RE: A reaction to ID

I certainly agree that new niches are being formed. But if a global flood
did occur, necessitating the repopulation of the entire earth, the
opportunities for speciation as animals migrated would have been far greater
than that of today. Also, perhaps some "niches" are so inhospitable to life
that colonization, and thus speciation, is minimized or prevented. I have
read some YEC sources that indicate rapid speciation has been documented. I
don't follow this closely enough to know how true those claims might be.

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From: D. F. Siemens, Jr. [mailto:dfsiemensjr@juno.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 1:58 PM
To: mtharp@exammaster.com
Cc: dickfischer@earthlink.net; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: A reaction to ID

Why must we assume that all the niches were filled? Areas of slash and burn
agriculture seem to offer a new niche, as do the agricultural structures of
the Maya, and the similar structures more recently discovered in Bolivia.
The deforestation of more recent times in the United States and, especially,
Haiti, as well as the melting of the tundra now going on, seem also to open
new niches. If species develop in a matter of a few centuries, we ought to
be seeing similar developments in all of the areas I have mentioned. Of
course, if God miraculously pushed speciation right after the Flood, or if
Satan was doing it and poohed out, we could have a Creation Science/Flood
Geology explanation.

Dave

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:29:38 -0500 "Mike Tharp" <mtharp@exammaster.com>
writes:

Wouldn't the "rapid explosion of speciation" have slowed dramatically to its
current pace after the earth was repopulated and all the niches filled?

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Dick Fischer
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 12:07 PM
To: ASA
Subject: Re: A reaction to ID

Dave wrote:

Unless the flood geologists err in not shrinking all the species to near
microscopic size on entering the Ark, extremely fast macroevolution is an
essential part of YEC theory.

This is true. It is ironic that the YEC scenario calls for massive
macroevolution on a much faster time line than even biologists do. And if
all this rapid explosion of speciation took place after the flood why did it
all of a sudden stop? But if you want to start reciting YEC inconsistencies
where would we stop?

Dick Fischer - Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org <http://www.genesisproclaimed.org/>

 
Received on Wed Mar 2 14:37:02 2005