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Yeah it's pretty hard. Look:
Never been proven. Ever?
Viewpoints? No studies or evidence? Sorry, what's this then:
Experiments prove nothing I see. Or even observations of nature. You seem to dismiss them at viewpoints. Cute.
So is one of the world's most reputable and foremost museums now a viewpoint? Or not evidence? Because they present the latest evidence of evolution and our ancestry in that link.
Yes Allie, it's very difficult to have a conversation when one side is lying. But it's not the side you think it is.
How does altering the genes in plants and animals prove macro-evolution ?You're gonna have to explain this one.
Uh there was more than just the domestication of corn in that post. You cut out my quote including the experiments with guppies of John Endler, and Richard Lenski's extensive experiment concerning E. coli. Lenski's experiments involve tens of thousands of generations of e. coli. over a period of twenty or so years. There's a case where one of the specimens evolves to eat another ingredient in the 'broth' they swim in that's not the food they originally ate. There's also a case of lizards that were introduced on the Mediterranean island of Pod Mcaru in the 70s diverging from their brethren on another island. As well as the example of Darwin's finches.
If you want more proof of the existence of macro-evolution, you can look at the fossil record and ancestry of various animals. All animals also have vestigial parts left over from ancestor species. Whales are a particularly fascinating example. We're all familiar with how life started in the ocean and evolved onto land. The ancestors of whales (and dolphins, and porpoises) were originally land-inhabiting mammals that actually returned to the sea. So essentially, their ancestors went from living in the sea, to land, to sea again. There's several remarkable pieces of evidence for this. The fin bones resemble that of the limbs of land mammals, their need to breathe air from the surface, and the vertical movement of their tales. The tail movements of a fish are usually horizontal.
You can see traces of genetic ancestors in evolved animals everywhere. This is the cause of the numerous inefficiencies in the bodies of organisms. There is no starting clean with evolution, evolution is all about constantly building and evolving on what is present.
Another example is the giraffe. Giraffe's have very well-developed larynx, yet it can't talk or make noises above lows bleats or moans. Why is this? Well, mammals originally evolved from fish. As the neck lengthened as they evolved more and more from fish, the nice and neat ways the interior of our fish cousins got distorted. This shows well in giraffes, where the laryngeal nerves become extremely exaggerated. It literally goes down through the neck to loop around the heart and go towards the head again. In humans, and even fish like sharks, this nerve is only a few centimeters or inches long.
And by altering you mean? And by limits you mean? And by weakening them you mean? And this has to do with disproving evolution... how?
And this is evidence... how?
How can you claim to accept micro-evolution but not macro? All macro-evolution is many instances of micro-evolution that make an animal different than it's ancestors, to the point where it evolves into a new animal that can no longer breed with its predecessors. How do you think the diversity in nature we have today came about if macro-evolution is impossible, but micro-evolution is?
Macroevolution has never been observed (Talk.Origins)
Talk origins Just comes out and admits that Macro-evolution has never been observed. Talk origins is a neo darwinism site. Speciation has been observed but it is not macro-evolution it is micro-evolution or micro-adaptations. This is what i have been saying to you both.
How does one accept that speciation, things evolving into new species has been observed, but not macro-evolution, which is evolution on the level of species and higher?
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This article (Macroevolution has never been observed (Talk.Origins)) is a response to a rebuttal of a creationist claim published by Talk.Origins Archive under the title Index to Creationist Claims.
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Claim: CB901
No case of macroevolution has ever been documented.
Source: Morris, Henry M., 2000 (Jan.). Strong Delusion. Back to Genesis 133: a.
Brown, Walt, 1995. In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood. Phoenix, AZ: Center for Scientific Creation, p. 6. Response:
Creation Wiki response: (Talk Origins quotes in blue.)
Talk Origins
1." We would not expect to observe large changes directly. Evolution consists mainly of the accumulation of small changes over large periods of time. If we saw something like a fish turning into a frog in just a couple generations, we would have good evidence against evolution."
It's remarkable that evolutionists do not see the faith that their worldview requires. They claim they have evidence in Speciation, which is not evidence for universal common descent in any shape or form. Then when asked for observational evidence for the theory of evolution (i.e. change beyond the kind barrier) they claim that would disprove Darwinian Evolution! It has been demonstrated, as far as the evidence goes, that minor change sometimes referred to as micro-evolution does not lead to evolution on a large scale.
Talk Origins
2. "The evidence for evolution does not depend, even a little, on observing macroevolution directly. There is a very great deal of other evidence (Theobald 2004; see also evolution proof)."
The evidences presented in that essay are things such as vestigial structures and developmental biology which are not evidence for evolution. See True Origin for a thorough rebuttal of this essay written by Ashby Camp. Furthermore, there are some major problems with macro-evolution:
Evidence for such an occurrence is lacking in the fossil record.
Common structures can support a common designer thesis just as well as one of common ancestry.
Macroevolution is implausible, proteins evolving in small increments fits the evidence, crossing the large gaps is not realistic.(Plaisted 2005)
Talk Origins
3. "As biologists use the term, macroevolution means evolution at or above the species level. Speciation has been observed and documented".
Very true, but it proves nothing close to universal common descent. Creationists would agree that speciation has been observed, but that is not what the debate is about. Walter Remine comments:
In creation-evolution debates, “evolution” isn’t mere ‘change in gene frequencies.’ Unless context indicates otherwise, it refers, ultimately, to naturalistic molecules-to-man transformation – anything less involves creation. “Macroevolution” makes the large-scale transformation fully explicit.
Please see Five major evolutionist misconceptions for more information.
Talk Origins
4. "Microevolution has been observed and is taken for granted even by creationists. And because there is no known barrier to large change and because we can expect small changes to accumulate into large changes, microevolution implies macroevolution. Small changes to developmental genes or their regulation can cause relatively large changes in the adult organism (Shapiro et al. 2004)."
Micro-evolution is observed, but there are limits to the variation.
1.) An observational limit which we see all the time, dogs always produce dogs, cows always produce cows, etc.
2.) Original amount of information available: From the original starting point information is only lost and not added. Mutations occur which scramble the existing DNA and over the years certain traits are selected and passed down. As this process occurs information is lost until there can be no more variation because there is nothing to select from. This creates a natural barrier that prevents evolutionary change on a large scale.
Macroevolution has never been observed (Talk.Origins) - CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation science
You don't really like using your own words to explain your ideas do you? You seem to have an over-reliance on creationist articles to do your arguing for you. This article has several problems.
The article has the same problem you do. I'm baffled by how they accept speciation, but not macro-evolution. It kind of just glosses it over and ignores it entirely when the matter comes up. They are very similar concepts, you realize that right? It also make the incorrect claim of "not new information can be added to the gene." Richard Lenski's experiment with E. coli actually prove that entirely wrong.
How many times have I told you what you were presenting as evidence ? So evidently my words did not carry much weight with you. So you read it in someone else's words who knows a lot more about science then you will ever know. Read my lips, macro evolution has never been observed. Allie has also been telling you the same thing,speciation is not macro evolution its micro adaptations. I thought you would have had a little humility and admit your ignorance. This just shows you're are the typical neo darwinist that don't know enough science to argue it.
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