Variation and Natural Selection in Biological Systems
by Owen Borville
December 2, 2018
Bible
Creationists accept natural selection and believe that animals were designed to adapt to their environment. As animals travelled around the world they needed to adapt to their environment. Some species and kinds did not survive due to harsh environmental conditions and changing climate patterns but those species and kinds that did survive were able to adapt to the environment in which they live. However, creationists believe that kinds stay kinds and that there are only a few thousand kinds. Creationists do not believe in macroevolution where single-celled organisms eventually evolve into humans. The ark needed even fewer kinds as variations have emerged in the last 4,500 years. Smaller animals reproduce much more rapidly than larger ones within 4,500 years, such as insects compared to elephants. There are fewer elephants than insects today, indicating that insects and smaller species seem to reproduce easier than larger ones.
Environmental Conditions Do Not Cause Evolution
Creationists believe that environmental conditions can affect living organisms but these factors are irrelevant to genetics and do not create new genetic information. Conditions such as exposure to sunlight can produce darker skin in an organism but this environmental condition is not passed onto future generations by genetics. Organisms that have darker skin as a result of sun exposure during their lifetimes will not pass or transfer this feature to their offspring. Charles Darwin erroneously believed that variations in genetic traits caused by environmental conditions could be inherited and this belief led to his theory of evolution.
Variation Caused by Genetic Recombination of Existing Genes
Creationists have shown that one cause of variation in biological species is caused by a genetic recombination of existing genes and not by newly "evolved" genes. No new information or traits are created but only a reshuffling of current genes occurs in living organisms. This reshuffling of genes causes offspring to have similar characteristics of their parents without being identical. Gregor Mendel is given credit for his work in genetics that showed that variation is caused by recombination of existing genes. Mendel's work on genetic traits of pea plants showed that these traits sometimes skip generations but are not lost and reappear in later generations. While evolutionists claim that new traits form, creationists explain that these traits were always included in the genes as part of an original special creation and are not new traits. While evolutionists describe the process of genetic recombination as a random accident, creationists describe recombination as part of an intelligent design. Creationists explain this recombination or reshuffling of existing genes as part of a "limited variation" because traits can only be produced from the collection of existing genes. The variation of Darwin's finches can be explained by the recombination principle as a few individual "kinds" came from South America to the Galapagos Islands and today's variation of finches are a result of the recombination of genes inside these few originals to the islands. While Darwin and mainstream science uses the finches as evidence for evolution, creationists explain that the variation in the finches is a result of the reshuffling of the existing, originally created genes from these original finches that came to the islands.
by Owen Borville
December 2, 2018
Bible
Creationists accept natural selection and believe that animals were designed to adapt to their environment. As animals travelled around the world they needed to adapt to their environment. Some species and kinds did not survive due to harsh environmental conditions and changing climate patterns but those species and kinds that did survive were able to adapt to the environment in which they live. However, creationists believe that kinds stay kinds and that there are only a few thousand kinds. Creationists do not believe in macroevolution where single-celled organisms eventually evolve into humans. The ark needed even fewer kinds as variations have emerged in the last 4,500 years. Smaller animals reproduce much more rapidly than larger ones within 4,500 years, such as insects compared to elephants. There are fewer elephants than insects today, indicating that insects and smaller species seem to reproduce easier than larger ones.
Environmental Conditions Do Not Cause Evolution
Creationists believe that environmental conditions can affect living organisms but these factors are irrelevant to genetics and do not create new genetic information. Conditions such as exposure to sunlight can produce darker skin in an organism but this environmental condition is not passed onto future generations by genetics. Organisms that have darker skin as a result of sun exposure during their lifetimes will not pass or transfer this feature to their offspring. Charles Darwin erroneously believed that variations in genetic traits caused by environmental conditions could be inherited and this belief led to his theory of evolution.
Variation Caused by Genetic Recombination of Existing Genes
Creationists have shown that one cause of variation in biological species is caused by a genetic recombination of existing genes and not by newly "evolved" genes. No new information or traits are created but only a reshuffling of current genes occurs in living organisms. This reshuffling of genes causes offspring to have similar characteristics of their parents without being identical. Gregor Mendel is given credit for his work in genetics that showed that variation is caused by recombination of existing genes. Mendel's work on genetic traits of pea plants showed that these traits sometimes skip generations but are not lost and reappear in later generations. While evolutionists claim that new traits form, creationists explain that these traits were always included in the genes as part of an original special creation and are not new traits. While evolutionists describe the process of genetic recombination as a random accident, creationists describe recombination as part of an intelligent design. Creationists explain this recombination or reshuffling of existing genes as part of a "limited variation" because traits can only be produced from the collection of existing genes. The variation of Darwin's finches can be explained by the recombination principle as a few individual "kinds" came from South America to the Galapagos Islands and today's variation of finches are a result of the recombination of genes inside these few originals to the islands. While Darwin and mainstream science uses the finches as evidence for evolution, creationists explain that the variation in the finches is a result of the reshuffling of the existing, originally created genes from these original finches that came to the islands.