Henry Zuill on biology
"When we look at the world, we see a complex interaction
between living things, from bacteria to grizzly bears; all life depends on other
life around it. The complexities of relationships in the ecosystems that make up
the earth are just as complex as those seen inside each living cell.
Biodiversity and the relationships that it incorporates are a hallmark of the
design of the Creator. The more diverse and complex an ecosystem is, the more
stable it is. Each species in an ecosystem provides a service, but often
providers of that service overlap and each species may perform several services.
Removal of one of the species has an impact on all other species. This
interdependency is supposed to demonstrate how organisms have evolved alongside
one another. But how did the first organism survive without the second, and vice
versa?
Being created together is a simple explanation, and evolution has great
difficulty explaining the many instances of species that absolutely depend on
one another for their survival. When cells were described as simple blobs of
jelly, it was easy to imagine that they arose spontaneously. Today, the
complexity of a single cell defies an origin from simple matter. As we
understand more about ecological interactions, it is apparent that the
evolutionary relationships that were once assumed to be simplistic are now known
to have many layers of complexity. The coevolution of complex symbiotic
relationships required the existence of relationships. This provides no answer
to the origin of the relationships. If the two organisms were created to
coexist, a fine-tuning of the relationship would be expected in the creationist
framework. Predators and parasites developed in response to the degraded world
after the Flood. The created kinds may have changed, but the general
relationships present before the Fall probably remained intact to some degree.
The relationships seen are a testament to the Creator who instilled order and
flexibility into the system. Evolutionary views cannot adequately explain the
symbiotic nature of all living things." Exposing Evolution, Second Ed.
Henry Zuill on biology, Ashton,
www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/isd/zuill.asp
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