RE: Blind scorpions (or fish) as proof of evolution?

Hi Mike, you wrote:
 
Answers in Genesis indicate that they "delight in using blind cave fish
as examples of 'downhill' or 'information-losing' mutations causing
'devolution'"
(http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v23/i1/eldredge.asp).
 
Devolution is permitted, evolution shunned. Sounds like just the
inconsistency I would expect from AIG. Actually, evolution has no
upward direction, it just causes change. Nature selects what works. In
a world filled with light, nature selects sight. In a world of
darkness, sight has no natural advantage. I would suggest AIG find out
how evolution works before pontificating on it.
 
The metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly is something that
causes me to question the feasibility of evolution. How can random
mutations and natural selection account for this? I'm not saying it
can't, but only that I don't understand how it can. How does one
speculate that this metamorphosis process arose? Of course, if
evolution was directed by God, it could certainly be possible. But the
whole idea is to take God out of the equation, correct?
 
Nobody I know on this list takes "God out of the equation." The idea is
that God need not take sporadic, intermittent action to cause new
species to come into existence or for novel features to appear on
creatures of an existing species. As the first cause of all events, God
does not directly cause all events.
 
Dick Fischer
Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
 <http://www.genesisproclaimed.org> www.genesisproclaimed.org
Received on Wed May 31 16:01:16 2006