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To: ConsentofGoverned
after reading the reports of new species listed mainly plants and fly..Any intelligent person would laugh. a fly is a fly, a maze is a maze.

You are confusing species with genus with order with phylum, etc., etc. If two types of fish cannot interbreed, they are different species. They are both "fish," in the same way that wolves, dogs and coyotes are all "canines" and that humans, chimpanzees and gorillas are all "primates," but they are indisputably different species. Because they cannot interbreed, any genetic change that happens in one species cannot possibly spread to the other, and therefore, over time, the differences between them will only grow greater.

when you show a true change from fish to mammal well then your hypothesis that evolution is leading to new species could hold water , otherwise birds that cannot interbreed are still birds, not fish. no?

You are mistaken as to what the theory of evolution predicts. No scientist who accepts evolution ever predicted that a fish would become a mammal in one generation or even in a thousand generations. Evolution works in small steps, which eventually lead to new species (something we have observed in the wild and in the lab) which eventually (over tens of thousands, or even millions, of years) produces entirely new types of creatures.

780 posted on 04/06/2006 9:51:51 AM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian
It doesn't matter how evolution works anymore, at least not in this world. We humans are taking over the job, and we are going to have the best tasting ever chickens that produce a pound of eggs and a pound of meat for every ounce of feed (and that's just one example), plus, just before they slaughter themselves, they'll shed their feathers.

Have you looked into what's going on with the development of new bio-fuels? They (ADM, et al) are planning on inserting instructions in the genome for various plants that will create an enzyme that turns all the cellulose into alcohol when it is heated.

Evolution as we knew it IS OVER.

814 posted on 04/06/2006 11:03:52 AM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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