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The idea of populations evolving, to me, is much more difficult than an individual. I say this because it is far more conceivable for an individual to mutate but to have a whole population do the same? Not buying that.

A working definition of evolution is 'the change of alleles (traits) in populations over time'. It's the influence of population statistics early in the emergence of the Modern Synthesis. What is commonly overlooked is that cells and sometimes genes change over time and they are populations that change over time, well within the individual. Context matters.


Indeed, modern philosophy puts way too much emphasis on semantics, changing the meaning of words without being forth coming with the changing definitions. This has little to do with evolution in Biology, if it were the scientific definitions would not be so cloudy.


That's where your wrong, evolution is something that happens after life starts, it's a living theory. What Darwinians don't want you do know is that TOE is irrelevant to whether or not it's created or exclusively naturalistic. They do silence all theistic thought but what I have learned from them is that they are obsessed with fallacious logic. There is a reason for that, they lack the courage of their convictions or they would not be ignoring the fact that the inverse logic of their naturalistic assumptions is intuitively obvious. They lack the courage of their convictions.

That's my point. You cannot show transition with a dead fossilized bone. It is "static" it shows one point in time. It can never tell you about it's father, it's mother and even more it's great grandfather or great grand daughter

That's right, biology is about living systems, not dead ancestors. That's one of the many fallacies of Darwinism, it's called equivocation. When they equivocate evolution with the naturalistic assumptions of Darwinism we should know better then to continue arguing against adaptive evolution.

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Yes, that is because it takes many generations to produce genetic diversity. Also, inbreeding increases the chances of offspring having two copies of the same recessive deleterious allele.


Then donkeys and horses are separate species because there is no longer genetic flow between the populations. It is a perfect example of macroevolution. As time goes on, horses and donkeys will only drift farther and farther apart to the point that they can't even produce viable offspring, sterile or otherwise.

Golden Retrievers can mate with husky's because they are the same "kind".... they are dogs......

Where did the Golden Retrievers and Huskies come from?
 
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