“As we look at the broad picture of biodiversity, it is clear that just as a body depends upon division of labor among cells, so an ecosystem depends upon division of labor provided by biodiversity.”
“Different organisms, with different enzyme systems, are essential links in these ecochemical pathways.”
“When we look at a species in terms of both the services it provides and those it requires, we are essentially referring to the “ecological niche,” generally defined as the role of a species in its environment.”
“Since no two occupied niches can be identical, or redundant, without one of the two species being competitively excluded, it appears reasonable to say that two species cannot provide and require identical ecological services.”
“Biodiversity, redundancy and resiliency permit an ecosystem to recover from severe damage and even ecosystem destruction.”
“…ecological complexity is built on layer upon layer of complexity, going all the way down through different hierarchical structural and organizational levels to the cell and even lower.”
“..ecological relationships are essential.”
“If biodiversity is as necessary for normal ecosystem operation it suggests that these services, and organisms providing them, had to have been simultaneously present right from the beginning.”
“If these ecological interrelationships are really indispensable, then there is no easy evolutionary explanation.”
“Complexity of the cell is now just too daunting to flippantly assert biochemical evolution to explain it, unless you close your mind and press on blindly and boldly.”
“It has now become quite a feat to think about cells originating through biochemical evolution. And if cells could not originate naturally, then nothing else could.”
“Since ecology is built upon so much underlying multispecies complexity, trying to explain the origin of ecology by chance events painfully stretches one’s credulity.”
“..coevolution appears to be no answer for understanding the origin of ecology.”
“There seems to be no adequate evolutionary way to explain how multiple organisms have once lived independently of services they now require.”
“…life on earth actually makes life on earth possible. That is, life on earth makes it possible for life on earth to continue. It is saying that the whole system had to be present for life to go on existing. If this is true, there is no room for gradually unfolding ecology.”
“Biodiversity does not specify a six-day creation, it is not that finely focused, but it strongly supports such a possibility.”
“Biodiversity studies, involving cross-species ecological integration, may be among the few scientific pursuits that have the potential for supporting what Scripture emphatically states.”
Dr. Henry Zuill is a emeritus professor at the Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska and is the curator of the Joshua C. Turner Arboretum of the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum. He has his B.A. in biology from Atlantic Union College, M.A., and a Ph.D. in biology from Loma Linda University, California. He is now currently retired from Union College.
For those just joining me on this journey of my look at scientists who do believe in the Genesis account the point is that scientists as in ALL scientists do not hold an evolutionist view or even a theistic evolution point of view. Indeed there are not a few legitimate, well studied, well reviewed scientists who do believe God was able to make this universe we live in in six 24ish-hour days not long ago.
See also:
No more sweeping statements by scientists on the origin of life, evolution and old earth creationism
12 more insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - Jerry Bergman, PhD, 2 of 2
12 more insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - Jeremy Walter, PhD, part 2 of 2
16 insights of young earth creation (YEC) scientist - John K. G. Kramer, PhD





























