[Ichneumon]

Is ole Bessie about to heave forth with dorsals, too? Hanker for plankton instead of alfalfa?

No, since as anyone who's not completely ignorant on the subject already knows, evolution is a change in populations across generations, not a sudden functional alteration within a specific individual.

So are you just playing dumb -- or are you not playing?

The same question pertains to your amazingly uninformed rant about the fruit flies, too.

[Mamzelle]

Oh, "ignorant" ...oh, "uninformed"... any challenge that is based on what has been observed in real life doesn't cut with with the PhD Welfare class. guess we'll just have to trust the Knowledge of the Ages to the Anointed Ones.

Bring it down from the mountain, prophet! Sprinkle some of that holy water!

If you can't produce a new fruit fly under ideal conditions after hundreds of years of geographical isolation, laboratory selection out for type, tens of thousands of opportunities for mutation...and then this last attempt by the U of Chicago scientist to delve into the dna with super-microsurgery...if you can't manage one little fly, who's ignorant?