I hear many Christians believe in microevolution. But even that is just ADAPTATION. There is no change in KIND. Please stop calling it a form of evolution. It is not.
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It is a form of evolution
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There are good Christian scholars who believe in Old Earth Creation, those who believe in New Earth Creation and those who believe in theistic evolution. May I suggest that if we believe in Genesis 1:1 we have it right. As to “how” God chose to create, I believe we will continue to waste time arguing until one day He reveals His truth to us.
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If evolution is true it places sin and death in time before God does, obviously, evolution is false pseudo science.
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I think they call microevolution a variation of species not kind
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Are chimps and humans different “kinds”? Here’s proof that we share common ancestors. https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/endogenous-retroviruses-frequently.html
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Why isn’t it evolution? Isn’t that exactly what the word means?
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It’s best to call it variation. Micro evolution, or variation are extremely minor, observable changes of pre existing DNA. Macroevolution is only a belief system with no verifiable proof.
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We cannot disprove evolution (adaption), they are the same thing. We can agree that creatures have adapted, but this does not exclude that the argument for a prime mover still exists.
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In scientific terms, it is actual “microevolution” – but not to be confused with Darwinian evolutionary theory – which is mindless unguided
macroevolution. Microevolution, however, is just species adaptation (which Christians have no problem accepting as it is demonstrably true science). -
Calling the process of genetic changes caused by mutations within a kind, “micro-evolution”, is a misleading term. More information is never added, but rather diminished, and can never be retrieved after the information is lost. The loss of information produces “devolutionary” changes, not “evolutionary” changes. Adaptation never gives rise to a superior creature from which it came, but rather, inferior. “Micro-devolution” is a more fitting term.
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Any form of evolution must mean new information. Not loss of information or exchanging information
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The gene needed to adapt to certain things is already prevalent. There is no evolving to some other species.
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Just natural selection !
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If evolution was true surely there wouldn’t be a gay issue
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Billions of years of random events occurring to form sophisticated human beings is 100% impossible.
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Yes I agree, you need to take Gen 1# creation literal the key phrase ‘after his kind’
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Change and adaption happens but never species change!
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THANK YOU!
That’s exactly right.
I had a guy who claimed to accept creationism, but tried to somehow use the word ‘evolve’ instead of ‘adapt’ in his description of bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics. -
In the end, it is a blind faith to believe that the effect can accumulate to form much more compicated life forms, which however is not falsifiable.
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This is an important point because not understanding the difference leads people into an equivocation trap using the word “evolution”. That is, someone will make a reasonable argument for adaptation then conflate it with speciation.
A common example is the citation of tests with fruit flies in which biological changes are documented. However, in the end, they’re still fruit flies regardless of the number of observed generations.
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Evolution is a belief system…….it has nothing to do with science.
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Correct. The word is hijacked to make evolution more acceptable.
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Micro evolution is all there is. “Macro” makes no sense. SMALL changes over vast periods of time are observable and are the tiny steps between species.
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very astute…….adaptation is normal and can be observed. Consider a three legged dog…….they learn to move about by adapting a modified gait.
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My cat hets a thick coat in the winter. Not evolution but adaptation. He is just a hairier cat
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Oh please, I know your talking about my comment but the definition of microevolution is evolutionary change within a species…and yes it does occur, why do you think we have so many KINDS of canines…stop freaking out about the word evolution…I never said evolution occurs on the macro scale where one kind evolves into another…thats just silly…If you freak out because I used a biological term to describe how variation occurs WITHIN a kind I can not help you…because God made KINDS of animals with the ability to adapt to new environments…Macroevolution of one KIND to another is a myth…Microevolution that leads to variation WITHIN a KIND so it can adapt to different habitats is a fact…
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Barry Adams, if you can get just one thing into your head, it is this: This is NOT about viruses evolving, but about the signatures they leave in our DNA authenticating the fact that we share common ancestors with other ape species. (Posted here because FB is failing posting my comment in the relevant sub-thread).
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Oh, BROTHER… Joshua Eckhardt is at it again, with his “all evolution is micro-evolution” nonsense.. ?
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THANK YOU MONICA!
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Check this out..
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The ONE thing Joshua is right about, and that we can agree on:
“Macro evolution does not exist” -Joshua Eckhartd
That’s correct, because there’s no scientific evidence to support it!
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Evolution, IF IT EXISTED, would be a process!!!!
Can any of you INTELLIGENT people on this thread please answer me ONE SIMPLE QUESTION?:
Do you know of ANY process that possess a BRAIN?
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Fact!!!
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That’s what microevolution is. Change in kind. The car for example has evolved from the first car in 1906 The Benz to what we have today.
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They are still dogs however
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That’s the definition of microevelution though ??♂️
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Yes
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From hunters and gatherers to modern society in thousands of years is adaptation to atmosphere climate and social behaviour (bad mostly) and is evolution itself, though mankind themselves have not changed a single bit, only their hair style and clothing has changed and comes in cycles lol.
No physical changes are observed, therefore to say mankind evolved from other species is false.
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Yep, the Galapagos finch is often used as example of macroevolution, when in fact it is micro or adaptation. Now if the finch became something other than a finch, say a cat, then I could buy macroevolution. Either way, even if macroevolution is true, it does not obviate the need for a creator.
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That’s what the definition of micro-evolution is!!!. It is a minor change within the individuals of that species. That’s why on Noah’s ark, you only needed one set of kind, besides the 7 each of the clean ones such as cattle, sheep, etc. After time we got the difference within the species.
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Softening the word evolution to micro-evolution does not change the biological intent of evolution. It is just another attempt to squeeze secularism into God’s word and create a wedge. It is demonic in nature.
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Not necessarily. Nothing states evolution strictly falls under the realm of changing kinds. Evolution is simply change.
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Evolution is the change in inherited genetic traits in a population over time. Ite demonstrable. What you think is micro and macro are must the same process over different periods of time.
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The myth of evolution is that all life came from a common ancestor. The term is known as “Common descent”. This faith belief would mean that multiple billions of times something had to reproduce via dissimilar offspring. or, in the lingo of the OP, many changes of “kinds”. The problem with this faith based assertion is that it is easily refuted by observable evidence. What we observe in the real world (science) is that everything reproduces after its own kind 100% of the time. Adaptation is real. Evolution (changing of kinds) is a silly myth.
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Yea, Adaptive Variation it a lot more of a better term to use then micro-evolution . Micro-evolution will just allude the theory Macro-evolution which has to do with the change between kinds, plants and animals, with the evidence it not sufficient enough to come to that sort of conclusion, and Atheist know it.
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Less adaption and more conditioning. Take for example martial artists that thrust their hands into barrels of beans or rice to harden their skin and bones. Also, they practice on wooden dummies for hardening conditioning. This makes their bones denser and skin thicker…not evolution. Same can be said of the birds with larger and more dense beaks that have to crack open harder seeds. It isn’t evolution but conditioning. I had heard that one of the early arguments for evolution was a sparrow of the gallopagus islands that had tougher beaks than mainland sparrows because the native seeds were tougher.
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Ok Mom
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