Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 467
NATURAL SELECTION AND SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST rooted in the soil. But the naturalists have a completely different vision of what happened. According to them, it is the same Sundew naturally and healthily growing by the side of that puddle which got transformed into a fly-trap which we find flourishing undeterred in that hostile surrounding. It is inconceivable for it to survive there without having previously evolved to meet the new challenges. This could only happen if all the necessary changes had been brought about while it was still on dry land. Without having completed its transformation outside that environment, it could not have survived there for a single moment. . This is the dilemma which the scientists confront and must explain in sensible and logical terms. Two vital points need to be registered here. 1) The Sundew, which scientists believe to be the forefather of Venus's fly-trap is in itself an enigma. It has no traceable history of having evolved from ordinary green foliage 2) Venus's fly-trap must have evolved to its final minutest detail on dry soil outside the puddle without any evolutionary compulsion. . We rest our case here and expect the naturalists to take over from this point. Their explanation is most eagerly sought for. . We have specially highlighted the case of the Venus's fly-trap because it possesses a highly sophisticated, intricately designed and electrically operated mechanism which even advanced scientists fail to understand. As has been described above, in its finished form Venus's fly-trap is completely different from the anatomical composition of its so-called ancestors. Hence, it is not to impossible for the naturalists to try to fill this vast gap by suggesting a countless number of small evolutionary steps, which could 450