You state that "evolution is an observed fact, populations evolve and that is a fact."
The evidence is to the contrary. Species change and adapt, but a cow is always a cow, a dog is a dog, a cat is a cat, and yes, Darwin's finches are always finches. You cannot successfully breed between 'kinds'. Give one proven example of where one species evolved into another.
Cow is not a species, in fact none of the examples you give are species. The word "kind" has no definition when it comes to classifying species into groups. All that can definitely be taken from the bible on the subject is that it confirms the simple observation that parents give birth to offspring that are very similar to them.
Observed Speciation Events:
Speciation By Hybridisation In Heliconius Butterflies by Jesús Mavárez, Camilo A. Salazar, Eldredge Bermingham, Christian Salcedo, Chris D. Jiggins and Mauricio Linares,
Nature,
441: 868-871 (15th June 2006) [Full paper downloadable from
here]
Mavárez et al, 2006:Speciation is generally regarded to result from the splitting of a single lineage. An alternative is hybrid speciation, considered to be extremely rare, in which two distinct lineages contribute genes to a daughter species. Here we show that a hybrid trait in an animal species can directly cause reproductive isolation. The butterfly species Heliconius heurippa is known to have an intermediate morphology and a hybrid genome1, and we have recreated its intermediate wing colour and pattern through laboratory crosses between H. melpomene, H. cydno and their F1 hybrids. We then used mate preference experiments to show that the phenotype of H. heurippa reproductively isolates it from both parental species. There is strong assortative mating between all three species, and in H. heurippa the wing pattern and colour elements derived from H. melpomene and H. cydno are both critical for mate recognition by males.
There is an example of a species that evolved into another in the wild and said event was duplicated in a lab.
You should note that evolution demonstrates that species do evolve into species that retain the same classification as the ancestor, mammals always evolve into mammals, chordates always evolve into chordates. However the morphology can change radically over time so that eventually a descendant species can look radically different to its ancestral species.
You are the one who needs to identify the barrier that prevents the accumulation of small changes eventually leading to large differences between species and their ancestors who were around millions of years before.
The fossil record shows sudden appearance of complete life in great variety and no linking forms. Evolution predicts the contrary. The facts support creation.
This "fact" of yours is a lie or based on ignorance of the fossil record. Nowhere in the fossil record is there an event that shows the sudden appearance of complete life in great variety and no linking forms unless your definition of sudden encompasses periods greater than 130 million years, thats twice the time since the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Even the so called "Cambrian Explosion", which took place over more than 20 million years, contains species whose ancestors appear in the fossil record during the Ediacarian age and back to the Cryogenian where fossils of the first sponges appear. The analysis of the rare rock strata from these times is still ongoing and new species continue to be identified from the fossil record further linking these early life forms together.
You should also realise that the cambrian period contains absolutely no species that lived on land, every single one is marine.
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So long as they have their faith nothing you show them about the fossil record, dating methods, etc, will change their position.
My understanding of the fossil record is that nothing has ever been found that is a mid species. Species evolving into a very different species is very different to natural selection which the bible does not disagree with. I won't mention the desperation of the scientist that made the fake cro magnon man.
Your understanding is completely wrong, just look at hominid evolution and the difficulty of classifying individuals that lie on the dividing lines between species. In fact if you bothered to look at the evidence from evironments that lend themselves to extensive fossilisation you can find very fine grained evidence of the evolution of species such as trilobites and other small marine creatures.
Here's a starting point for vertebrate transitional forms.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional/part1a.html
As you have been told already, Cro-Magnon man is not a fake, many fossils of these early Homo sapiens have been found. Piltdown Man was never claimed to be a cro-magnon and the fraud was exposed by scientists when they were allowed to closely examine the bones.
'The fact that although we have found all sorts of creatures of all sizes that predate man yet nothing of interspecies of man or anythiong else is....I'm afraid my friend...evidence on the side of creation.
If there was evidence of evolution it would not be called the THEORY of evolution. We don't have the theory of dinosuars.. and why..because there is proof.
Please post this evidence for evolution you speak of so all can debate!
The list of homind species has already been posted. Read the information.
Scientific theories explain evidence, for there to be a theory of evolution the evidence has to already exist. The mere idea that there would be a "
theory of dinosuars" shows your gross lack of understanding of science. The ToE explains the fact that there were dinosaurs.
