Rapid Speciation and the Young Earth

For quite a spell, Darwin's acolytes insisted that it took a mighty long time for a critter to get enough variation to classify it as a separate species. (Scientists often throw down on each other over what constitutes a new species.) Rapid speciation was inconceivable.

Charlie Darwin was fond of deep time and he used it to develop his evolution conjectures. Scoffers may be locked into that old paradigm, challenging biblical (young Earth) creationists by saying all the species we have now could not have evolved in a recent creation. Wanna bet?

Downy and hairy woodpeckers from Birds of New York by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, 1910 & 1914 (PD)

Instead of taking great amounts of time, variation and speciation (deceptively called evolution because the changes were minor and genetic information was not added) have been happening in a hurry. Evolutionists are shocked — shocked, I tell you — by elephants having shorter or nonexistent tusks, also green and brown anole changes, and more. Not only is speciation a part of the biblical creation science framework, it gives Darwin the sads.

Scientists have identified millions of species of life on earth, both extant and extinct, and likely millions more exist that have yet to be discovered. Those who believe in molecules-to-man evolution, the unbiblical idea that life arose from nonlife and that all species evolved from an unidentified common ancestor over millions of years, have traditionally taught that speciation takes a long time. Consequently, the idea of an old earth is necessary to account for the vast number of species seen in the world today. 

The rest of the article is found at "If the Earth Is Young, How Are There So Many Species?"