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To: DouglasKC
The point being that surely someone should be able to make a fruit fly change evolve into something other than a fruit fly. Yet it hasn't happened. Why?

It's because of where you're setting the bar. To stop being fruit flies, a population would have to speciate, genus-ate, and then family-ate.

Fruit Fly:

common name for any of the flies of the families Tephritidae and Drosophilidae.
It might have to actually go a taxon higher than that (order), since the term "fruit fly" encompasses two families now. Speciations have been observed. That's more than what creationists usually admit as possible.
657 posted on 11/29/2004 7:24:31 PM PST by VadeRetro (Nothing means anything when you go to Hell for knowing what things mean.)
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To: VadeRetro
It's because of where you're setting the bar. To stop being fruit flies, a population would have to speciate, genus-ate, and then family-ate.

I'm setting the bar too high? So? What's wrong with the concept of a fruit fly turning into a fish over thousands and thousands of generations? Isn't that exactly what millions of other animals are supposed to have done on their own?

686 posted on 11/29/2004 9:19:51 PM PST by DouglasKC
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