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I'll answer your first question now. I was taught evolution pretty much from "Origin of Species". It included trips to the Natural History Museum in London, courtesy of my Grandmother. There you could see the now discredited evolutionary progression of horses from creatures the size of a sheep to the the giant carthorse. All very logical and plausible. Just wrong. The now known to be fake Haeckel drawings were also in our textbooks.What were you specifically taught about evolution and creation? I'm curious to see what a curriculum that teaches evolution alongside creationism would look like.
In general, I've understood adaptation to the be the result of evolution as opposed to one and the same thing. IOW, the process of evolution leads to adaptation based on environmental pressures.
But can you clarify what you mean by the above? What you do mean by a "range of genetic information"? What genetic information are you referring to specifically?
OOL was also taught from a Darwinian perspective. I was taught that the first cells were extremely simple
and evolved into complexity. It is now well known that those "simple" cells are incredibly complex. The teacher was unable to explain how a collection of chemicals in a toxic soup could spring to life. That issue was simply avoided. 70 years of OOL experimentation have yet to provide an answer. I realise that evolutionists jump on anyone who mentions OOL and evolution in the same sentence. That was not the case 54 years ago. It was a natural progression according to what I was taught.
Creation was taught directly from the Bible by the same teacher. I did not get the sense that he was biased one way or the other. This was in New Zealand, not an especially "Christian" nation. I don't know exactly why I chose to believe Creation over evolution. I had no religious reason for doing so. Somehow the idea that life could just spontaneously arise for no plausible reason led me to conclude that it must have been created. It was not a "lightbulb" moment. It made no difference to me one way or another.
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