Hi, I am someone who is both inquisitive and skeptical of Darwinian descent with modification. One of the main reasons I have always been a skeptic of Darwinism is not necessarily because of the evidence,but rather the mechanism, which is often overlooked and dismissed as a given when discussing the evolution of life.
Darwinists contend that humans and all life share a common ancestor, yet shy away from explaining exactly HOW we evolved from this elusive ancestor. They then go on and say they know its true because DNA analysis and morphological comparisons demonstrate it. Well that's all fine and dandy but tell us HOW it happened. This where Darwinists fail to understand the scope of some of their grandiose claims.
I believe it is for that reason that many ardent atheists, such as Fred Hoyle, did not embrace Darwinism; because under scrutiny the proposed mechanism (natural selection acting on random variations caused by genetic mutations) was not enough to account for all the intricate complexities intrinsic to life.
As far as human evolution is concerned, I have yet to be shown a sufficient mechanism whereby an apelike creature can turn into something like a human. Did ape-like creatures gradually mutate into humans over millions of years, or were there other forces at work? As far as I've seen, mutations do not supply the kind of raw material necessary to transform an ape-like creature into a human. Can someone explain?
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