January 20, 1998
Web posted at: 6:37 p.m. EST (2337 GMT)DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- It's been a bumpy ride, but Rama the Cama -- the offspring of a camel and its Andean cousin, the llama -- has brought together what 30 million years of evolution and continental drift rent asunder.
Scientists in the Emirates said Tuesday that it took two years to perfect the artificial insemination technique necessary to breed Rama's llama mom, a petite 165 pounds, with his overwhelming dad, who weighs in at 990 pounds.
Despite the article's careless use of the word, note that the animals were not "bred" to create the hybrid, and apparently even the artificial insemination involved went far beyond a simple turkey baster. There are effective barriers to interbreeding between the creatures involved, and they are perfectly good and seperate species.
The claim by evolutionists that geographical separation by itself produces new species, that the environment changes "the nature of the beast" has been conclusively proven to be false.
That would be good, as neither evolutionists or biologists in general believe either of those claims. The later would be Lamarkian evolution. As to the former, biologists do not recognize geographically seperated populations as being distinct species unless there is some reason to believe there are isolating mechanisms that would effectively prevent interbreeding even if the populations were brought together. Additionally biologists recognize many cases of sympatric speciation (where speciation occured even without populations being geographically isolated).
Oh, and it was tens of MILLIONS of years that these creatures have been seperated, not thousands. Par for the course for you to get almost everything wrong.
Okay, so it was not easy, but it was done. You could not breed a hypo and an elephant together no matter what you did. They are still the same species and have much in common - even after 30-40 million years of having had no contact with each other.
In fact, the long time that it has taken such a small change to occur, the long time that has passed since these two animals have been separated and yet remain the same species, shows quite well that the species is immutable as creationists claim. In the 100+ million years that mammals have been around, there clearly has not been enough time for evolution to have been the cause of the vast variety of species it claims to have produced.