Creation Moment 11/29/2020 - 3 R's SERIES: 1

 .....hath not one God created us?

Malachi 2:10

 

‘R’#1: Rearrange existing genes

"Careful examination of many purported instances of ‘evolution in action’ shows that such ‘variation’ actually already exists, conferred by genes that already exist.

 

Here’s a simplified example that shows this, and also how such genetic variety might be misconstrued as ‘evidence of evolution’. 

 

The two dogs in the top row of Figure 1 are a male and a female.

They each have a gene that codes for short hair (inherited from its mother or father) and a gene that codes for long hair (inherited from the other parent). In combination, this gene pair for fur length results in medium length hair.

Now when these two dogs are crossed, what new combinations of the genes are possible in the resulting offspring? The second row of Figure 1 shows this:The dog at the far left has inherited its father’s short-hair gene and its mother’s short-hair gene. Result: short hair.

The two dogs in the middle have each inherited a long-hair gene from one parent and a short-hair gene from the other parent. Result: medium-length hair (just like the mother and father).

The dog at the far right has inherited its mother’s long-hair gene and its father’s long-hair gene. Result: long hair.

A casual observer, looking only at the outward appearance, i.e. unaware of what is happening at the genetic level, might think: “There were no long-hair dogs in the parents’ generation. This long hair is a new characteristic—evolution is true!”

But such a view is incorrect. The only thing this ‘evolution’ has done is to rearrange existing genes. There’s simply been a sorting out of pre-existing genetic information. There’s no new information here of the kind needed to have turned pond scum into poodles, Pekingese, pointers and papillons."

CMI