Debunking Evolution - Common Ancestors (Lesson 5a)

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Is it just me, or does the evolutionary tree seem more like an orchard?

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All right, let's see if we can do this. Nope, that doesn't stay up.

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No, you've gotta stay. Stay. Hey, Jane. So, gotta be honest,

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I haven't really had a chance to study too much. Uh -huh. But... Jane!

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Sorry. I was just taking a break. I got this new makeup case, and I'm having a hard time figuring out where to put everything.

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Now, I could put this lipstick here. Or, no. No, no, no.

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No. I'll handle this. So, we could organize it as simplest to most complex.

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Or, by color. Ugh. See, organization just is not my thing.

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Once, my little sister asked me to organize all her little tiny plastic animals. Took me two days.

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Organizing animals? That's like Carl Linnaeus. Who's that? Yeah, he was the first guy to classify animals.

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Oh, oh, oh, yeah, I remember him now. His motto was, God created,

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Linnaeus ordered. Yeah, his work is the basis for the classification system we still use today. Later, Charles Darwin sketched a diagram to show how life started simple and then branched out to every creature on Earth.

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He said the different branches represent the different levels of classification. A tree of life, if you will.

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Oh, yeah. I keep seeing this over and over again in our textbooks. Really? Yeah. Ah, here we go.

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Check out this one. Are researchers still trying to figure out how it happened? There are a lot more of these diagrams.

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I think they change as different researchers group them based on different features.

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These charts show groups of organisms they believe share a common ancestor. Yeah, a group like that is called a clade.

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And these diagrams are called cladograms. Man, and I thought organizing my makeup was hard.

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So do they. Well, not your makeup, classifying animals. Okay, so remember that modern evolutionary classification is a rapidly changing science with a difficult goal, to present all life on a single evolutionary tree.

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As evolutionary biologists study relationships among taxa, they regularly change not only the way organisms are grouped, but also sometimes the name of groups.

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Remember that cladograms are visual presentations of hypotheses about relationships and not hard and fast facts.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa. You're saying our textbooks say that cladograms are based off hypotheses, not facts.

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Yeah, I'll show you why. Flip forward a page. That's because they only have living animals or fossils for certain places on the branches.

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These are real animals or fossils we've actually discovered. But these branching points are just imaginary lines that represent the hypotheses about which animals evolved from a common ancestor.

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No facts support them that can't also support different links or no links. The transitional fossils they represent have never been found.

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If they were, well, we'd see their pictures here, right? Though evolutionists point to a few examples, there should be thousands.

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Genesis 121 says, From the beginning,

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God created fully formed kinds of animals. So it isn't a tree like Darwin thought.

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Instead, it's an orchard. God created the different kinds of animals, and then they expressed all types of amazing variety as they bred within their kind.

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And recombining genetic possibilities that God packed into the original kinds produced that variety?

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Exactly. We see variation happening all the time. But we've never seen the evolutionary process of mutations and selection creating new kinds.

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So dogs, apes, and people can show variety but can never morph into a new kind.

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Yep, just like the orchard. One basic tree kind can never become another.

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Scientists seem to name something a new species, even if there's only a minor change. And in the fossils, the smallest variation is classified as a different species, even though we see lots of variety with some species today.

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Like what? Like in dogs. Just think about all the variety in the breeds of dog kinds, canis familiaris, in the last 200 years.

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If future paleontologists dug up the bones of a bulldog, a chihuahua, and a great dane, they would surely classify them as three different species.

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But they are all the same kind. Whether beaks of a finch change shape or a color of a moth, the changes are limited.

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When it's just expressing variety within the created kind. Yep, so evolutionists consider adjustments to existing traits evidence that evolution made those traits in the first place.

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So, what if God made each basic kind with potential to change some of its traits, but no potential to morph into a different kind?

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Dogs can breed with coyotes, and coyotes can breed with wolves. They're called a kaiwolf, so they must all be part of the same created kind.

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So they have a common ancestor, but it was the original dog kind that God created, not the transition between a reptile and a mammal like they show in these textbooks.

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So fossils, the classification of animals, and the Bible are all in harmony. That's what it looks like.

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Well, all of that gives me an idea. What if we organize your makeup by kind?

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All the nail polish in one spot, all the eye stuff in another, and all the lip things elsewhere.

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That's brilliant! We do an orchard, not a tree. Kind of makes you think, doesn't it?