The Collapse of Darwinism: How Medical Science Proves Evolution by Natural Selection Is a Failed Theory

Author:Bredemeier, Greg [Bredemeier, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781512733723
Publisher: WestBow Press
Published: 2016-03-22T16:00:00+00:00

Sleep and Memory

Why would evolution favor taking the brain offline, and therefore giving up vigilance unless it were absolutely necessary for the brain itself? If the primary function of sleep were to promote good digestion or some other physiological function of tissues and organs outside of the nervous system, why would it be necessary to give up vigilance and even consciousness to accomplish that function?

---Craig Heller278

The introductory quote for this section is an insightful observation, one that leads to a valid question. Darwinian evolution is all about survival. Nothing will get you killed faster than inattention, let alone a complete absence of awareness. If sleep is a phenomenon that evolved, then it appears to have done so without any consideration to or contribution from the perspective of survival. If sleep is so important that it requires taking consciousness offline, then what exactly does sleep do?

There are no humans or other vertebrates that do not sleep. The inability to sleep is incompatible with life. There is one disease called fatal familial insomnia (FFI), which was discovered in a man living in Venice in 1765. FFI is actually a prion infectious disease similar to Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, Kuru, and mad cow disease. In the case of fatal familial insomnia, the unfortunate Venetian man developed a bad case of insomnia over the course of three to four months. This led to worsening sleep deprivation, hallucinations, and psychotic behavior. Even though the victim became overwhelmingly fatigued, he could not make the transition from wakefulness to sleep and became demented, unresponsive, and eventually died about eighteen months from initial symptom onset.279

We humans spend 30 percent of our lives sleeping. But despite the prevalence of sleep in our lives, we know very little about it. Medically, we are in a phase of learning what sleep does rather than how sleep works, although much work is being done at the molecular, cellular, gross anatomical, and physiologic levels. That being said, we do have some idea of what sleep actually is. I will present sleep from two physiologic perspectives. I will examine what sleep does in the brain and then in the rest of the body. But before getting too excited about discovering the secrets of sleep, I would like to quote two neuroscientists. Wang tells us that besides restorative properties and saving energy, "Those are things that sleep is good for, but it's still not fundamentally known why it is that all vertebrate animals sleep."280

Heller says something similar. "The function of sleep in general and REM sleep in particular remains a mystery, and will keep sleep researchers busy for many years to come."281 I find this all remarkable, considering every human spends eight hours a day sleeping in order to survive. Sleep deprivation leads to death. Why do we know so little about a vital physiologic function? This lack of knowledge is the tip of a very large iceberg of human anatomy and physiology that we take for granted, yet Darwinists claim to understand all of this.

Two hypotheses for sleep show a direct effect on the brain.

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