Quiddity
UndertheInfluenceofGiants
Seyorni said:I've noticed that a lot of anti evolutionists don't seem to appreciate the time involved in many evolutionary processes. Change in a species is often readily observable, but if it doesn't produce an entirely new species in a few years people discount the possibility that it ever could.
Tiny changes, repeated over hundreds, thousands or millions of years can produce results entirely unlike the prototypes. Chihuahuas were once wolves, the Grand Canyon was once a flat plain.
Has anyone ever observed a wolf turn into a poodle? a mountain worn down to a plain? a string of Pacific islands created by vulcanism? All we can observe are tiny segments of an ongoing process, but few people contend that these processes don't occur. But when it comes to biological change, some people seem extrapolation challenged.
I think it was more of the consistant rhetoric of throwing a large number (it took millions and gazillions of years) that irked many students. It almost sounded that no matter what question you asked, they would find an enviroment and a large number to give an answer. Even though we know that some mutations can occur rather quickly.