Fruit Fly Evolution or Creation?
by Owen Borville
August 8, 2019
Biology
The fruit fly, classified with the family drosophilidae, is unique and could only have been designed and created by an Intelligent Designer. Fruit flies can reproduce within 10-12 days and their life span is very short, just 40 to 50 days depending on the temperature. A female fruit fly can lay up to 50 eggs per day and therefore fruit flies are produced rapidly. Because of the short life spans of fruit flies, scientists have been able to study the fruit fly and collect much information within the last several decades, including the genetic characteristics. Despite their small size, fruit flies have almost as many genes as humans and the genetics of humans and the fruit fly are similar. This is one of the reasons that fruit flies are studied for medical research.
Despite its small size, the fruit fly brain is incredibly complex, boasting 100,000 neurons that control the many behaviors of the fruit fly, including sleep, learning, memory, reproduction, eating, aggressive behavior, grooming, and flight. Fruit flies are known to fly several miles at a time in the desert looking for food. Scientists question how the fruit fly can fly for so long in difficult environments. Some scientists also believe that fruit flies use the sunlight as a guide for their travels. Evolutionists must explain how the fruit fly learned to travel for such long distances and how it guides itself through difficult environments. The ability to use sunlight for directions in flight should not be something that is learned over millions of years by chance but was an ability that was given to the fruit fly by divine creation.
Because the fruit fly reproduces so quickly, with up to 50 eggs per day, scientists should have noticed some "evolution" product within the last 100 years. The rapid rate of reproduction of fruit flies would have produced as many generations as any other species on Earth. Many laboratory experiments have been done to see if the fruit fly could "evolve" but despite many conditions being applied, the fruit flies did not evolve. Fruit flies are still fruit flies and have not evolved into something else or even experienced slight change in their morphology, despite their extremely rapid reproduction rate and over 100 years of observing these insects in the laboratory.
by Owen Borville
August 8, 2019
Biology
The fruit fly, classified with the family drosophilidae, is unique and could only have been designed and created by an Intelligent Designer. Fruit flies can reproduce within 10-12 days and their life span is very short, just 40 to 50 days depending on the temperature. A female fruit fly can lay up to 50 eggs per day and therefore fruit flies are produced rapidly. Because of the short life spans of fruit flies, scientists have been able to study the fruit fly and collect much information within the last several decades, including the genetic characteristics. Despite their small size, fruit flies have almost as many genes as humans and the genetics of humans and the fruit fly are similar. This is one of the reasons that fruit flies are studied for medical research.
Despite its small size, the fruit fly brain is incredibly complex, boasting 100,000 neurons that control the many behaviors of the fruit fly, including sleep, learning, memory, reproduction, eating, aggressive behavior, grooming, and flight. Fruit flies are known to fly several miles at a time in the desert looking for food. Scientists question how the fruit fly can fly for so long in difficult environments. Some scientists also believe that fruit flies use the sunlight as a guide for their travels. Evolutionists must explain how the fruit fly learned to travel for such long distances and how it guides itself through difficult environments. The ability to use sunlight for directions in flight should not be something that is learned over millions of years by chance but was an ability that was given to the fruit fly by divine creation.
Because the fruit fly reproduces so quickly, with up to 50 eggs per day, scientists should have noticed some "evolution" product within the last 100 years. The rapid rate of reproduction of fruit flies would have produced as many generations as any other species on Earth. Many laboratory experiments have been done to see if the fruit fly could "evolve" but despite many conditions being applied, the fruit flies did not evolve. Fruit flies are still fruit flies and have not evolved into something else or even experienced slight change in their morphology, despite their extremely rapid reproduction rate and over 100 years of observing these insects in the laboratory.