Natural Selection

From The New Answers DVD 1

Natural Selection Is Not Evolution!

The supposed vehicles of evolution are mutations, natural selection, and other mechanisms that—when combined with that pixie dust of time—allegedly led to the development of all life forms present today. However, natural selection merely redistributes or reduces preexisting genetic information, and mutations often corrupt the information.

Natural Selection and Creationists

The creationist view of natural selection is supported biblically and scientifically. Natural selection is a God-ordained process that allows organisms to survive. It is an observable reality that occurs in the present and takes advantage of the variations within the kinds and works to preserve the genetic viability of the kinds.

Natural Selection and New Information

Natural selection cannot generate brand new genetic information. It simply doesn’t work that way. Instead, it filters information that already exists. The general theory of evolution is the idea that single-celled organisms gained new genetic information over millions and billions of years, and eventually arrived at “higher life-forms” such as man.

Adaptation in Plants

If living things such as plants have been observed to adapt to their environment—isn’t that evolution? Adaptation of plants does not prove evolution.

Does Natural Selection Prove Evolution?

Distinguishing natural selection from Darwinian evolution (the latter combines natural selection with the idea that all life has an ancestor in common) is one of the primary challenges modern creationists face in the origins debate. Experimental confirmation of natural selection is interpreted as proof of Darwin’s theory.

Natural Selection Topics

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  Adaptation

  Living things, like plants, finches and lizards, have been observed to adapt to their environment—isn’t that evolution?

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  Antibiotic Resistance

  Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is often touted as proof of evolution, but is it really? After all, the bacterium remains a bacterium!

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  Mutations

  Are mutations—copying errors in DNA—the driving force for biological evolution? Or do they represent the sad reality of a sin-cursed world?

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  Speciation

  Speciation, the formation of new species, is not evolution in action. Rather, it demonstrates the incredible variety God put within each created kind.

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  Survival of the Fittest

  Survival of the fittest is not evolution. It is a fact of life in a world that has been tainted with death and bloodshed since Adam rebelled against his Maker.

Articles About Natural Selection

• Suicide and Evolution

  “Maybe it is survival of the fittest, maybe some of us are meant to just give up, and maybe that would help the species.”

• Natural Selection Is Not Evolution!

  Evolutionists often refer to natural selection as equivalent to biological evolution. Is this claim warranted by the observation evidence?

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  2.4 Natural Selection, Yes; Evolution, No

  March 28, 2016 from Creation: Facts of Life

  Natural selection does not lead to continual improvement (evolution); it only helps to maintain features that organisms already have (creation).

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  2.3 Change, Yes; Evolution, No

  March 26, 2016 from Creation: Facts of Life

  There are obviously all kinds of “change through time” that are not evolution, so evolution must be only a particular kind of change through time.

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  2.2 Natural Selection

  March 19, 2016 from Creation: Facts of Life

  There is considerable evidence that Darwin was indeed correct about natural selection and the “war of nature.”

• Understanding Natural Selection

  

  Feb. 16, 2016

  Some biblical creationists have fallen into the evolutionists’ trap and tried to refute evolution by throwing out the concept of natural selection entirely.

• The Evolution of . . . Chocolate?

  

  Dec. 14, 2015

  Based on their evolutionary beliefs, secular researchers believe ancient diversification of the cocoa plant resulted in delicious varieties within the species.

• Technical Research Paper

  Natural Selection: Assessing the Role it Plays in our World

  March 4, 2015 from Answers Research Journal

  Natural selection is controversial among many scientists, both in evolutionary and creationary circles.

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• Is Rapid Lizard Adaptation a Template for Deep-Time Evolution?

  Nov. 15, 2014 from News to Know

  Evolutionists declare stickier toes reveal the path up the evolutionary tree.

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  Reply to “A Response to ‘Does Natural Selection Exist?’”

  Nov. 5, 2014 from Answers Research Journal

  In this three-part ~35,000-word response, Guliuzza (2014a, b, c) fails to clearly define his terms and/or use them consistently.

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  A Response to “Does Natural Selection Exist?”: Creatures’ Adaptation Explained by the Design-based, Organism-driven Approach: Part 3

  Nov. 5, 2014 from Answers Research Journal

  This third installment is a continuation of my response to a recent critical paper (Jeanson 2013).

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  A Response to “Does Natural Selection Exist?”: Creatures’ Adaptation Explained by the Design-based, Organism-driven Approach: Part 2

  Oct. 29, 2014 from Answers Research Journal

  This second installment is a continuation of my response to a recent critical paper (Jeanson 2013) on a series of Acts & Facts articles.

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  A Response to “Does Natural Selection Exist?”: Creatures’ Adaptation Explained by the Design-based, Organism-Driven Approach: Part 1

  Oct. 29, 2014 from Answers Research Journal

  This paper responds to a 2013 Jeanson paper critical of a series of Acts & Facts articles published by the Institute for Creation Research (ICR).

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• Magazine Department Article

  Big Bang and Evolution Still a Big Question . . .

  July 1, 2014 from Answers Magazine

  Statistics from an AP poll conducted in March 2014

• Silence of the Crickets Speaks Volumes About Variation and Selection

  

  June 7, 2014 from News to Know

  Hawaiian cricket “evolution” into stealth mode saves them from extinction.

• Reverse Evolution Causes Darwin’s Finches to Go Missing?

  March 20, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  Evolutionary experts assert finches should be “protected” from surviving through hybridization if it leads to un-speciation.

• How Cavefish Went Blind, and Why It Matters

  Feb. 17, 2014 from News to Know

  Molecular mechanism at the root of cavefish blindness is unmasked.

• Technical Research Paper

  Does Natural Selection Exist?

