[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you both so much for this engaging sidebar!!!

betty boop: Since we are speaking of two distinct epistemological or categorical orders here, on what basis do you rely to defend your allegation that they have a "common mechanism" between them in the first place?

atlaw: And, according to you, accretion of microevolutionary changes halts somewhere short of macroevolutionary change. I'm just asking you to explain why

atlaw, there is nothing in the laboratory experiments to falsify any other explanation for what the paleontologist observes in his digs.

The "burden of proof" falls to those making the claim that it does.

As betty boop has pointed out, they are distinct epistemological orders.

[atlaw]

The "burden of proof" falls to those making the claim that it does.

"That it does" is the inquiry of evolutionary biology. That inquiry has led, by way of small example, to the more than 112,000 articles available in this free archive.

In turn, Ms. Boop has posited "that it doesn't." Some explanation beyond taking-the-fifth seems in order.