Apologetic Islamic take on Evolution ... Or unkind dismissal?

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Re: Apologetic Islamic take on Evolution … Or unkind dismissal?

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Ok I’m not getting this …

Speciation is part of evolution … So evolution is greater … However you say evolution is happening as we speak … but then claim speciation to take millions of years …

That does not make any sense … If Procreation is the category and copulation, fertilisation, gestation, birth are the sub-categories … then it makes sense that the birth process is far shorter than the procreation process … However … speciation is part of evolution yet evolution is shorter than speciation in duration …

In fact you have made speciation so long i.e. millions of years there is no way it can be speciation … Things speciate over a single generation … There is no way things can speciate gradually … it doesn’t even make sense.

If you were to consider species x and species y … and the species x has over millions of years become x++ … where + indicates species x strongly progresses towards y … We can also say that y has the forms y-- which are precursors within species y that are close x … It therefore means:

x–, x-, x, x+, x++, y–, y-, y, y+, y++

the closest two entities for speciation are x++ and y-- these are a single generation … the offpsring effectively being another creature to the parent animal …

You have a tremendous talent. You take the simplest of concepts, turn them up side down, inside and out, till by the end even Picasso would be left scratching his head.

Lets step back and look at what your saying.

Evolution is the name of the overall process. It happens in increments. Addition of new mutations, of selection for those mutations etc etc. Speciation is the rise of new species from older ones through the process of evolution.