Today's EFD deals in the subject realm of acquired characteristics. Evolution states that beings evolved into more advanced organisms and passed along certain acquired characteristics. These characteristics may include the forming of gills in fish to allow them to breathe in water or the lengthening of a giraffe's neck to reach leaves on taller trees. However, as with spontaneous generation (see EFD 01/15/06), this part of evolution has never been accurately proven in a laboratory environment. Giraffe's did not get their long necks because their progenitors had a need to stretch to higher branches. In the same way, a man who lifts weights will not necesarily pass along his large muscles to his children. While it is true that certain hostile environments can "switch on" or activate genes already present, the environment cannot produce a gene within an organism that was not present to begin with. The gene has to be already included within the being for its results to be observed. Therefore, the early ancestors of man had to have all of the genetic traits that man has today. In fact, if all life came from a single celled organism, then that single organism would have had to contain all of the genetic material for every living organism that ever existed on the face of the earth. Pretty amazing when in context of the intertwined belief that the first life was produced from a puddle of chemicals and water.
~Tribal~
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