The word evolution is often used imprecisely, leading the public to believe that any biological change is evolution, and, therefore, it’s a fact.¹ But phenotypic variation within the same species has nothing to do with evolution.

Research into God’s living creation is dynamic and always surprising. This is true whether one peers into the deepest reaches of space or dives into the unexpected in laboratory research. Indeed, the vast field of microbiology (bacteria, fungi, and archaea) has barely been touched when it comes to discovering and describing new species of organisms.

Evolutionary naturalism is locked into seeing the entire living world as having evolved from a single common ancestor many millions of years ago.¹ If true, the fossil record should document this slow and gradual change with untold transitional forms that smoothly bridge one kind of creature to another as depicted by Darwin’s tree of life. But