You're placing too much emphasis on direct observation. I didn't watch Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence but I have no doubt that the event happened. The evidence of speciation is
inferred from the fossil record even though no single human can watch it happen in real-time. And the fossil record doesn't show any evidence of some sort of directed process if that's what you're getting at.
Assumptions are at the heart of all sciences - it's whether or not the assumption is valid (and to what degree) in reality that counts.
The evidence of speciation is inferred from the fossil record even though no single human can watch it happen in real-time.
I've stipulated this repeatedly.
And the fossil record doesn't show any evidence of some sort of directed process if that's what you're getting at.
Agreed, but that's not what I'm getting at. My point was that random spontaneous mutagenic speciation hasn't been observed.
But since you bring up the fossil record again, isn't it also true that it shows no evidence of random processes?
