(March 17, 2015 at 2:44 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: examples of speciation do not count because the definition of species means.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/species
Quote:speciesmeaning "speciation" is just a genetic variation of the same species, that are isolated from breeding with each other.
2. Biology. the major subdivision of a genus or subgenus, regarded as the basic category of biological classification, composed of related individuals that resemble one another, are able to breed among themselves, but are not able to breed with members of another species.
Developing a new breed of Dog for example is "speciation" by definition.
Wrong again. Speciation has a different meaning than "species" ... probably because they're, you know, two different words.
Argument by definition fails when you choose the wrong definition.
You're new to this, aren't you?