RE: ☢The Theistic Response➼ to Atheists saying, "It Doesn't mean God Did it"
November 20, 2016 at 12:20 am
(November 19, 2016 at 11:33 pm)PETE_ROSE Wrote: Most everyone here I suspect is from the city. I had a farm for 12 years. I never saw a dog mate with a cow and produce a sheep. When I bred my mares with jacks I got mules. Which are sterile. I understand the idea behind evolution. Would not reject it as one of the tools that God uses to accomplish His plan. Just do not see any compelling evidence for it.
Ah, I see the source of your misunderstanding. You think that evolution is observable in a single generation as a result of inter-species mating, when it actually occurs over many generations within individual species.
If you go far enough back in the evolutionary tree you will find an animal that is the ancestor of dogs, cows and sheep -- but none of them can breed with any other member of the group because the accumulated changes have made their genes too different from one another. Cows have 60 chromosomes, dogs have 78, and sheep have 54 -- And yes, given enough time chromosomes can either split or merge.