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On 2002-06-10 15:52, Prince wrote:
After breeding over one million fruit flies, they still obstinately remain fruit flies!
There is a wide variety of dog BREEDS but they are still dogs. Species bred
beyond limits develop serious deformities. Darwin bred pigeons and knew this fact
but in his "Origins of Species" he glossed over what is an impassable barrier to
the "evolution" of one species from another.
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"serious deformities" like the Panda's Thumb, the Rhinoceros's horn, the Giraffe's neck?
If the barrier is "impassable," why do we see such overwhelming evidence that it has, in fact, been passed?
And why do you persist in comparing the mere 5,000 years of observed human activity to the hundreds of millions of years over which large-scale evolutionary change occurs?
By the way: do you think that today's fruit flies could successfully breed with their ancestors of 5,000 generations ago?
Are fruit flies and houseflies and blowflies and horseflies "breeds" or species? Do you have a working definition for the two terms? Why is a coyote a separate species than a wolf, but a cocker spaniel isn't a separate species than a doberman?
Darwin didn't "gloss over" anything...
(I'm not actually posting this rebuttal to cause you to change your mind: I'm just dutifully "showing the flag.")
Silas