From Micro- to Macro-Evolution in Two Minutes

I am not an evolutionary scientist, but I think this is a terrible illustration. Using the same photoshopping technology you could show any species morphing into another , heck, even a mountain into a scull or a pear into a duck. When arguing evolution, you want to put your best foot forward. IMHO, this post shows how easily people buy into false evidence as long as they hope it supports their view. We are all susceptible.
Please someone in Evolutionary science tell me if I am wrong. Thank you

I’m with Sabio. The real evidence is impressive enough without having to mock up something in an unreliable way.

While true that people could mock up anything, speaking as someone who has only a basic understanding of Evolutionary Theory, its nice to be able to get a visual “so that’s how it works” representation of a process that would otherwise take 8 years and a bio-science degree to understand.

While true that I could mock up a mountain evolving into a pear, only the truly deluded would look at that and think it was in any way correct.

I don’t look at videos like this as a tool to convert people from their willing lack of understanding, but more as a tool to help those who want to, or are open to, understanding but have difficulties understanding complex topics without visual aids to help them.

The end of the video on this link has some animations depicting the creationist version of the origin on the species.

Todd Quam,

You are confusing terms, which makes it quite clear that you are confused about important concepts that you are rejecting through blind faith and lack of common sense.

Macro and micro evolution means evolutionary change at large and small scales. If you know what the terms “macro”, “micro”, and “evolution” mean (and you clearly don’t) this would be simple to understand. The origin of “life” i.e. non living matter to life, is called abiogenesis and is not covered by evolutionary theories. Evolution refers to the generational change of organisms.

There is plenty of fossil evidence, as well as genetic, physiological, and biochemical evidence of evolution. There are plenty of transitional fossils. I’d be interested on what you think you know about fossils, out of the species that have existed how many you think would be fossilized, and found by us in the short period we’ve been looking. Numbers would be great, percentage of organisms fossilized, number of species considered “transitional” to be fossilized, and out of those how many would likely to be found.

I’m glad you brought the Bible up, because the Bible says a lot of interesting things. For instance, that all land species were represented in breeding pairs on an ark. Out of the millions of fully formed creatures that you refer to, how many were represented on this ark? If this wasn’t absurd enough there’s more. Where are the fossils of giants and a sea creature that can swallow a person and sustain them inside itself for 72 hours?

What’s even worse about his incomprehension of the terms is that microevolution and macroevolution are terms that originated with his ‘side’.

Then, there’s the fact that every living thing, and even borderline stuff like viruses, is, in effect, a transitional form. If it has descendants, then they’ll probably end up in a more specialized clade. Claiming that every fossil that we know of is ‘fully formed’ is nothing more than a schema for moving the goalposts on demand.

This is to say nothing of the defenses used against arguments about the number of animals on the ark. Some people posit that the ark carried the common ancestor of dogs and foxes. Combine this with the idea that ‘random mutations cannot add information, only destroy it’, and we have something with at least seventy chromosomes, some of the descendants of which have lost between thirty and forty of them, in the space of a few thousand years, but more likely a few centuries.

This debate is not “evolution vs creation” or “microevolution vs macroevolution”. It is “evolution vs hyperevolution”.

This is great! Can’t wait to show it to my son! Thanks!