(May 12, 2018 at 11:45 am)pocaracas Wrote:(May 12, 2018 at 10:53 am)CDF47 Wrote: The bacteria is still bacteria and the fruit fly is still a fruit fly.
But a different species of each.
Or are you going to tell me that there is only one species of bacteria on Earth, as well as only one species of Fruit Fly?
Don't change the meaning of words, now!
And there is the problem. CDF claims "micro" evolution exists as demonstrated over 60 or so years of scientifically observed "micro" evolution. How much could happen in 3 billion years? Add those 60 years together over 3 billion years and we get 3,000,000,000/60=50.000.000 changes over time. That's right 50 million changes will result in no change of any note. That is the claim. 50 million changes results in no change at all.
And that is to neglect the influence of natural selection. It is to ignore all of the evidence we actually have to hand of, for example, ring species, a topic CDF avoids like the plague because he realises it sinks his nonsense or simply does not understand it.
I cannot fathom how stupid CDF's claim is. It amounts to nothing more that "I can't work it out, therefore god-did-it" a typical god-of-the-gaps position.
Unfortunately for CDF, the gaps are ever smaller, so CDF must continuously change position to attempt to keep up.
I can give a trivial example. I spend more than a little time for my daily toil on credit cards and encryption of same for substantial institutions. ~Some years ago we had the spam <bank of choice>requires you to verify your details spammage. At first, I just wrote a hack script to submit nonsense to such hackers. But that evolved over time until the entire programming started doing it in their spare time. By the end, we had a bot that would submit entirely fictitious yet valid cards, cvv's, names, DOB's and so forth. We reached a point where the scammers could not tell without testing each one and we shut down quite a few scams. The point is that the software evolved. People just contributed in their spare time for the hell of it. I am constrained by NDA to not provide identifying detail for the bank in question, but Really Believe Such. And I would rather have a bar of chocolate than a bar of clay.
In any event, we undertook this gratis. It was not a contracted task, it was simply an emergent property. We all saw evolution happen before our eyes as diverse individuals contributed. It was fun at the time, but a long while ago.