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Creationist artist Philip Snow is featured on the BBC website

Although he accepts some of Darwin's conclusions about natural selection he does not accept Darwin's wider conclusions that everything has evolved – slowly, stepwise, so-called ‘simple cell to cellphone man' - over millions of years through blind chance. He is reported as saying that he does not accept Darwin's "final conclusion that everything evolved because of blind chance from slime," although "I accept that things can adapt and change, that's natural selection, but I don't think everything came from a big bang. That's just as much a faith as mine." Neither does he believe that birds have evolved from dinosaurs, commenting that there is "no way a dinosaur blindly evolved into a bird by changing its scales for feathers. This is an incredible design, and for that, you need a designer." In his book The Design and Origin of Birds - available from CSM he argues that although animals have the ability to adapt to changes, they essentially exist in the same families as they have done since creation. He comments that this "ability to change is [pre] programmed" in to the genetic information within the cell. Kingfishers for instance are really brown, but their vibrant blue colour is caused by the refraction and reflection of one wavelength of light in the feathers, the structure of which resemble photonic crystals. Philip is also a keen environmentalist and in his new book Tall Tales from an Estuary discusses some of the environmental changes that are taking place in our time.

The full BBC article can be read here.Anglesey wildlife artist and creationist Philip Snow

This message was added on Thursday 10th June 2010

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