Is there evidence for naturalism or supernaturalism?
We believe we may see evidence for planned, designed variation. In the beginning, we suggested, when God was creating these plants and animals, He knew He would send the Flood and what effect it would have on His creation. So He planned genetic variation into these organisms right from the start, knowing that they would not need it until after the Flood. As they moved to refill the earth after the Flood, the ability to change and adapt to new environments unfolded because God had designed them to do exactly that. Now, we are making assumptions about this: we don’t have any way to go back to these pre-flood populations and see if this is true. But it is a way that helps to explain why plants and animals were able to change and adapt so quickly without the need for large numbers of mutations. The point is that we didn’t need to wait for new mutations to bring about the diversification seen in the Galapagos Islands. (Evolution says that mutations are the only channel for change.) The nece
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