Re: Alternative Mechanisms of Evolution?

Hi Benton.

"Not that I doubt natural selection - it
is obviously a source of evolution."

Firstly, natural selection is not confined to the evolution hypothesis
only. Natural selection is not proof of evolution. Natural selection
does not add any new information to the genetic code of the organism.

Secondly, evolution requires massive amounts of new information for the
organism to 'evolve' to a more complex organism (ie: to evolve from a
'simple' molecule to a complex human being).

"An organism that produced genetics that were most likely to survive
with changing conditions would be adaptable at a far greater rate than
one that relied on the slow, random process of mutation and natural
selection."

Natural selection is the re-arrangement and/or loss of existing
information due to external influences of the environment. Also in
every instance, a mutation never adds any new information to an
organism. It either alters the existing information or there is a loss
of information.

Some animals have adapted very quickly to changing environmental
conditions, stunning some 'scientists' in the process, because
evolution requires long ages.
I'm NOT referring to the so-called 'peppered moth proof', that was a
huge fraud by evolutionists, (Nature 396). A possible example can be
found on the Galapagos Islands.

"In Africa, I've seen... <snip>...to migration. But
it also seems possible that tribalism could lead to a form of social
and reproductive isolation that could result in speciation."

Interbreeding within isolated people groups would have resulted in
tribes gaining certain unique features, due to a recycling of existing
genes in the 'gene pool'. The originally created genetic information
is either reshuffled, sorted or has degenerated, and in no way has it
been added to.

This may be of some help to you.
André.


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