No. Evolutionary theory does not say that one species gives birth to a different species in one generation.
It’s not similarity, it’s degree of complexity. We humans are at the halfway point, or just slightly past it, in terms of the possible complexity of DNA. The chimps are just below us, IN DEGREE OF COMPLEXITY.
Imagine what the next level might be like. Or the highest level. The next higher level surely exists elsewhere, but they might not look anything like us, as it’s complexity we’re talking about, not identical genetic evolution.
Then it MUST take a LOT of generations.
Hopefully all the good changes are retained and the bad ones drop away.
Please understand that (last century) I was educated as an actual biologist. I understand that in human reproduction, the first mitosis of the union of sperm and oocyte is the actual fusion of their [23 apiece] chromosomes.
23 apiece, not 23.1, not 23.5, not 23 and 26. Only an aberration - a defect if you will — enables a zygote with the ‘wrong’ chromosomes.
So realistically, in the theory of evolution - the ‘magic’ would be that *somehow* mom and dad chimpanzee each produced egg/sperm with *matching* sets of 23 chromosomes versus 24.
In actual biology, the genome is SET at the formation of the zygote, NOT in the phenotype (ie something changing due to environment). At least absent a miracle or magic.
What’s all this add up to?
1. Actual genetics and probability preclude the ‘magic’ event of species A engaging in sexual reproduction (sperm meets egg) and producing Species B as offspring.
2. genetics does not support gradualism in sexual reproduction causing speciation.
3. Somehow (?) in the THEORY of evolution, a species, at the chromosome level - ie the molecular level - can gradually change to a different and incompatible genetic set that is in fact a different species. I understand that to be genetically and biologically impossible.
3.1 - a species being defined as a group of organisms that can engage in sexual reproduction and produce viable, fertile offspring.
If you can show me in biology how a genome can gradually change (order/sequence/sets/etc) to support the EVOLUTION of a different species, I will listen. I get it that alleles can shift all over the place within the population/ a species - but they can still reproduce together.
Headed to deer camp. Back in three days.