The terms “microevolution” and “macroevolution” were coined by an evolutionist. They were not coined by a creationist in an attempt to “divide and conquer.” It was an evolutionist who first suggested that you can’t take the abundant evidence supporting micro and assume that it proves macro. The chasm is too wide. The variation it must account for is too great. In short, macroevolution is not fully reducible to microevolution. The two are qualitatively distinct to some degree.
Russian geneticist Yuri A. Filipchenko (1882–1930) first proposed the terms microevolution and macroevolution, for the above reasons. He was the mentor of Theodosius Dobzhansky who would go on to produce for American Biology Teacher an essay entitled “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution.” The intent was to get all those teachers on the same page. Make sure none of them go teaching creation. ‘If you teach biology without evolution, it’s like teaching chemistry without the periodic table’ is the parallel he draws.
Dobzhansky makes no reference to macro and micro as his mentor did; he rams the two together as do most evolutionists today. But, for my money, it is like ramming similar poles of a magnet together. You reach a point where you’re just kidding yourself if you think you’ve done it. They repel. What proves one does not suffice to prove the other. There is abundant evidence of evolution cited Dobzhansky’s essay, but the specifics are all for micro. It is but educated speculation to apply it to the epochs of macro. It will apply to a degree, but to what degree is the question. It’s not likely “all the way,” as modern evolutionists are apt to say, confusing tonnage with substance.
It will be like when my wife prefaces a question with, “Honey, do you love me?” “To a degree,” I hedge, for I am awaiting to hear what Herculean task she has in mind for me. I think evolutionists should do the same. ‘To a degree,’ they should answer, and then view the JW-authored series, ‘Was it Designed?’ and ask themselves, ‘Just what Herculean mental construction am I being asked to swallow? Am I willing to go that far? I mean, sometimes when my wife surveys the heaviest pieces of furniture in the house and wants me to move them just for the sake of doing so, I tell her no.
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