Does Natural Selection Prove Evolution?
William Kirwan, President of Ohio State University, erred in his defense of evolutionism (Columbus Dispatch Forum, October 2, 2001). Kirwan said, “Every farmer who has had to change pesticides because insects become resistant to one type after years of exposure has witnessed evolution through natural selection.” This is a common, but false, example used to “prove” evolution. It does not prove evolution, in the the sense of one species changing into another (macroevolution). In Kirwan’s example, a new insect species is not created; the insects that have the stronger features survive and pass on characteristics that already existed in the gene pool. No new information is created or passed on. Some evolutionists claim that a new species is created if a new mutation can’t procreate with the prior ones. This is not only silly, but also blatantly bigoted if applied to human beings with various genetic conditions, who cannot procreate at all. Evolutionism is often a road that leads to dehuman
