Re: Hitchen's Blind Salamander
by
veradicere
07/22/2008, 2:33 PM
I agree that his eureka moment proves nothing. But I don't see how you can look at one salamander and suppose that we are somehow "de-evolving." The obvious reason that a salamander in a cave would have vestiges of eyes etc. is because that he no longer NEEDS eyes in a cave; the only reason he had them in the first place is because he used to live outside (where there is light) millions and millions of years ago. Organisms adjust to their environments, very very slowly, over millions of years. IF you put that same salamander outside, his species would eventually develop eyes again, very slowly, over time. This is what scientists have termed "evolution."
Why people think evolution and creationism are incompatible is beyond me. Couldn't have God created creatures that have the special ability to evolve with their environments? Wouldn't that make perfect sense? Doesn't that just add to the spectacular nature of life? Why all the controversy? Science is about understanding God's universe, not debunking it.