"Natural" Selection

Natural selection, put within the framework of evolution, has some serious problems as I indicated in my post yesterday. However there is a type of natural selection that happened that explains the variety within genera today.

A type of natural selection did take place when (for example) dogs came to the Arctic: shorthaired dogs died of the cold; long­haired dogs lived and produced longhaired puppies. The opposite happened in the trop­ics, but in each case, the result was a loss of information in the genetic code as a result of the isolation of a group in a hostile natural environment. The gene for short hair was eliminated from the genome of the group. This probably happened with many other genera, as creatures got more and more isolated from one another after the Flood.

What the Bible describes as a “kind” I believe is a genus. So coyotes, wolves, dogs, etc. are probably all descendants of a diverse group represented by two animals on the ark that had all the genes we see separated in the various species today. As the group split up and headed for their natural environments, the genes that best suited them for their surroundings got selected out and became dominant among that group; resulting in a separate species.

In all of these cases; however, there was a loss of genetic information, resulting in speciation, the opposite of evolution.

I prefer to call what I just described “Divine selection,” rather than “Natural selection.” God sovereignly guides the movements of creatures into their environments. He sovereignly directs the speciation process of the genes over the course of time. He providentially provides food for them, and equips them to be able to survive in their environment.

Divine selection is a process that came about through the providence of God, not an argument for evolution.