Acquiring a protective factor against malaria is not speciation.
The requirement we’re talking about is that speciation must occur by the same genetic changes in at least two individuals.
Speciation is the key. For evolutionary theory it’s a very big problem.
Obviously in the case of sickle cell anemia this did not lead to speciation, but there was ABSOLUTELY no such requirement that the mutation happen in two different individuals for for them to meet and reproduce for this change to be introduced into the population.
That is what we are discussing here, changes introduced into a population. And the example I provided showed that no such criteria as was suggested is needed to explain how DNA changes are introduced into a population.
So once again the Creationist argument is based upon nothing but ignorance.
If there are two separated populations of the same species, what is going to STOP this accumulation of change until these two populations are no longer able to reproduce fertile offspring?