Ice cream and spoiled beef, clorox bleach and antifreeze.
Have you ever wondered why you have taste buds?
Eating lunch suddenly became a problem in trying to understand our supposed evolutionary structure. It seems that if the separating factor is survival of the fittest, our sense of taste has gone disastrously wrong. According to an article on Bio-Medicine.org, "The endless struggle for survival in nature inevitably boils down to finding food and eluding predators." (1)
If evolution is true, why do we have taste buds?
Taste buds are almost entirely worthless in the evolutionary sense.
Ok, imagine this -- you are suddenly cast into a primitive food-finding area (which could just mean there is no supermarket nearby). You know that some plants/foods are poisonous, while others are safe and beneficial. You put one in your mouth, and it tastes . . . good. Sorry friend, but your evolutionary mechanics just killed you.
Good!? Why does it taste good? Why does it make you smile or frown? If evolution is true, I would expect it to taste either harmful or prosperous. Why does my body make a distinction between an apple and an orange, but has some trouble between parsnips and poison hemlock? (2)
Taste buds often fool and mislead us. It is not uncommon for us to like what is really poison, and dislike that which is good for us. Antifreeze tastes very good, but is a deadly poison. While you are preparing to reply that it is man-made, I am pondering all of the natural plants that are the same way. Many (if not most) of the best-for-you vegetables taste so nasty that we could not choke them down (and they are not sold in stores because no one would buy them). The taste of some might even cause us to vomit them up again. Why has our evolution so destroyed us?
What benefit is there to taste? To be beneficial, taste ought to detect the difference between poison and non-poison.
But taste buds give like and dislike, enjoyment, pleasure, and disgust. None of these are survival instincts. How did something like this come through the survival of the fittest? Why something so worthless to our survival? Why don't we only detect poison, or protein, or indigestibility?
But if there is a God who created us in His image--
If we were modeled after a God who has likes and dislikes, enjoyments, pleasures, and disgusts--
Why, then it makes perfect sense.
(1) http://news.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-3/Can-a-taste-for-poison-drive-speciation-3F-1817-1/
(2) http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/weedguide/singlerecord.asp?id=550
http://webecoist.com/2008/09/16/16-most-unassuming-yet-lethal-killer-plants/
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