Speciation has been observed. One species becoming another species has not been observed.
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I couldn't believe someone could be so stupid, so I checked the context. Here's the full quote:
Okay, this guy wins the Non-Contradiction Award. I know policy is not to hand out awards until the end, but this can't be beaten. Equaled, maybe, but not beaten. Seriously, his post basically says "Speciation has been observed, but it has not been observed."
Yes it is cute! I'm actually tempted to start using it myself.
>>"Goo to you via the zoo" - for all their ignorance, the fundies do come up with funny soundbites.<<
Julian -"Big Bang" as the name of the theory was coined by astronomer Fred Hoyle. It's true that he opposed the theory and used the words in a disdainful way, but he was no creationist. He championed a "steady state" model of the universe in which the universe is essentially the same at all times and had no beginning.
This is beyond the Non-Contradiction Award; maybe Mental Whiplash Award would do it justice, or even a Pushmepullyou Award (for fans of the original, English, Dr. Dolittle -- especially appropriate with that snappy zoo reference in there).
" "goo-to-you-via-the-zoo" Let's not give this moron too much credit, this must be a Hovindism or something."
Acually speciation can NEVER be observed because it doesn't really happen, at least not in the sense that these retards think it happens. A parent never gives birth to offspring of a different species. An organism today could reproduce with any of its antecdents from the last generation, 10 generations ago, a hundred generations ago, maybe even a thousand generations ago. But at some point as you go back the genetic differences would be too vast to produce a viable offspring. Even so, during that continuum there is no one point where we can say speciation occured. Species is just a name we label things with and we only do so in the punctuated way that we can observe organisms, either contemporary ones or those is the fossil record.
Lightning has been observed. Rolling thunder and bolts of light crossing the sky have not been observed.
Doesn't sound that rational, now does it, dearie?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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