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DARWINISM A CRUMBLING THEORY DARWINISM CRUMBLING THEORY An overlooked explanation for why the fossil record shows primitive and complex life appearing suddenly on Earth, with no predecessors, is extraterrestrial intervention. Part 1 of 2 ince writing my first essay for NEXUS in mid-2002 [see 9/04], I've been bombard- ed by emails (nearing 200) from around the world, many offering congratulations (always appreciated, of course) and many others requesting more instruction or deeper insight into areas discussed and/or not discussed. Let's face it: nearly everyone is interested in Darwinism, Creationism, Intelligent Design, and the new kid in town, Interventionism. Because of length constraints, this essay must be in two parts. Here, in Part One, I'll go over the basics currently known about the origin of life on Earth. Later, in Part Two, I'll discuss what is known and what can be safely surmised about the origin of humanity. We begin by understanding that Charles Darwin stood on a very slippery slope when try- ing to explain how something as biologically and biochemically complex as even the sim- plest form of life could have spontaneously generated itself from organic molecules and compounds loose in the early Earth's environment. Because that part of Darwin's theory has always been glaringly specious, modern Darwinists get hammered about it from all sides, including from the likes of me, with a net result that the edifice of "authority" they've hidden behind for 140 years is crumbling under the assault. Imagine a mediaeval castle being pounded by huge stones flung by primitive, but cumu- latively effective, catapults. Darwinism (and all that term has come to represent: natural selection, evolution, survival of the fittest, punctuated equilibrium, etc.) is the castle; Darwinists man the battlements as the lobbed stones do their work; Intelligent Designers hurl the boulders doing the most damage; Creationists, by comparison, use slings; and the relatively few (thus far) people like me, Interventionists, shoot a well-aimed arrow now and then, though nobody pays much attention to us...yet. Remember, a well-aimed (or lucky—in either case, the example is instructive) arrow took down mighty Achilles. Darwinists have heels, too. LIFE, OR SOMETHING LIKE IT In Charles Darwin's time, nothing was known about life at the cellular level. Protoplasm was the smallest unit they understood. Yet Darwin's theory of natural selection stated that all of life—every living entity known then or to be discovered in the future—simply had to function from birth to death by "natural laws" that could be defined and analysed. This would of course include the origin of life. Darwin suggested life might have gradually assembled itself from stray parts lying about in some "warm pond" when the planet had cooled enough to make such an assemblage possible. Later it was realised that nothing would likely have taken shape (gradually or otherwise) in a static environment, so a cat- alytic element was added: lightning. Throughout history up to the present moment, scientists have been forced to spend their working lives with the "God" of the Creationists hovering over every move they make, every mistake, every error in judgment, every personal peccadillo. So when faced with something they can't explain in rational terms, the only alternative option is "God did it", which for them is unacceptable. So they're forced by relentless Creationist pressure to come up with answers for absolutely everything that, no matter how absurd, are "natural". That was their motivation for the theory that a lightning bolt could strike countless random molecules in a warm pond and somehow transform them into the first living creature. The "natural" forces of biology, chemistry and electromagnetism could magically be swirled together—and voild!...an event suspiciously close to a miracle. by Lloyd Pye © 2002 Email: lloydpye@cox.net Website: http:/www.lloydpye.com NEXUS = 49 by Lloyd Pye © 2002 Email: lloydpye@cox.net DECEMBER 2002 — JANUARY 2003 www.nexusmagazine.com