Evolution's Hand ~ CHAPTER 3 ~ Evolution: The Tool of an Intelligent Designer

Evolution as the tool of an intelligent designer is the subject of this chapter. Many examples of evolution that are consistent with the hypothesis that evolution has preferred pathways of design are cited. For example the marsupials of Australia have produced a suite of identical characteristics to their more numerous placental relations. There is a logic to being a mammal and evolution draws on this logic continuously. Probably the best example comes from the boundary of the Cambrian system some 575 million years ago. Four phyla just appear out of nowhere. They are fully formed and appear to demand a substantial evolutionary history but no such history can be found. Darwinists have difficulty explaining how one phylum appears suddenly, it is next to impossible to explain how four phyla appear simultaneously all sporting the new invention of a skeleton. These creature s were predisposed to evolve skeletons even though the skeleton had never existed prior to this point in time. This is highly consistent with the notion that evolution is the tool of an intelligent designer in the sense that organisms are meant to evolve in given ways when the chance arose.