User:Pbarnes/creationist orchard

A creationist orchard is a metaphor used to describe the belief that there are multiple

universal common descent

.

The study of these

baraminology

or typology.

Etymology

“

I intend to replace the evolutionary tree with the creationist orchard, separately created, separately planted by God.

”

— Kurt Wise, answersingenesis.com

Kurt Wise is attributed to the creation of the metaphor in an attempt to dispel the association with

intelligent designers. In the book Refuting Evolution, Jonathan Sarfati

devotes much of chapter 2 to explaining the creationist orchard.

History

Prior to

theory of evolution

.

Darwin was raised in a religious family and was a

clergyman who believed in the fixity of the species but rejected the theory after his studies on the Galápagos Islands in which he observed many examples of species which did not remain unchanged. This change is described by Darwin as adaptation

.

In the years following Darwin, many

creationist attempted to reconcile the thing Darwin could not. These individuals believed a literal creation as described in Genesis

and also many aspects of evolution Darwin theorized.

Belief

A common argument against the

theory of evolution is that genetic information does not advance but only digresses as time progresses. Many creationist claim God created the various kinds with perfect genetic information. With the affects of the fall of man, the environment created a number of pressures similar to natural selection

which cause the perfect genetic information to become less than perfect but at the same kind creating diversity.

Supporters of the creationist orchard believe the change in the environment paradise to a survival of the fittest scenario the perfect genetic information began to be lost. The loss of the perfect genes resulted in diversity of each species. By these different forms of the same species "interbreeding" they claim the result only "appears" to be evolution in progress but is really just a combining of the original perfect genetic information which produces the something more similar to the original perfect ancestor.

An example for this belief is the relationship between a wolves, foxes, and dolphins; most creationist believe wolves and a foxes are related by ancestral evolution but argue against the belief that a wolf and a dolphin once shared a

common ancestor

. According to creationist orchard supports, the common wolf-fox ancestor shared all the best traits of both species but when genetic information began to be removed from the individual species due to their harsh environment they began to only maintain certain traits; these traits resulted in the wolf and fox species we see today.

Conflicting Evidence

Orchard Theorist

Young Earth Creationist

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References

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