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"MacroDevelopment is new combinations of already existing genetic material producing new morphologies."
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You and I started out in life as a single cell. Within this cell were the genetic instructions on how to eventually develop a heart, liver, lungs, eyes, etc. These body parts appeared when cells that descended from that single cell differentiated according to a preordained schedule. This is, of course, is called "development". When a developing organism develops it does not become more complex, rather a pre-existing complexity becomes manifest. MacroDevelopment makes the same claim for the development of new species. In contrast neoDarwinism makes the unsubstantiated claim that merely natural selection of mutations results in higher complexity. MacroDevelopment sees the whole biosphere as one developing organism as a result of an innate ability of the collective genome to speciate and form new morphologies. Speciation, and the appearance of genera, families, orders and phyla resulted by consequence of a program, largely contained within genetic code. Just as that single cell contained the plan to form the heart and liver, so also did the plan exist for new species before the appearance of those species. The evolution of life follows a program. Notably, unlike neo-darwinism, and unlike the creationist's theory of separate creation of the species, this theory fits the available physical evidence. MacroDevelopment agrees with the geologic time scale and the fossil record, with new species appearing throughout the eons, often rather abruptly. MacroDevelopment is new combinations of already existing genetic material producing new morphologies. Notice how selective breeding produces new morphologies that have never existed in the wild and which we can see today. Sweet corn that you see in the supermarket, strawberries and much other produce looks nothing like it did in the wild, before selective breeding. These varieties did not mutate into existence, rather the breeders, by selecting individuals that had desirable characteristics and by rejecting the undesirable characteristics, altered the gene complement of the population which resulted in new morphologies never before realized. Indeed mutations provided variability within these populations before the selective breeding, but clearly another process is involved. For example, consider the wolf population which has within in it the genetic complement of varieties as diverse as the husky, dachshund and Pekinese. |