Originally posted by Anonymouse
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I don't understand how it is a display of faith when one species has been seen changing into another. When you have two separate species, when you have enough genetic difference that two individuals can no longer produce viable offspring, that is macroevolution. That is the very definition. This is not within species variation. I don't see why you have so much difficulty seeing that.
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Originally posted by loseyournameI don't understand how it is a display of faith when one species has been seen changing into another. When you have two separate species, when you have enough genetic difference that two individuals can no longer produce viable offspring, that is macroevolution. That is the very definition. This is not within species variation. I don't see why you have so much difficulty seeing that.
Notice the clarity in the first definition and the ambiguity in the latter? Strangely enough the evolutionists' position has been one that that has exploited the second, weaker definition.Achkerov kute.
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For example, I've been often told how fruit flies produce "new species" and they "can't reproduce". This is pretty flimsy since it is pretty easy to artificially inseminate a female with sperm from the male of the "new species". A fruit fly changes into nothing more than a fruit fly. This is how the semantic manipulation makes people believe "Oh look we are evolving, hooray".Achkerov kute.
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Originally posted by Anonymouse..."That stage of evolutionary progress at which the once actually or potentially interbreeding array of forms becomes segregated into two or more arrays which are physiologically incapable of interbreeding."...Strangely enough the evolutionists' position has been one that that has exploited the second, weaker definition.
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I am sorry, but I have never heard an evolutionist feel a species is anything other than a classification of organisms that can interbreed.
species: A fundamental category of taxonomic classification, ranking below a genus or subgenus and consisting of related organisms capable of interbreeding.
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The speciation events I've posted were mostly of the first, stronger definition. The two species may be capable of interbreeding - obviously, hybridization is found in nature all the time - but they are not capable of producing viable offspring. If this can happen over a relatively short span of time, it isn't hard to see how, given much more time, the two forms would eventually diverge to the point where they don't even resemble each other anymore. This shouldn't be so difficult to accept.
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