Did God create poodles?
[Did God Create
Poodles? By Ken Ham] "Poodles and all other current breeds of dogs are
descended from a dog kind that was created on Day 6 and was present on the Ark.
The varieties of dogs that we see today, from wolves to coyotes to poodles, are
all descendants of the dog kind that came off Noah’s Ark. As populations of wild
dogs were spreading across the globe, the environment shaped their
characteristics through natural selection. As humans began to domesticate dogs,
they artificially selected the traits that they desired in populations. The
breeds of modern domestic dogs are a result of the diversity that was programmed
into the DNA of the original dog kind. All domestic dogs belong to the same
species Canis familiaris and can interbreed.
Purebred dogs have many genetic problems that result from close breeding of
individuals over time to concentrate desirable traits. Many breeds have hip
dysplaysia, vision problems, and blood disorders. We know that these dogs could
not have been in the Garden of Eden because God called His creation “very good”
and He would not have included these genetic mutations in that description. We
do know that all of the breeds did come from a very narrow gene pool, and this
is confirmed by secular scientists. In the journal Science, November 22, 2002,
researchers reported, “The origin of the domestic dog from wolves has been
established… . We examined the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence variation
among 654 domestic dogs representing all major dog populations worldwide, …
suggesting a common origin from a single gene pool for all dog populations.” It
is still important to remember that no new information exists in these mutant
forms, only a loss of information from the population, resulting in distinct
traits."
Did God Create Poodles? Ge 7:14, Ps 11:3.
Response to comment [from a "Christian"]: "Oh, dear. She's just going to keep doing this, isn't she?"
Did you have an argument?
