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To: b_sharp
What is the theory of macro-evolution?

I know that this is a setup question, but it is Friday.

Here is a link for you:

Macroevolution.
61 posted on 08/05/2005 6:10:42 PM PDT by microgood
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To: microgood
That is a definition not a theory. The theory of evolution is the theory of micro- and macro-evolution.

Did you perchance read John's conclusion at the end of the paper?

From the same paper.
"There is no difference between micro- and macroevolution except that genes between species usually diverge, while genes within species usually combine. The same processes that cause within-species evolution are responsible for above-species evolution, except that the processes that cause speciation include things that cannot happen to lesser groups, such as the evolution of different sexual apparatus (because, by definition, once organisms cannot interbreed, they are different species). "

"The idea that the origin of higher taxa, such as genera (canines versus felines, for example), requires something special is based on the misunderstanding of the way in which new phyla (lineages) arise. The two species that are the origin of canines and felines probably differed very little from their common ancestral species and each other. But once they were reproductively isolated from each other, they evolved more and more differences that they shared but the other lineages didn't. This is true of all lineages back to the first eukaryotic (nuclear) cell. Even the changes in the Cambrian explosion are of this kind, although some (eg, Gould 1989) think that the genomes (gene structures) of these early animals were not as tightly regulated as modern animals, and therefore had more freedom to change.

111 posted on 08/05/2005 7:00:31 PM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: microgood
Beautiful. Yet another Creationist Classic:

Here is a link for you: Macroevolution.

From the link:

Conclusion There is no difference between micro- and macroevolution except that genes between species usually diverge, while genes within species usually combine.

Do you guys even bother to read at all the stuff you post?

Y'all are giving conservatives and christians a bad name. Please stop.

123 posted on 08/05/2005 7:30:07 PM PDT by RightWingNilla
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