This in a recent news item at Science Daily surprised me: “Convergent evolution is one of the fundamental predictions of evolutionary theory.” Oh, really?
They report, “James Cook University scientists have found evidence that even distantly related Australian fish species have evolved to look and act like each other, which confirms a central tenet of evolutionary theory.”
So, evolutionists say convergence confirms evolution? On the contrary, as biologist Jonathan Wells observes in a new video conversation, convergence is a major problem for Darwinian theory. Darwin thought that “the only known cause of similarity is genealogy,” so that similarity not stemming from genealogy – i.e., convergence – is just what evolutionary theory should not expect.
Or so you would think. But Dr. Wells, the author of Zombie Science: More Icons of Evolution, points out that evolution has a way of turning out to predict…well, whatever is found. “In effect,” he says, “similarity is evidence for common ancestry except when it isn’t.”
Darwinism is quite a theory. Everything and anything confirms it. However, says Wells, “A theory that explains everything really explains nothing.”