Re: [asa] An evolution quiz question about "Scientific creationism "

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Steve Martin
<steven.dale.martin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Iain,
>
>>
>> What they refuse to accept is that given sufficient time, different
>> species emerge from a common ancestor, so that they can't interbreed
>> (as, I believe, most dogs can).
>
> This statement used to be true of the YEC movement but no longer. If fact,
> AIG has this as one of those "arguments not to use anymore" and promotes
> "rapid speciation". See:
> http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dont_use.asp
>
> From the link above:
>
> "No new species have been produced."
> This is not true—new species have been observed to form. In fact, rapid
> speciation is an important part of the creation model. But this speciation
> is within the "kind," and involves no new genetic information. See Q&A:
> Speciation.
>

I think that's essentially what I meant; speciation, according to them
can only occur "within the kind". I guess when I said that
"microevolution" (YEC style) could account for the varieties of
dog-kind since the flood, what I should have said was "rapid
speciation within the kind" (YEC style) accounts for the different
dog-kinds. As I understand it, it has been shown that the rapidity of
speciation required for this model to work is far too fast according
to mainstream science.

Iain

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Received on Tue Jun 3 08:33:09 2008