Alter2Ego
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So explain the cocker spaniel. This certainly not a wolf. It was bred into existence by men tinkering with breeding. It was not created that way. It was bred that way.
Existing in the fossil record are numerous examples of animals that are no more. Part of the theory of evolution is that species will disappear if they are not suited to changing environments. Missing from the fossil record are most of today's species.
Is it your thesis that the Creator created a whole ecosystem complete with all of the accompanying flora and fauna, discovered he made a mistake, wiped the slate clean and started off in a new direction?
Why do this on the same planet? Why not simply create a new planet and leave the old one to churn along? This would be a big deal to us, but not to him.
If he is all seeing and all knowing, how could this have unfolded?
ALTER2EGO -to- CODE1211:
Dogs belong to the wolf family and can interbreed with wolves. Cocker spaniel is a variation of dog/wolf species. All species of creatures are capable of producing variations of themselves--whether it is done naturally or by human interference. In the case of the cocker spaniel, the resulting animal was still be a dog.
God created humans, plants, animals, insects, etc. with the ability to produce variations of themselves within a genetic bound or limit. Once that limit has been reached, the human, plant, animal, etc. cannot go beyond what is within its genetic information and change to a different species (macroevolution).
For instance, let's use common cooking ingredients and call those the genetic information, and let's call the resulting product the human, plant, animal, etc. If you blended the ingredients of a pound of flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder, a little salt to taste, 8 tablespoons of shortening, and a can of coconut milk and knead it into a dough and bake it, all you can expect to get from that mixture of ingredients is biscuits. If you leave out some of the shortening and put in less coconut cream, you will wind up with pizza dough. If you add more shortening, you will wind up with scones, etc. In other words different combinations of the same ingredients will produce variations of bread-like baked goods. But you will never, for example, get a peach cobbler or a carrot cake from those ingredients because no sugar, carrots, or peach are among the ingredients (the genetic information).
That is the case with the genetic information that God put in each type of animal, plant, insect, fish, human, etc. Different blendings of the same genetic info--within the particular species--will produce variations of the exact same creature and all of the variations will be able to interbreed because they are still basically the same creature. This point is further explained by author Harun Yahya:
"Variation is a genetic phenomenon that causes individuals or groups within a species to exhibit different characteristics. For example, all the humans on Earth possess basically the same genetic information. But thanks to the variation potential that genetic information permits, some have dark skin, others red hair or blond, and some are tall in stature."
(Source: The Error of The Evolution of Species, by Harun Yahya)