Five Things You Didn’t Know About Evolution

Everyone has heard of evolution, whether in school, from magazines, or on television. But have you ever wondered what you’re not being told? In my book The Evolution Conspiracy I expose the naked truth about evolution—and just for you, dear readers, I’ve compiled this list of the top five things most people don’t know about evolution:

1. Charles Darwin was not a biologist. He earned a degree in theology and, while he learned a great deal from his scientist friends, he never formally studied science. Today evolutionists insist only people with degrees in biology should be allowed to discuss evolution. By this standard Darwin had no right to pen his seminal book The Origin of Species.

2. Darwin rarely defended his own theory. When it came to defending the theory of natural selection Darwin left the debating to others, like Thomas Huxley (aka “Darwin’s bulldog”). Today evolutionists refuse to defend evolution or debate anyone who questions evolution but demand dissenters submit to endless interrogation, usually through websites.

3. Fossils pose more questions than they answer. Most fossils are incomplete and/or are found shattered in thousands of pieces. Scientists estimate fossils represent no more than 10% and perhaps less than 1% of all species that ever lived on earth. Hence new fossils often create a mystery rather than solving one: For instance, pterosaur fossils recently found in China have primitive bodies but heads and necks identical to much later pterosaurs, leading to wild speculation about how evolution could suddenly produce a mishmash of traits.

4. The beginnings are unknown. From the very first life-form to the origins of flowering plants, the task of pinpointing and understanding the beginnings of anything in evolution bedevils scientists. Where did DNA come from? What was the very first living thing, and how did it come to be? How did multicellular organisms originate? What is unknown about life on Earth dwarfs what is known like Godzilla looking down on an ant.

5. Evolution is a puny force. Biologists define evolution as descent with modification, an ornate term for the everyday phenomenon of inheriting genetic changes (aka mutations) from our ancestors. Since mutations have never been shown to generate vastly different forms of life, scientists lack evidence that evolution has the power to create the diversity of life that exists today or that existed in the distant past.

Want to learn what else you don’t know about evolution? Grab a copy of The Evolution Conspiracy to get all the information you need to make up your own mind.

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Lisa A. Shiel researches and writes about everything strange, from Bigfoot and UFOs to alternative history. She has been interviewed for big-city newspapers, national magazines, drive-time talk radio shows, and TV news. She has a master’s degree in library science. As a fiction writer, Lisa developed the Human Origins Series—which includes the novels The Hunt for Bigfoot and Lord of the Dead. Lisa’s other nonfiction books are Backyard Bigfoot: The True Story of Stick Signs, UFOs & the Sasquatch (a finalist in ForeWord Magazine’s 2006 Book of the Year Awards) and Strange Michigan. Her latest book, The Evolution Conspiracy, Vol. 1, marks the initial release in a planned three-book series. Find her online at EvolutionConspiracy.com, Twitter.com/LAShiel, or on Facebook.