Creationists: how can microevolution exist but not macroevolution?

Question

In your own words, explain to me the biological or logical barriers that prevent the latter from taking place.

After all, if you assert that microevolution is possible, but macroevolution isn't, then it becomes necessary to specify where the boundary is which supposedly cannot be crossed.

j h: elaborate on those facts, please. I want to hear some examples of them.

Answer 1

The change must produce an increase of new genetic information. Without new genetic information that did not previously exist, simpler forms will never evolve to higher forms. Take for example a wingless creature such as a mouse has no genetic information for wings. According to the theory of evolution it can undergo millions of years of mutation which will then create the new genetic information for wings, and given enough time we will have flying mice. Of all the supposed proofs of evolution, not a single one shows an increase of new information in the genome. Every example of a mutation shows a loss of information that will ultimately lead towards extinction rather than evolution!

Another issue is that the 'tree of life" or lots of small changes equal a greater one has another obvious flaw. Darwin's theory cannot explain how so many different animal types sprang into existence during the relatively short period of Earth history known as the Cambrian explosion. Its like the "big Bang" of the history of life on this planet! Why does the fossil record actually show all species first appearing fully formed, with most nearly identical to current instances of the species?

Edit: Scientists have been bombarding countless generations of fruit flies with radiation for several decades in order to show evolution in action and still have only produced ... more (deformed) fruit flies. How reasonable is it to believe that evolution is a fact when even the simplest of experiments has not been able to document it? And as stated above, 'None have shown an increase of new information.'

Answer 2

Good luck with this one. I've asked it 2 times recently and no creationist even attempted a decent answer.



http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aq8.tIxGJvZKUQs5PL7ibprsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071127102619AA9xIZ6



For thunderc (above):

A mechanism that is likely to be particularly common for adding information is gene duplication, in which a long stretch of DNA is copied, followed by point mutations that change one or both of the copies.


For JH:

29+ evidences for macroevolution:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

Answer 3

Show me proof that it exists. There is no proof of anything evolving from one species into another species. Paleontology does not support it. How do you explain the giraffe? It has an organ called the Rete mirabile by it's heart that keeps gravity from pulling the blood into the heart too fast when it raises it's head. If the giraffe did not have this then it's heart would explode from the rush of blood. If the giraffe had to evolve to get this way the first one would have died before the Rete mirabile would have had time to develop.

Answer 4

The boundary is the bible.

Guess someone needs to tell the damned fruit flies to stop speciating.

Answer 5

Sure! The boundary is called DNA.

By the way, there is actually evidence to support microevolution. There is absolutely NO evidence to support the SPECULATION of macroevolution. (It can't even be called science.) In fact, there is a lot of evidence to disprove macroevolution, but those facts are typically censored, and don't show up in textbooks and in the media.

Here's a website: www.creationworldview.org

Answer 6

They are two totally different things. Micro evolution should not even be called evolution. It is just variations in the species. Not evolution at all.

Answer 7

its the same procedure every time:

quote fake science - make up a definition - then list an evangelical web page as a source

pathetic

Answer 8

www.creationworldview.org is not a real source. If it you cite it on any scientific paper, prepare to be ignored.

Answer 9

God created all evolution. God created the universe as we know it, in a blink of His eye, which is millions of years to us.

Answer 10

It can and does. Which still doesn't prove that we came from apes.