(April 13, 2012 at 8:28 pm)Alter2Ego Wrote: 3. When people in the pro-evolution scientific community speak about animals evolving into "new species," are they referring to one family of animal evolving into an entirely different family of animal (eg. a squirrel evolving into a bat or a dinosaur evolving into a bird)--which are examples of macro-evolution?
Those are not examples of evolution of any sort. They're creationist pipe dreams. Like the crocoduck, useful only to serve as examples of how disingenuous, incredulous and/or deceptive creationists are.
As a hypothetical example, the transition from sea mammal (a whale-like creature) into land mammal is not a single transition, but a series of many smaller transitions over a very long period of time.
If you're actually interested in learning, and not just trolling or hit-and-run posting bullshit, get yourself a 100 college-level textbook on evolutionary biology. Based on your other thread(s), you might want to pick up something on chemistry and cosmology while you're at it.
