In his seminal work The Origin of Species (1859), Darwin proposed that all life forms have descended from a common ancestor, suggesting that over time, random variation coupled with natural selection gives rise to entirely new species.
But, Gelernter wrote, "The origin of species is exactly what Darwin cannot explain."
"Darwin successfully explained the small adjustments by which an organism adapts to local circumstances: changes to fur density or wing style or beak shape," he noted. "Yet there are many reasons to doubt whether he can answer the hard questions and explain the big picture — not the fine-tuning of existing species but the emergence of new ones."
Chief among the flaws undermining Darwinism, he wrote, is molecular biology, which in recent decades has demonstrated that random mutation plus natural selection cannot give rise to new, more complex species.
Critics have long argued that Darwinism is atheistic philosophy
disguised as science. Since Darwin's day, they note, it has been used to
reject Christian orthodoxy and advance materialism, the view that human
beings are merely the accidental results of unguided natural processes
(as opposed to being purposefully created by God), and that the human
mind is the only — and therefore, the supreme — consciousness that
exists." ChurchMilitant
