(March 17, 2015 at 2:44 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: The first step in the scientific method is observation, as I said one species evolving into a completely different species (meaning unable to produce offspring) has never been observed.
Observation in a scientific context does not mean "I have to see it happen in order for it to be true". A scientific observation is the identifying of a phenomenon - apples fall to the ground, exposure to this substance causes sickness, species alive today are different to ones now extinct yet similar enough to be related etc. Having made the observation, the next step is to create tentative hypotheses to account for the phenomenon and devise experiments to test them against the observed reality.
C'mon, man, you really don't want to be Hovind or GMan.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'