Darwin’s motivation is about as important as Ben Franklin’s motivation for flying that kite - the important thing is whether what they discovered holds up and is useful.
From Darwin came much of modern biology and medicine and from Franklin can electrical unification. But there was a heck of a lot about their fields that each man didn’t know that the average 6th grader knows now.
There is much in the fossil record that Darwinism / Evolution cannot explain - in fact probably most of it. For example, why haven’t any species that were destroyed by catastrophe ever reappeared again? If they evolved once, why not again?
Another example, most agree that the dinosaurs “ruled the earth” at the top of the food chain for millions of years. Many were HUGE! Yet, save the whale, no species since has EVER approached dinosaurian sizes. Why?
If modern day birds are dinosaurian descendants, why have none of them ever “evolved” to their previous immense sizes? What was driving the first evolution that apparently hasn’t been present in all the eons since the supposed meteor struck them all down?
BUT, more puzzling than any of these questions is a quite simple one that evolutionists have failed to explain and most have never asked of their theory ... the question of why DEATH is even possible if the explanation of the origin of LIFE as told by the evolutionists is true.
Evolution: Dissolved Nitrogen in the primordial soup forms up a dilute solution of amino acids. These molecules somehow concentrate in just the right ratios (contrary to science) to form chains of amino acids which become complex DNA which, when conditions were exactly right and all is in exact balance, life happens!
As a chemist, I find this tough to swallow, but, for the sake of argument, let’s BELIEVE it is true.
Now let us consider a simple scenario we have all experienced. On a quiet evening, we are suddenly annoyed by a lowly fly. It buzzes around us till we finally pick up the newspaper and SMACK! said fly is DEAD.
Simple. Fly was alive in all his/her glory one moment, and very dead the next. BUT, how can this be? Before death all was in perfect chemical balance and after death it is still in perfect chemical balance.
If all that was needed eons ago was a bit of DNA to have life spring forth and begin its evolutionary journey, then certainly having the absolutely proven perfect balance of the stuff of life lying right there in front of me should again produce life.
Conditions could hardly be better! The right chemicals, in the precise proportions, at just the right temperature on a warm summer evening ... but no matter what I do to that lifeless bug, it will not suddenly spring back to life.
Evolutionists, I ask you to explain.
If life appeared by serendipity so many millions of years ago, why can it not be created purposely by simply stirring a bit of DNA from ANY living or once living creature into a bit of water and have LIFE suddenly happen?
If the origin of life as evolution explains it is true, then death should be virtually impossible!