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To: Tequila25
Correct, and scientists have demonstrated genetic change within a population (evolution) millions of times.

Very sloppily said.

Genetic change does not equal evolution.

My children, while genetically quite similar to me are still genetically different from me - my bloodline has changed in one generation.

Yet I would hesitate to call my daughter a different species from my wife.

In fact, the extreme conservatism of genetic change from generation to generation militates against the plausibility of macroevolution - hence the stopgap arguments like "punctuated equilibrium" etc. to temper the extremism of evolutionary claims.

63 posted on 08/17/2005 8:51:57 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
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To: wideawake

Evolution cannot occur to a single individual organism, so your example of your daughter being different from you and your wife is certainly not evolution. However, evolution does occur in populations of organisms. This is observed fact. Evolution can lead to speciation, but does not always do so. Evolution is simply the variation over time of allele frequencies in an organism population.


69 posted on 08/17/2005 9:06:45 AM PDT by stremba
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