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They are not easy to find. Transitional individuals are often less numerous than the more successful stabilized version. Even so, we are finding more and more evidence of intermediate phases.

Of course its relevant. Evolution is tinkering with structures you already got with small tweaks often finding an entirely new purpose. How so? Did God create kinds to be like transformers? More than meets the eye? This hippo can become a dolphin by design?

When formulating hypotheses, imagination is invaluable. You are one to talk. You advocate using imagination in the conclusions and injecting imagination into data. You know how the term theory is more like theorem in science, yet you troll with the casual definition. Why? Do you hope readers...

THAT is the discrete STEP and is an unusual scenario we sometimes see with plants. Think of it like this: there are changes in the frequency of gene combinations across generations. The old version survives with the new but the new is somewhat more successful and all are still the same...

Seems simply a matter of semantics.

Either way is fine by me.

Speciation is often a gradualistic process rather than a discretely stepwise one. Asking when one species becomes another is sort of like asking when a color is blue, purple, or red.

When you do not understand something possibly look inward and apply yourself. https://library.ncu.edu/friendly.php?s=statsresources/measurement

Divider seems to think microbes are just goo. Life around the undersea vents wasn't that gooey.

Whether something is Continuous or categorical is really just an artifact of measurement, not a limit on reality. The loss of compatibility to mate is a threshold marker to define limit between species. Do you consider donkeys and horses the same species? Okay.

Evidence helps fuel the imagination. There is the fruit fly experiment where the flies adapted to no light conditions. Dark fly might not be a new species but it sure did evolve to the environment. A bacterium became able to metabolize citrate. Both life fprms became better able to survive...

As per usual. The environment in conjunction with pressures relative to other forms. Think how not who. True enough -- you have to take your first few steps to eventually travel a 100 miles. The set expands gradually over time. No step is ginormous. Cumulatively creative. This is a bottom...

You are a trip. I see you do this a lot. You need to read what a poster has written within the thread of the immediate discussion before responding, Get the context firmly in mind before hitting reply . Just replying as if the words in front of you are all that matters is hella lazy. Here...

Use the phrase common decent instead of goo-goo to you. Please try to track the discussion better. They adapt so is really NOT a precise reproduction -- new attributes are created by natural selection, and over time kinds are more and more varied so much so it become more helpful to discuss...

Yes, it has. They documented it flowers, and can be easily inferred from the fossil record. Why do you accept virgin birth but not speciation? Maybe we should always call evolution evolution. It has confused you so much. Do you doubt continental drift but believe in microshifting. Why is...

How about common descent? And, maybe bring that up only when appropriate as in when we are discussing the big picture and NOT when we are discussing shorter-term evolution of traits?

No way. Ukraine is much less corrupt. Independent index of level of freedom score is 60 for Ukraine and 20 for Russia 100 point scale. Too late. Ukraine is an independent nation. Ukrainians and many Russians citizens believe this move is pure evil.

I did not buy for a second, your contention that evolution has not been observed. Change of characteristic of a species over generations is observed all the time. Furthermore, speciation can be inferred from a clear evidentiary basis. We cannot directly observe atoms, black holes, or the...

Science is a method. There is a philosophy of science, but science does not philosophize per se. Supernatural claims are assessed in the same manner as usual. ESP bears no fruit. Astrology is a circus act. Prayer does not help the sick. Creation "science" has been debunked. Faith is based on...

You are the one insisting on using baby talk to describe evolution.