Re: Evolution finally proven. IDers take note.

In article <1129913485.319359.197740@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
willreich_77@xxxxxxxxx <willreich_77@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Kim G. S. Øyhus wrote:
><snipped all the relevant stuff to argue about trivia>
>
>> the chihuahua and the gread dane. Both are called dogs, but they are
>> actually 2 species, since they cannot interbreed.
>>
>> Kim0
>
>I don't think that flies. Chihuahua could (and would) breed with a
>breed of intermediate size which could breed with a slightly larger
>breed of intermediate size, etc. In fact, I think that it wouldn't take
>many steps at all. If the <smaller> male stands on those steps, it
>would take even fewer.

That is not interbreeding between chihuahua and the great dane.
That is interbreed between lots of different dogs.
So your argument is not valid.
Chihuahua and great dane are 2 species of dog.


>Also, this concept means that a Great Dane is not the same species as
>another breed of dog but IS the same species as a Timber Wolf, with
>which it could interbreed quite succesfully.

Yes.
The "species" concept is not set theory.
It is a relation.

Kim0

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