Does Common Design Mean Common Ancestry?

Answers with Ken Ham

English - April 29, 2022 10:00 - ★★★★★ - 324 ratings
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The idea of common descent isn’t something we observed. It’s just an evolutionary assumption.

This is Ken Ham, with a passion for sharing God’s Word with the world.

A common argument for evolution is the similarities between creatures. Evolutionists will say those similarities are evidence of common descent from a shared ancestor.

But the idea of common descent isn’t something we observed. It’s just an evolutionary assumption. And there are plenty of examples of creatures that have shared features, which evolutionists will say aren’t related. They just look similar—the argument goes—because creatures happened to evolve the same features.

So, similarity is evidence for common ancestry—except: when it’s not!

The Bible gives us a much better explanation: God created!

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