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I just think that by pointing out examples of observed speciation that are not convincing to the layperson (or even to the scientists), we're providing ammunition to those looking for any possible holes in the ToE - hence my OP.
Well, considering that the creationists consider all big cats as one cat "kind" that hyper-micro-evolved from an original pair of cats on Noah's ark, no speciation event is going to convince them, no matter how definite the concept of species is.
What they are demanding is the observation of splitting into different
orders (or maybe even
classes). Unfortunately, their attention spans are so short that they are not willing to hang around and wait for several tens of millions of years.
Edited to fix the quote.
This message has been edited by Chiroptera, 30-Jul-2005 05:22 PM