Creation Station
Health and Sanctity of Life
The Adoption Enigma
by Sean Meek, Director of Project CREATION
While it may not be immediately apparent, the reality of adoption, both
by humans and animals, is an enigma for evolutionists. Creationists can
simply accept that God put within both humans and animals the urge to
parent, regardless of where that child came from. For evolutionists
though the reality of adoption is a mystery without an answer.
In an article in Discover, January 2001, The Adoption Paradox, the
author states that "adoption , as arch-Darwinist Richard Dawkins notes,
is a double whammy. Not only do you reduce, or at least fail to
increase, your own reproductive success, but you improve someone
else's". The article goes on to show that a wide range of animals also
adopt unrelated offspring, even though this is completely contrary to
evolutionist dogma. The author tries to find some basis why not only
humans, but animals as diverse as otters, kangaroos, seals and bears,
to name only a few, adopt someone else's offspring. The problem is he
can't. Even though adoption in the wild can be expensive in terms of
survival, there are cases among birds where the adoption rate can be as
high as 40%.
Both the author of this article and evolutionists find themselves up a
blind alley on this, as they are in so many other issues, because they
start off from a false premise. The lie is that of undirected and
unplanned evolution, rather than acknowledging the guiding hand of the
Creator that put within both people and animals desires that cannot be
explained by any evolutionary story telling.
