After their Kind: A Good Answers Ministries Christian Apologetics Video

The Bible says creatures were created according to their kinds, but evolution says they developed from a single primitive source. This video examines the evidence.

[@stevesmith7839]

1) Mario originated as a created object therefore its only method of evolution is intelligent design. 2) Organisms evolved from natural selection and random mutation. Therefore, intelligent design is not required for evolution. 3) Humans only have ONE species. There are no more neanderthals or homo Florencia. Our color differences are like cats giving birth to different colored cats, not different species of cats. 4) There is evidence that animals have evolved into different species, but it would obviously take millions of years. Two years in a lab is NOT equivalent. 5) Just because Dawkins couldn't answer (a very technical) question does not mean that there is no answer. How many unanswerable questions about religion are there to the point where a universal cliche exists about "the Lord works in mysterious ways?" I can come up with a few hypothesis for gene complexity. There are micro organisms with 200 times the genetic information as a human. There are viruses with far more genetic information than a human. The nature of viral reproduction is the mechanical disassembly and reconfiguration of DNA. Viruses follow their own model, but a mutated virus might not stop at its own model. Viruses don't have the emergency stop measures of complex cells, that's why they are viruses. Tomatoes have more DNA than a human. Many DNA sequences are common to most living things, plant or animal. It was proven in the 1970s that environment, like diet and chemical exposure influences DNA. So DNA is constantly readjusting from one living thing to another. Maybe more radical environmental changes produce more radical DNA changes and maybe this possibility just hasn't been researched yet. Is there a way for you to research why God killed innocents on mass several times in the Old Testament despite his benevolence? Is there a way for you to research why an all powerful all knowing God would need humans to fight his battles for him?

[@geraldculley2581]

Thanks for your comments. I'll only mention two items. 1. My point about Mario is that people frequently misuse the term evolution to refer to things like Mario that are, as you said, created by intelligence. 2. The question Dawkins couldn't answer was not at all complex, especially the part that requested an example of information added to the genome by some evolutionary process. If it can happen at all, there should be countless examples ready-to-hand.

[@stevesmith7839]

@@geraldculley2581 I agree that it is a good question, but answers "ready-to-hand?" Are you implying that any and all molecular microscopic things should already be known? The list of things not yet known is far greater than the list of things known at the molecular scale. Evolution has almost a billion year head start on science, give science some time to catch up.

[@dougsmith6793]

@@geraldculley2581
[GERRY]: "The question Dawkins couldn't answer was not at all complex, especially the part that requested an example of information added to the genome by some evolutionary process."
This question is a perfect example of how folks can look at a forest without seeing any of the trees. Reproduction and cell division are two evolutionary processes that add information to the genome in at least two ways during the reproductive cycle itself, NOT as a result of alterations due to outside influences like chemicals or ionizing radiation:
1) Imperfect reproduction
Estimates of successful mutations (mutations that do not kill the organism) due to "imperfect" reproduction in a single reproductive cycle range from about 60 to about 200. Multiply this by the number of organisms in the population of a given species, and the number of mutations in a population grows to hundreds of millions.
2) New combinations
Offspring only inherit half of their chromosomes from each parent. Therefore, the resulting offspring is a combination / pattern of genetic material that has not previously existed, and so is new information.
Both of these mechanisms add new information -- i.e., patterns that have not existed before -- to the genome.
[GERRY]: "If it can happen at all, there should be countless examples ready-to-hand."
Lol. There ARE countless examples, and they're literally staring you in the face! No two organisms are exactly alike -- each can be uniquely identified through DNA. No two humans look alike, and even identical twins can be uniquely identified through their DNA. Every human that looks different from you is new information. And that's only counting the mutations that produce easily visible effects.
IOW, literally every single organism in a population is a mutant with respect to every other organism. This means that, instead of having a lack of new information to work with, there's actually an abundance of new information to work with.