Natural Selection
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.
Articles About Natural Selection
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Dung Beetle Used in Argument For Natural SelectionAug. 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.
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In-Depth ArticleMuch Ado About MothsApril 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.
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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?
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Magazine Department ArticleSmall ChangeJan. 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.
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Researchers Note Increase in Rate of Natural SelectionDec. 15, 2007 from News to Know
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.
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Feedback ArticleThe Nature of MythDec. 14, 2007 from Feedback
A college professor lambastes AiG for “perpetuating a myth” but, in turn, perpetuates a myth about natrual selection.
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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.
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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.
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Feedback ArticleIs Natural Selection “the Devil’s Device”?March 9, 2007 from Feedback
"We recently received this email from a gentleman who had a question about a comment one of our speakers made during a television interview..."
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Book ChapterNatural Selection vs. EvolutionMarch 8, 2007 from Evolution Exposed: Biology
As our understanding of genetics has improved, it has become increasingly clear that mutations + time + chance do not equal evolution.
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Robots Spotlight SelectionFeb. 24, 2007
Robots at the University of Lausanne are the latest evidences mobilized in support of evolution.
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Bearing Out Natural Selection—Creation StyleMay 30, 2006
A half-polar-bear, half-grizzly-bear hybrid was harvested by Jim Martell on April 16, 2006, in the Northwest Territory of Canada. The locals call this a “Pizzly” or “Grolar.”
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Startling Plant Discovery Presents Problems for EvolutionApril 6, 2005
Soft tissue recovered from a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil leg bone, and a paper in Nature describes a plant that can fix its own mutations.
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Technical Research PaperThe Beauty of the Peacock Tail and the Problems with the Theory of Sexual SelectionAug. 1, 2001, pp. 94–102
According to the theory of sexual selection, the peacock tail has gradually evolved because the peahen selects beautiful males for mating.
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Magazine ArticleIslands’ Weeds Don’t Support EvolutionJune 1, 1996, pp. 12–13
The clear evidence is that the weed research on Canada's islands points not to evolution, but to creation.
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Magazine ArticleThe Guppies and the Nematode...Dec. 1, 1994, pp. 22–23
New 'proofs' such as the guppies and the nematode are regularly voiced by evolutionists and just as regularly forgotten without the public ever hearing that they support creation.
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Magazine ArticleNatural SelectionMay 1, 1984, pp. 14–15
Evolution is the proposed process by which living things gain entirely new characteristics that were never before present in their genetic make-up, not even in a latent or ‘hidden’ form.
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