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To: grey_whiskers
The same way that the children of Sam Walton are all billionaires despite the meager profit margin at Wal-Mart.

Certainly an interesting, but unuseful, analogy. However, I've yet to find anyone who can tell me where are those fossil remains which conclusively demonstrat the micro-changes which would support the contention that one species of animal "evolved" into another completely different species.

147 posted on 10/07/2006 5:27:16 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Father of an American Soldier fighting in the WOT)
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To: SoldierDad
The amount earned per item ~ the chance any one animal's remains will be fossilized.

Multiply that factor by the total number of items sold, on the one hand, or total number of animals, on the one hand, and you get a number which is non-trivial.

However, I've yet to find anyone who can tell me where are those fossil remains which conclusively demonstrat the micro-changes which would support the contention that one species of animal "evolved" into another completely different species.

Let's start before that, OK? First we agree on a definition of species, and at least try to come up with something a practicing biologist would agree on. (Not to put one's thumbs on the scale by doing so, but scientists typically have very specific definitions in mind when using a word, which can differ considerably from that of the layman. See for example the word "force" or "potential" from either physics or engineering.)

Then decide if we can see changes of that kind across generations of living animals...

Then decide what would constitute good evidence for similar changes when seen in fossils...

Then see if there are fossils that fit the bill...

Cheers!

155 posted on 10/07/2006 6:59:43 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
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