Debunking Evolution Clip: Natural Selection Can't Turn One Animal into Another

Natural Selection as the Evolutionary Claim

What are we studying today?

Natural selection. I've already started reading it. There's a great definition in our biology textbook. So natural selection is the process by which organisms with variation most suited to their local environment survive and leave more offspring.

So evolutionary theory holds that natural selection is one of the forces that drives evolution?

How's that work?

Mutations, Advantage, and the Supposed Drive Toward Evolution

Well, evolutionists say a mutation happens in the sex cells of a creature, and its offspring exhibits the resulting trait difference. Like a new feather color or something. The trait can give it an advantage or a disadvantage.

A beneficial mutation would cause it to become a little better at surviving in an environment than the non-mutants. So its descendants, and thus the trait, eventually outnumber the others. Then the scenario repeats with another variation, supposedly driving evolution forward.

Why Natural Selection Does Not Turn One Kind of Animal Into Another

But rather than this process producing just the varieties we see among animal kinds, they believe this process built those animals.

From completely different ones,.

And can eventually lead to one kind of animal turning into another. But this has never been observed. Fish are still fish, and finches are still finches.