Fundamental Christians: Natural Selection?

Question

First, I'd like to say that I'm not arguing for any specific point, or trying to prove anything. I'm just wondering what you think.

Without natural selection, how did the human race change into many different races and colors, coming from only two people? How did we change to be the way we are, so that people are suited to live in different climates?

I'm just wondering how you think this occurs. If you think that it is caused by natural selection, does it seem reasonable that natural selection could produce different species?

Answer 1

I'm a Christian who believes in natural selection, after all it would be a bit daft not to. How else can anyone explain how various races of humans have adapted to suit their environment, such as dark skin for areas of high sun or extra fat for really cold parts of the world. Nowhere in my Bible does it say that God changed people to help them survive various environments. I like to think he created us capable of doing that for ourselves. I really don't understand why people have a problem with that.

Answer 2

Natural selection which basically means change within a kind has no contradiction with the Bible, in fact this is how we get our many kinds of animals, IE, different kinds of dogs, cats, horses, etc. As for human races, I'm not sure, but I think natural selection would make sense there. However, the idea of one kind giving birth to another kind is false and contrary to the first answer it has never been observed or will ever observed. Do I think that natural selection can produce different species, it depends on what you mean by specie. If you refer to species as the wolf coming from the dog family, then yes because they are still in the dog family and are from the same kind. If you are referring to one kind becoming a completely different kind then no. Cats will always have cats, dogs will always have dogs, humans will always have humans, etc. God bless.

Answer 3

Variations in any specie is a normal part of life.
DNA has enough variations to provide for many possibilities in any particular specie.

This explains white , back and every color and size person ever to exist.

But just as a dog cannot produce offspring with a cat , because of differences in the DNA ,, one species cannot evolve into another.

Genetic variation is possible evolution is not.

Unfortunately Darwin didn't appreciate this fact fully and so he came up with a different idea.

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Answer 4

Natural Selection does play a part in intra-species variations.

But to see it produce different species we'd have to wait a couple of million years!

I know this is fast age. People want everything fast but that's not how evolution works. It cannot be rushed.

Answer 5

I take it from your words you think Natural selection means evolution and I think you missed the point. Man evolves because he eats different foods and lives in different climates, but blood is a key factor that disproves your assumption. Try putting dogs blood in your body and see what happens or apes blood. But a man's blood no matter what his color or race can be the same as yours. This does not work with any other animal! and you may die if you try and put pigs blood in yourself.
Natural selection started in the Garden of Eden when Cain killed his brother to cut off the Superior race; the children of God. But since this didn't work he married into the Godly line; Genesis 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Your idea sounds reasonable except you forget the blood is the key element to disprove your statement, and this same blood gives you a nature to sin and disbelieve God's truth.

Answer 6

Most of them will say that that's microevolution and they accept that, but that "everything reproduces after its own kind," and that macroevolution is false because no speciation has occurred (although it has). The other funny/dumb thing about that argument is that not one person has ever been able to define "kind" in any kind of concrete, consistent way. They bend the meaning of the word to the situation. For example, they consider cats and dogs to be two different kinds (which would make kind = species/genus), but they consider ALL bacteria to be the same kind (the entire Monera kingdom (!)).

Also, microeovolution and macroevolution are the exact same process on different timescales, and they don't even realize it.

Answer 7

Here's the difference: every black man has the genetic information needed to make an Asian man, or a Native American, or a pale freckled Irish redhead. He does not, however, have the information needed to say, create a man who is bright purple with green polka dots. The genetic information simply isn't there, and natural selection isn't going to put it there. Natural selection can only work with what information is already available to it.

Answer 8

Evolution has been proven false (is only a theory). Evolution can be divided into two parts, macro and micro. Micro evolution is a fact, where as macro evolution remains a theory due to debates on the exact steps of the evolutionary process. EVOLUTION DID HAPPEN we simply can’t trace the exact evolutionary steps of the of the 3 trillion plus species on earth. Considering there is no way that we can even prove if we have located all the species on earth, this may always remain a theory. We can prove though, beyond a doubt, that humans have evolved. We can trace it back conclusively 3.6 million years. 97% of all scientists accept evolution (so does the Catholic Church). Christians have spread lies about this excessively, they especially like to say evolution preaches that Humans evolved from monkeys. Evolution does not state that humans evolved from monkeys, that idea is completely absurd. Science states that monkeys and humans evolved from a shared forefather and are hence relatives, (all primates are) but we are in no way direct descendants of them.

Answer 9

It's called DNA and gene selection.

When God confused all the languages at the tower of babel, people tended to congregate with others they could understand, and distance themselves from others that they could NOT understand.

Because of this, people began to move away, and marriages between same-language people groups resulted in recessive genes becoming dominant.

Thus, people in Africa are darker skinned than - say - Europeans, etc.

It's not because of the climate they moved to, otherwise, white parents living in Africa would produce black children. It just doesn't work that way.

I hope this helps.

Answer 10

I think natural selection happens. I think survival of the fittest happens. This all happens with the existing DNA of the species.

No new DNA is added with these processes. Since no new DNA is added, evolution of new species cannot happen with these processes.