So much stupid

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

My relatives forward me stupid chain emails everyday. This is the worst offender I've seen in a while:

What? Humans have never observed the process of evolution?

Humanity can't prove that evolution is an on-going fact of life?

What?

Creationists consider "the process of evolution" to be "macro-evolution" where one "kind" evolves to another "kind" over millions of years i.e. a cow evolving to be a whale. Since no one has seen such a thing occur then saying that it has occurred is an unproven statement of "faith".

Creationists will agree that small changes from generation to generation are seen. THey say this is just "micro-evolution" which is "variation within a kind." They deny however that macro-evolution can result from a series of occurrences of micro-evolution and assert that there is a "barrier" that prevents a "kind" from changing into another "kind."

So creationists think all evolution that does occur is just variations on a theme. Though there can be many variations, the variations never get so deviant that the theme itself changes.

This is just an unproven assertion however. There is no reason to assume that a "kind" can't evolve into another "kind" through a series of continuous evolution. Any assertion of a "genetic barrier" and denial of the possibility of macro evolution comes about from a reading of Genesis and not from an observation of the facts.