Destroying the theory of evolution in one post

[lilphil1989]

Lilphil, moths changing colour is surely not 'evolution', rather adaptation. A new species hasn't been formed. Have you a better example?

And what is evolution but a long series of adaptions brought about by natural selection?

This is one of the major misunderstandings about evolution. It is not a huge leap from one species to another in the space of a generation. Evolution doesn't claim that one day a rather surprised homo erectus gave birth to a homo sapiens. It is a very gradual change over time brought about by what you call adaptions.

If it were possible to time travel and take a photograph of an "average" homo erectus and do this every generation until the present day, by looking at two photographs that were next to each other in our timeline, i agree that they could be called the same species. You could even do this along the timeline i.e subject 1 looks very similar to subject 2 (in terms of species), 2 to 3, 3 to 4 etc up the latest photograph of a modern human.

It is only by comparing over a large timescale e.g. subject 1 to subject n (modern man) that the change can be seen