Bighorn Sheep and Devolution

The bighorn sheep, Ovis canadensis, is a familiar figure to many. It can be found in much of North America, especially foothills of the Rocky Mountains and chaparral. Trophy hunters in camouflaged tuques have been disappointed in their diminishing horns. Blame it on — evolution?

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Apparently, believers in universal common descent do not learn very well from their mistakes, and many lack knowledge of their own mythology. Elephants are losing their tusks. Therefore, evolution. These jaspers are so determined to believe in evolution and reject the Creator that they consider loss of characteristics to be evidence for their belief systems.

The loss of eyes in blind cave fish was called evolution, as well as the fact that some elephants are going tuskless. Darwin's acolytes want it both ways: losing genetic information is evolution, and so would be the addition of traits. So much hunting (tightly regulated and very expensive), so bighorn sheep grew smaller horns as an "evolutionary response". (Critters can apparently choose how to evolve?) No, effectively throwing chlorine into the gene pool does not make Darwin right.

Trophy hunters making the pilgrimage to Canada’s Ram Mountain, Alberta, home to the world’s biggest bighorn sheep, are being increasingly disappointed. Ram Mountain has long been a magnet for sport shooters of North America’s mountain sheep, but rams with the large horns so highly prized by hunters are now hard to find.

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But such is the decline in horn size of Ram Mountain’s rams, that in recent years hunters have gone home empty-handed, not having found any sheep with horns larger than the minimum regulation size.

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