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[Kasz216]

Rath said:

Kasz216 said:

That's not really true.

While I do beleive in evolution....

there is no reason natural selection couldn't happen in a world without evolution. 

As there would never be a big enough gap to where one species evolves into a new one.

Like that one Dr. Who book where half the people have stars on their stomachs.  Well except the non starred ones wouldn't exist anymore.

There are considered distinct "breaks" based on major evolutionary changes.

So you're talking micro-evolution then? Even that idea is still a form of evolution.

To be honest though I never understood the idea of micro-evolution, as far as I can see macro-evolution is just repeated micro-evolutionary changes. They're one and the same, there is no point of distinction between one species and another just a long slow change.

I disagree on that.  Afterall we do make that point of distinction.  Usually based on a very large change.

For example the development of lungs.

A giraffe with a small neck would still be a giraffe.   A Giraffe with lungs we would clasify as something else.

Bacteria no matter how much it evolves is still considered bacteria... until it makes bigger shifts.

Think of a car.  You could change it's color, extend a bumper, add cupholders... whatever... it's still a car.

Add a raft on the bottom and a propller and now it's a boat.