Creationists: Do you really understand what Evolution through Natural Selection is?

Question

Nature is prolific, there are many more organisms that are born that nature can support. Those organisms, quite by accident, that are selected which have the charactics to survive do. The ones that, quite randomly, do not have those attributes do not survive.

I know you may use the "watchmaker" arguement. That the finest pocketwatch, which was made by us, doesn't come close to a single celled organism .The arguement then that the more complex organims were created by someone smarter than us. Evolution can explain the same thing, given enough time.

It's hard for anyone to see evolution on a planet wide scale. Humans only live around 80 years, and life has been evolving for 4 billion. All life is made of the same basic elements. If you go back far enough, you will find that all biological life, plants and animals, humans included, are related.

Plus the fossils don't lie, if humans lived at the time of the dinosaurs, then how come you can't find any human fossils?

Answer 1

Problem is, statistically, there STILL hasn't been enough time elapsed to randomly create life. Remember, 'good' mutations only get passed on if they ar IMMEDIATELY useful. A mousetrap without any single part WILL NOT FUNCTION. That's why directed evolution is the only form that makes any sense.

Answer 2

Yes I do, but just because I understand it, it doesn't mean that I agree with it. (Check out Darwin's Black Box for the theistic argument against evolution based on microbiology)

As for the fossil issue, as an Old Earth creationist, I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the account in Genesis 1 is not to be taken as meaning 7 twenty four hours days, but rather phases of creation with many millions (and some billions) of years in between the 'days.' As animals were created in this time before humanity appeared, in my worldview there is plenty of time for fossils.

Answer 3

if you can understand natural selection with evolution, why can't you understand natural selection on its own?

fossils, as any rational thinker should know, occur under special circumstances. So if a human bone wasn't fossilized, then logically you won't find a fossil. or if the bones completely disintegrated during the fossilization period (natural degeneration, unstable fossil preservation conditions) there will be no fossil.

everything in science is speculation. you still don't have those missing links between man and ape, and no one's brought forth a complete and unflawed genetic line of human beings. as far as I'm concerned, neanderthal man was either a misfit homosapien, or an extinct ape. not in-between.

Answer 4

Yes, I do understand evolution and that is why I reject it, the probability that it can't happen is too great. The given enough time argument is ridiculous as it just takes the probability against evolution and makes a way for it to happen. It is driven by the desire for it to be true. Also fails miserably to explain particle to person evolution, it just postulates, "well maybe this is what happened". Doesn't explain how the universe came to be, the existence of which is the most convincing to me of the existence of a "special creation."

Answer 5

The biggest argument against evolution is that it isn't viewable. It's a theory, not a proven fact because we can't see it given our average life span.

Natural selection is evolution's way of sneaking in the back door of creationism trying to make it more acceptable or palatable.

I'm not trying to be a smart aleck here or sarcastic, but it has always driven me nuts that more and more of evolution's theories keep changing or re-evaluating while the creationism school just keeps plugging away with what they have as far as evidence and their idea remains concrete while evolution slides around on shifting sands. Creationism stands firm while evolution keeps tossing out new theories. And no one sees that or questions it.

If evolution knows how we came about in the primordial soup, then I want to see them create life (all life) from that soup. There's enough theories out there, surely one of them would work. I want to see it. Seriously.

Answer 6

If nature is so God Awfully intellegent and Wonderful, why hasn't it made man extinct.

Man is trying AWFULLY hard to kill nature!

In the time it took you to read this, hundreds of trees in a South American rainforrest have been chopped down to build a parking lot.

It would strike me if NATURE is THAT selective, that MAN should be on natures hit list!

The world would be a lot better off without us!

Answer 7

Evolution is a philosophy of creation made up to fill the gaps. It is in another sense a modern day nature worshipping cult, attributing magical powers and abilites to nature, belief in forces as the gods, animals that change shapes. The truth of the matter is that anybody who believes that has truly suspended their rational thinking and handed over their minds to others to manipulate. Here is one article you might enjoy.
http://www.icr.org/article/2033/

Answer 8

the first concept grow to be like this: the ecosystem workouts a stress on living beings, in order that that they regulate their body to evolve them to the ecosystem. at the same time as this concept grow to be proved incorrect through experiments it grow to be abandoned and it grow to get replaced through a sparkling one. in accordance to Neo-Darwinism it isn't the stress of our ecosystem that triggers genetic differences, yet those take position by probability and the ecosystem basically make the improvements proper and not in any respect the different. at the same time as mathematics (the regulation of probabilities) proved that the opportunity of even a minor helpful genetic substitute are decrease than 0 (the age of the universe is yet a fragment of the type of years had to have those variations take position by probability) the concept of Necessity grow to be presented. it is, impossible activities did in reality take position because it grow to be needed for them to take position. that is why this second concept isn't a lot less "improvable" then the first.

Answer 9

You can see new life evolve in bacteria and viruses. They cange and adapt frequntly to their environment, that is why we need to keep developing new antibiotics to try and kill them before they kill us.
CREATION theory changes also. It used to say the Sun revolved around the earth, the earth was the center of the universe and it was flat. no one really thinks that now thanks to science and Galilleo (who had to recant his ideas or face death from the christians.

Answer 10

I know you mean well. This would be like me explaining plane geometry to my golden retriever.