Macro-evolution is the fantasy that claims that one species changes into another. For example, a fish changes into a dog.
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Once again, BR shows his complete misunderstanding of the ToE. When one group of a species compiles enough differences from the rest of that species' population to be classified as a different species, it is always a closely related form, something similar to (though I understand not exactly like) wolves into foxes or jackals, not into fish.
That's it. I'm done. I can't read any more Christian swill on this subject.
Anyone who talks about evolution without differentiating between the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection is going to be ignored.
Seriously, I'm done.
"Macro-evolution is the fantasy that claims that one species changes into another. For example, a fish changes into a dog."
Or a human into a single celled organism.
Oh wait, that has happened(HeLa cells).
The difference between a fish and a dog isn't really all that great. We share about three quarters of our functional DNA with fish, which is a lot, considering we last shared a common ancestor about 400 million years ago. We share about 98% of our DNA with chimps.
“Macro-evolution is the fantasy that claims that one species changes into another.”
No, Randy, that would be ‘speciation.’
You can have a herd of sea-urchins at an aquarium split into two species without anyone at the aquarium, or the sea urchins, knowing anything about it.
“For example, a fish changes into a dog.”
That’s also not macroevolution, dipshit.
Macro- refers to the accumulation of microevolutionary changes to the point that there’s a physical difference we can point to. The giraffe’s neck, the rhino’s horn, the elephant’s Swiss bank account, big visible changes.
More than likely, a speciation event separated the gene pool from other members of the same species, so the new traits did not spread to any other pools.
Confused?
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