Biblical Creationism Requires Evolution

I'm not sure if that is the same thing as superevolution or not,

You're right, an ape splitting off into seperate species of apes is evolution, but then again creationists don't have a problem with evolution in general.

Creationists have a problem with macro and steller evolution. What you are talking about is micro-evolution,

tesla writes:EXACTLY.but does he?

you answere me then, is it not just as logical for a chromosome to be deleted via evolution, as it could have been added?

honestly not much of this makes a whole lot of sense to me, but logically, evolution can move up or down by habits.

you answere me then, is it not just as logical for a chromosome to be deleted via evolution, as it could have been added?

CTD writes:If mutation was the cause of bacteria gaining resistance, what are the odds of that mutation cropping up? One in tens of billions, at least. But those experiments are readily repeatable. That's because recombination is the cause - not mutation, no way no how.

RAZD writes:"superevolution" is what creationists (have to) use to populate the world with the current diversity from a small population of species on some wooden ship ... and no, it is not the same as real evolution. It would have to occur at such a rate as to be visible, on the order of days per new species.

That's why recombination's kept secret to the extent it's practical to do so

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Now why don't I explain it here in simple layman's terms? Because it's easier for you to look it up yourself, read past the spin (some authors try to put an evolutionist spin on it, just like they do with genetics) and learn what it is. If I were to explain it, I fully expect those who know more about this topic than myself and pretended not to have this knowledge would come out of the woodwork & try to nitpick my explanation. I'd be tempted to call them liars, as the term is accurate and applicable. So I choose to avoid temptation.

The bargain basement evolutionist will just repeat the spin or deny that recombination exists

About the only real mutations they ever talk about that actually mutations are irradiated bugs, and that's just not enough to sell their religion.

In apes, there are 24 chromosome pairs, totalling in 48 chromosomes. Each one of these chromosomes has a centromere in the center and 2 telomeres, one at each end. What puzzled scientists back in the 80's and 90's is that even though humans are almost genetically identical to the apes we only have 23 pairs of chromosomes, totalling in 46 chromosomes. The hypothesis was that at some point in the past a telomere was deactivated resulting in the fusing of 2 chromosomes. This hypothesis was later confirmed by the discovery of 2 centromeres and 4 telomeres in chromosome #2 in humans. 1 of the centromeres is there but inactive. 2 of the telomeres are in the center of the chromosome and also inactive.Do you understand the implication of this discovery? Centromeres and Telomeres are very much central to the issue.

without having a full specimen to talk to, we cannot know which end product the creature is closer to

Yes we do, through the sciences of Genomics and Systematics.