[ThinkPlease]

Here we go again. Every time I bother to read one of these links, these scientists want to redefine the words involved. Last time it was "theory". A species is a species is a species, same thing with theory, and it doesn't matter what "is" is! Liberal doublespeak at it's best!

It is important in science to be precise, so that everyone knows exactly what you are trying to say in your scientific paper. Therefore, you'd best make sure people understand what you mean when you state something.

In this case, it is a direct challenge to certain creationists who throw around the word "kind" like it was candy in their work, when they still don't have a straight definition for it.

[dubyagee]

"Three species of wildflowers called goatsbeards were introduced to the United States from Europe shortly after the turn of the century. Within a few decades their populations expanded and began to encounter one another in the American West. Whenever mixed populations occurred, the specied interbred (hybridizing) producing sterile hybrid offspring. Suddenly, in the late forties two new species of goatsbeard appeared near Pullman, Washington. Although the new species were similar in appearance to the hybrids, they produced fertile offspring. The evolutionary process had created a separate species that could reproduce but not mate with the goatsbeard plants from which it had evolved."

This is not proof of anything, it's still a flower. When it morphs into a cactus, then they might have something.