Insect Non-Evolution

by Dr. Jerry Bergman

Dr. Jerry Bergman has conducted a review of the scientific literature regarding insect fossils and has concluded that there is a complete lack of evidence for the evolution of insects and other arthropods. He says that this is true although abundant numbers of insect examples have been found in amber, coal, volcanic ash, tar and other environments, dating all the way back to the Cambrian era.

According to Bergman, "Insect evolution is rarely discussed by Darwinists as evidence of macro-evolution in spite of the fact that arthropoda must have been a major area of evolution because fully 80 percent of all confirmed animal species-now close to 1.8 million-are insects…"

The lack of evidence does not mean that evolutionists have given up for there is a great amount of speculation in the field of insect evolution. For example, Andrei Brodsky says, The first 20 million years of insect evolution are "shrouded in mystery," in his book The Evolution of Insect Flight. In The Evolution of Life, Linda Gamlin and Gail Vines say that the arthropod fossil history dates back to "more than 600 million years, but, unfortunately, there are no fossils of their earliest ancestors." Ralph Buchsbamn, Mildred Buchsbaum, John Pearse, and Vicki Pearse say in their book, Animals without Backbones, "For as we 'turn the pages,' digging deeper and deeper in the rocks and expecting to find intermediate forms linking different phyla, we instead continue to find fossils of animals that are readily identifiable as animals that are living today... "

Conrad Labandeira, writing in the Encyclopedia of Paleontology, says that insects evolved from an unspecified lineage of crustaceans. He also says that there are several theories of insect wing evolution but only two now remain. The first, called the paranotal theory, "proposes that wings originated from rigid, lateral projections of thoracic terga that became enlarged..." However, "the... theory suffers from several deficits, including absence of evidence... " The second theory, called the epicoxal theory, speculates that "serially homologous protowings originated in semiaquatic insects from small appendages located above the leg bases... initially for purposes other than aerial flight." He then adds that such an intermediate stage "by which gills or other homologous lateral structures could have been converted to functional aerial wings has always been challenging."

Bergman's complete text, including discussions of attempts by evolutionists to explain the existence of folding wings, compound eyes, metamorphosis, etc., will soon be published in a major technical journal.