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What is True?
Natural Selection - YES
Subatomic particles to people - NO
- Unguided “Big Bang” to the earth - NO
- Life from non-life - NO
- Simple life to higher order life - NO
- Apes to men - NO
Textbook examples of “evolution in action” are illustrating natural selection only!
Notes:
Building on the distinction between micro and macro-evolution, this chart summarizes “what is true”. Natural selection leading to variation is true. However, it DOES NOT FOLLOW, and there is little evidence for, extending or extrapolating the truth of natural selection to say that a “subatomic particles to people” evolutionary scenario is therefore true. But this is what usually takes place. An example of so-called micro-evolution is presented, and the viewer is lead to believe that by inference the entire naturalistic scenario is therefore true. What starts as scientific fact turns seamlessly into theory and then wild speculation without the viewer being told that a corner has been turned and huge gaps crossed!