The Origin of Sex is a Conundrum for Evolution
The desire for sex is overwhelmingly powerful. This fact is blatantly obvious when we examine our culture at large. Art, entertainment, education, even politics are all largely dominated by sex in one way or another. Things are no different at the individual level. We hear and see stories of friends, colleagues, and even former loves that have sacrificed their careers, honor, dignity, families, and even freedom for a night of passion.
Sex is also powerful in another way: refuting the atheistic explanations for sexual reproduction. Every single one of them has failed to produce a rational model. The reason that is stems from the necessary reliance they have on unguided processes. That’s a common problem they have, but for the emergence of sex the problem is doubled because it requires changes both within a multi-cellular body to facilitate the arrival of compatible gametes, and additional systems that facilitate the exchange of genetic material in two separate bodies. The systems must be physiologically and morphologically complimentary. In other words, we need fully functional males and females that can reproduce together.
Many Darwinists know of the problem, but little has been done to investigate how it could have happened. That doesn’t stop them from simply asserting that it did. Most don’t even try, instead dabbling at answering why natural selection would choose sexual reproduction over asexual. Even in that realm we’re given little more than assertions. To be fair though, asserting is all they can do. The fossil record does not show a progression of any of the sexual organs. As mentioned above, the mechanism of unguided random mutations is not capable of coordinating changes both within and simultaneously parallel with another compatible body. Just by definition, randomness can not coordinate anything. It all refines down to dumb, blind luck.
Invoking luck to explain such complexity is just silly. It’s the equivalent of saying if we beat enough rocks together, one will break into a fully functional smartphone. Like the rock changing into a smartphone, there are a lot of changes that must occur. For simplicity’s sake, I’ll summarize these changes into three challenges:
All the organs, proteins, and DNA information that are required to produce and maintain each sex’s specific gametes must arise and replace asexual systems.
All of the biological components that facilitate the physical combination of those gametes must arise. In humans, these include all the ducts, glands, and sexual organs involved in transporting the egg and sperm to the fallopian tube for fertilization and the subsequent zygote to the womb to grow.
Changes to the DNA code to activate and deactivate systems at specific times and sequences must arise. These changes observed within the mother’s body facilitate the nurturing and growth of the baby in the womb. In humans, these include everything from the formation of the placenta to the production of immunosuppressive proteins.
Each of these breaks down into a daunting list of steps to accomplish. These include new neural pathways, new proteins, new glands, new organs, new genetic information, and new epigenetic controls; all of which must arise twice, once in the female and once in the male. It must occur simultaneously and in the same location, and the resulting systems must function together. See why I say it’s silly to say it just happened by dumb luck?
Add all that up and what do we have? An exceptionally large chasm of challenges and a means to get over it that has nowhere near the required reach or power. It’s like jumping the Grand Canyon with a pogo stick. But according to evolutionary theory, not only have we have jumped the canyon, but many of life’s other lifeforms have has well. If not directly, a common ancestor in the past did it for them. All those changes mentioned, and all those I did not, happened. They happened the way they needed to. They happened when they needed to, and they continued to happen in coordination with changes evolution made in the other parts of an organism’s body plans to keep those organisms reproducing sexually.
This is one of those instances that qualifies as an exceptional claim. Exceptional claims require exceptional evidence. So what evidence have they given to back their exceptional assertions? Nothing beyond the usual question begging and the already mentioned blind luck. Boiled down, the belief is simply this: everything evolved, therefore the sexes evolved too. All the questions of each step’s how, when, where and why are treated as insignificant; just mere details to be ironed-out with further research.
In the end, the evolutionists have failed to come up with an explanation that lies within the realm of operational possibility. Until they come up with some other mechanism to rely on as their creative engine, the realm of silliness is where they will stay. It does not matter if they admit it or not.
