EVOLUTION - PART FIVE

                                             EVOLUTION -              PART FIVE
                                             (copied from Mark         Cahill's Book
                               "A heartbeat away.")

Evolution has two main branches. One is Microevolution, which involves minor variations within a species. We see evidence of this all the time, such as when bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics. This is also called adaptation or natural selection.  Microevolution is scientific because it is observable and measurable.

The other branch is Macroevolution, which is the concept that successive  small changes can, over time, gradually change one species to another. It involves not only minor variations but also the addition of completely new features and body types. Macroevolution however, has
 never been observed, therefore it is not scientific.

As I was searching for the truth about evolution, one of the most compelling facts was that microevolution is limited by the genetic code. 

No features that are not already present in a creature's  DNA  can ever be produced by natural selection. So while there is variation in a species, it is always within these limits. For instance there are many different types of dogs but they are all still dogs.

In the "Answers Book"  Ken Ham describes this limitation of microevolution: 

"Adaptation and natural selection are biological facts, amoeba-to-man is not. Natural Selection can only work on the genetic information present in a population of organisms - it cannot create new information. For example, since no known reptiles have genes for feathers, no amount of selection will produce a feathered reptile.  Mutations in genes can only modify or eliminate  existing structures, not create new ones."

Thus there are always natural limits to biological change. Natural selection is just that - selection. It cannot create anything new; it can only select from the information contained in the organism's genetic blueprint.

Yet evolutionists ignore this key fact, and claim that one species can gain new information and evolve it into another species.

Unfortunately for their theory, evolutionists don't have any evidence for this. It has never been 
proven or observed in nature and indeed never can be.

In the next post we will take a closer look at the two conditions which are necessary for the theory of evolution to be true.


next post 20th May