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To: Dominic Harr
And yet, a million micro-changes would certainly equal a 'macro' change.

That's wrong and the best case for seeing the problem with it is probably the fruit fly experiments. Fruit flies produce new generations every few days and experiments were conducted over many years in the first part of the 20'th century which amounted to subjecting large numbers of fruit flies to everything known which causes mutations and then deliberately recombining the mutations, i.e. a process which should have speeded up evolution millions of times to the extent that evolution was possible. All they ever got was what the breeders told Chuck Darwin was all he would ever get, which was sterile individuals and individuals which returned, boomarang-like, to the norm for a fruit fly,

All they ever got was fruit flies; no spiders, ants, wasps, butterflies, or anything else but fruit flies. A number of the scientists involved in the experiments gave up on evolution as a result, the most famous case being that of Goldschmidt.

444 posted on 07/12/2002 4:05:53 AM PDT by medved
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To: medved
All they ever got was fruit flies; no spiders, ants, wasps, butterflies, or anything else but fruit flies.

The Evols have no answer for this so they don't want to talk about it. I've brought it up before but it's always ignored. Some science.

445 posted on 07/12/2002 6:18:47 AM PDT by Phaedrus
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To: medved
All they ever got was what the breeders told Chuck Darwin was all he would ever get, which was sterile individuals and individuals which returned, boomarang-like, to the norm for a fruit fly,

I'm sorry, I must not be understanding what point you're trying to communicate here. You seem to be contradicting yourself. Can I ask for more clarification?

Are you saying you believe that species who evolve to adapt to their changing environment will be sterile?

If so, I read the evidence very differntly than you do.

452 posted on 07/12/2002 7:28:59 AM PDT by Dominic Harr
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