Macro and Micro evolution for dummies.

[John V]

[quote='John V' pid='370707' dateline='1354806868']
No one has argued that a graduated tone is necessarily man-made. The example given certainly was, though.

A couple. First, that an illustration created by an intelligent designer is a poor choice for an analogy to evolution. Second, showing that some things can be arranged in a pattern to show gradual change is a trivial observation - a NSS moment.

This demonstrates how 'intermediate phases' are not crocoducks, and that the lack of crocoducks does not weaken the credibility of evolution.

Uh, OK - I haven't seen anyone arguing for crockoducks here, so perhaps your little kitty should be directed at the OP.

It shows how evolution is a very gradual process, it odens't detail the mechanisms by which evolution works.

Do we know that evolution is always so gradual? i seem to recall hearing speculation that mutations to Hox genes could have produced immediately evident phenotypic change.

Do you think the illustration is a good analogy for the fossil record?

Would the sunset have been a better analogy because it wasn't man-made?

Yes, that would have eliminated one problem. Others as noted above would remain, and there may be some specific to a sunset - how gradual is the change over time, does it go in one direction as the illustration does, or back and forth?