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Re: One-third of Americans reject evolution, poll shows
Forget it. They can shoehorn any change into just "adaptation," which for some reason doesn't count as evolution. Even observed speciation doesn't matter.
We have a species of lizard here in my state that evolved from one species to 2 in much the same way.....the Northern and Southern Alligator Lizard. The southern species lays eggs, the northern species gives live birth. WHich in reptiles means that they retain the eggs internally to incubate them, rather than laying them and having them hatch in a nest. The internal eggs benefit from a warmer more consistent incubation temperature and thus have a greater chance of hatching in cooler regions.
This required a change in genetic coding for the lizards...one which became more and more prevalent in the northern race as those were more suited to reproducing successfully in the colder area.
The overall development of that separate species would have taken hundreds, if not thousands of years...and it would not have been 'visible' to anyone around to observe.
Forget it. They can shoehorn any change into just "adaptation," which for some reason doesn't count as evolution. Even observed speciation doesn't matter.