hmmm lets look at my example here again this is sort of what I mean.
These is the line of my hypothetical species, but can consider it snapshots in the RW of species, just this is a example to simplify it down.
we could if all we saw was find the fossils of B and D consider them their own unique species and someone would say, show B evolving into D. And you might get this (ABC)(DEF) of the actual organisms being defined as a species as they can interbreed. BUT it could also be shown that (BCD) where you end up with 3 species, ABC, DEF, and BCD, where BCD is actually overlapping the other two species. This is sort of my point when we look at fossils and species now, all were seeing is ABC DEF as unique species, or in RL case were seeing is C with B extinct and D yet to evolve from C.
It works as snapshots, but it doesn't work when trying to describe evolution, the creationists want and many people get confused by expecting to see B evolve into D or even E not realizing that at the borders between what we call species B and E they could just as easily be considered their own unique species if thats the only snapshot we had. If that makes any sense. I just think that species works, but when put into evolutionary terms it just confuses and muddies the water giving the picture of snapshots when it's a smooth gradual line.
Take Dawkins example *I think it was him* of a paper with the left side black, and the right side white and shading it so that it gradually becomes more white. You could take the colour at every inch and show that colour and say this is X colour, but when you compare them on the paper and say, when does X colour become Y colour you can't because the border line between them is bluired. This is how it is in evolution/modern day terms for species, your taking a thin slice of the line and giving it a name and saying species, but if you had a entire line from ancestor of chimps and humans, and showed every female up to humans, at any given point there be no difference to the left and right it's when you take snapshot of every 100 or 1000 you see enough change to call this a species.
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