[WARNING -- People who are humor impaired should not read this article, especially if you have a strong aversion to dripping sarcasm.] Almost a decade ago, I became a professional writer because Richard Dawkins basically said that the theory of evolution had rendered belief in God into delusional thought. I spent the next several years of my life reading everything I could find in the library on the subject of evolution, looking for a book that might explain the missing secret ingredient that allowed macro evolution to occur. Most biologists have seemed to agree on the belief that evolution from an existing species into a new type of creature requires three things: sexual reproduction, isolation of the gene pool in a small breeding population, and time. But that isn't really enough to explain the diversity of life on earth, is it? Let's look at a few of these alleged factors that allow evolution to occur: Isolation of a small breeding population -- think about the diversity of life in an ocean. We can cast our lines into the water and possibly catch trout, bass, flounder, mackerel, shark...and the list continues for quite a while. How did all of those different species of fish (and don't forget mammals, etc.) evolve into different types of creatures from a single common ancestor? If the theory of evolution really is true, humans aren't just related to monkeys because of sex, isolation of a gene pool, and time. We're also related to every other living organism on the planet by those same three mechanisms. Sexual Reproduction -- here it gets a little tricky, … [Read more...]