Re: Notes from Scientific American

2005-02-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton recommended: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html That's great! I love this part: . . . experimentally showing that A doesn't interbreed with B doesn't preclude both interbreeding with C. This gets even more complicated in groups that don't have nice,

Re: Notes from Scientific American

2005-02-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
thomas malloy wrote: There is no evidence of one species changing into another such that they cannot cross breed with the former. Oh come now. Millions of species have done that, probably including some domesticated species. There have been none within recorded history, but the time scale is

Re: Notes from Scientific American

2005-02-23 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: thomas malloy wrote: There is no evidence of one species changing into another such that they cannot cross breed with the former. Oh come now. Millions of species have done that, probably including some domesticated species. There have been none within recorded history,

Re: Notes from Scientific American

2005-02-23 Thread thomas malloy
thomas malloy wrote: There is no evidence of one species changing into another such that they cannot cross breed with the former. Oh come now. Millions of species have done that, probably including some domesticated species. There have been none within recorded history, but the time scale is

Re: Notes from Scientific American

2005-02-23 Thread Terry Blanton
Emergence of new species are observedfrequently in flora. Fauna speciation observance is less common except in single and small multi-celluar organisms. Google 'observed speciation' for returns such as: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html "Stephen A. Lawrence" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Notes from Scientific American

2005-02-22 Thread Mike Carrell
The current issue, in addition tothe piece about cold fusion, has some other interesting items. A page is devoted to the comments of Michael Shermer, editor of The Skeptic, who has this to say about "The Fossil Fallacy": "We know evolution happens because innumerable bits of data from