“The development of new functions is the only thing important for evolution. We are not talking about small functional changes, but radical ones. Some organism had to learn how to convert sugars to energy. Another had to learn how to take sunlight and turn it into sugars. Another had to learn how to take light and turn it into an interpretable image in the brain. These are not simple things, but amazing processes that involve multiple steps, and functions that involve circular and/or ultra-complex pathways will be selected away before they have a chance to develop into a working system. For example, DNA with no function is ripe for deletion, and making proteins/enzymes that have no use until a complete pathway or nano-machine is available is a waste of precious cellular resources. Chicken-and-egg problems abound. What came first, the molecular machine called ATP synthase or the protein and RNA manufacturing machines that rely on ATP to produce the ATP synthase machine? The most basic processes upon which all life depends cannot be co-opted from pre-existing systems. For evolution to work, they have to come up from scratch, they have to be carefully balanced and regulated with respect to other processes, and they have to work before they will be kept.”
Read more here: https://creation.com/mutations-new-information
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‘Chicken-and-egg’ problems DO abound in nature, and I look for these as I read the evo science literature. Not only are they simple for me to understand, but they clearly undermine the idea of evolving through microsteps to a completed whole. Thank you for pointing this up for your visitors. May God richly bless you.
P.S.–Directed here by Dr. Giuliuzza’s wonderful list at ICR.org in his article ‘Unity Worthy of Our Creationist Heritage.’
Great points John – there are so many of the ‘Chicken-and-egg’ problems – but so overlooked! And thanks for sharing that article from ICR – Praise God for the work being done for His glory! Keep persevering!! Praise the LORD!