Thanks, SoSick for providing us with the benefits of your education.
Adaption and variation are only temporary within species. The original DNA of the species is never actually lost and all species revert to the original traits when the new adaptive traits are no longer neccessary.
Yet this is contradicted by
some well known creationists:
... John Woodmorappe,2 in his book on the reasonableness of Noah’s ark, used the genus level as the average for the Genesis kinds. He ended up with only 16,000 animals that needed to be on Noah’s ark.3 So, there would have been plenty of room on the ark for all the animals that would have repopulated the earth after the Flood.
Giving you ~8,000 kinds,
or
creationist organizations like AiG:
How many animals were on Noah’s Ark? If created kinds really are families, as few as 2,000 individual animals might have been on the Ark.10
Giving you ~1,000 kinds.
This requires a lot of rapid and continual adaptation and variation since the theoretical "flood date" and can hardly be only "temporary within species" as it requires a
vast amount of division of populations into new species to account for the
diversity of life today:
Currently, scientists have named and successfully classified over 1.5 million species. It is estimated that there are as little as 2 million to as many as 50 million more species that have not yet been found and/or have been incorrectly classified.
Even using 1.5 million known species and 8,000 "original kinds" means each on average resulted in 1,500,000/8,000 = 187.5 species per kind and increasing, a rather permanent result.
This brings up the issue of "speciation" which occurs when one population divides into two (or more) populations that no longer interbreed, and they are considered different species. This too is an
accepted process in creationism:
... 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, ...
This gives us variation and adaptation within species and the division of populations by speciation, both as common and accepted processes within the world of creationism:
- [color:"purple"]'variation and adaptation' is the change in hereditary traits in populations from generation to generation [/color]
- [color:"purple"]'speciation' is the division of a single species into two or more species.[/color]
That should be enough for now.
Enjoy.
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