Natural Selection

Natural Selection is also known by the phrase “the survival of the fittest” and as you know along with the concept of beneficial mutation is held out as the two factors that supposedly cause macro-evolution to take place.

I suggest the following insight concerning natural selection. The premise itself is a tautological argument. Tautology is an argument from circular reasoning, e.g. “The survival of the fittest means the ones who are the fittest are the ones who survive.”

If the phrase "survival of the fittest" is interpreted as a tautology it looks like:
"Who survives? The fittest. Who are the fittest? Those that survive".

The beauty of this argument is that it cannot be impeached or in scientific terms, falsified. If you cannot falsify a hypothesis, it is not worthy of scientific merit. Falsification is one of the undergirding truths of the scientific method.

While natural selection is an important premise of Darwinian Theory, it cannot explain the huge gaps that exist between every variety of living organisms. While natural selection can be used to explain why a bear would develop a lighter color fur, e.g. white for the polar bear, due to environmental considerations and benefits, it cannot change the actual animal substantially. A white polar bear and the brown grizzly bear as well as the black bear are all bears!

This factor alone is inadequate to cause the enormous changes necessary for frogs to evolve into princes, whether it happens in an instant as with the fairytale or whether it happens over millions of years, as with the fairytale for grown-ups called the Theory of Evolution. Remember, virtually every living creature appears abruptly, fully formed in the fossil record. The gaps in the fossil record are ubiquitous between every major category of living creatures.

As Bible believers we agree that all living creatures have been programmed by their Creator in their DNA to reproduce “according to their own kind.” We see the ability of living creatures to adapt as part of the plan of the Creator to make certain that His commandment “to be fruitful and multiply” could be sustained, even in a changing environment.

Steve Rowitt, Th.M., Ph.D. (c)
Chief Technical Advisor
Creation Studies Institute
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