What's the difference between Macro and Micro Evolution?

 

Macro-evolution

Macro-evolution is like having a deck of 52 cards and being able to add new cards out of thin air.

 

It means that nonliving matter somehow evolved into living things and that ultimately the entire complex universe came from nothing. Macro-evolution has never been observed, but it claims that naturally occurring processes have the unlimited ability to produce new genetic information. Single-celled creatures are able to change into many-celled creatures and ultimately into fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and man. Macro-evolution predicts large scale changes resulting in an increase in order, complexity, and viability; which means that organisms become stronger, or faster, and better able to reproduce. It theorizes that billions of mutations (or some believe only a few key mutations, as in a theory called “punctuated equilibrium”) ultimately add up to completely new and more complex kinds of plants or animals.

 

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Micro-evolution

Micro-evolution is like shuffling a deck of cards (the cards contain all of the genetic information which God originally created). The information is reorganized and some may even be lost (like dropping a card) but no new cards or information is added.

 

Plants and animals micro-evolve when “minor genetic modifications (mutations) or the environment activates the release of already existing latent genetic information.”(1)  But it’s important to know that scientists have discovered that these changes are genetically limited, never allowing change past a certain point. No new genetic information is produced.(2) Micro-evolution is seen everywhere, and it harmonizes with all known scientific principles and laws. It is also in complete harmony with what the Bible tells us. Creation scientists believe God designed the genetic code with the ability to produce interesting variety within each created kind (or baramin), but not with the ability to produce a new kind.(3)

 

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(1) A. E. Wilder-Smith, The Natural Sciences Know Nothing of Evolution (Costa Mesa, CA: T.W.F.T. Publishers, 1981, p. 137.

(2) Roger Lewin, "Evolutionary Theory Under Fire," Science, Vol. 210, No. 4472 (November 21, 1980), p. 883, as cited in Paul S. Taylor, The Illustrated Origins Answer Book (Mesa, Arizona: Films For Christ Association, 1989). p. 85.

(3) Taylor, p. 27.