Here's a really good place to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_evolution
Adaptation is not evolution. Dogs have adapted but all dog breeds can still interbreed (allowing for size restrictions) so they are still the same species. Yes, I know this analogy is rough but I'm not a biologist. Still it hits the important point that you can have adaptation for sure but as long as you are not speciating then it's not true evolution.
I'm with you on larger animals taking longer to evolve and that leads back to my mention of 'needed time'. Worked at at the pace we think it takes to evolve and moving backwards the earth would need something like 10 times longer to genetically account for evolution. Even then you still have to explain things like the Cambrian explosion, the problem of information, and several other key factors.
I have a young-earth buddy and we often talk about this. The one thing that I can't rebut with him is that it's very obvious that the mark of design is everywhere. Life came quickly, packed the earth, left us everything we would need to survive and thrive, and it all could not have (arguably) been done better. Considering the age of our sun there is not that big a window for humanity on the earth and being off by only a blink in geologic time would prevent life from ever starting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_evolution
Adaptation is not evolution. Dogs have adapted but all dog breeds can still interbreed (allowing for size restrictions) so they are still the same species. Yes, I know this analogy is rough but I'm not a biologist. Still it hits the important point that you can have adaptation for sure but as long as you are not speciating then it's not true evolution.
I'm with you on larger animals taking longer to evolve and that leads back to my mention of 'needed time'. Worked at at the pace we think it takes to evolve and moving backwards the earth would need something like 10 times longer to genetically account for evolution. Even then you still have to explain things like the Cambrian explosion, the problem of information, and several other key factors.
I have a young-earth buddy and we often talk about this. The one thing that I can't rebut with him is that it's very obvious that the mark of design is everywhere. Life came quickly, packed the earth, left us everything we would need to survive and thrive, and it all could not have (arguably) been done better. Considering the age of our sun there is not that big a window for humanity on the earth and being off by only a blink in geologic time would prevent life from ever starting.