(October 24, 2011 at 6:15 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Sorry, this is incorrect. Speciation can occur very quickly, we just don’t observe any changes happening amongst people for the last supposed 50,000 years.
You are so very wrong. Lactose tolerance has only evolved as recently as within the last 3000 year.
http://www.lurj.org/article.php/vol4n1/genome.xml
Quote:While skeptics argue that humans have hit an evolutionary peak and that our culture, medicine and technology have solidified our lack of need for continual evolution, it is medicine and culture that help to solidify continual evolution of the human genome. Culture has been responsible for the evolution agricultural dairying and lactase persistence, responsible for an increase in malaria, thus the evolution of sickle-cell trait, can be said to be a main reason for the rapid spread of HIV, thus is responsible for the evolution of HIV combatant alleles, and is responsible for populations' migration to high altitudes, thus responsible for in increase in high oxygen saturation of hemoglobin. These examples suggest that modern humans remain in a state of constant evolution as a result of common mutation, natural selection, new endemic diseases, and our own cultural influences.
Anyhoo when did you agree that thre was a 50,000 years ago?
I thought you were a young earth creationist!
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.