More on animal variety after the Flood

In a previous post, "Young-earth creationism and the kinds of animals," I examined claims of Answers in Genesis (AiG) the most important young-earth creationist organization at this time. Among their claims is a proposal that, upon leaving the Ark, each individual (or each pair, or each group of seven) animals produced many kinds of offspring -- new species -- apparently almost as soon as the Ark landed. As far as I know, there is no credible scientific evidence for this theory. AiG is claiming that there was rapid evolution (although they seldom use that word) at this time, but that evolutionary processes were not responsible for the development of the species that went into the Ark. So evolution is both responsible, and not responsible, for speciation.

This sort of hyperevolution is a new belief among AiG leaders. It would have been seriously doubted and denied by young-earth creationists a few decades ago.

Does AiG still believe in hyper-evolution? Yes. I was doing an internet search on the question of whether the mustard seed is really the smallest seed. (Mark 4:31) I found this in an AiG publication:

"Evolutionists are assuming that the seed sizes we observe in the present were the same in the past. It is quite possible that some or all of the plants with smaller seeds had yet to differentiate into the species we observe today. The jewel orchids, for example, might not have branched from the originally created orchid kind at the point Jesus made his statement."

Note that the quote includes the idea of plants becoming new species, presumably at some time after the Flood. "Yet to differentiate into the species"

Jewel orchids have smaller seeds than mustard.

I was glancing at a list of recent AiG publications, and found this, by Ken Ham, head of AiG: "We also know that God created a great variety of genetic information into each kind so that they could adapt to their environment and branch out into different species."

No doubt, many other AiG publications and other communications put forward the idea that, upon leaving the Ark, organisms reproduced an amazing variety of species, using some sort of God-created hyperevolutionary mechanism, with built-in directions for diversifying -- not merely natural natural selection, because there hasn't been enough time since the Flood.

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