[js1138]

OTOH, for the continuum of evolution to be true - somewhere in the past snakes bred and gave birth to enough lizards to make a whole new branch of the tree. One species as parents, another species as offspring.

OK (trying to narrow things down) is this how you think evolution works? Or (as in your linked post) do you accept the assumption of evolution, that parent and child are always of the same species.

[Alamo-Girl]

OK (trying to narrow things down) is this how you think evolution works? Or (as in your linked post) do you accept the assumption of evolution, that parent and child are always of the same species.

Seems to me that the theory of evolution requires that, at some point, the offspring cannot breed with some of their cousins but can breed with other cousins and thus the original species is now two and the branch on the tree of life gets a "fork".