[cookcounty]

"Over a few hundred years we have dogs as different as a mastiff and a chihuahua, caused by man. Over millions of years, mutations did a lot more than we could in a few hundred years...."

Let me say again, I don't think you're understanding what evolution is. Mastiffs and chihuahuas are bred by selectively BREEDING OUT unwanted characteristics. BREEDING OUT, that is, REDUCING a gene pool, will not get you from bacteria to baboons, or from worms to woodpeckers. You can only do this by selecting and applying NEW information.

Most non evolutionists (including most creationists) ACCEPT the idea of "change over time," (how else could you have the divergence of the human race(s)?), but they DON'T accept addition of complexity over time. Seen through this matrix, the great majority of "examples of evolution" break down (ie, eohippus-->horse: the sequence of toes 5-4-3 and down to 1 toe is a reduction, a degradation) though it may be advantageous to a horse, it is NOT a more complex form.

[Poser]

Let me say again, I don't think you're understanding what evolution is.

I understand perfectly. I believe that over billions of years, those changes that we are able to make in a few generations, could easily change the very nature of animals and plants.

Fossil evidence has convinced me. I have seen no scientific evidence of sudden creation in the last 5000 years.