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(here are at least 15 examples):

http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB...

and since evolution proceeds by the accumulation of many small scale changes,

if there were no barrier to these small changes, you would expect the changes to give an incredible diversity of living organisms (the way the fossil record shows).

So, what barrier to constant change do you propose?

2007-12-04 06:52:33 · 6 answers · asked by skeptic 6 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

That link again:

http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB910.html


Fireball: I'm just trying to get an answer to a reasonable question. Why don't you try?

2007-12-04 07:06:13 · update #1

6 responses and I am once again waiting for someone to answer the question.

2007-12-05 11:55:42 · update #2

Question:

Creationists may call those examples of subspeciation, but they would be dead wrong. Those are examples of new species that are not compatible with others.

Tell me, with these almost 20 genera of canids mentioned, represented by over 100 species, where do you draw the line for what you call a dog?:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canidae

And actually, Great Danes and Chihuahuas can interbreed, (they just do not normally do so). But that is a good point for how reproductive isolation begins. First you have the physical difficulty, then the genetic impossibility. Perhaps sometime in the future, they will become different species (just imagine if some carnivore came along that eliminated all medium sized dogs - the large ones may be too big, and the small ones may be good at hiding). That is how incipient speciation works.

2007-12-05 16:23:49 · update #3

Also Question, notice that the article you've provided gives no mechanism.

2007-12-05 16:26:15 · update #4

6 answers

Creationists would call those examples of subspeciation.

We can look at the great variation in an animal kind and see the results of natural selection. For instance, wolves, coyotes, and dingoes have developed over time as a result of natural selection operating on the information in the genes of the dog kind.

But there are indeed limits. For instance, you can’t breed a dog to the size of an elephant, much less turn it into an elephant.

The different dogs we see today have resulted from a rearrangement or loss of information from the original dog kind. That is why you can breed wolves to get to chihuahuas, but you can’t breed chihuahuas to get to wolves. The new breeds of dogs have much less genetic information and variability.

And the thing is, what are they? Dogs. What were they? Dogs. What will they be? Dogs. The same could be said for Darwin’s finches, peppered moths, and so forth. There is a big difference between subspeciation (variation within a kind) and transspeciation (change from one kind to another).

Couldn't you call a great dane and a chihuahua different "species" since you can't interbreed them?

Take a look at this: http://www.4truth.net/site/c.hiKXLbPNLrF/b.2903959/k.779A/LImits_to_Evolvability_The_Misuse_of_Artificial_Selection__Apologetics.htm

2007-12-05 05:13:34 · answer #1 · answered by Questioner 7 · 0 0

Creationism will never replace evolution as creationists propose. This is because creationists don't have a theory. They haven't suggested any methods for this proposed creation process. They don't
explain the fossil record and they don't explain how small changes can't build up to big changes. Most importantly to be a good theory it must be able to predict likely changes in the future. Which funnily enough it doesn't.

2007-12-04 07:08:45 · answer #2 · answered by Monkey Man 3 · 2 1

I believe if an intelligent species was able to adapt the environment to suit it's needs, it would not evolve into another species.

2007-12-04 09:26:35 · answer #3 · answered by mecasa 4 · 0 1

Link no go.

2007-12-04 06:56:46 · answer #4 · answered by primary_chem 4 · 0 0

I propose creation......which is the absolute truth.



I don't care how many man-made "facts" you throw at us......God's Word remains true & unblemished:

He created the world.....and all of it's inhabitants.
Evolution is a flat-out lie of the devil which was created to turn people away from the truth.

2007-12-04 06:56:52 · answer #5 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 2 6

no why do you beat a dead horse?? we dont agree with it...case closed..

2007-12-04 07:01:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 5

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