  Aug. 7, 2013 from Answers Research Journal

  How did the modern diversity of life arise from the created kinds of Genesis 1 and from the kinds taken on board the Ark? Did natural selection play a role?

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  Hard to Swallow

  

  July 1, 2013 from Answers Magazine

  Natural selection does not produce new genetic information that leads to different types of birds.

• How Good Is Good Enough?

  March 31, 2012 from News to Know

  Can you tell the difference?

• How the Zebra Got its Stripes

  Feb. 18, 2012

  So, how did the zebra get its stripes?

• Peppered Moth Again

  Feb. 18, 2012 from News to Know

  Peppered moth: “the poster child of Darwinian evolution”

• Magazine Department Article

  A Different View of Natural Selection

  

  Jan. 22, 2012 from Answers Magazine

  Creationists believe in natural selection.

• Yeast Begat Yeast

  Jan. 21, 2012 from News to Know

  “Evolution in progress” said to show how easily multicellularity evolved

• Warp Factor Evolution, Lieutenant

  Jan. 7, 2012 from News to Know

  Bulletin: salmon evolve at warp speed . . . into salmon!

• Zombies Existing in Nature

  Nov. 5, 2011 from News to Know

  Genesis of the zombies’ curse.

• The Eyes Have It

  April 30, 2011 from News to Know

  So with peacocks—the classic Darwinian example of sexual selection—do the eyes have it or not?

• Skin Color and Natural Selection

  Feb. 26, 2011 from News to Know

  Another prominently reported example of “evolution” illustrates just the opposite—and supports the creationist critique of Darwinian evolution

• Evolutionary Cuckoos

  Jan. 15, 2011 from News to Know

  Have Australian birds “taken a new evolutionary step”? Or is this another cuckoo example of “evolution” in action?

• Cane Toad: "Evolution" in Action?

  Oct. 23, 2010

  Is the cane toad invading Australia the latest example of “evolution” in action?

• Natural Selection not at Work

  July 17, 2010

  Natural selection, the force driving so-called “survival of the fittest,” is at the heart of both evolutionist and creationist explanations for life’s diversity. But in one strange case, natural selection is not at work on an animal.

• Large-Scale Natural Selection Test

  May 15, 2010

  Scientists have run one of the largest-scale tests of natural selection ever. Does the result do anything to convince us of Darwin’s theory?

• Caterpillar Communication from Ambulation?

  April 17, 2010

  Could caterpillar communication have come from ambulation?

• Evolution at a Snail's Pace

  May 16, 2009 from News to Know

  It’s supposedly evolution in action but the evolution is proceeding like a snail creeping downhill.

• Molucules Don't Make the Man

  May 2, 2009 from News to Know

  Scientists have built a molecular system that “evolves” in the lab. But like other such systems that have gone before it, this doesn’t prove Darwin.

• Cod Evolution No-Go

  Feb. 28, 2009 from News to Know

  Another example of “evolution in action”—need we even bother examining the reality to confirm this isn’t what Darwin predicted?

• Book Chapter

  Is Natural Selection the Same Thing as Evolution?

  Feb. 9, 2009 from The New Answers Book 1

  Natural selection is an observable process that is often purported to be the underlying mechanism of unobservable molecules-to-man evolution.

• Twitchy Lizards

  Jan. 24, 2009 from News to Know

  Lizards are busy “evolving” again—is it more proof for Darwinism?

• The “Eyes” Have It

  Jan. 13, 2009

  Darwin suggested that if a graded series of organisms, each with some sort of eye, can be found then this would mean that the eyes could have been produced by natural selection.

• When Hunters Fuel 'Evolution'

  Jan. 10, 2009 from News to Know

  Losing or gaining anatomical features, changing colors, growing bigger or smaller—it doesn’t matter how a biological population is changing, it’s evolution!

• Debating the Origin of Sex

  Dec. 6, 2008

  At the beginning He made them male and female—emphasis on the “and”?

• Natural Selection Theory Strengthened By Armored Fish Study

  Sept. 6, 2008

  It’s yet another rock-solid proof of Darwin’s theory—at least in the eyes of Darwinists.

• Dung Beetle Used in Argument For Natural Selection

  Aug. 30, 2008

  Britain’s leading newsmagazine weighs in on “one of the lies regularly promulgated by creationist ideologues.” Uncalled-for, ugly allegations aside, we have to, ironically, wonder about the “truth” of that statement.

• Semi-Technical Research Paper

  Much Ado About Moths

  April 23, 2008 from Answers in Depth

  This is the fascinating story about how, due to a combination of environmental changes and selective predation, a moth turned into, well, a moth.

• Examining Elephant Tusk "Evolution"

  Jan. 26, 2008

  One story this week takes a close look at an examples of “evolution” in nature. But is there anything that can’t be explained through the biblical model of origins?

• Magazine Department Article

  Small Change

  Jan. 1, 2008 from Answers Magazine

  The beaks of the Galapagos finches, made famous by Darwin, have changed over time. The change cannot be used to support the idea that finches evolved from dinosaurs.

• Researchers Note Increase in Rate of Natural Selection

  Dec. 15, 2007

  The rate at which humans evolve is 100 times faster than it was 5,000 years ago, reports ScienceNOW on a human DNA analysis project reported on in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week.

• Feedback Article

  The Nature of Myth

  Dec. 14, 2007 from Feedback

  A college professor lambastes AiG for “perpetuating a myth” but, in turn, perpetuates a myth about natrual selection.

• Creationists Disbelieve Selection?

  Oct. 27, 2007

  Apparently the newest evolutionary icon is the friendly, hefty St. Bernard dog breed—or so hints a University of Manchester press release carried by PhysOrg.com.

• Potatoes: the Fuel of Life?

  Sept. 5, 2007

  Evolutionary scientists believe that potatoes were the "fuel" by which the early humans survived long enough to evolve further.