3 Problems with Naturalism

Darwinists’ believe in naturalism which is the idea that life happened by chance and then evolved by natural selection. Naturalism is based around the idea that truth lies in science and everything outside of science such as a God or a creator doesn’t exist and isn’t true. However, there are some problems with this theory. For starters, everything that is living is made up of cells- miniature molecular machines. Every cell in the body is responsible for different tasks yet all of them must work together and share information in order for the living thing they are in to survive. If any part of a cell is removed the whole system will lose its function. How can something so complex and so specific randomly have happened by chance? How can life and order come from nothing? How can non-life create life? The only explanation is that the cells were designed and created with specific jobs so that the whole organism could function. In order for there to be specific functions there must be something instructing the cells what to do and instruction has to come from something, it can’t just spontaneously appear. In conclusion, science can’t prove how life comes from non-life so why should we believe it if according to Darwinism science is knowledge and truth?

The second problem with naturalism is the fossil accounts. According to naturalism animals evolved from a common ancestor. However, when studied fossils were found to have major differences and there was no fossil evidence to support that animals came from common ancestors. Naturalists then claimed that the animals had too soft of bodies and that is why no fossils could be preserved and found. But then that idea was refuted when preserved embryos were found and the argument against naturalists was that if you could preserve an embryo then animals with soft bodies could be fossilized.

The third problem with naturalism is their idea of natural selection. Take the fruit fly for example. The fruit fly has a set of wings that enable it to get to wear it is going, you would think that another set of wings would actually help the fly move faster and easier. However, when four- winged fruit flies were studied in a laboratory they found that there were no muscles attached to the second pairs of wings so really the flies were burdened and became cripples. The flies could only survive in the laboratory so if set free they would actually be “selected out” by natural selection. Lastly, scientists observed that no one would mate with the four-winged fruit flies thus ending the species. The natural selection of the flies ended up proving that the extra pair of wings acted as a disorder and defect rather than a help in its process of adaptation.