[b said:
Quote[/b] ]well you keep harping on the "fact" that speciation has been "observed" yet i have seen not a single strong case of speciation.
Because you don't want to accept them. The goatsbeard was a great example. some species were introduced, so you know that there weren't any other goatsbeard species here besides the ones you introduced, and then you find new species that looked like hybrids but could interbreed and not breed with the old species. They became different species, so it's speciation.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]you also like to keep bringing up the fossil record but i ask you this, how can you tell what could interbreed with what when all you have is fossils?
there are many intermediates. While you might not know exactly when one or the other begins or ends, You do know that a modern human could not interbreed with certain other hominids (i don't know the names) because they're way too different.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]im not saying evolution is wrong im just saying that you need to accept and adress the weaknesses in it
A weakness would be something that either disproves evolution or is not expected to happen that way according to evolution. Fossils are fossils. You can't expect to know exactly where one species begins and ends because you can't make fossils mate!
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]where Micro Evolution presumes Species 1 can evolve into Species 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
where species one can evolve into SUBSPECIES 1.1, etc.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]while Macro Evolution is dismissed as an unprovable hypothesis (it has not been observed, we have not been around long enough TO observe it.)
speciation is macro-evolution. some may be refering to watching fish become cows but if that's why you don't believe in macro-evolution then that's just crazy because you're asking for impossible proof.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]God gave us the earth, lock, stock, and barrel, to do with as we pleased.
I also very strongly disagree with that... another check to my "why not to believe the bible" list.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]The world is ours, evolution is probably a natural part of it, and away we go.
whoa.... is that you bugweed?
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]The factors necessary for evolution (sexual and natural selection) don't affect humans anymore
I think humans are evolving just very, very, very slowly.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]while nobody who claims to be of scientific mind can blindly accept macroevolution without making themselves about as "guilty" of faith in the unproven than the religious person they often denounce.
AAAAAAHHHHHH!!! why does everyone keep saying it requires faith? it does NOT require faith! Just like ... EP? said, today's species only make up about 99% of the species that have ever lived in this world.(has anyone answered his question
first answer his question!) so it's illogical to think that all the species that ever lived have been here at one point in time.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Asthma, excema, allergies, myopia, etc: all "diseases" made survivable by our modern sophistication.
those things (well... asthma and allergies... I don't know what the other two are) can be caused by the environment (living a super-clean life and not going out there and getting dirty) and not genetics... aldough genetics can play a part... so it could be that you could have survived just fine. who knows?
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]although i will agree most, but not all, "natural" selection has been removed and been replaced with human created artifical selection
as long as there are things outside of or control (in nature) there will be natural selection. (the earth's magnetic field has decreased about 10 percent... because it may be flipping, so that may root out individuals that are too prone to cancer)
and speaking of sex, AIDS could be something that can help root out people who have many partners. (yes... it does have to do something with genetics... I'll try to find the article later)