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THE MIRACLE OF EVOLUTION
The word "evolution" is an accordion-word that can be expanded or contracted to suit the occasion. The evolutionary biologist Francisco Ayala points out that the word "evolution" can be used to mean at least three different things: 1. The process of change and diversification of living things over time. It is in this sense that biologists say that evolution is a fact. But obviously this fact, so stated, is innocuous and would not be disputed even by the most fundamentalist Young Earth Creationist. 2. Reconstruction of evolutionary history, showing how various lineages branched off from one another on the universal tree of life. 3. The mechanisms which account for evolutionary change. Darwin appealed to natural selection operating on random variations in living things in order to explain the adaptedness of organisms to their environment. With the development of modern genetics, genetic mutations came to supplement the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection by supplying an explanation for the variations on which natural selection works. Accordingly, we can call this hypothesis "neo-Darwinism." Evolution in the senses of (2) and (3) is not an established fact, despite what is said and believed in popular culture. According to Ayala, "The second and third issues mdash;seeking to ascertain evolutionary history as well as to explain how and why evolution takes place mdash;are matters of active scientific investigation. To reconstruct evolutionary history, we have to know how the ...From:POTTERS HOUSE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHRISTCHURCHViews:2 0ratingsTime:01:56More inTravel Events

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