. . . and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1.20b NIVIn the daily devotional Inspired Evidence: Only One Reality, Julie Von Vett and Bruce Malone support their young earth view with evidence for creation from many scientific disciplines . While I disagree strongly with their main premise that one must choose either the biblical view or the scientific view (to the full exclusion of the other), the authors do give some interesting and relevant examples. Here is one of their claims involving birds.
Scientists since Darwin have continued to study his famous example of the changing beaks of Galapagos finches. However, with the knowledge of genetics, biologists now recognize that the bird bills "change shape within the egg while the beak is forming as the food source varies." A protein which signals the molecules which control the formation of bone causes the finch embryo to produce the shape of bill needed in its environment. "These changes," say Von Vett and Malone, "are not the result of mutations but design within the organism."
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