regarding the Invalidity of the Theory of Recapitulation
  • Chapter 25. Evolutionists' Confessions Stating that Life Can Only Have Been Created
  • Chapter 26. Materialists' Confessions Stating that the Universe Has a Beginning
  • Chapter 27. Evolutionists' Confessions Stating that the Order in the Universe Cannot Have Come about by Chance
  • Chapter 28. Evolutionists' Confessions Regarding Darwinism's Negative Effect on Moral Values
  • Conclusion