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'''Microevolution''', broadly defined, is the inevitable small-scale changes in [[allele]] frequencies in a population within the same species. Under this broad definition, this change in overall allele frequencies occurs with every birth or death of a member of the species. In other words, some generations of people might be taller than the last or shorter than the last based on the number of individuals who happen to have the "tall" gene. Microevolution does not involve changing from one [[kind]] to another, and it does not create new kinds.
'''Microevolution''', broadly defined, is the inevitable small-scale changes in [[allele]] frequencies in a population within the same species. Under this broad definition, this change in overall allele frequencies occurs with every birth or death of a member of the species. In other words, some generations of people might be taller than the last or shorter than the last based on the number of individuals who happen to have the "tall" gene. Microevolution does not involve changing from one [[kind]] to another, and it does not create new kinds.
Many evolutionists, although certainly not all, claim that the distinction between microevolution and [[macroevolution]] is arbitrary because they indicate that microevolution leads to [[macroevolution]]. However, there have been prominent evolutionists who dispute this matter.<ref>http://www.creationworldview.org/articles_view.asp?id=116</ref>.<ref>http://bioinfo.med.utoronto.ca/Evolution_by_Accident/Macroevolution.html</ref> [[Creationism|Creationists]] argue that microevolution/adaptation within a kind of animal occurs, but macroevolution does not occur.
Many evolutionists, although not all, claim that the distinction between microevolution and [[macroevolution]] is arbitrary because they indicate that microevolution leads to [[macroevolution]]ary changes. In other words, as microevolutionary changes accumulate it leads to macroevolution. However, there have been prominent evolutionists who dispute this matter.<ref>http://www.creationworldview.org/articles_view.asp?id=116</ref>.<ref>http://bioinfo.med.utoronto.ca/Evolution_by_Accident/Macroevolution.html</ref> [[Creationism|Creationists]] argue that microevolution/adaptation within a kind of animal occurs, but macroevolution does not occur.
The website Darwinism Refuted points out that finch beak microevolution, which [[Charles Darwin]] wrongly speculated leads to macroevolution, actually shows that finches remain finches and that birds remain birds.<ref>[http://www.darwinismrefuted.com/origin_of_species_02.html Darwinism Refuted]</ref>
Specifically, the website Darwinism Refuted indicates:
{{Cquote|In the same way, the different finches that Darwin saw on the [[Galapagos Islands]] are another example of variation that is no evidence for "evolution." Recent observations have revealed that the finches did not undergo an unlimited variation as Darwin's theory presupposed. Moreover, most of the different types of finches which Darwin thought represented 14 distinct species actually mated with one another, which means that they were variations that belonged to the same species. Scientific observation shows that the finch beaks, which have been mythicized in almost all evolutionist sources, are in fact an example of "variation"; therefore, they do not constitute evidence for the theory of evolution. For example, Peter and Rosemary Grant, who spent years observing the finch varieties in the Galapagos Islands looking for evidence for Darwinistic evolution, were forced to conclude that "the population, subjected to natural selection, is oscillating back and forth," a fact which implied that no "evolution" that leads to the emergence of new traits ever takes place there.<ref>[http://www.darwinismrefuted.com/origin_of_species_02.html Darwinism Refuted]</ref>}}
== Intelligent design theorists on microevolution ===
== Biblical creationists on microevolution vs. macroevolution ==
== Microevolution vs. macroevolution ==
== Microevolution vs. macroevolution ==
In 2011, Dr. [[Grady S. McMurtry]] declared:
In 2011, the [[Creation science|creation scientist]] Dr. [[Grady S. McMurtry]] declared:
{{cquote|It is a commonly held belief of evolutionists that small changes in genetic materials (mutations) will ultimately produce the presumed large changes necessary for one biological organism to change into a different kind of biological organism which is commonly called [[macroevolution]]. This belief is not valid. Scientifically, a mutation is a copying error of previously existing information contained in the DNA: a mutation is a structural change in the hereditary material which makes the offspring different from its parents.
{{cquote|It is a commonly held belief of evolutionists that small changes in genetic materials (mutations) will ultimately produce the presumed large changes necessary for one biological organism to change into a different kind of biological organism which is commonly called [[macroevolution]]. This belief is not valid. Scientifically, a mutation is a copying error of previously existing information contained in the DNA: a mutation is a structural change in the hereditary material which makes the offspring different from its parents.
[[File:Grady S. McMurtry.jpg|right|thumb|175px|Dr. [[Grady S. McMurtry]] ]]
[[File:Grady S. McMurtry.jpg|right|thumb|175px|Dr. [[Grady S. McMurtry]] ]]