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Said earlier wouldn’t list off marvels of nature too much. All been done in documentaries and it’s in the garden or park. But using just a few it’s difficult to see where natural selection and random mutations would fit in. Firstly though , if we try to imagine that flesh and blood and bones evolved we would know intuitively that they didn’t. They weren’t ever half blood or half bones. That feels solid. No thought in us could accept that flesh or blood or bones evolved. So why would we think that a whole animal evolved.
Two minutes vid. Not sure why they add music to these spider videos. Can’t find one without music. Anyway , when we see a spider spinning a web , it’s a marvel and we have in our thinking almost without thinking it, that it is an instinct in the spider to spin a web. The word instinct is both helpful and useless at the same time like the words natural selection and random mutations. Again there is a word without evidence. It just helps to give us something to ease our wondering.
The way the male and female spiders find each other to make babies and how they make those babies is a bit different to the way other animals do it. (Can’t remember what that was about.. will look up spiders again later) Anyway , an instinct in the way we might ponder it , is not physical. So if we are happy with that ponder that instincts are not physical then we would have to also ponder about whether any of the instincts have evolved. That once again goes into the realms of the possibility that instinct and the senses exist before before bodies come to be (??). If such things could exist then there is no need to invent conjectures like natural selection. If something so exclusive like an instinct exists then there is no reason for a whole whole body to be messing around with random mutations and natural selection. It would use whatever the instinct uses.
The whole process of the spiders finding and fancying each other and making the babies couldn’t have evolved from spiders that once couldn’t find or fancy each other. Our evolution theories , sort of gloss over the success of there being in the end new baby spiders .Those processes are whole. In other words the spiders wouldn’t get to have any babies at all if they didn’t have the instinct or phenomena of being able to find each other in the first place. Natural selection and random mutations seems futile to explain how they do it. There was never a day in the past when they suddenly worked out how to find each other.
The ability to find each other is a whole and that ability was necessary from the start. The ability itself could not have evolved . It would have to be there at the start. So now there is finding each other as well as fancying each other and having the physical body to do it. An animal can’t half find their own species and rely on that half finding to find another. The ability to find of a partner is a whole.
Phenomenas and abilities surely can’t exist as half phenomenas or half abilities. Any animal in any state or form would fail without the phenomena or ability being in a fully formed way. No spider has relied on evolutionary theory to find another spider to make baby spiders.
Take another animal like a fish like a salmon that at some time after they are born in a river , swim downstream through the river into the ocean. Then somehow when they are adults , maybe four years later, they leave the ocean and swim back up the river that they once came from and have the ability and extraordinary strength to jump over or swim up a waterfall. Surely the word evolution has nothing in it to explain either the ability to do that or the happening of it.
And no other thoughts can explain this .. Some of those salmon get right back over hundreds of miles of oceans and then swim up the river where they were born and do the fancying thing to make babies to get right there where they were born. That sort of drive to get there to do the making babies is a phenomena like no other. Of course it’s not a one off phenomena as there are billions of of other phenomenas. Those phenomenas surely are though an all or nothing thing. All animals are driven in a similar way. Any of the phenomenas that we can think of surely didn’t evolve. It is only our conjectures to say that any animal or plant or tree evolved , and those conjectures that we have come up with are useless even to explain a toe nail , never mind what those salmon or trees do.
Back though on the spider that has in it silk to spin a web and then it spins a web with that silk. Silk is a physical substance and the spider most likely doesn’t use it’s own consciousness to make silk , like we don’t consciously make saliva in our mouths. Of course though the spider somehow uses the silk to make the web. The starting part of the web is a line of web off the ground that stretches over maybe three meters or more. The spider squirts the silk and relies on the wind to carry it’s thread to connect it to two points to start the rest of the web. The spider knows that those two points exist and then judges the wind direction and guides the line of silk from one point to get it to the second point. Then the web is made below that strand of silk.
On the main theme thought of evolution though, it might be said that spiders got better and better at spinning webs over thousands or millions of years. That does not make sense with common sense thinking since the silk exists. The silk , like blood , is a specifically chemically organized substance. It’s hard to imagine that a spider with no silk one day thought of producing silk to catch other insects and then made the silk and before making the silk made a chamber to store the silk in and then it’s consciousness thing knew how to use it.
It’s not our marvel of the spider spinning a web that means evolution did or didn’t occur of course. The marvel is just ours. It is the fact that the event exists of a web being made by a spider that has the silk to do it. Similar in a way to like having males and females existing at the same time. These events seem more like all or nothing with no in between. Evolution theory is so weak and the evidence for it is just about non existent.
Another event is that of sleep. Some birds like the swift can stay in the air and fly for weeks on end without landing on the ground and having a rest. To get their sleep they apparently have one half of their brain sleeping while the other half allows it to continue flying. Then they swap the sleeping to the other half and the half of the brain that has had a sleep takes over to do the flying. Evolution surely doesn’t come up with that. You might have seen horses at dawn presumably sleeping. They are solid looking like a stone statue but their eyes are wide open. Maybe they do the same. That is , while one half of the brain is asleep the other half keeps a watch out. Again what evidence is there that random mutations and natural selection has anything to do with that.
Take also parasites like threadworms. We could say that what they do is also an instinct. Once they get into the human body they crawl around blindly in the intestines. The evolution of threadworms would be a bit different to other animals evolution that evolve to live in the physical changes that occur in landscapes of rocks and climate etc. The male and female threadworms environment is that of the body in which they live. Presumably the temperature inside animals intestines has always been consistent , but if the animal that the threadworms lives in changes it’s intestine plan then the threadworm would have to learn to navigate it’s way to lay the eggs outside that new intestines setup. Not sure if after laying the eggs the lady threadworm goes back into animals body.
Like the seeds and fruits and eggs and pollen that make more babies and trees and flowers , we try to explain it to others in say a nature documentary that they evolved. That leaves in our thoughts that there was some sort of progression or development. There is absolutely no evidence of it at all. And no evidence that threadworms gradually worked out how to pass on their eggs or how some birds can make nests on the side of sea cliffs. Evolution thought is totally lacking to explain anything.
And specially not explaining how every species fancies it’s own species. That is too specific. If all we knew about life is that every species of animal fancies their own species we would know at once that that fancying does not rely on our evolution conjectures and it would then follow that none of the physical animal bodies rely on evolution either.
evolution rethink 