What someone else wrote:
The problem many have with Evolution is they don't understand how members of a species can diverge enough to be regarded as a separate species.
They bristle, for reasons I don't understand, at the idea that several small changes can't cause a species to diverge over the long term ... when its impossible they wouldn't.
I think I now know why.
They invariable say "its nonsense as a cat can't evolve into a lizard" or something.
What they see is the tree of life as it now with all of the existing species in it. They think that scientists are saying that one existing species can evolve into another existing species.
Any new species would be an additional species to the tree of life not an existing one.
I think that should clear up a number of issues in this science denial debate.
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This is what I wrote:
"The problem many have with Evolution is they don't understand how members of a species can diverge enough to be regarded as a separate species."
Everything you wrote, well done. Unfortunately these people are so dense there is nothing that would make them want to grow up, educate themselves, and face facts. Their brain damage is incurable. They don't want to grow up because they're cowards. Reality makes them cry.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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