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

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

@Med911

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.

So evolution is the process of gradual mutation? And speciation is a summation of gradually evolved bits strung together such that the beginning creature is species x and end creature is species y … ???

Is it fair to say that over a single evolution cycle - speciation will occur once?