Defining terms: Evolutionist Dr John Endler’s refreshing clarity about ‘natural selection’ has been largely ignored

Defining terms: Evolutionist Dr John Endler’s refreshing clarity about ‘natural selection’ has been largely ignored

Many times we have pointed out,1 in relation to natural selection and evolution, that: Natural selection is a fact—it was recognized by creationists before Darwin, as it is by informed creationists today.2 Natural selection favours certain already-existing genetic traits in populations by culling genes out of the gene pool;3,4,5 thus it helps adaptation of a population to its environment.6,7 (Sometimes the new population is given a new species name—adaptation and speciation are accepted by informed creationists.)8,9 Natural selection by itself generates no new genetic information. So any adaptations that are purely the result of natural selection acting on pre-existing genetic information are not changes in the right direction to drive particles-to-people evolution.10 So, natural selection is not the same thing as evolution!11,12,13 However, proponents of evolution repeatedly cite examples of natural selection—examples in which populations lose genetic information—as evidence of microbes-to-man evolution (which would require an increase in genetic information). This is clearly unjustified.