And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life,..
Genesis 1:20
"Guppies are among the most well-known of aquarium fishes. They come in a vast array of patterns and colors....One such study modeled the change that occurred in a guppy population when it was exposed to different predators. The researchers moved guppies from a high-predation environment to a low-predation environment.
In just eleven years (20–40 generations of guppies), the population had adapted to its environment. The guppies in low predation environments matured more slowly than their high-predation cousins and gave birth less often. They also gave birth to fewer offspring, but these offspring were larger than in high predation pools.
The authors of these papers are all professional scientists writing in peer-reviewed scientific journals, yet they all repeatedly equivocate on the word evolution: “Adaptation, or the process of evolution by natural selection, was the cornerstone of Darwin’s proposed mechanism for evolutionary change and remains the most widely accepted mechanism responsible for phenotypic evolution.”
The examples of changes in these populations are indeed fine
examples of natural selection in guppies.
The guppies are being influenced by the environmental conditions around them, and the guppy population is responding according by maturing earlier or later, producing variable sized fry and so on.
But “natural selection is not evolution” is a truth that has been known and repeated correctly since the early 1900s, even by evolutionists!
In fact, perhaps the premier expert on natural selection in the 20th century, George Williams, wrote, “I regard it as unfortunate that the theory of natural selection was first developed as an explanation for evolutionary change. It is much more important as an explanation for the maintenance of adaptation.”
Natural selection, according to Williams, was not the primary mechanism of evolutionary change: it simply maintained existing diversity."
AIG
Genesis 1:20
"Guppies are among the most well-known of aquarium fishes. They come in a vast array of patterns and colors....One such study modeled the change that occurred in a guppy population when it was exposed to different predators. The researchers moved guppies from a high-predation environment to a low-predation environment. In just eleven years (20–40 generations of guppies), the population had adapted to its environment. The guppies in low predation environments matured more slowly than their high-predation cousins and gave birth less often. They also gave birth to fewer offspring, but these offspring were larger than in high predation pools.
What is surprising is the repeated misuse of the word evolution to characterize these changes.
The authors of these papers are all professional scientists writing in peer-reviewed scientific journals, yet they all repeatedly equivocate on the word evolution: “Adaptation, or the process of evolution by natural selection, was the cornerstone of Darwin’s proposed mechanism for evolutionary change and remains the most widely accepted mechanism responsible for phenotypic evolution.”
The examples of changes in these populations are indeed fine
The guppies are being influenced by the environmental conditions around them, and the guppy population is responding according by maturing earlier or later, producing variable sized fry and so on.
But “natural selection is not evolution” is a truth that has been known and repeated correctly since the early 1900s, even by evolutionists!
In fact, perhaps the premier expert on natural selection in the 20th century, George Williams, wrote, “I regard it as unfortunate that the theory of natural selection was first developed as an explanation for evolutionary change. It is much more important as an explanation for the maintenance of adaptation.”
Natural selection, according to Williams, was not the primary mechanism of evolutionary change: it simply maintained existing diversity."
AIG