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The NAS's Errors Regarding Speciation

error to make others believe in the theory of evolution. This is the form
that all of Charles Darwin's "proofs of evolution"
in The Origin of Species take. The examples put
forward by subsequent evolutionists are all
along the same lines, as well. In all of these ex-

amples, the genetic variation known to evolu-
tionists as microevolution is used as proof of the
theory they describe as
macroevolution.
Let us give an
example to illus-
trate the error in this
reasoning. What
would you say if some-

one proposed to you the
following argument? "A bullet
fired into the air from a pistol
travels at 400 km (250 miles) an
hour. It will therefore shortly leave
the Earth's atmosphere and reach
the moon, and in the weeks that follow will

eventually arrive at the planet Mars."
If someone made such a claim to you, you would
immediately realize that it was a simple deception. The per-
son making the claim is expressing only a very narrow obser-
vation (about the speed of the bullet leaving the pistol) and is
concealing two basic facts, gravity and friction, which restrict
the progress of the bullet. All evolutionists' attempts to derive
macroevolution from microevolution employ exactly the same
method.

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