| RockSmith372 said: "Super Evolution" is completely illogical. For those who don't know what it is, it is an idea by biblical creationists that after Noah's Flood, each kind branched and speciated in 4,000 years into all the species that exist today. First off, the definition of kind is unknown and is generally used by creationists for subjective reasons to win an argument due to the fact that no one knows what it is. Answers in Genesis, a creationist organization, claims "kind" to be similar to the scientific term "family". The problem with this is that there are over 12,000 species of ants that are classified(there are potentially 22,000 ant species), meaning that at an average, 3 new species of ants should emerge every year. This has never been observed by science. Speciation takes long periods of time, unless of a freak accident which causes an animal to move into a new environment, and this would have to happen for every animal we know today. 4,000 years is not enough time to have the diverse life we see today. |
While I don’t doubt that the creationist timeline is insane, I’m not convinced that evolution has to be as slow as people (often) suggest that it must be. If you actually look at the diversity within a species, and compare the variation between traits, if there is enough evolutionary pressure a species could adapt rather rapidly. Basically, what I mean by this is that throughout history where a small portion of the population had a trait which became a significant advantage for survival in an environment that had changed enough to risk extinction for the rest of the species. As long as this pressure continued, within a very short period of time the nature of the species could dramatically change; and if you had a few of these evolution changing events happen in rapid succession (within a couple dozen generations of each-other) a species might become unrecognizable from what it once was.
I guess the example I would point to in order to explain what I mean is the peppered moth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution).
