Evolution, religion, and ignorance.

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In all fairness to Mister and Alpha, here is a great article from Dr. Moran on the micro/macro debate. The point is made that gradualism alone is not sufficient and there are many other things to consider. Micro and Macro evolution are not competing however it is not adequate to simply dismiss macroevolution as a whole bunch of microevolution. Worth a read.

http://bioinfo.med.utoronto.ca/Evolution...ution.html

Thanks for that link, that's a pretty interesting article and does a nice job of clarifying where the differences are between micro/macro evolution and why it's not accurate to claim that macro is just lots and lots of micro.

Uh, no. The point made in the cited article is "while cummulative micro-evolution alone is already sufficient in itself to cause macro-evolution, other factors also contributed to the actual path taken by macroevolution".

It does not say "micro-evolution" is in principle insufficient to explain "macro-evolution".

In essence, macro-evolution is a series of micro-evolution, guided by conditions and changes in conditions of the ambient environment.