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Originally Posted by leewong [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I am going to explain evolution again for the creationist here. More than likely will regret this decision in 30 pages or so.

Creationist admit to small changes in a species. What they have trouble with is speciation. "A dog will always be and always has been a dog", they say.

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With small changes over time you can end up with completely different species.

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The individual symbols on this picture dont represent a single animal. They represent a species as time progresses. The amount of time between each snapshot is irrelevant for this explanation. Feel free to imagine a thousand millennia or a million years.

Creationist believe the blue symbol (pictured above) would produce the purple star symbol in a few short generations. The illustration above is a nice but it doesnt show the hundreds or thousand of generations with smaller changes BETWEEN each symbol. Each of these generations would be a small step closer to looking like the next symbol in the picture. This is micro-evolution in action and the sum total is called macro-evolution. The same exact mechanism is responsible for micro and macro.

Honestly, if I thought horses gave birth to squirrels or that blue symbols gave birth to purple stars then I wouldnt believe the shit either. That isnt what the theory claims though.