In a book I
read recently, produced by a number of Evangelical Protestants who hold to a
form of Old Earth Creationism and a limited flood, offered the following about
how Young Earth Creationists hold to a radical form of macroevolution, even if
they do not recognise such(!)
Young Earth
Evolutionists?
It may surprise readers to learn that leading
Young Earth Creationists now argue that differences between organisms today and
those found as fossils in flood layers can be explained by hyper-fast
adaptation since the time of the flood. For example, today’s lions, tigers,
cougars, pumas, ocelots, panthers, bobcats, lynx, margays, house cats, and the
many extinct saber-toothed forms are said to have evolved from a single pair of
specially created feline creatures (cat “kind”) that were on Noah’s Ark. Belief
in evolution is disguised by calling it adaptation,
but it still means new species deriving from old—though at rates far faster
than suggested by any evolutionists. By flood geologist reasoning, creatures
alive today, such as coral, should be expected
to look different from ancestral coral species at the time of the flood.
But even using the Young Earth definition of “kind,” how many examples of
dinosaur kinds, flowering plant kinds, mammal kinds, or bird kinds are found in
Grant Canyon layers? The answer is still zero. (Ralph Stearley, “Fossils of the
Grand Canyon and Grand Staircase” in The
Grand Canyon Monument to an Ancient Earth: Can Noah’s Flood Explain the Grand
Canyon [Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel Publications, 2016], 131-43, here, p. 136)
