dmz: "You may want to do a teensy bit of reading of what constitutes a theory when in scientific circles."
Evolution is both theory and fact, in this sense:
The often-repeated claim that there is no evidence of new species is falsified by innumerable fossils, careful morphological comparisons and detailed DNA analyses.
Indeed, there's nothing unusual about speciation, since by definition of the term, whenever two populations of the same species no longer interbreed, they have become separate species.
Examples can be found throughout nature, and are even, on a very simple basis repeatable through experiments.
Thank you for this explanation. I appreciate the time you took to clarify this for me.
“Indeed, there’s nothing unusual about speciation, since by definition of the term, whenever two populations of the same species no longer interbreed, they have become separate species.”
Well, that’s just a truism. If you simply define “species” so loosely as to be able to claim “new” species based on simple accidents of circumstance, of course you will be able to cite “new” species being created. However, that doesn’t prove Darwin’s central thesis that species are endlessly malleable and can transform from single celled organisms to the variety we see today merely through the mechanisms of evolution.