RE: The Jesus Freaks Will Hate This
March 12, 2015 at 12:44 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2015 at 12:57 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(March 12, 2015 at 12:15 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: My actual statement was
Show me where a species evolving into a completely new species has ever been observed.
Um, species don't evolve into completely new species. They evolve into very similar species. Since that's what the theory of evolution predicts, how is it a problem?
(March 12, 2015 at 12:15 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Now show me where (for example) canines have been observed evolving into felines, or something similar.
If that happened on a scale observable in a human lifetime, it would upend our understanding of evolution. Why do you keep asking for examples of evolution that would disprove it if they were actually observed? For the record though, canines and felines have a common ancestor about 50 million years ago; and hyenas are an example of the feliformia suborder producing a canine-like family. We know this from the fossil record and genetic comparison, not because it happened before our very eyes.
(March 12, 2015 at 12:15 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: "speciation" is a new term that has been created within the past century.
What earthly relevance does the term's age have?
(March 12, 2015 at 12:15 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: By this definition, African-Americans would be considered a new species from the selective breeding practices that occurred during slavery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciation
Quote: Speciation may also be induced artificially, through animal husbandry, agriculture, or laboratory experiments.[/hide]
Is there a prize for most ridiculous statement? Just because a new species can be induced artificially does not mean that any result of selective breeding is automatically a new species. Bowling can result in a perfect score, that doesn't mean I bowled a perfect score.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.