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Re: Wake up man
by JGC

“What you are talking about is adaptation.”

>>The example given regarding blind salamanders represents evolutionary change, not adaptive change. in the context of the biological sciences adaptation and evolution refer to two different things. Adaptation occurs at the level of the individual, does not involve a change in genetic composition, and is not inheritable (think acquired immunity, or the physiological changes an athlete undergoes training at high altitude.) Evolutionary change occurs at the level of the population and always involves a inheritable change in the population’s genetic composition (think industrial melanization or antibiotic resistance in bacteria.)

“Get a grip. No creationist will ever reject adaptation/micro evolution.”

>>Evolution is evolution, micro or macro--the distinction between micro and macro-evolution is only at what taxonomic level an evolutionary change occurs (micro refers to evolution occurring below the level of the species, while macro-evolution refers to evolution at or above the species level. We have in fact directly observed macroevolution occurring, in real time in living populations, in the form of speciation events.

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