[Axolotl]

Evolution is occuring in microbial poplations my lab 20 feet away, in tubes, as I speak. People study genetic changes in populations all the time...and watch them happen. Evolution is occurring and has occurred; this is an inescapable fact.

On a related point, a particular sequence of events in the past is always inference, but that doesn't mean it isn't a pretty good bet. For example, the earth has gone around the sun, is inference, but it is a pretty good inference based on current observations and the fact that people that lived before us describe the days and years as having the same properties as days and years dor today.

[AndrewC]

For example, the earth has gone around the sun, is inference, but it is a pretty good inference based on current observations and the fact that people that lived before us describe the days and years as having the same properties as days and years dor today.

All the information required to make the inference is available to me. I had the same information years ago that the earth acted in a particular way. The inference would be that it has always been the same and would always be the same. That is not what you equated. The evidence that the earth goes around the sun is present today as it was yesterday. It is inferred that it will be the same tomorrow.

[Last Visible Dog]

Evolution is occuring in microbial poplations my lab 20 feet away, in tubes, as I speak. People study genetic changes in populations all the time...and watch them happen. Evolution is occurring and has occurred; this is an inescapable fact.

Isn't that micro-evolution.

As I understand (and I could be wrong - this is not my vocation): Micro-evolution is scientifically provable while macro-evolution (or evolution as cosmology) is not and consists mainly of wild-assed extrapolation in the complete absence of supporting evidence.

[Dataman]

Evolution is occuring in microbial poplations [sic] my lab 20 feet away, in tubes, as I speak.

Let us all know when the microbes become something else.