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To: aceintx
" 1) The moth that you describe is still a moth after it mutated."

Moth isn't a species designation. Also, the peppered moth studies did not deal with mutations that occurred that gave one coloration an advantage, but with two already existing color schemes in a species of moth. There never was a claim that a new species was formed. The studies showed how natural selection can work to change the allele frequencies of populations depending on the environmental conditions.

" 2)The Canine that you described is still a Canine."

Canine is also not a species name.

"I contend that Micro evolution is clearly a fact and no scientist has ever and will never prove Macro Evolution, (A dog becoming a Lion) has ever occurred."

Strawman. Nobody ever suggests that a dog is going to change into a lion, or anything close to that kind of leap is going to happen in one speciation event.

"I challenge you to recite one instance where it can be proven scientifically, (Observed) that any species has ever become another species trough evolution.

I won't hold my breath!"

Hold your breath if you wish, speciation has already been observed.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html
211 posted on 03/03/2006 6:10:20 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
"Strawman. Nobody ever suggests that a dog is going to change into a lion, or anything close to that kind of leap is going to happen in one speciation event."

if what you say here is true, that one species can not become another in a single speciation event doesn't that hang you on the hook of needing transitory forms from one species to another which evolution has a problem finding?
321 posted on 03/04/2006 12:33:08 AM PST by aceintx (Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!)
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