Ivanov, Yuri N. (2000) Laws of Fertility, Role of Natural Selection, and Destructiveness of Mutations. Creation Research Society Quarterly, 37 (3): 2.
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Abstract
Research into fertility has revealed facts that are incompatible with selectionism, the modern concept of evolution. In whatever species, fertility is never so close to the most productive (optimal) level that it would guarantee survival of most of the offspring. This is a radical contradiction of the selectogenesis theory, which postulates that 1) the level of species fertility has been attained because of selection, and 2) any individual modification of fertility is a matter of adaptation. Neither fertility itself nor its modifications have anything to do with Darwinian adaptation or with increased population growth; actually, they hold the population stabilized within certain limits. It is not the maximization of individual fitness (also known as the reproductive success) that makes up the basic principles of life organization, but allocentrism (the availability of self-limiting properties of species that are advantageous to the ecosystem as a whole, i.e. are good for the mutual benefit of all the species). Despite permanent natural selection for elevated fertility, the distribution of fertility in any species remains invariable. This phenomenon proves the perfect destructiveness of the mutation process. Undoubtedly, mutations that increase fertility have occurred and continue to occur, but do not become fixed because they diminish fitness on the whole. Therefore, selectogenesis cannot be a factor of fertility or of any other character less associated with fitness than fertility, and the creationist concept of the species invariability is thus confirmed. A short classification of cosmogonies is given. Denying the miracle of creation, evolutionism is forced to admit another miracle—the inactivity of the second principle of thermodynamics. Likewise, atheistic science turns out to be inimical to reason and morals.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | Q Science (General) > QH Natural History. Biology > QH359 Biological Evolution > QH359.3 Natural Selection Q Science (General) > QH Natural History. Biology > QH471 Reproduction. Embryology. Development |
Depositing User: | Admin |
Date Deposited: | 18 Mar 2025 21:44 |
Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2025 21:44 |
URI: | https://crsq.creationresearch.org/id/eprint/907 |