The bad news about evolution

By FG Helmke

We were taught that life has been evolving for millions of years, so we are tempted to think it will keep on evolving for an endless period of time. But, reality is just the opposite. We thought a species would evolve and adapt by improving, like growing wings (which would mean adding new information into its genes). What actually happens is that the species uses options stored in its genes to change. There is no new information being developed, but information that is already in its genes is used to modify the creature. Microevolution leads to specialized kinds of plants and animals, like the (micro)evolution of the original dog into a Yorkshire Terrier. Very beautiful indeed, but the real bad news is that the Yorkshire Terrier has lost important elements of information, he can never evolve back into a big dog. Nor can you breed a Dane into a Yorkshire Terrier. Both lost much of the original pool of information that included all the possibilities that were present in the ancestor dog. 
The bitter truth is that during the process of microevolution information didn’t get added, but to the contrary, it got lost. The worst part about it is that both dogs reached the end of their evolution. That’s simply how far dogs could evolve. They can’t be bigger than Danes, nor smaller than Chihuahuas. There are no more possibilities left in the information stored. Since we can’t write information that enables life, once this information is lost, it is gone forever. So in terms of information our world is actually getting poorer day by day, information for life gets lost, not added. 
There is no real evolution in the sense of Darwin’s theory. Once beings reach the limits of their possible specialization nothing new can come out of them, because there is simply no information left in them to develop them into something “better”.  So the idea that life will keep on developing and improving is totally unrealistic. We may breed bigger tomatoes and sweeter sugar cane, but there is a limit. No pumpkin sized tomatoes in our green houses. No sugar cane the size of a red wood tree. 
Reality is that no new species will develop, and on top of it many of the ones that do exist are becoming extinct or getting so specialized that there is no new development possible.

This situation can be compared to custom installing certain programs. If you don’t install certain features that you don’t need, and throw away the original program, you won’t ever been able to install them, because they are simply gone.  
The whole idea of looking at evolution as an eternal and endless process is very unrealistic. Many things evolve, but once they reach their limit they are thrown out. I remember listening to music on fancy high-end hi-tech Hi-fi disc players that hardly resembled Thomas Edison’s invention anymore, except for having a needle running through a groove on the disc. They produced wonderful music. People loved them, they reproduced music in fascinating quality. Everybody used them. Yet they reached their limit. They developed as far as they could and then dissappeared. We used to watch movies on video cassette tapes. VCRs became better and better. DVDs replaced them. Now when I found out it is time to get a blue ray player to watch the new movies. Or subscribe to cable TV. But Edison’s phonograph won’t ever evolve into a movie player. That’s reality. Certain species simply reach their limit in specializing and improving. Many kinds of dogs for example suffer from degeneration and have little hope of surviving more than a few hundred years. Instead of evolving nature is getting poorer every day.

Thank God there is a beautiful variety available in creation, and nothing ever becomes old fashioned. Orchids never lose their beauty. Starfish don’t become outdated. The loyalty of a dog can’t be replaced by a new super cat. Today’s sunset fascinates today just as it did 3000 years ago.

We can chose to either take good care of this world or destroy all of this. Unlike in computer games and evolutionists’ wishful thinking there is no second chance. Life is like a chain. New life comes only from an old link, once you cut the chain there is no way back. That’s a law of biology. It’s like copying a DVD. You may find a few new features on it that you haven’t seen yet, but that DVD won’t develop into a new movie. Only the creators can produce another film like that. That’s life, that’s creation. 
So life on Earth doesn’t necessarily go on and on endlessly for another billion years. Things have an end. The only time we have is now. We can’t take the future of the world for granted. It depends on the decisions we make today.