"Macro" vs "Micro" genetic "kind" mechanism?

simple!god does it!actually, i've wanted to know the creationist answer to this for a long time. it tend to phrase it as "what stops little changes from adding up?" but it makes more sense this way.seeing as how there is so little difference between us and chimps genetically. and remarkably little difference between chimps and bananas, genetically. it really only takes little changes.

well, yeah, but the question is asking for evidence of the actual mechanism that allows one kind of change but not the other, while preventing little changes from adding up.

honestly, i've never understood exactly why creationists are set against evolution.

i don't see how.and us in the center of creation? isn't pride one of big sins christianity likes to rant against?This message has been edited by Arachnophilia, 07-05-2004 07:17 PM

i agree totally, as a christian "evolutionist"how many of us are there here, out of curiosity?

i don't think they're common enough now, or common at all long enough to have effected much of anything.

nope, that was me. the lizards are the desert grassland whiptail, cnemidophorus uniparens. nope. they contain only female genitalia. the process used to trigger reproduction is sexual, lizard to lizard genital contact, but the actual reproduction is technically asexual. they're cloners. all of the lizards in the population share exactly the same genes, apparently. yes. they're all female. yup. "parthenogenetic unisexual pseudocopulators" is what they're called. basically, in english, it means they're virgin-birthing one-sexed mutual-masturbators.here's a link: nerve.com®as a side note, what bugs me about them isn't the lesbian sex, but asexual reproduction it triggers. these lizards don't exactly have a gene pool, per se. they're all clones, exactly alike genetically. basically, evolution has stopped for these lizards. if something were to come along that would endanger them, they'd all be gone, because natural selection for them is all or nothing. they have no way to adapt.This message has been edited by Arachnophilia, 07-12-2004 09:53 AM

i knew i was missing something. i suppose random mutation and genetic drift through transcription errors are still in play. i should stop posting on no sleep, i must sound like an idiot lol.although, i would imagine it still does leave them especially susceptable to extinction.

nah, i've just gotten about three hours of sleep in the last three days. i'm not even tired anymore. so i occasionally miss stuff here and there.i'm kind of curious though how a species evolves into a situation like the whiptail's. any ideas?