Question:
Has macro evolution evolution ever been observed?
anonymous
1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Has macro evolution evolution ever been observed?
Fifteen answers:
jpopelish
2013-01-03 12:46:00 UTC
Macro evolution is not a scientific term. It is a creationist term, usually, loosely defined as more evolution than anyone can show them. Perhaps you would like to take a shot at a definition that could be tested.



But we have certainly seen evolution that, in a single generation, produced a new species that was completely unfertile with its parent species and showed new traits not evident in the parent species.



Look up polyploidy, for more details.



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Regards,



John Popelish
Variable 46
2013-01-03 14:19:54 UTC
Evolution is taking place at a frighteningly fast pace in at least one venue that comes quite easily to mind: The evolution of drug resistant bacteria. In less than 70 years nature VIA EVOLUTION has produced strains of bacteria that didn't exist prior to 1940, mostly through one evolutionary device known as "survival of the fittest." The repercussions of this very real phenomenon are as yet completely unknown, but nonetheless quite alarming.



As an aside, I find that most arguments against evolution are posited by people who really don't understand it. And when someone starts arguing about something they don't understand, don't you think they usually end up just sounding stupid?
?
2013-01-03 12:47:01 UTC
Microevolution can be observed and is a fact. Macroevolution is a theory resulting from scientists connecting the dots.



Nothing in genesis can be observed or proven in anyway. It is a myth like all others, and is filled with logical fallacy and far fetched ideas.



There is no other scientific theory besides evolution that explains how life diversity occurred.
delmendo
2016-10-04 10:42:24 UTC
i could answer, yet you will in simple terms flow the purpose posts. we've been watching evolution for decrease than a hundred and fifty years, and on the genetic point for some short many years. nonetheless, we've stated specieation in some plant life and bugs. Talkorigins has many examples. in spite of the fact that, creationists (or IDers) insist on moving the purpose posts to truly stupid distances, which comprise annoying a sparkling species of monkey or whale. Mammalian evolution, using greater complicated genome, takes eons longer than we've had time to video reveal. in spite of the fact that, as an issue of certainty that what you call "macroevolution" has been stated in a sort of species. Sorry if all this makes your techniques harm, information a complicated and stylish concept like organic and organic evolution takes education and attempt.
anonymous
2013-01-03 12:42:49 UTC
The quotation is quite correct.



"Has the formation of a star been observed?"



Yes. But it takes hundreds of thousands of years, so we look at several stars in different stages and draw conclusions about the process. The process in its entirety has never been observed, nor can it, in the lifespan of a human.



Same with evolution.
Got Proof?
2013-01-03 12:43:28 UTC
Do you get a flu shot? You know why? Evolution. Influenza viruses have mutated and evolved to adapt to the vaccines created to destroy them. They've done this in our lifetime. That's why new flu shots are needed every year.



Dawkins explains it quite well in "The Greatest Show on Earth," presuming you have the courage and intellectual capacity to read it.
?
2013-01-03 12:46:23 UTC
How many micro changes need to occur before it's considered macro?
NickoG
2013-01-03 12:43:36 UTC
What does this have to do with religion?



And no life span on Earth is long enough to observe it.
Mark IX
2013-01-03 12:43:35 UTC
You closing your eyes and stamping your feet isn't going to change the facts little girl.
marsel_duchamp
2013-01-03 12:43:12 UTC
Yes, just not in a single human lifetime. Examples abound.
?
2013-01-03 12:43:07 UTC
No. A species has never changed into another species from human eyes..



If you have seen it, let me know it.
anonymous
2013-01-03 12:43:26 UTC
Only for short intervals!!! Because it is a very boring and slow process!!!
.
2013-01-03 12:43:15 UTC
No, nor is there any evidence which cannot be interpreted differently as a better representation of "what happened"
Tom
2013-01-03 12:43:03 UTC
yes
anonymous
2013-01-03 12:43:14 UTC
Evolution has also been proven...and why is your username a bible verse?


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