One is often stopped by the rather light-headed idea that we cannot have
possibly arrived at our current world population and biological diversity based on the
"...chance crashing together of a mere two molecules from a mud puddle Imagine: a cat evolving out of the muddy oooze overnight! Silly! All those diverse species cannot have arrived here absent an ID input!"
Then I and others point out
simple exponential growth, but I do know that part of math class was often accompanied, for many in the room who also perhaps moved on later to become fundy Christians, to a light snoring sound.
And so here's a great little diagram. Pictures from your Sunday School comic book? I doubt it: this is far too sophisticated for them, plus it makes too embarrassing a point!
If you or your child has a scientific calculator, you can rather easily overload it's abilities (and I'm assuming a god-fearing Christian feels they have more capacity than a good HP or TI calc, yes?) by calculating the result of say, 2^2000 (2 X 2 X 2 X 1998 more times) which would be the lightest number of possible speciations over a few million years.
But... don't forget as well,, after the first, oh 100 or so iterations (a few few months or years at best!), each of
those lines take off on THEIR own!
It's staggering, and in fact, it's kind of amazing there aren't even more species, but then there also have to be niches to bargain for, struggle into, or simply overtake by shear force of presence.
Not to mention that we now estimate there have been over 100 million+ species already gone extinct, leaving an estimated 60 - 100 million still here, with new ones forming up daily. Hourly! As you and I converse, POP! Wow, huh? Another one to go out and test itself
agin the world at large!!
So the total number IS a bit staggering even to us evolutionarians, but
we care not so afraid to use good ol' exponential math (which perhaps God gave us?
) to figure out where they all came from on their own, totally absent supernatural wizardry!
Well there you have it! Please... do enjoy this simple picture! Ponder it as the old year passes and perhaps you will all move into a new-age of open minded natural inquiry.
http://www.crochetinsider.com/sites/...ings%20016.jpg
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