The Missing Evolutionary Advantage

There is one question about evolutionary theory that gets very little attention. If the whole purpose of living beings is to survive long enough to pass on their genes to future generations, and some creatures, by random chance, just happen to be born with desirable characteristics making this more likely, such as better eyesight or running speed, what about those favorable (favourable) characteristics which could have easily developed but didn't?

If living beings got the way they are today by the long, random process of gradual improvement from creatures less well-suited for survival, there is one very simple adaptation that could have and should have taken place. It would have given tremendous survival advantages to any being that must watch out for predators and natural enemies. If this simple adaptation had occurred, it would have given such an advantage to any being that was blessed with it that it would have drastically changed the balance of nature from what we see today.

According to all that evolution is supposed to be about, it should have been implemented into living things eons ago. Yet, there is not the slightest evidence that it ever was. This missing advantage that I am referring to is an additional eye in the back of the head.

For any creature of any description that must contend with predators or enemies, which is just about every being, having such an additional eye would immeasurably increase it's chances for survival and passing along it's genes to future generations that would also have the advantage. Predators would learn to seek out those unfortunate creatures born without this advanatge to prey on, decreasing their chances to survive and pass along their genes.

All higher creatures of any description today have two parallel eyes. The reason for having two eyes and for having them laterally parallel is obvious, two eyes in this arrangement provide better judgement of distance and motion than one eye alone would. This is supposedly why two lateral eyes became the norm by evolutionary progress. However, the presence of a third eye in the back of the head to warn of approaching danger would provide much more of an increase in the chances of survival to pass on the genes than the second eye would.

According to evolutionary theory, during the endless hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary experimentation to find the fittest for survival life forms, eyes developed and moved all over the bodies by random chance until the present arrangement of two laterally parallel eyes emerged as the best plan. Yet, it is clear that no possible development could offer such survival advantages as an eye in the back of the head. If evolutionary theory is true, we should see at least some creatures today with this great advantage, but we don't.

In the wild, few animals live out their natural life span. Most become lunch for something higher up on the food chain and most of these before they are old enough to pass along their genes. The deciding factor in any encounter between prey and predator is whether the prey becomes aware of the predator in time to escape with it's life. What happens depends on the length of time between when predator sees prey and when prey sees predator. No simple adaptation could possibly help the prey more than an eye in the back of it's head. Yet, we see no evidence of this whatsoever.

I have recently spent some time watching hawks. They slowly cruise around about twenty to thirty meters up without flapping their wings to draw less attention. Hawks seem to like hunting around mid-day so they can hide in the glare of the sun. They scan the ground below and wait for some unsuspecting creature to get a little careless.

How about cheetahs? After spotting some prey, they sneak up as close as possible to the prey. As soon as they see that the prey has noticed them, they put on a burst of speed and run the prey down.

If the prey sought by such predators had an eye in the back of their heads, the entire balance of nature would be dramatically shifted. This simple adaptation to existing body plans should have been universal by now. Not only has that not happened, but there is not the slightest evidence that such a tremendous advantage has ever been implemented, except in insects.

This tells me that, while adaptation over generations has certainly taken place, no "evolution" as is commonly believed, has taken place. This means that life must have been created by God. God created nature as it is today, with predator and prey, to keep a check on the numbers of the lower forms of life in order to keep too much biomass from being locked up in their bodies so that higher forms, such as humans, could not exist.