Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court

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But evolution is just change. An organism suddenly mutates in a small way; maybe it's beneficial, maybe it's harmful, maybe it's benign. Maybe a small burrowing rodent is born with a defect: non-functioning eyes. Since it lives by burrowing into the ground, it doesn't need its eyes that much in order to survive and propagate, and may even derive a small benefit from them. Thus, succeeding generations from that rat will also have a tendency to be born with non-functioning eyes until the organ withers away. That's still evolution, even though it prunes away unneeded appendages and reduces the complexity of the organism.

That's how I see it now. When I was a believer, we thought that evolutionary theory tried to impose some kind of order. For example, that a species that lived near water would develop a swimming apparatus because it was near water. That made it easy to mock the theory, but I think that we were working backwards, thinking about how evolution "works" as opposed to how evolution happens.

Someone in a topic here or elsewhere had pointed to the fact that humans are the only animals who are self-aware or who developed a higher intellect as a sign of a creator. But it's possible that throughout the history of the planet, other creatures were developing those same traits, but they died off before they could pass them along in a state that could be further developed into what humans have now. Maybe being able to express language wasn't as useful as razor-sharp talons. Maybe it was, but Thagg stumbled into a tar pit on his way to help the other cro-magnon men learn math. We'll never know...