Answers with Ken Ham - Don’t Feed the Birds or They’ll Evolve!

This is Ken Ham, a missionary with a passion for sharing God’s Word with the world. Bird feeding is so popular across the UK that some scientists say it’s “driving rapid evolution.” You see, scientists observed that birds in the UK have different shaped beaks from birds of the same species in the Netherlands, where bird feeding is much less popular. This beak shape seems to help these UK birds get seeds out of feeders more effectively. So birds that already had this variation were selected for in this bird feeder-heavy environment. But this isn’t evolution! Birds remain birds! The information for this beak shape was already there; nothing new was created. This is rapid adaptation—not evolution! Dig Deeper Don’t Feed the Birds or They’ll Evolve Life: Designed by God to Adapt