In the topic,
Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham, Faith presented a standard creationist claim which we have discussed at length. That claim is that the Ark was loaded with a small number of breeding pairs, each representing one of the basic created kinds and that each pair was front-loaded with an immense amount of genetic variability which then enabled the amazingly rapid evolution into the vast numbers of descendant species that now exist.
Here is how the Wikipedia article,
Genetic variability:
quote:
Genetic variability is a measure of the tendency of individual genotypes in a population to vary from one another.
Can it be said that a single pair of organisms possess a vast amount of genetic variability? Or any individual? Or isn't it that you need to have a
population in order to compare the individual genomes of its members to determine how much those individual genomes vary with each other?
IOW, in order for there to be a kind on the Ark with a large amount of variability, then you would have had to have loaded an entire population of hundreds or thousands of individuals and not just one single breeding pair?