Excerpt From
How To Prove God
To Your Nonbelieving Friend
Who Doesn’t Want To Hear It
How Evolution Actually Works
Evolution tries something new. It makes a random change, and then sees if the change was good or
bad.
If the change works, great! The individuals lucky enough to have that new change will survive, thrive,
and pass the change on to future generations.
If it fails, it is automatically discarded. The individuals unlucky enough to have the new change will
die, and will not pass anything on to future generations.
Evolution constantly tries random changes. The good stuff floats to the top.
Let’s Take An Easy Example
Ask your friends why giraffes are so tall.
If they say, “That’s so that they can eat the high leaves” or “That’s because...”, then stand up and yell
“GOTCHA!!!” Answers like that imply a design or a purpose.
The CORRECT evolutionary answer would be something like this:
“Assume there were giraffes of various heights. Then assume there was a drought, where
there was very little vegetation. The giraffes that happened to be tallest had the advantage of
being able to get to what little vegetation there was, and therefore had the best chance to
survive the drought. The shorter ones who could not get their fair share of vegetation did not
survive. Natural selection. Survival of the fittest.”
But let’s explore that fable:
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Why aren’t there giraffes that are even taller than today’s giraffes?
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Let’s say today’s giraffe is 20 feet tall, and the soon-to-be-extinct one was only 19 feet tall.
Let’s leave all the food below 8 feet to the horses, goats, etc. So the short giraffes can eat
everything between 8 and 19 feet, and the tall ones can eat everything between 8 and 20 feet.
Only the food between 19 and 20 feet can make any difference. Why would this drought
concentrate an abundance of food in that narrow band?
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There are many animals of a shorter height (horses, goats, etc.). Why isn’t there anything in
between? Why isn’t there anything HALF as tall as a giraffe?
You need a perfectly fine-tuned drought to support your argument. You need a drought that
kills enough vegetation that the very high leaves make the difference. If the drought were
worse, and all vegetation died, nothing would survive, not even your tall giraffe. If the drought
were not so bad, everything would survive.
You need MANY perfectly fine-tuned droughts! You need one drought to let the ten-foot
giraffes outlive the nine-foot ones, then another to let the eleven-foot ones beat out the ten-foot
ones, etc.
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These droughts must come in order! You need the one that helps the ten-foot giraffes, then the
one that helps the eleven-foot ones, etc. The drought that helps the twenty-foot giraffes had
better not come when giraffes are only ten feet tall.
How did the first giraffe get started? Was it something like a goat? So the first giraffes could
only reach five feet? How was THAT an advantage?
Evolution takes many tiny steps. Perhaps the 20-foot giraffe beat out one that was only 19 feet
11 inches. How can such a small difference make ANY difference at all?
Were there no droughts in England? Brazil? Why did giraffes only evolve in Africa?
Why did giraffes evolve in grasslands? How were the shorter species supposed to die off with
so much food around?
And the killer argument (drum roll, please): If giraffes were able to survive that drought, then
that explains why everything else died. Oh, wait! Everything else did NOT die! We DO have
cows, buffalo, etc. The short things also survived that drought! Being tall didn’t give any
survival advantage after all! Giraffes were only able to enjoy more variety at the salad bar.
You see, your friend believes evolution is the answer because they didn’t think it through. The above
thinking was not very deep at all.
But your friend does not question his assumption, and he surrounds himself with others who don’t
question it either. They tell each other that evolution works. They hang onto a few anecdotal
examples that illustrate their point, but they don’t dig too deeply. They hang onto their belief in
evolution because it lets them hang onto their belief that there is no God.
If you can knock the legs out from under evolution, you will force them to start reconsidering the
possibility of God.
Psst: Can You Keep A Secret?
Giraffes are indeed tall. So how DID they develop that way?
There actually is a real answer, and it has nothing to do with long necks being able to reach high
leaves. And it does not fly in the face of evolution. Here’s the REAL reason:
Giraffes think tall is HOT!
When two tall giraffes are attracted to each other, they will have tall kids. That’s how you breed blue
roses and perfect pedigreed dogs, too.
It’s SO obvious! But an evolutionist NEEDS the “Long neck reaching the high leaves in a drought”
anecdote. It’s the centerpiece of the “Survival Of The Fittest” narrative.
Don’t tell your friends. You are trying to upset evolution. If they care to think about evolution a little
more deeply, they’ll stumble upon this for themselves.
Another Example
Ask your friend if evolution explains faster cheetahs.
Of course, he’ll say,
“Of course it does! A faster speed would give some individuals an advantage. Survival of the
fittest.
“Many years ago, all cheetahs ran at 35 MPH (I’m not making up these speeds; this is your
nonbelieving friend talking!).
“Then one day, one cheetah appeared that was able to run at 40 MPH. That cheetah was able
to catch food that the others could not. Soon, all cheetahs were able to run at 40 MPH.
“Until one of THEM started running at 45 MPH.
“Today’s cheetahs can run at 75 MPH!”
But if you think it through, it’s not such a slam-dunk.
Let’s say the 35 MPH cheetahs were surprised when they saw the first 40 MPH model, which was
able to catch some food that the slower cheetahs could not. But think about this: The 35 MPH
cheetah was only 10 seconds behind! I’m sure the slow ones would get some food, too, and I’m sure
that they would thank the 40 MPH cheetah for the kill.
So the 35 MPH cheetahs DIDN’T die off!
In fact, maybe the 40 MPH killer selfishly guarded his kill, until the alpha male showed up and drove
him off. Guess who didn’t get ANY food!
Besides, evolution calls for SMALL differences. Maybe the 35 MPH cheetah was outrun by a 35.1
MPH cheetah. How can such a small difference make ANY difference at all?
Psst: Another Secret
If you won the cheetah argument with that logic, you are truly a silver-tongued devil!
Cheetahs do not hunt in packs, like wolves. The 35MPH cheetah was not 10 seconds behind; he was
3 miles away! He wasn’t even aware of the kill!
Rarely, cheetahs do hunt in teams of 2 or 3 when they are hunting something large. But this is a
cooperative kill, so they share nicely. In fact, these 2 or 3 cheetahs are brothers from the same litter!
They’re probably all the same speed!
If your adversary does any research, your deceit will be exposed. Just tell them that you were only
questioning the common understanding of evolution.
But I wouldn’t worry about it. They won’t do any research. And you don’t have to do their research for
them.