To: derheimwill
"There is no theory of macroevolution. Micro and macro are the same process."
Your argument is entirely semantic. Someone who believes in micro but not in macro belives in limited variation. IOW, no descendant of a bird will ever not be a bird, etc. But, you knew that.
My argument is not semantic. It is factual and scientific. Microevolution is changes in allele frequency in populations that cause changes under the species level and macroevolution is changes in allele frequency accumulated at the microevolution level until there is a new species-macroevolution.
After many accumulations of macroevolution (speciation) you get things like birds from dinos occurring. Birds are descendents of certain dinos. But birds don't descend directly from dinos.
I know nothing of the sort. I know that evolution is a fact and the ToE explains that fact.
849 posted on
12/21/2004 1:01:35 PM PST by
shubi
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To: shubi
Do you know what "semantic argument" means? Whenever there is an overall theory, one may freely name what that theory says about one of its particular subsets "Theory of [process]." For example, there are many theories of microeconomics but, all are part of "economics." It is simply a linguistic shortcut.
852 posted on
12/21/2004 1:14:31 PM PST by
derheimwill
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