evolution and the standard responses...

[acroyear]

Finches on Galapagos Islands evolving - Yahoo! News:

A medium sized species of Darwin's finch has evolved a smaller beak to take advantage of different seeds just two decades after the arrival of a larger rival for its original food source.

The altered beak size shows that species competing for food can undergo evolutionary change, said Peter Grant of Princeton University, lead author of the report appearing in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

scientists: well, it never hurts to document the obvious...

creationist wackos: but it's sitll a bird!

Comments

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

sorry if i seemed harsh - i didn't want to get into the "meaning" of evolution as much as the application of it. messing with semantics wasn't (and normally isn't) my game when there are bigger issues at stake than what i saw as mere vocabulary.

my point was its evolution and evolution is evolution at the main level, even if in the details it gets, well, detailed. as all science theories do.

to creationists, "its still a bird" is going to be their standard reply even if scientists did decide that its a new species. they widened their net by talking about "kinds" instead of species when the fruit fly speciation experiments were published ("well, its still a fruit fly").

to them, macro evolution means a dog giving birth to a cat and no amount of evidence or definitions to the contrary will break them of that strawman - which is why i didn't really feel like getting into that distinction. it was irrelevant to my point.