The assertion of Darwinian molecular evolution is merely bluster.”

What Did Darwin Really Find on the Galapagos?

NEARLY 150 years ago, English naturalist Charles Darwin briefly visited the Galapagos Islands. On these Pacific Ocean islands, located some 600 miles (1,000 km) west of Ecuador, Darwin felt that he had found evidence of his theory of evolution.

But what, really, did he find on the Galapagos? Was it evidence of evolution, or was it evidence of something else?

Darwin's Views

Darwin believed that all plants, animals and humans had evolved from previous "lower" forms of life by means of gradual changes over vast periods of time. He reasoned that everything living had originally come from a "few forms" of life or just one, adding: "From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved." (Origin of Species) Today, those who accept evolution generally adhere to the same basic ideas, believing that living things were not created by God, but that they evolved.

What Darwin saw during his visit of just a few weeks on the Galapagos was an "inspiration for many of his views" on evolution, says the Encyclopaedia Britannica. And what he observed was this: (1) that living things on the Galapagos were similar to those on the South American continent, and he concluded that they came from there originally, not being created on the Galapagos; and (2) that over the years, variations in those living things on the Galapagos made them somewhat different from their "cousins" on the mainland. These two basic observations, he felt, reinforced his belief that plants and animals keep changing little by little, so that eventually they evolve into entirely different forms of life.

Regarding the Galapagos, The World Book Encyclopedia states: "Much evidence of evolution comes from plants and animals that live on islands far from continents. The Galapagos Islands, for example, . . . have 26 kinds of land birds, all resembling species found in western South America. But 23 of these species seem to have changed since they reached the islands, for the Galapagos birds are distinct species. Comparable differences are shown by lizards and tortoises, of which there were 11 species on as many different islands. They apparently developed there because of changes that took place after their ancestors drifted from the mainland of South America."Darwin's Finches

One type of bird, called a finch, particularly caught Darwin's attention. In his short study on the Galapagos, it appeared to him that many different species of finches had evolved on the islands of the archipelago. The variations were mostly in the size and shape of their beaks. Darwin felt that these different beaks had evolved according to the differing conditions on the various islands. As the Encyclopaedia Britannica put it: "The Darwin finches have developed a multitude of adaptive types from one common ancestor. They differ mainly in beak shape and size."
??? HOW CAN ANYONE THINK THAT A BEAUTIFUL BIRD LIKE THE FINCH ABOVE CAME ABOUT BY CHANCE ARE THESE PEOPLE CRAZY ??