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When was macro evolution validated?
Whether or not ICANT returns, he (or she) has illuminated a very salient point in the Evolution/Creation debate.
I am a Creationist. And I believe in macroevolution.
The problem was succinctly described by Dr Lee Spetner, in the foreword to his book Not By Chance."Evolution" has at least two (and probably more) meanings.
Is "descent with modification" evolution? Then I believe in it.
Is "macroevolution" evolution? Well, insofar as it means speciation through sexual isolation and subsequent genetic mutation resulting in an inability to reproduce with the previous organism, yes, I do believe in it.
The problem is, as Lee Spetner points out, that evolutionists then take these two (observed) processes and use them to "prove" a completely different proposition: the idea of speciation
to a higher level of morphological complexity. Eyes, lungs, retractable claws and all manner of mind-numbingly complex features all become the result of genetic copying mistakes and fluctuations in the environment.
And that's where "the observed" parts company with "the inferred".
Does mutation create a new species? Yes it does. It is observed. Does it create an eye? No. Not in a gogillion years, in a million different universes at once.
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"Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy." Charles Darwin