A Challenge to Evolution
An British study reveals that, at least for some species of birds, evolution may not be proceeding according to the most commonly accepted theory. Good news for Recent Creationists? Not exactly. It turns out that, with humans in the environment, evolution of other species may be happening more rapidly with more local diversity and less resistance due to dispersal than previously thought. Not only does this stick yet another spoke in the wheels of Recent Creationists, it further weakens their ties to corporate conservatives who had made common cause with them on the issue of human impact on the ecology, each group asserting for its own reasons that it doesn’t matter very much. Now we see evidence of evolution ramping up as almost a panic reaction toward humans’ relentless destruction of habitat.
This study was published in Nature in 2005, which was a while back, but I don’t think it’s too late to be reporting about it here because (a) Creation “Science” hasn’t made it to 1950 yet, and (b) the press release on the Oxford University site has The. Greatest. Headline. Ever.