Speciation questions and answers

What does it mean when God created the animals to reproduce ‘after their kind’ in Genesis 1? Were these original animals the same as animals in our world today?

• Sheep and goats? Since when?
• What is the Biblical creationist model? (kinds v species)
• Variation, information and the created kind
• Variation and natural selection versus evolution
• Ligers and wholphins? What next?
• A baraminology tutorial with examples from the grasses (Poaceae)
• ‘Fast mouse evolution’ claims
• Did God create poodles?
• Australian dingo: a wolf in dog’s clothing
• Resurrecting a ‘prehistoric’ horse
• Zenkey, zonkey, zebra donkey
• Identification of species within the sheepgoat kind (Tsoan monobaramin)

What is speciation? Does it take millions of years to occur?

• Brisk Biters — fast changes in mosquitoes astonish evolutionists, delight creationists
• Darwin’s Finches: Evidence supporting rapid post-Flood adaptation
• Dogs breeding dogs
• Genetic engineers unwind species barrier
• Speedy species surprise
• The Heliconius hybrid butterfly: speciation yes, evolution no

What about the evolutionary claim that genetic information is gained during speciation?

• Hox (homeobox) Genes — Evolution’s Saviour?
• Latin Lizards: Logos vs the Lottery
• Lost World of Mutants Discovered
• Bears across the world!
• Speciation Conference brings Good News to Creationists (Semi-Technical)

See also:

• Mutations Q&A
• Natural Selection Q&A