first answer to Schubduse.
Those a great questions. I'm not a scientist, therefore I don't have all the answers.
But I have found an interesting Article on this.
It goes like this.
The biblical record tells of a global Flood when all created kinds of unclean land animals were reduced to a population of two, the pair that was preserved with Noah on the Ark. After the Flood, these animals reproduced and filled the earth again. Today many of these kinds are represented by whole families. For example, the dog family (Canidae) is believed to represent a created kind. However, this is a very diverse group of animals. There are foxes that are adapted to living in the arctic, and others that live in the desert. There is incredible variety seen in modern domestic dog breeds. Where did all this variety come from? And how could it arise so quickly given that the Flood occurred around 4300 years ago?
The answer to this puzzle is probably quite complex. Some of the variety would have been carried by the pair of animals on the Ark. When parents pass traits on to their offspring, these traits can appear in new combinations in the offspring (Mendelian genetics). Natural selection can weed some existing traits out of a population. However, a close examination reveals that genetic changes have also arisen in this time. Many of these changes do not appear accidental and do not directly cause disease. For this reason, some creationists have proposed that God “designed animals to be able to undergo genetic mutations which would enable them to adapt to a wide range of environmental challenges while minimizing risk.”
It is important to recognize that biologists use several distinct definitions for evolution that are often blurred together as if they are synonymous. Evolution is sometimes defined as “change in the genetic makeup (or gene frequency) of a population over time.” This has been observed; both creationists and evolutionists recognize this as important in building models to help us understand what likely happened in the past. A second definition of evolution involves the idea that all life descended from a common ancestor over millions of years through naturalistic processes. This has not been observed. In fact, it is in direct opposition to the testimony God (the eyewitness to creation) gives us in the Bible. The idea that all life has a common ancestor requires the assumption that the Bible’s history is false, and the assumption that changes which do occur could produce the variety of life we see today from a single-celled ancestor.
With regard to the first definition of evolution, creationists and evolutionists differ in the pattern of genetic changes they should expect to see. The creation model predicts that degenerative changes can occur because mankind sinned and brought death into the world. It also predicts that adaptive changes could occur because God cares for His creation and intends for the earth to be inhabited. Both types of changes have been observed. The fact that some foxes are adapted to live in the arctic while others are adapted to live in the desert fits perfectly with this biblical teaching. While evolutionists accept that these types of changes occur, their model requires that most genetic changes add information to the genome. This pattern has not been observed. Without this pattern they cannot account for the many organs and complex biochemical pathways that exist in animals today. Scientific observations show that there is an overall pattern of decay seen in the genome which is the opposite of what the evolutionary model would predict.
Another difference is the source of the genetic change. Evolutionists assume that random mutations and natural selection can account for the genetic changes that are seen. Since the underlying mechanism is naturalistic, changes were expected to be very slow. Contrary to their expectations, rapid adaptation has been observed, and evolutionists have had to adjust their thinking to accept this. Furthermore, detailed studies of the pattern in genetic differences within related animals don’t make sense if mutations are assumed to always be essentially random events. Something else is clearly going on here. It appears that God has placed some incredible programming into the genomes of the animals he created, and viruses may play some role in this.
(By Dr. Jean K. Lightner)
I'd like to point out that questions directed at me be regarding, The Bible, God, and Creation.
Moving on...
Arkiver, I never accused you of "saying items that I've only seen on Youtube" Just alot of the uneducated atheists.
I wasnt specific. I was just merely pointing out an irony.
Rkiver wrote:
All we've seen from the Bible camp is, well the Bible. Which is hardly accurate or an authority on the truth, or even being good (God does command you to rape and murder after all, and does admit to being a jealous deity at that). .
Wow, what a statement. First of all, when speaking of God being Jelous, it is represented in terms of
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Exodus 20:3
and as We know to be the first commandment. As to Murder and rape, prove it. Where in the bible God tells you to do that?
Mas Tnega wrote:Also, stop ripping off
this too.
I wasnt ripping that off, I'm well aware of the sacraficial system, and I was searching for a good article on that.
My hand is cramped, and typing all that out would have been strenuous. I have but 1 working arm.
I guess my mistake was not crediting it. My bad there.
In response to Why?, The evidence of the Flood for example, as well as early mesopotamian tablets, have great deal of detail of Pre Flood conditions.
I won't go into this, including the theory that Noah brought baby dinasours on board, and so on...
The Daemons wrote:Did you ever consider the fact that, because the Bible and the Torah are so old, and have been translated several times, and that those times were different, that when either of them mentions a day or a year, that could have very easily meant something totally different than what it means today. For example, one year in the Bible could have been equivalent to an amount of time that we would consider three months, or 10 years. So, knowing this, maybe 5500 years in the Torah could be the same as 200,000 years by today's standards.
That is a wrong assumption my friend.
I happen to believe in the Young Earth Theory, That in Genesis it speaks of Literal Days.
"3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day." Genesis 1:3-5
The word
day, is the same one used in the following days of creation.
But thank you for your defense.
(One final note, English is infact my 3rd language, and I'm still learning it, so forgive any spelling mistakes or common typos.
) Xocrates, you saved my day!
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