Eat, Fast, Feast: Heal Your Body While Feeding Your Soul—A Christian Guide to Intermittent Fasting

by Jay W. Richards

Darwinism, in contrast, is a Procrustean bed. It requires us to assume that our entire metabolic systems—which can switch between different sources of energy, adjust to different kinds and amounts of food, balance our need to find food with the need to store and conserve energy, and so forth—was an adaptation to food scarcity. Remember, Darwin’s mechanism has no foresight. It’s blind. It can’t think, Humans will someday spread out across the globe into many different ecosystems, with wildly varying types of food supplies. Let’s evolve a complex system to thrive on wildly different diets—from the whale blubber and organ meat diet of the Inuit to the carby tubers of the Kitavans. No, the mechanism had to cobble together all that flexibility, all that capacity, from our earliest ancestors one tiny glitch at a time, as adaptations to the environment, with no planning ahead for future exigencies. That’s because the mechanism can only select for current survival advantage. It can’t build a working, interdependent system ahead of time. Foresight, however, can. And there’s the rub. Foresight is the exclusive domain of intelligent agents. Man’s capacity to rapidly adapt to different diets has about it, in other words, the look of a plan.