Hi, Whatever!
whatever writes:
...noticed you never addressed the different chromosome bundles different kinds of creatures have, and how this is a problem any way you look at, for evolution to be a viable theory, etc...
I've been reading your posts for a while now and know that you're largely unaffected by facts, even seemingly don't know what a fact is, so I can only assume that you make this statement in total ignorance of the fact that Darwin conceived the theory of evolution at least 50 years before the science of genetics was even born, and at least a hundred years before we discovered that heredity was locked within the DNA molecules of chromosomes.
In other words, the evidence for evolution was discovered long before the mechanisms behind it. Still, your question is an excellent one. You're challenging the evolutionary assumption that many small microevolutionary steps eventually result in macroevolution by noting that it isn't just the DNA sequences that differ between species, but very frequently and substantially also the chromosomes in both number and nature.
The entire assumption of evolution is gradual change. The common Creationist bonehead criticism that a fish with fins doesn't suddenly give birth to a fish with legs is always met with the explanation that the change was very gradual, that it took thousands of generations for fins to gradually evolve into limbs. But if this gradualism is to also be applied to the genetic foundation of organisms, then how does a chromosome appear gradually? How does it disappear gradually?
Anyone with answers?
--Percy
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