Why Creationists are WRONG about MacroEvolution

Here I show how creationists are wrong when it comes to MacroEvolution (MaE). MaE is defined as evolution at or above the species level. This means MaE includes speciation. Despite what creationists say there are examples of new species occurring in nature, and scientists have produced new species in the lab. Many creationists claim that MaE means there must be a huge change in appearance. This is false. Many sister species, existing in the same genus and the cases we have of new species occurring in nature, share many characteristics. A new species of mosquito will still resemble a mosquito, and a new species of worm will still resemble a worm. Only after many speciation events will large changes begin to accumulate. This may take tens to hundreds of millions of years.

Many ID/creationists do accept MicroEvolution (MiE), but claim MiE is different from MaE. Here I show how a MiE step can lead to a MaE event through the evolution of the sperm egg receptor ligand complex. A species is best defined as a group of organism that can successfully produce fertile offspring. Once the sperm of one population can no longer fertilize the eggs of another population and vice versa, we have two species.

Finally, many creationists claim that there is not enough variation within a species to allow for the large changes in phenotype (appearance). Anyone who claims this has obviously never seen the myriad of dog breeds, all of which were derived from the same species, wolf.

My point here is, MacroEvolution includes speciation, and speciation has been observed in nature and in the lab. Also, MicroEvolutionary steps can result in speciation. Scientists do not doubt MacroEvolution, but they do debate how and under what circumstances it occurs.

For a good read on MacroEvolution go to:




http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/macroevolution.html

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[MrCobra811]

PILTDOWN MAN , enuogh said

[raviept]

@oscarmarin1995 Saying that DNA contains information is an abstract interpretation of humans, not a physical property. But if you want to see DNA as information, then think of it as a recipe. If you change a sentence, then you might completely change the outcome of the cooking, yet the size of the recipe is the same. You don't have to increase the amount of information to have Evolution.

[raviept]

@oscarmarin1995 You just copied the definition of information from wikipedia. Information is much more than a code. It is not a physical property, but instead an abstract property of matter. It's data that can be converted between different representations, and can be interpreted by animals and that may lead to a response.

[TREACLE97]

A man in texas can pick up radio waves in his head, a girl in Tokyo can see infra red light, a man in Sweden has a unique gland that produces poison when he is attacked, a woman in Africa has a solar sensitive patch on her neck that converts sunlight in to energy meaning she needs less food calories, and a man from Australia can change the colour of his skin (just slightly) to match his environment. DNA mutations causing changes like these would not happen if evolution were false.

[W1ldSm1le]

@oscarmarin1995 interesting since the amoeba is much, much more complicated genetically then us with some 690,000,000 base pairs vs. our 2,900,000 if you want to argue about adding information as being the basis of macroevolution you should probably do some research first.

[oscarmarin1995]

@Ostrasize Information is any kind of event that affects the state of a dynamic system. The concept has numerous other meanings in different contexts. [1] Moreover, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, representation, and especially entropy.

[oscarmarin1995]

@Ostrasize Information in its most restricted technical sense is a message (utterance or expression) or collection of messages that consists of symbols in an ordered sequence, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as signs, or conveyed as signals by waves.

[Ostrasize]

@oscarmarin1995 Please define information for me.

[oscarmarin1995]

@Ostrasize And if you do, it means the whole school system is wrong about evolution

[oscarmarin1995]

@Ostrasize Can you disprove my statement plz?