. . . all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.Robbed of this pretext, theories of evolution are reduced to mere observations of interrelated shifts toward no particular end. Much as some would disavow Darwin on this point, it is a tenet held dear, and rightly so if one is going to assume a long history of progression, uniform or not. It means more to these folks than the so-called cornerstone of evolution theories, namely, the fossil record. It is beyond comprehension that such pursuits have gained unquestioned status in the classroom under the name of science.
What's really intersting is looking into the theological presuppositions of evolutionary theory. For people who claim to not know God very well if at all, its interesting how much they feel they proclaim He can or cannot do! Evolutionist literature is filled with statements such as "God would not do it this way", or "God must have been very proud of the beetle to create 25,000 different species of it" or some other type of comments. The fact is that evolution is based on a specific 19th centuryy theology about God, which was so entrenched it was simply assumed. A good critique of these theological presuppositions is
Darwin's God by biophysicist Cornelius Hunter. It's an outstanding read.