Originally posted by Proper Knob
After all your chest-thumping, posturing and hot-air blowing it seems as if you accept the principle of evolution, which is the 'change in the genetic material of a population of organisms from one generation to the next'. You accept this?
What you don't accept is speciation, the emergence of new species. So genetic mutations can occur from generation to generation, but never enough mutations to create a new species?
thankyou Noobster, you are a light shining in a very dark place, and have stated, succinctly and without ambiguity, what is the case. Darwins finches remained finches, they did not become white tailed sea eagles simply because all the nuts ran out and they were forced to eat fish!
bye da way, can i ask the Evos, how the stealth design of the Owls feathers were supposed to have developed? For as i stated to Noobster else where, all though he called it rubbish, it is known that the design of the feather is such that as air passes over it during flight, the feather, breaks up the sound waves that are generated, also the downy feathers elsewhere found on the Owls body help absorb the remaining sound. If one compares an owls feather, to say a hawks feather, the two are entirely different, perhaps Badwater shall confirm this. Are we to assume that this amazing design was the result of noisy Owls dying off while all the quiet ones with stealth flight caught all the mice? if so, then i shall need to revise my position!