(December 29, 2019 at 7:10 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: But a sudden and large non-accumulated change, like polyploidy in plants, can. Those two narratives contradict what you just said.
While polyploidy is one of the mechanism for speciation it is mostly restricted to a few species of plants and barely any animal species, so the role of geographic isolation is mostly a major and necessary component to most speciation in the natural world.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"