If you go to a zoo these days, you will be thoroughly indoctrinated in evolutionary thought at the numerous exhibits and displays. Evolution is presented, not as a theory to be considered, but as a fact to be accepted, and a fact that no one with any knowledge of science would ever dispute.

At its heart, the evolutionary theory maintains that species will improve over long periods of time as the individual creatures with weaknesses die out, and the ones with strengths thrive and propagate their strengths to the next generations. Weakness dies. Strength lives. Natural selection and survival of the fittest, you know.

Yet despite what they teach, zoos regularly act contrary to these evolutionary principles and strive to protect and save the very creatures that have proved themselves unable to adapt and survive. Zoos create an artificial refuge for these animals that have proven that they are unable to survive on their own, and are therefore, according to evolutionary dogma, unfit to live.

As a specific example of a zoo not following evolutionary doctrine, recently, a Czech zoo operated on a cheetah to replace its bad hip.

PRAGUE (AFP) - A cheetah at a Czech zoo has become the first in the world to be fitted with an artificial hip, the zoo’s vet Vaclav Pozivil said.

The two-year-old cheetah called Jane, who lives at the zoo in Usti nad Labem in the north of the country, had been suffering from a congenital disorder of a hip joint….

“Without an operation, Jane would have been condemned to a gradual loss of mobility, and would have had to be put down in the end,” said Pozivil….

The cheetah was doomed to die because of a congenital hip disorder. Her hip was not bad due to an accident, but do to an inherited flaw that she can pass on to her offspring. If you follow the principles of evolution, you will let her die without a thought.

Why spend any effort to further the life of a creature that isn’t fit to live, and that has a disorder that if she is allowed to live, she can pass on to her offspring?

I contend that it is only a Christian world view that can justify such treatment of a flawed animal. God has given to mankind the responsibility to care for the world and its creatures. With this world view, it is logical to care for this specific ailing cheetah because we have a responsibility before God for her.

Zoos continue to preach that evolution is true and that inexorably the creatures that are weak and not able to adapt will die and those that can adapt will thrive and carry on. Thankfully, zoos don’t practice what they preach.