Discussion on debate between Esquilax and His_Majesty.

[Dolorian]

The only thing we see in the present day is animals producing their own kind...dogs produce dogs, cats produce cats, and fish produce fish...so on and so forth. This is MICROEVOLUTION, people...I agree, microevolution happens every day..but a dog producing a dog is a lot different than a reptile changing to a bird...which is something we DON'Tsee.

Never mind that His_Majesty doesn't explains what he means by "kind" (an antiquated concept). This statement from him reveals to me a common yet fundamental misunderstanding about how evolution works. Under evolution, a member of one species doesn't produce a member of some other species. Rather, the gradual and small changes that species undergo over many generations lead to an accumulation of features and differences that in turn lead to speciation and divergence. But at every step along the line, we always have living organisms producing members of their own species.