Evo-stories Take Wing on Fruit Flies

POINTS OF ORIGINS with Dr. Jackson Creation Truth Foundation www.CreationTruth.com source: Science News, 7/17/2010, p28-9 A research team discovered that wherever sense cells develop on fruit fly wing, that's where a dark spot forms. It may be that same gene triggering sense cells to form also triggers pigments in that same place (Nature, 4/22/10). The team leader happens to be evo-fanatic Sean B. Carroll of UWisc-Madison. So, of course, he's decided this is all because of evolution. "At some point in evolution, an ancestor of some related fly species co-opted [whatever that really means] the system to create color patterns. The hijacking was accomplished by inserting a new switch into the DNA control panel." Evo genius Carroll doesn't say just how this could happen--just that it... well, it just did! Evolution decided to "hijack" the pigment gene in some"missing-link" fruit fly by creating a new genetic switch?! How! Oh, but we must not ask how. It is not fair to ask how! We are asked to just take it on faith that evo did it-- and that settles it! -- no thinking allowed! But you, young padawans -- You think. Amen. DrJ Evo-atheist Richard Dawkins, speaking at U-Okla, 3/6/09: "Science answers the 'how' question. The 'why' question is just a silly question. The question is an inappropriate one." Dawkins says some questions should never be asked! That's not in the spirit of true science!