Evolution is in fact the consequence of any changing system that undergoes selection. You don't need science to understand that. For example, technology "evolves" in response to consumer demand. That is because some technologies catch on and invite capital and mental investment in its development, while others wither away. So you can look at a current device and trace back its evolutionary history.
With what we know about genetics, it is literally impossible for evolution not to happen. This would be the case even if we didn't have any direct evidence. Which of course, we have mountains of.
I can at least respect "directed evolution" as a philosophical argument. But this hilarious Biblical literalist rejection of evolution boggles the mind.
The word "evolution" or "evolving" in the context of our discussion is directly related to biological "change" and not the changing of technology or an economic system or the inventing of the wheel! Yes things "change"...but they don't evolve! The game of basketball has changed from hand checking to no hand checking! From no 3 point shot to a 3 point shot! From no palming the ball, to palming and traveling simultaneously! And what we know about "genetics" not only disproves evolution, but is the strongest case for direct creation! There is no reason whatever why the Creator could not or would not use the same type of genetic code based on DNA for all His created life forms. This is evidence for intelligent design and creation, not evolution.
Similarities -- whether of DNA, anatomy, embryonic development, or anything else....are better explained in terms of creation by a common Designer than by evolutionary relationship. The great differences between organisms are of greater significance than the similarities, and evolution has no explanation for these if they all are assumed to have had the same ancestor. How could these great gaps between kinds ever arise at all, by any natural process?
Like the so called "vestigial organs" in man, once considered as evidence of evolution but now all known to have specific uses, so the junk DNA and pseudogenes most probably are specifically useful to the organism, whether or not those uses have yet been discovered by scientists.
And please don't lump me in the "hilarious Biblical literalist" who insist that the Genesis account of creation calls for a 24 hr "creative" day or a 6,000 years of creating the Universe and all the planets in it!
Scientists estimate that the earth is about 4*billion years old and that the universe was born some 13 to 14*billion years ago. The Bible sets no date for the creation of the universe. In no place does it affirm that the earth is only a few thousand years old. The very first verse in the Bible reads: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) That general statement allows scientists to determine the age of the physical world according to sound scientific principles.
Genesis chapter*1 uses the term “day” to set out the stages in the preparation of the earth for life in all its diverse forms. The culminating event in this simple description was the appearance of humans. The Bible fixes no duration for the six creative “days.” Instead, it opens the door for modern scientists to study them and assign accurate time spans to them. We know that the creative “days” were much longer than 24-hour days. The Hebrew word yohm, translated “day,” can mean different lengths of time. Among the meanings possible, William Wilson’s Old Testament Word Studies includes the following: “A day; it is frequently put for time in general, or for a long time; a whole period under consideration .*.*. Day is also put for a particular season or time when any extraordinary event happens.” It also allows for periods much longer than 24 hours! In some places people often refer to a man’s lifetime as his “day.” They speak of “my father’s day” or “in Shakespeare’s day.” They may divide up that lifetime “day,” saying “in the morning [or dawn] of his life” or “in the evening [or twilight] of his life.” So ‘evening and morning’ in Genesis chapter*1 does not limit the meaning to a literal 24 hours..."capisce?" (it's an Italian word...and there's no K in Italian}!
