Evidence of Evolution in Action
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Creationists are always claiming that there’s no evidence for evolution and as they do so, they are totally oblivious to the lack of evidence for their creationist mythology. One of their claims is that no one has ever seen one species evolve into another. Well, duh! that can take thousands of generations for a large, slow-breeding species, and when changes are actually demonstrated with rapidly-breeding species like bacteria or fruit flies, they always respond that they’re still bacteria (or fruit flies, or whatever.)
It’s difficult to know what they’re thinking. Most of them probably think evolution looks something like Count Dracula turning into a bat. Others may be a bit more sophisticated and will acknowledge micro evolution, but they’ll claim that the fossil record isn’t sufficient to demonstrate anything else, and they waive away the evidence of common ancestry shown by DNA even though DNA evidence good enough to force a father to pay child support.
Anyway, the next time you run across the claim that No one has ever seen evolution in action you can rebut it (or at least try) with this article at EurekAlert, the online news service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS):
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