Most fit or Most Prolific Schutzenberger has shown Neodarwinian approach to origin of species to be Tautological (meaningless). He states that all the hypotheses state is that the organism that survives has survived, or said another way, the organism leaving the greatest number of progeny will survive. Able, hardworking, intelligent people do not in general have the most children. same in the animal and plant world. Rats are prolific and place higher animals in jeopardy for survival.
I Feel Cheated Beneficial characteristics should remain in higher forms and man have them all, but alas, we have been cheated. Compared to man, a chimp is 6 times as strong; Owls see 100 times better at night; male silkworm can smell females 7 miles away; Cheetahs can run 70 MPH; a flea can jump 130 times its own height; the Crotalid snake can sense temperature changes of 1/100 degrees; the Trilobite's (extinct for 300 million years?)  eye has the most sophisticated lenses ever produced by nature; Toads can fast for a year and ticks, for 18 years and nematodes for 39 years.
Punctuated Equilibrium Goldschmidt said that evolution could never have occurred thru micro-changes accumulating over vast amounts of time. He then formulated the "Hopeful Monster" theory - Evolution by leaps and bounds (Megaevolution). One day an alligator laid an egg and out hatched a bird. A shock for both alligator and bird!
Stupid Animals Some species don't know when to stay dead. Coelacanthus (Latemeria) was an index fossil, a missing  link in evolution of fish and had been extinct for 70 million years - that is until the silly fish began to be repeatedly caught off the shores of Madagascar. 
Index Fossils Geologists date rocks by index fossils and they date fossils by the layer of rocks they are in (circular reasoning). What if the index fossil are wrong? In 1974, Burdick found a set of fossilized footprints of a barefoot child in a wheeler formation at 2000 feet altitude in the Swasey Mountains (west central Utah). In the middle of a track laid the compressed remains of a Trilobite. Obviously the Trilobite was not fossilized when the child steeped on it. It must have been alive to be squashed. But we know that Trilobites became extinct 300 million years ago and certainly man came no earlier than 3 million years ago?????
Vivid Imagination Early man had quite an imagination. In caves in Arizona are drawings of humans with animals that look remarkably like dinosaurs. Some even look like the Dragons we know are purely fables and mythical tales for children.
Symmetry Paired organs - a severe challenge to evolutionary thesis. How do you get 2 each of eyes, ears, arms, legs, hands, feet, brain lobes, lungs, kidneys, adrenals, breasts and gonads. Plants exhibit great and beautiful symmetry. Single, highly specialized organs are difficult beyond calculation to get a chance - put pairs? Wow!
Mirror Images If paired organs are hard, try mirror images. Pairs now become easy.
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