Natural Selection Questions and Answers

What is natural selection? Why do evolutionists claim that natural selection supports evolution? How does it fit into the creation model?

• Variation and natural selection versus evolution
• Argument: Natural selection leads to speciation
• Muddy Waters: Clarifying the confusion about natural selection
• The evolution train’s a-comin’ (Sorry, a-goin’—in the wrong direction)
• Anthrax and antibiotics: Is evolution relevant? (Semi-technical; available in Spanish)
• Superbugs not super after all
• Is antibiotic resistance really due to increase in information?
• Patterns of change over time: organophosphorus resistance in the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina
• Dirt and supergerms: can rolling in the former really cure you of the latter?
• Creationist article ‘saved my favourite cow’
• Has AIDS evolved?
• The Beak of the Finch: Evolution in Real Time (Book Review) (Semi-Technical)
• Darwin Revisionism Goes Mainstream
• Darwin’s Finches: Evidence supporting rapid post-Flood adaptation
• Genetics: No Friend of Evolution
• The guppies and the nematode…
• How do animals become resistant to poison?
• Islands’ weeds don’t support evolution
• Professing Creation Science: Drs Carl Wieland and Jonathan Sarfati talk to Professor Walter Veith
• Well-armed water fleas and radishes (neo-Lamarckianism?)
• What! … No potatoes?
• Why Evolution can’t advance
• Atheopathy vs Science: Refuting New Scientist’s agitprop about evolution
  Evolution v natural selection
• Molecular limits to natural variation

Does it take long periods of time for natural selection to occur?

• Brisk Biters — fast changes in mosquitoes astonish evolutionists, delight creationists
• Darwin’s Finches: Evidence supporting rapid post-Flood adaptation
• The Beak of the Finch: Evolution in Real Time (Semi-technical refutation)

What about peppered moths? Why are they frequently used to support evolution?

• Goodbye, peppered moths: A classic evolutionary story unstuck
• The moth files
• Second Thoughts about Peppered Moths (Semi-Technical, True Origins website)

What about computer simulations allegedly proving evolution by cumulative selection?

• Weasel, a flexible program for investigating deterministic computer ‘demonstrations’ of evolution (Semi-technical)
• Why Evolution can’t advance
• Genetic algorithms—do they show that evolution works?
• Spore: new game allows players to “evolve” creatures; should creationists be concerned? (see also a response to critics of this article)
• Genetic algorithms and robotic folly
• Genetic algorithms are irrelevant to evolution (quotable quote)

See also Q&A: Mutations