Aching backs are not a result of evolution!

If you have spent even a few days laid up in bed with an aching back, you might have had someone tell you that humans get aching backs because we have not yet evolved far enough from our ape-like ancestors. “We should still be walking on all four limbs,” they say.

That explanation is quite silly. You only have to think about it for a minute to see the flaw. It's an all-purpose excuse that could be applied to any medical problem without proof.

Why not explain toothaches as incomplete evolution from apes' teeth? Earaches as incomplete evolution from apes' ears? Headaches as an evolutionary expansion of the brain? And so on.

(But how then would those who use this explanation explain why apes themselves get pains and other illnesses? Is it because apes have not yet evolved properly from their ancestors? Such an unprovable explanation simply shifts further back in time.)

Explanation unjustified

This evolution-based explanation is totally unjustified. Fortunately not all evolutionists support the idea. It has no more merit than blaming the tooth fairy for your toothache. Aches, pains, illness, and death are simply part of our fallen world.

Around four out of five people suffer backache at some time, yet 90 per cent recover within a few days to a few weeks. People suffer a wide array of other illnesses — colds and influenza are much more common — but no one blames them on our alleged ape-like ancestors.

Likewise, people suffer from kidney failure, tumors, skin cancer, heart disease, baldness, depression, and asthma. They too could surely be blamed on “imperfect evolution.” But doctors never say that. Someone obviously once thought that the evolution explanation for the back was good, and it spread. But it is no more than an unproven assumption.

American physical therapist Ronald Smail once pointed out the fallacy of the evolution idea when he said:

“The lumbar lordosis [forward curvature of the spine] is not a deformity with inherent strain from past evolutionary development. The lumbar spine is, instead, a most efficient means of supporting weight and providing for movement in erect, bipedal posture.” ¹

The postures that our spines assume when we are tired, discouraged, or just lazing around, are not the postures that Adam and Eve enjoyed when they first walked the earth and tended the uncorrupted garden.

Muscles and ligaments hold your spine together. They allow movement, and generally provide very efficient support.

There is no justification for believing that backaches
are a result of evolution.

Reference

1. Creation Ex Nihilo magazine, vol. 12 no. 4, p. 21.