To: js1138
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".
To: Alamo-Girl
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". No it doesn't. That's just wrong. Unless you define cousin as a relationship spanning hundreds of thousands of generations.
307 posted on
10/11/2005 11:53:57 AM PDT by
js1138
(Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
To: Alamo-Girl
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". If you change that to cousins many times removed (perhaps sixtyfourthousand or more), you are close.
362 posted on
10/11/2005 5:33:41 PM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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