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Comparing Leonard Brand's Argument With The Macroevolution Theory

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I was raised as a Seventh-day Adventist. I do not remember the first time I heard the story of creation, but if there something I am sure of, is how this belief has shaped my worldview. All my life, I have heard how some Adventists tend to make fun of the theory of evolution. As an Adventist, I believe that some of the theories of evolution are true, like microevolution and speciation. However, I strongly disagree with the macroevolution theory. Macroevolution is commonly recognized as evolution above the species level and it is also known as major phenotypic changes that result in the origin of higher taxa. According to Leonard Brand in his book, Faith, History, and Earth history, “The theory of macroevolution maintains that over billions …show more content…

Epigenetics, is the study of traits that change in the phenotype without a change in genotype. They control the expression of genes without changing the DNA. Environmental signals are most likely to initiate these epigenetic changes. Studies have shown how some type of bacteria mutation occurs only when there is selective pressure for the phenotype, which means that tis cannot be a random mutation; perhaps it shows how there is an epigenetic system in charge of activating genes in response to the environment. In other words, the bacteria have the information necessary to detect what is needed and what can be turned off. Certainly, this implies that someone who understands how this whole process work, must have created …show more content…

Certainly, homoplasy does not agree with phylogenetic trees because many animals share the same characteristics, meaning they do not come from a common ancestor. In other words, a homoplasy might be a simple trait created by an intelligent designer in two different species or groups that are not related to each other. This one leads to confusion because it brings questions like who evolved from whom? One of the most famous evolutionist scientists, Darwin, came up to the conclusion that it is easier to explain the similarity of structure among organisms by agreeing that all vertebrates descended from a common ancestor than by agreeing they come from an intelligent designer. However, it can be seen in the fossil record how fossils have no transition between them. The phyla and classes found in the fossil record have no such thing as a transition. Furthermore, this idea can be explained by an interventionist by the theory that an intelligent designer used the same blueprint to create different

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Thus, it proves itself as legitimate by conforming to its own process and establishes its clear, lasting impact on the fields it touched. In fact, Fuller’s organization of his presentation of evolution lends credence to the theory itself for this reason, making the layout of his book incredibly effective in substantiating its central claim. Additionally, his framework offers him some leeway in creating a narrative worth consumption; by using this outline, he is able to write a story rather than just compile a list of bland facts as many less effective historical writings often

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To put this into perspective, paleontologists scale life’s history down to an earth year in which humans did not appear until the very last day of the calendar year. In fact, most of life has consisted of single-celled organisms. The first bodies were not even really seen until the 1920s, and when they were finally discovered, people didn’t even pay much attention, that is until Martin Glassner came around. Glassner, after observing the findings of Martin Gurich and Reginald Sprigg, proved, without a doubt, that their fossils where 15 million to 20 million years older; these fossils came from the Precambrian period, a period thought to to be absent of life. Some of these fossils resembled primitive creature such as jellyfish and sponges, but the patterns found on some of the others matched absolutely zero living creatures.

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In addition, scientists use the homologous structure as evidence for evolution by using structures with different appearances and functions that derived from the same body parts in a common ancestor. Furthermore, natural selection is evidence for evolution because for example, when Darwin collected birds they were a closely related group of distinct species, but the different beak shapes were related to food gathering. Artificial selection is another piece of evidence for evolution in which operates by favoring individuals with certain phenotypic traits allowing them to reproduce and pass their genes to the next generation. Overall many biologists accepted Darwin’s theories but there are some objections such as how evolution is not demonstrated, no fossil intermediates, the intelligent design argument, evolution violating the second law of thermodynamics, proteins are too improbable, the irreducible complexity argument, and how natural selection does not imply

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Although he was careful to show respect for Darwin’s ability to see both sides of his own hypotheses, Dr. Whitmore did not hesitate to point out numerous areas where the theory of evolution does not align with actual scientific data. He noted, for example, that Darwin predicted limitless numbers of transitional organisms in the fossil record due to the processes of natural selection. However, significant numbers of transitional organisms do not appear in the fossil record until the Cenozoic Era, which, according to a Creationist worldview, corresponds to the strata laid

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The factors that lead to macroevolution are when microevolution occurs repeatedly over a long period of time and lead to a new species. The other factor is from a major environmental change, such as a volcanic eruption, earthquake, or an asteroid hitting Earth. These result in changes on the environment so much that natural selection leads to large changes result in creation of new species. An example of macroevolution is the evolution of the sirenians. The sirenians are a group of mammals within the placental mammals.

