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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/adoptiot/biblestudy.church/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Evolutionary theory <\/b>describes that, over a very long time period, all life can be traced back to a common source. There is no explanation for how life started, but prior to this all molecules also evolved \/ developed from the simplest element, hydrogen.<\/p>\n
Biblical Creation <\/b>describes life being created by God. All life can be traced back to the \u201cKinds\u201d described in Genesis \u2013 both at the time of creation and also each kind being saved by Noah at the time of the flood. All life on earth can be traced back to these original kinds \u2013 including \u201cmankind\u201d.<\/p>\n We can see that the description of Kinds, which over time through selection (or speciation) become more specialised species is consistent with the Bible. When we speak with scientists about Natural Selection, they will provide you with examples that are consistent with this model. However, they will not provide you with examples that explain the general theory of evolution (the picture on the left above). In other words, they will explain how a wolf can become more specialised to (e.g. heat or cold), but cannot explain how wolves came in to being in the first place.<\/p>\n To paraphrase C.S.Lewis:<\/p>\n A slow miracle is as incredible as a fast miracle<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The full title of Charles Darwin\u2019s 1859 book is: \u201cOn the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life\u201d.<\/p>\n This means that \u2018nature\u2019 preserves those individuals that are best suited to the environment in which they live.<\/p>\n (Darwin did not include humans in his original book \u201con the origin of species,\u201d this was not until 12 years later in the book \u201cthe descent of man\u201d. This enabled the theory to gain acceptance before being extended to humans.)<\/p>\n Natural Selection is a simple concept and appears very logical and straightforward. Those creatures with features that are suited to surviving in a given environment will survive better than those that do not have those features.<\/p>\n For example.Wolves with small ears, short legs and thick coat will tend to survive better in the Arctic. Long legs, larger ears and thin coat are suited to hotter climates.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Darwin, himself, said that \u2018nature\u2019 is not sentient, and so does not select, but Natural Selection is a convenient phrase for the survival or death of individuals and genes.<\/p>\n The idea is that small variations (mutations) are always occurring \u2013 those with favoured variations survive\u2026 this propels an organism towards an entirely different organism\u2026 given enough time.<\/p>\n Natural Selection was the only mechanism proposed by Darwin. It is used by biologists to describe \u201cdifferential reproduction\u201d (as above).<\/p>\n The \u2018fittest\u2019 are, therefore, the ones that produce the most surviving offspring.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Evolution includes the concepts:<\/p>\n In combining these, Darwin\u2019s theory involved the formation of new species, which is speciation. As we saw above this consistent with Biblical Creation. Speciation involves the origin of, for example, a variety of rabbit that no longer breeds with its ancestor rabbits (or birds that no longer breed with their ancestor birds). Darwin assumed that the variation seen between species was limitless, so that natural selection could change a microbe into a mongoose over a very long period of time.<\/p>\n This brings us to the first issue with the General Theory of Evolution (GTE): it is a huge leap to go from looking at variations in an existing feature (fur length, beak characteristics) to explaining the origin of beaks themselves. Variations in wolves do not explain the origin of wolves. Whilst speciation (the Special Theory of Evolution) is observable, the GTE is not.<\/p>\n As far back as 1980, a report in Science on a conference of evolutionary biologists at the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History, said: \u201cThe central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear, No\u201d.<\/p>\n Professor G.A. Kerkut said: it is not clear whether the changes that bring about speciation are of the same nature as those that brought about the development of new phyla [major divisions of living things, of which there are about 80, including microbes].<\/p>\n In other words:<\/p>\n \u201cPhyla\u201d could be thought of as corresponding to major divisions of living things, i.e. \u201cKinds\u201d which are described in Genesis<\/b><\/p>\n Animals start out with genes to support a broad range of characteristics (a range of hair lengths, leg lengths, etc).<\/p>\n The animals move to, or are placed in, a specific environmental situation (e.g. heat, cold, predators that hunt in a particular way).<\/p>\n The animal responds by specialising to the particular environment \u2013 losing the ability to return to other environments (e.g. penguins can no longer return to flying, polar bears are specialised to the arctic). This speciation means that the genes which enable it to return to other environments have now been lost (i.e. this is a loss of genetic diversity).<\/p>\n This is the same for all species\u2026 they have lost the genetic diversity that was present when there were only <\/i><\/b>\u201cKinds\u201d or \u201cPhyla\u201d\u2026 <\/i><\/b>the examples that are normally provided are not General Theory of Evolution they are simply <\/i><\/b>Speciation \/ STE \/ Natural Selection \u2013 <\/i><\/b>which is consistent with Genesis<\/i><\/b>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Natural Selection operates on the genetic information already present in a population \u2013 it does not create new genetic information (genetic variation). <\/i><\/b>This loss of genetic variation is described in more detail in the previous post in this series, covering the Laws of Thermodynamics<\/a>. Introduction Evolutionary theory describes that, over a very long time period, all life can be traced back to a common source. There is no explanation for how life started, but prior to this all molecules also evolved \/ developed from the simplest element, hydrogen. Biblical Creation describes life being created by God. 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Introducing Natural Selection<\/h1>\n
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What is Natural Selection (or Speciation)?<\/h1>\n
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In Summary<\/h1>\n
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