[MortMan]

I don’t believe I have ever heard the idea that creationism denies micro-evolution. The issue is macro-evolution, by which I mean the change of one form of life into another, including the leap from one phylum to another.

Selecting the survival of arganisms by the introduction of stimuli hasn’t been disputed for some time, to my knowledge. Heck, even Pavlov proved the adaptability of living beings (although not on a genetic level).

[allmendream]

Creationist deny “micro” evolution all the time when they insist that all mutational changes are maladaptive or only diminish the amount of genetic variability already present in the organism. All the talk about ‘after the Fall’ and how human beings are less long lived than the Malthusian ages given in the Bible being due to genetic degradation.

So what is going to stop adaptive “micro” changes within a population such that two separate branches will accumulate a 2% genetic difference, as is the amount of difference between humans and chimpanzees?