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CONTRAST BETWEEN THE TWO MODELS
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Creation Model
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Evolution Model
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| By acts of a Creator. |
By naturalistic mechanistic processes due to properties inherent
in inanimate matter. |
| Creation of basic plant and animal kinds with ordinal characteristics
complete in first representatives. |
Origin of all living things from a single living source which itself
arose from inanimate matter. Origin of each kind from an ancestral form
by slow gradual change. |
| Variation and speciation limited within each kind. |
Unlimited variation. All forms genetically related. |
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These two models would permit the following predictions to be
made concerning the fossil record:
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| Sudden appearance in great variety of highly complex forms. |
Gradual change of simplest forms into more and more complex forms. |
| Sudden appearance of each created kind with ordinal characteristics
complete. Sharp boundaries separating major taxonomic groups. No transitional
forms between higher categories. |
Transitional series linking all categories. No systematic gaps. |