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Epigenetics is any altering gene activity that does not change DNA arrangement that may be passed down through offsprings. While researching and investigating more on this topic, according to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1392256/, the Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) states, “Epigenetic processes are natural and essential to many organism functions, but if they occur improperly, there can be major adverse health and behavioral effects.” In addition to that, in the website http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/13-grandmas-experiences-leave-epigenetic-mark-on-your-genes according to Discovery magazine, Geneticists were especially surprised to find that epigenetic change could be passed down from parent to child, one generation

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One of the main arguments that Darwinsts use is the argument that fossils are evidence of evolution. I have gathered information from Your Inner Fish and internet sources. I found an article online that says in a nutshell; there 's two lines of evidence for evolution. The first line of evidence concerns the order in which fossils are found buried. Fossils are generally found buried in a sequential order.

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Evolution Evolution, the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth all started by Charles Darwins. There are many facts found in the ground and has been proven that this use to be far fetched logic is a fact (so we think). The discoverer of evolution is Charles Darwin which created a scientific theory when he had made a trip to a few islands. on every island there were a bird (of the same species) that possessed a different type of beak (which was the result of evolution).on one of the islands this bird had a long narrow beak to get insects out of logs and dirt.

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Due to the aforementioned factors, we are tempted to see the species of today as a monument of the theory of evolution, but it actually undercuts the facts of evolution. Furthermore, a number of misconceptions have erupted throughout the years for the sole reason of not having an appropriate explanation for the facts of the theory of evolution. We are forced to accept wrong notions for us to be able to fully understand the said

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It therefore seems logical to deduce that when species change, each new characteristic would have to develop independently of the other. For example, a cow-like creature changing into a whale, which is one of the proposed changes of evolutionary theory, is not a simple case of one mutation occurring and then all of a sudden a cow gives birth to a whale. A series of changes has to happen - the nostrils would need to fuse together and move back over the head to form a blowhole, the teeth would need to become more simple and peg-like, the snout would have to elongate, the neck shrink, the back become more flexible to aid swimming, the hands become flipper-like, the legs and pelvis reduce and disappear, and the bones become denser. Now, not only is it likely that each positive change is happening independently, but also that each change is gradual, i.e. the neck shrinks in stages, the nostrils move back gradually, etc. Therefore, there are multiple steps of microevolution happening before the macroevolution occurs.

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Growing up in a Christian, Pentecostal household, evolution as a whole is "frowned upon" as a hot topic. I would remember the opposing discussions my parents would

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Postmodernists’ biology is based on punctuated evolution. Punctuated evolution is the theory of evolution that proposes that evolutionary changes occur over a relatively quick period of time, followed by periods of little to no evolutionary change (Noebel,

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Epigenetics is the study of how some circumstances in life can cause genes to be either turned on or turned off. Circumstances like where one lives, teratogens (environmental toxins) (Siegler et al., 2014), or what one eats can potentially cause modifications to the genes that either turn on or off specific genes over a period of time. In other words, people often think their “fixed” a birth, however experiences play a vital role in gene expression. Epigenetics can affect development because depending on one’s life experiences it can change the course for better or worse.

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If evolution was a true event that happened, there should be many transitional species today that scientists could study. Today scientists don’t have any live animals that are thought to be a transitional species that is going to evolve into something else. With similar species thought to come from a common ancestor, all traits of one of the species should be found in the other species in about the same area. There are many cases where two species have many things in common, but the two species also have some very distinct characteristics that are unbridgeable between the two. This means that there had to have been different ancestors that had things about them that kept them from having a common

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