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To: sevry
You're just being argumentative.

No, I am being precise. You would just rather I be at a loss for words. LOL

Just the theory, please.

You got it. Feel free to read it again however many times you need before you acknowledge it.

Perhaps you should define - speciation.

Here's the most concise definition: "the process of developing new species" - I guess we can move on from wordgames now...

I suspect it harbors your Theory, and you don't even know it.

Probably. Since there is every reason to deduce that evolution is reality, then it's a given that speciation "harbors" it..

Does speciation also include notions of genetic drift, and populations as opposed to mere individuals, etc?

Speciation includes "the process of developing new species" via whatever means that took place (which, you might note, I specified as adaptation to natural selection pressure).

All that would remain is to place natural selection under this all-inclusive rubric and the job would be done.

The answer to what evolution "is" - in other words, what you asked for - is naturally an "all-inclusive rubric" or else it would be an incomplete answer. Of course I included natural selection to begin with, since that is an essential part of what evolution is. If you want details, then I recommend picking up a biology text..

Your parsing of what "is" is is giving me a migraine.

166 posted on 01/20/2005 3:27:28 PM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: AntiGuv
I am being precise

I said you were being "argumentative", not considering what I wrote but simply arguing for the sake of arguing. That's wastes your time. It wastes my time.

the process of developing new species

Then you've simply substituted "speciation" for "evolution". What then is your theory of speciation?

That's what I asked. Does it happen to include natural selection, chance, mutation, genetic drift, in what order and what combination, in what way, and so on?

what evolution "is"

Do you really not understand the difference between fact and theory?

170 posted on 01/20/2005 3:44:17 PM PST by sevry
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