During their studies of life and nature, scientists have encountered very different proofs of creation in not one or two, but hundreds, thousands and even millions of species. Countless times, therefore, they've had to admit their claims with regard to instinct are meaningless.

These words by the geneticist Gordon Taylor clearly reveal the dilemma facing evolutionists:

When we ask ourselves how any instinctive pattern of behavior arose in the first place and became hereditarily fixed, we are given no answer . . . .9

In The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Darwin's son Francis described the difficulties faced by his father in this regard:

Chapter III. of the Sketch, which concludes the first part, treats of the variations which occur in the instincts and habits of animals . . . It seems to have been placed thus early in the Essay to prevent the hasty rejection of the whole theory by a reader to whom the idea of natural selection acting on instincts might seem impossible. This is the more probable, as the Chapter on Instinct in the Origin is specially mentioned (Introduction, page 5) as one of the "most apparent and gravest difficulties on the theory."10

The situation that the theory of evolution found itself in with regard to instincts was also admitted by Charles Darwin himself, in various ways. For example, this is how Darwin confesses that animal instincts overturn his theory in his The Origin of Species:

Many instincts are so wonderful that their development will probably appear to the reader a difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.11

Animals that Pose an Insoluble Dilemma for Darwinism

The conscious behavior of bees is one of those surprises that pose an insoluble dilemma for followers of Darwin. Yet the theory of evolution cannot explain not only the behavior of bees, but that of a great many other creatures. Female cuckoos, for example, lay an egg in other species’ nests and leave it to hatch and be reared by these foster parents. In this way, they ensure that their own offspring are looked after by another species. The young cuckoo hatches before the other eggs in the nest, even though it joins them later, and the first thing it does is to push the other eggs out, selecting a time when the parent birds are absent in order to do this. The young cuckoo thus guarantees its own survival. This conscious behavior, displayed the moment the cuckoo hatches, is one of the phenomena that made it so difficult for Darwin to defend his theory.

Similarly, some ants kidnap the larvae of other species of ant and enslave them—another example of animal behavior that poses a dilemma for Darwin. The most important characteristic of these so-called slave-making ants is the way they fight to extract another colony’s larvae, rear them, and then use them as slave labor for their own purposes. In doing this, slave-making ants imitate the alarm-scent given off by the other colony and instill panic in its members. As the members of the colony under attack flee, the slave-making ants seize their food stores and kidnap their larvae.

These pictures show a female cuckoo (side), a young cuckoo throwing the other bird’s eggs out of the nest (middle), and the real owner of the nest feeding the young cuckoo, which has actually grown larger than its host (far right). The picture (above,left) shows slave-making ants. The conscious behavior of these insects places evolutionists, who seek to defend the idea that living things emerged by chance, in a very difficult position. Such a difficult position, in fact, that the statements they make on this subject are actually admissions of the invalidity of the theory of evolution.

Regarding the impossibility of instincts developing, Darwin had this to say:

It seems to me wholly to rest on the assumption that instincts cannot graduate as finely as structures. I have stated in my volume that it is hardly possible to know which, i.e. whether instinct or structure, change first by insensible steps.12

Darwin, originator of the theory that bears his name, many times admitted the impossibility of the complex and advantageous forms of behavior seen in living things having been acquired by means of natural selection. However, he also stated why he persisted with that claim, despite its nonsensical nature:

Finally, it may not be a logical deduction, but to my imagination it is far more satisfactory to look at such instincts as the young cuckoo ejecting its foster-brothers,-ants making slaves,-not as specially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of one general law leading to the advancement of all organic beings,-namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and weakest die.13

The proponents of the theory of evolution resort to all sorts of means so as not to have to accept the existence of a supreme Creator. Indeed, in his own words quoted above Charles Darwin stated that it would be illogical not to accept that instincts were created-but that he found it more personally satisfying to persist in denial, based on the use of the imagination. The conclusion that emerges is a clear example of "repudiating in spite of one's own certainty about it," mentioned in the Qur'anic verse cited earlier.

The common features among the slave-making ants and cuckoos cited by Darwin, are

1) establishing tactics in the light of their objectives,

2) making plans compatible with that tactic, and

3) applying these to the letter. Developing a tactic to deceive another creature, and drawing up plans to destroy an enemy by identifying his weak points, come about as the result of reason and planning and judgment. The fact is, however, that neither ants nor cuckoos possess the powers of reason and judgment.

They receive no training in these areas. They have not learned from anyone else the tactics they employ. Neither do they possess any accumulated knowledge. These creatures, totally devoid of any power of thought, were created by God together with all the characteristics they possess. Thanks to their being inspired by God, they perform these functions requiring reason and judgment.

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• 9.Gordon R. Taylor, The Great Evolution Mystery, Harper&Row Publishers, 1983, p.222
• 10.Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. I, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888, p.374
• 11.Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, The Modern Library, New York, p.184
• 12.Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. II, From Charles Darwin to C. Lyell.Down, June 6th [1860], New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888, p.111
• 13.Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, p.208

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