Creation Museum Agrees With Darwin

They disagree though on the effects of natural selection.

SUMMARY: A new exhibit at the Creation Museum in Kentucky is featuring one of the planks in Charles Darwin's evolution platform. "We wanted to show people that creationists believe in natural selection," said Ken Ham, founder of the museum and its sponsor, Answers in Genesis.

The idea that creationists accept the concept of natural selection isn't really new, says evolutionist Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education. Some people might find this strange. The Creation Museum believes that Adam and Eve were the first humans, that early man lived alongside of dinosaurs and that there really was a worldwide flood.

The new exhibit features live blind cave fish, models of bacteria, and recreations of Darwin's famous finches whose variant beaks inspired his theories on natural selection. Darwin believed evolution could occur through natural selection, as in a beetle's changing color that could give it an advantage in the struggle for survival. Although Scott claims fossils prove that one body type can evolve into another, Ham says that while natural selection could give an organism an advantage in its environment, the process could never lead to an entirely different creature such as fish evolving into amphibians. A creationist Web site, Creation Wiki, agrees with Ham, stating that natural selection "explains the mechanism by which traits are selected and organisms adapt to their environment." However, natural selection is only responsible for "small adaptations."

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COMMENT: One point this article did not mention was that a creationist may well be credited with inventing the idea of natural selection. To quote from our February 23 Question of the Day regarding a creationist, Edward Blyth:

"Blyth was an English zoologist and pharmacist who wrote about a process which we would call 'natural selection' (although he never used that term) and even discussed it with Charles Darwin years before Darwin wrote Origin of Species. However, unlike Darwin who used the idea to promote the theory of evolution of new species, Blyth saw natural selection as a way to preserve species by eliminating the extreme variants and the misfits. Darwin did have a high regard for Blyth's opinion, about which Darwin wrote, 'I should value more than that of almost any one.'"

So, it should not be any surprise that the Creation Museum would have an exhibit regarding natural selection. Creationists should not let evolutionists claim that Charles Darwin invented the concept.

However, as Christians, we must be aware of a much more important kind of selection than natural selection. This extremely important selection will take place on the world's last day when the Lord returns to select all who have pure hearts and reject all who are still in their sins. The sinless hearts will belong only to those who have had their hearts washed clean by the blood of Jesus Christ, a process that occurs only through faith in Him as our Savior. This is by far the more important kind of selection that should always be on the minds and lips of Christian creationists.

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Is there anything inside the Earth that flows?

Yes. Scientists in 1999 discover molten material in and around the Earth's core that moves in vortices, swirling pockets similar to what we see in tornadoes and hurricanes.

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