Why Natural Selection is NOT Evolution

Instances of natural selection are constantly held up as examples of evolution in action.

But they are no such thing. Creation scientists know it. Evolutionary scientists know. And yet textbooks and the popular media continue to use examples of natural selection to promote evolution. It’s misleading at best; simply deceptive, at worst.

Join biologist, Dr Don Batten, for a fascinating look at why natural selection is a conservative, culling force—rather than a creative one. What’s more, learn why mutations, too, show themselves to be a destructive force, rather than a creative one! With evolutionary theory in disarray, is there an alternative explanation that makes sense of all the scientific evidence? There is!

⏳ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Teaser
00:22 Introduction: Natural selection is wrongly being equated with evolution
02:42 Modern evolutionary theory actually relies on mutations. However …
03:13 Mutations can’t produce the type of change needed by evolution!
05:15 Simply adding more DNA letters (via mutations) doesn’t produce more ‘information’
06:17 Misunderstandings about information (e.g. ‘Shannon information’, ‘specified complexity’)
09:06 What is ‘the modern synthesis’ (in evolutionary theory)?
10:07 Are superbugs an example of evolution by natural selection?
13:46 Long-term evolution experiment shows no evolution after 70,000 generations!
15:46 Why is natural selection being presented as evolution?
18:26 Why ‘more time’ makes things worse, not better, for evolution
22:06 Human genetic mutation rates support a short (biblical) timeframe for history
24:16 What limits the amount of change that natural selection can produce?
26:02 Doesn’t natural selection help evolution by culling bad mutations and leaving the good ones?
27:28 Does evolutionary theory need a rethink?
28:53 Conclusion: Nature reveals design, not natural processes. It points to a Creator!

✍️ LINKS AND SHOW NOTES
• Natural selection is fact, and it is NOT evolution –    • Natural Selection Is Fact, & It Is NO...  
• Natural selection ≠ evolution - https://creation.com/natural-selectio...
• Isn’t it obvious? Natural selection can eliminate, but never create! – https://creation.com/natural-selectio...
• Antibiotic resistance: Evolution in action? – https://creation.com/antibiotic-resis...
• Long term evolution experiment: no evolution! – https://creation.com/focus-411#no-evo...
• Bacteria ‘evolving in the lab’? – https://creation.com/bacteria-evolvin...
• Evolutionist’s clarification about ‘natural selection’ has been largely ignored – https://creation.com/defining-terms
• Clarifying the confusion about natural selection – https://creation.com/muddy-waters
• The Altenberg 16 – https://creation.com/review-altenberg-16
• Natural Selection questions and answers – https://creation.com/natural-selectio...

📚 HELPFUL RESOURCES
• Creatures Do Change But It's Not Evolution (streaming video) – https://creation.com/s/35-8-601
• The Greatest Hoax on Earth? (book) – https://creation.com/s/10-2-555
• Refuting Evolution (book) – https://creation.com/s/10-2-110
• Evolution’s Achilles’ Heels (book) – https://creation.com/s/10-2-640
• Evolution’s Achilles’ Heels (documentary) – https://creation.com/s/35-8-640

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