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Our main Q&A (FAQ) Page

Natural Selection Questions and Answers

Key Articles

• Variation and natural selection versus evolution (from Refuting Evolution)
• Argument: Natural selection leads to speciation (from Refuting Evolution 2)
• Atheopathy vs Science: Refuting New Scientist’s agitprop about evolution:
  Evolution v natural selection
• Muddy Waters: Clarifying the confusion about natural selection

Does natural selection support evolution?

• Bighorn horns not so big
• Defining terms: Evolutionist Dr John Endler’s refreshing clarity about ‘natural selection’ has been largely ignored
• The evolution train’s a-comin (Sorry, a-goin’—in the wrong direction)
• From ape to man via genetic meltdown: a theory in crisis
• Islands’ weeds don’t support evolution
• Well-armed water fleas and radishes
• What! … No potatoes?
• Molecular limits to natural variation
• Dawkins playing bait and switch with guppy selection

Do mutations that confer resistance to antibiotics, poisons, etc prove evolution?

• Anthrax and antibiotics: Is evolution relevant? (available in Spanish)
• Poison-resistant tomcods and the meaning of ‘evolution’
• Superbugs not super after all
• Patterns of change over time: organophosphorus resistance in the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina
• Creationist article ‘saved my favourite cow’
• Has AIDS evolved?

How does natural selection fit into a creationist paradigm?

• Darwin’s Finches: Evidence supporting rapid post-Flood adaptation
• Genetics: No Friend of Evolution
• “A Parade of Mutants”—Pedigree Dogs and Artificial Selection

• Problems in sexual selection theory and neo-Darwinism
• Response to PBS's Evolution: Why sex?
• The beauty of the peacock teail and the problems with the theory of sexual selection
• ‘Just-so’ stories of sex and family life

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

• Brisk Biters—fast changes in mosquitoes astonish evolutionists, delight creationists
• Review of The Beak of the Finch: Evolution in Real Time
• Do toads goad snake evolution?
• Rapid tomcod ‘evolution by pollution’? Yeah, right … and wrong

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

• Goodbye, peppered moths: A classic evolutionary story unstuck
• The moth files
• A recent attempt to restore the reputation of the peppered moth as an evolutionary icon falls flat

What about computer simulations allegedly proving evolution by cumulative selection?

• Weasel, a flexible program for investigating deterministic computer ‘demonstrations’ of evolution
• Genetic algorithms—do they show that evolution works?
• Genetic algorithms and robotic folly
• Genetic algorithms are irrelevant to evolution
• Spore: new game allows players to evolve creatures; should creationists be concerned? (see also a response to critics of this article)

Related Q&A pages

• Mutations
• Speciation
• Genetics
• Information

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