Re: Climategate? Not so much

In article <19t3ng898xg6e$.1ba03rhg5fqm7.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>,
"Alex W." <ingilt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


The "enlightened" Creationists will admit that animals can genetically
change, since that's how we breed them. But they'll deny spontaneous
speciation (usually using ridiculous comparisons like "A dog can't just
become a frog one day!").

Even more ridiculous as we are quite capable of inducing
speciation ourselves. Donkey egg plus horse sperm makes mule.
Ditto tigers and lions.

Well, those aren't new species because they can't reproduce. Seriously.
That's one of the definitions of a species.
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