The Gender Hypothesis

The common belief is that gender, the division of higher forms of life into male and female, came into being to facilitate reproduction. I have come to just the opposite conclusion, that life was created by God, rather than coming about by random evolution, and that gender was actually created to slow down reproduction to avoid catastrophic overpopulation.

Stop and think for a moment about the supposed evolutionary process that some believe to have created life on earth. What could possibly be the evolutionary benefit to having male and female to reproduce? Mitosis, the reproduction method in single cells by simple division into two cells, would be far more efficient. Even aside from mitosis, it would be far simpler to have all necessary reproductive equipment in each and every body without having to go through the much more complex arrangement that we have today.

The reason that I believe God created this more complex and thus slower and less efficient process is the simple fact that there is a limited number of atoms available on earth to constitute biomass. The simple goal of the supposed evolutionary process is just to reproduce as quickly as possible to facilitate the survival of the species. But this would almost certainly result in a few species that could reproduce rapidly taking over the available atoms for biomass.

But when this more complex, and thus slower, reproductive arrangement was brought into being, it limited the chances for gross overpopulation and so ensured that there would be enough bioatoms to go around. For the same reason, God created the higher predators to control the numbers of species lower on the food chain and keep the limited number of bioatoms in circulation in earth's biosphere.

This limiting of quick reproduction to prevent gross overpopulation and ensure that there is enough bioatoms available to maintain the environment as God wanted it is something that could not possibly come about by evolutionary process alone without the creation of God. The only thing that evolution "cares" about is quick reproduction to pass along the genes. Thus, the environment must have been created by God.

For life on earth as we know it to operate, it is necessary that the vast majority of biomass be in plants, rather than animals. If animals were able to reproduce several times faster than they do, it would upset this balance. Even many plants require pollinization to reproduce, which I believe serves to make it more complex, and thus slower.

Getting male and female together to bring about reproduction is a very inefficient process in comparison with other possible evolutionary alternatives, but that is the idea of it. Gender slows reproduction instead of enhancing it. This inefficiency is part of the plan to avoid gross overpopulation and conserve the supply of bioatoms.

Life could not possibly "evolve" to reproduce more slowly in order to conserve bioatoms. It makes no evolutionary sense to consider the big picture of the limited supply of suitable atoms. This can only be considered as proof that God created the earth and all the life on it and made the higher forms of life into male and female to slow reproduction.

If evolutionary theory revolves around the survival of the fittest and the passing along of genes by reproduction and the continuous improvement of the process by random chance then why do higher forms of life have roughly equal numbers of males and females? If the basic idea of this idea is to guarantee the survival of the species by passing along the genes, then our present system of equal numbers of males and females in the higher species makes not a bit of evolutionary sense. Males and females are far from equal in the reproductive game, the role of the female is far greater.

The rate of reproduction, which is the goal according to evolutionary theory, is limited by the gestation period. The process would be much more efficient if females outnumbered males by at least a dozen to one. If it is a simple matter of chromosomes whether a baby is male or female so that they turn out about equal in number, why did not natural selection make the process much more efficient so that females vastly outnumbered males? This would make far more evolutionary sense.

In contrast to evolutionary theory, the Bible states that it is to be one man with one woman. This means that the two must be approximately equal in number and this is the way it is even though it completely contradicts the tenets of evolutionary theory. Not only that, this also limits the possibility of destructive overpopulation because there is only a limited number of bioatoms in the environment. This is something that the evolutionary process would take no account of.