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Comical Contentions on the Ear by Evolutionists
Humans are proficient masters of self-deception. Many tend to believe
what they want to believe, and see what they want to see. Especially
when it comes to our own actions, we generally believe and defend those
ideas that enable us to behave the way we choose. “I desire to engage in
same-sex relations—so homosexuality is genetic;” “I don’t want a
child—so a ‘fetus’ is not a human and abortion is okay;” “I want another
woman—so God will accept my divorce.”
The essential contention of evolution is that the God of the Bible does
not exist and, therefore, the Universe and all life forms came about
gradually by blind, non-intelligent, non-purposive, mechanistic forces
over millions and billions of years. Hence, all value—including moral
value—is merely and strictly the product of subjective human
inclination. Right and wrong are purely relative. Such thinking is
attractive and convenient to some, since it allows man to think and act
as he pleases, without any interference from a higher Power.
Yet, with all their intellectual prowess, academic attainment, and
sophisticated scientific jargon, the evolutionists frequently express
themselves in such a way that the honest person of average intelligence
can see the foolishness of their theory. Indeed, the theory of evolution
is downright laughable. Take, for instance, the explanation advanced
for the evolution of the human ear. Renowned evolutionist Richard
Dawkins is typical of the comical contention of evolutionists that the
human ear evolved over millions of years by means of the chance,
mindless, naturalistic forces of evolution: “If you think about the
evolution of a really complex adaptation like an eye or an ear, then precisely because it cannot have come about as a single chance step it had to have come about as a gradual improvement”
(see Brown, 2004, emp. added). It could not have just happened on its
own—“a single chance step.” So with what options are we left? An
all-powerful, transcendent God? Absolutely not—not even an option! So it
just had to have come about gradually by multiple chance steps. A
single chance step? Impossible. But multiple chance steps? Certainly!
Rational, or comical gobbledygook?
Consider the claim by two evolutionists at Uppsala University in
Sweden: “The structure that became the sound-conducting middle ear of
land animals began as a tube that permitted ancient shallow-water fish
to take an occasional breath of air out of the top of their heads”
(Brown, 2006). Sounds reasonable—the nose became the ear. Why not? Given
enough time, maybe your nose will do the same.
Then we have an article, appearing in a Turkish newspaper, by
evolutionist Veysel Atayman claiming that “[o]ur hearing organ, the ear,
emerged as a result of the evolution of the endoderm and exoderm
layers, which we call the skin. One proof of this is that we feel low sounds in the skin of our stomachs” (1999, emp. added). The BBC
televised a special on “The Human Body” advancing the notion that the
common evolutionary ancestry of man and fish is seen in the evolution of
the human ear from the bones associated with the gills of fish
(“Evolutionary Tell...,” 2002).
And we mustn’t omit the shrewd observation by Michael Benton who holds
the Chair in Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Bristol,
England: “At a certain point, in the Late Triassic, the reptilian jaw joint had shifted function. We can still detect the legacy of this astonishing transition: when you chew a hamburger, you can hear your jaw movements deep inside your ears”
(2001, emp. added). Did you catch that? You hear yourself chewing
because parts of your hearing structure evolved from reptilian jawbones.
Let’s recap: the human ear evolved from a breathing tube. No, it was
from skin layers connected to the stomach. No, it was from fish gills.
Wait a minute, actually your ear came from a jaw. It all makes perfect
sense—if you’ve been educated beyond your intelligence. Observe that
evolutionists not only disagree among themselves on such matters as the
evolution of the ear, the sheer speculation they advance consists of
very specific scenarios in which they describe imaginary events as if
they really happened. Even then, often their conjuring is laced with
very telling admissions that concede their lack of substantive evidence.
For example, consider the admissions that riddle an article titled,
“The Evolution of the Human Ear,” by the “Senior House Officer” at the
Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, England: “Much of the story of
the evolution of the human ear is controversial” (Bhutta, 2004, 13[5]:50, emp. added); “These early steps are conjecture” (13[5]:50, emp. added); “Evolution is a poor method of design” (13[5]:50, emp. added); “We actually know little of the early amphibian ear” (13[5]:51, emp. added); “Why this change occurred...is a matter of debate”
(13[5]:51, emp. added). Observe: the evolution of the ear is
controversial, conjecture, and a matter of debate. Yet we are supposed
to be assured that it nevertheless happened.
This is self-delusion—not science. The explanation of the Bible is
sensible and rational: “The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the Lord has
made them both” (Proverbs 20:12).
REFERENCES
Atayman, Veysel (1999), “Maddeci ‘Madde,’ Evrimci Madde” (“Materialist ‘Matter,’ Evolutionist Matter”), Evrensel Newspaper, June 13, [On-line], URL: http://www.darwinismrefuted.com/irreducible_complexity_08.html#359.
Benton, Michael (2001), “Evidence of Evolutionary Transitions,” American Institute of Biological Sciences, [On-line], URL: http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/benton2.html.
Bhutta, Mahmood (2004), ENT News, 13[5]:50-52, November/December.
Brown, David (2006), “Evolution of Ear is Noted in Fossil,” Washington Post, A03, Thursday, January 19, [On-line], URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/18/ AR2006011802159.html.
Brown, Doug (2004), “Richard Dawkins: The Biologist’s Tale,” Author Interviews, [On-line], URL: http://www.powells.com/authors/dawkins.html.
“Evolutionary Tell Tales from BBC (2)” (2002), September 25, [On-line], URL: http://www.darwinism-watch.com/bbc_evolutionarytales_02.php.
