How does creation explain new species appearing throughout history?

Question

The Bible never says anything about continually making new species. So wouldn't all species have to have been here from day one? How then are species that have appeared in the last ohh...65 million years explained?

such as...hmm...idk...all mammals!

Answer 1

Creationism doesn't explain new species appearing throughout history.

Answer 2

There has been no new "kinds" -as the Bible calls them- of creatures that have been "made" since creation. Man may discover a species or "kind" that is new to us, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there before. Nothing is being created; just invented or procreated or discovered or produced. Appearing doesn't mean created, simply discovered. How do evolutionists explain the fact that a creature they claimed was extinct millions of years ago was found alive and well in the Sea of Japan?IE: the trilobyte

Answer 3

Creation allows for adaptation within a species. For example in my family there are all shades and appearances of people, short tall, blonde, red,black brown, curley, straight hair, fat thin, but they are all still human. This is also the case with the species at large. Birds are still birds, cats are still cats. That is why scientists are able to identify what they find because except for the things which have become extinct, many of the ancient finds resemble modern creatures. (Mosquitos, roaches, frogs..)

Answer 4

How is it that evolutionist are able to accept the adaptation of species to their environment without the existance of a higher being in charge of the whole thing? Do they believe that fish are smart enough to grow legs and start walking? That seems more than a little far fetched.

Answer 5

A new weed species—does it prove Creation wrong?

by Philip Bell, AiG–UK

3 March 2003

Two British scientists have just reported their findings of a new species of a type of weed known as a groundsel. The title of their paper1 seems innocuous enough, merely stating that this new weed—Senecio eboracensis—is a hybrid between two other groundsel species. Yet a commentary in The Times of London proudly proclaimed this as a demonstration of ‘evolution in action’. Furthermore, in a not-too-subtle stab at believers in Biblical Creation, the author stated that the weed’s discovery confirms that ‘Darwin was right and the creationists are wrong’!2

But does the formation of a new species (i.e. ‘speciation’) really conflict with Scripture? Not at all, as we have repeatedly shown. Rapid diversification within the Genesis kinds—including speciation—is a specific prediction of the Creation model

Following the global Flood at the time of Noah, plants, animals and people spread out into the new world, and adaptation to new habitats and niches would be expected. God’s created capacity for genetic variability, coupled with the stresses and challenges of new and changeable environments in the post-Flood world, is likely to have resulted in many new varieties of creatures—but this is not evolution of the ‘big-picture’ sort that is required to turn fish into frogs or badgers into biologists.

Interestingly, the Times article stated:

‘The creation of new species can takes [sic] thousands of years, making it too slow for science to detect.’

However, this evolutionary belief does not fit with documented cases of speciation events occurring well within a human life-time
In this particular case, the hybrid weed, dubbed the York Groundsel,3 is apparently unable to breed back to either of its parent species, the Common Groundsel and the Oxford Ragwort.4 This reproductive isolation is not evolution of the sort which would be capable of eventually turning microbes into magnolias and microbiologists. That sort of change requires the generation of new genetic information in the DNA. Rather, a hybrid—or cross between two species—results from the recombination of existing information from both parent species; no new information has been generated (see also Ligers and wholphins? What next?). What the Times article also fails to mention is that Dr Richard Abbott (who co-authored the paper about the York Groundsel) has previously reported that the Oxford Ragwort parent species is actually itself a hybrid and ‘not a true species’.5

Darwin was correct to point out that natural selection may produce new varieties of organisms, which might then sometimes even go so far as to generate new species. However, he mistakenly extended his biological observations as part of his grand theory to explain the origin of the major kinds/types of plants and animals. To promote this ‘scruffy little weed’ as answering the ‘Creation or evolution?’ question, shows a very superficial understanding of what creationists actually believe, and more importantly, what the Bible actually says, (Genesis 1:11):

‘And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.’

In the last analysis, groundsels breeding groundsels is not evolution—that’s groundless!

And, by the way, that would be about 6000 years, not 65 million or billion, or trillion.

Answer 6

Most of the religious will say that they didn't. They'll tell you that evolution didn't exist so all those animals, even the extinct ones, existed all at the same time.

I had one religious girl tell me in real life that satan put those bones into the dirt to cause doubt in god (what a complete idiot).

Creation doesn't explain the development of species. It's why it's so foolish.

Answer 7

name one.

Also I'm pretty sure that world has not been around for 65 million years... every animal was created at the same time. Maybe not discovered by a human, but created.

Answer 8

They really do not know how old the earth is. But anyway I think the species have been here all along and humans are just finding them they say on discovery that they know the new thing they discover have been here they are just finding them.

Answer 9

Actually all species were here by day seven, not day one. We find "new" species all the time, that doesn't mean anything. They are new to us, not the world. God can create or destroy whatever He pleases...so not sure what the point of your question is. BTW your time frame is laughable.

Answer 10

Whoever said that Creation stops anyway?? The Bible doesn't say "ALL species" were here from Day One...

It's an on-going process, isn't it?

Peace be with you.