Christian "faith" vs. plain "faith"

[watchamadoodle]

If you believe that a species evolves, then you effectively believe in evolution, because the tree of life is the natural implication of each species evolving. If you have a ring species where individuals in different regions have different adaptations, then that ring species can be cut in two pieces that evolve independently. That gives you two species. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species )

He's saying that new species do not emerge. It's not evolution.

I used to share Huggy's outlook on evolution - not for dogmatic reasons - but simply due to an over-simplified and distorted view of how chromosomes and reproduction work. It was hard for me to visualize how an individual organism with a longer or shorter chromosome could mate with a "normal" organism, and I was even more confused about the mechanism that would cause the number of chromosomes to change. As I delved into the details, I began to realize that chromosomes and DNA are much more fault-tolerant than I originally thought. That gave me more confidence that evolution could explain everything.

So I can certainly understand how a person can have Huggy's outlook. I had to go through a maze of internet articles about biology with all those confusing words and concepts to satisfy myself. I forgot most of what I learned, because it was so hard to keep it all straight in my mind. It was very interesting though.