Re:Creationism Banned from Science Classes by Scottish Gover...
by gizi on Friday May 29, 2015 @10:53AM
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They may indeed try to evolve a species out of another. In all examples in your link, they stay within the same species, however. There is simply no convincing experiment in which they evolve one species out of another. It does not exist.
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Re:Creationism Banned from Science Classes by Scottish Gover...
by mikeash on Friday May 29, 2015 @10:59AM
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"Species" is an artificial distinction that human biologists use to make it easier to talk about what's going on. There is no objective distinction between species. The idea that the universe somehow permits evolution within a species but does not permit evolution from one species to another is nonsensical, on roughly the same level as thinking that it's possible to walk one mile but not possible to walk ten miles.
Re:Creationism Banned from Science Classes by Scottish Gover...
by gizi on Friday May 29, 2015 @11:12AM
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Indeed, the first problem starts already with just the title of that notorious book: On the origin of species. What exactly is a species? If we cannot etch a reasonable definition for that term in stone, then all statements that make use of that term are questionable, on that basis alone. Evolutionism then becomes a theory about things that we cannot define that evolve into other things that we cannot define ... How could that ever be science?
Re:Creationism Banned from Science Classes by Scottish Gover...
by Oletros on Friday May 29, 2015 @11:18AM
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And another post that shows more clearly that you don't know much about what evolution is
Re:Creationism Banned from Science Classes by Scottish Gover...
by mikeash on Friday May 29, 2015 @11:22AM
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Are you seriously attempting to discredit evolution as a science based on one word in the title of a single book?
You don't need a definition of "species" to understand or work with evolution.