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You should investigate the history of creationism more. Henry Morris was certainly a creationist -- one of the founders of modern creationism, in fact. Here's what he had to say about speciation:One can give him the clearest and most defined expressions of any point and he misses it every time.
Hint: Kingdgom, phylum, class, order, FAMILY, genus, species.
Changes on the species level is now and has always been accepted by creationists as changes 'within the kind'.
No New Species.
Charles Darwin is popularly supposed to have solved the problem of "the origin of species," in his famous 1859 book of that title. However, as the eminent Harvard biologist, Ernst Mayr, one of the nation's top evolutionists, has observed:"Darwin never really did discuss the origin of species in his On the Origin of Species."2Not only could Darwin not cite a single example of a new species originating, but neither has anyone else, in all the subsequent century of evolutionary study."No one has ever produced a species by mechanisms of natural selection. No one has gotten near it. . . ." 3
You asked for the transformation of an organism into an "identifiably/classifiably different organism". Organisms of different species are identifiably different organisms; that's why biologists can sort them into different species. Further, species is a kind of classification; members of different species are therefore classifiably different.That happens all the time. But what I challenged in the OP has to do with transformations of one organism into a clearly DIFFERENT organsim.
Once again, I can only respond to what you actually wrote, not to what you might have meant.
Evolutionary biology predicts that we should not be able to see any of those things. So why are you asking for them? We don't think common descent is true because we can observe the entire history of life in real time. We think it's true because it's the only way anyone has found to explain a vast array of data that we do have.Like flies to perhaps hummingbirds, or worms to snakes, or bacteria to lice, or perhaps rodents to a thylacine or a dog. He doesn't get it. He doesn't wish to get it.
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