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Originally posted by preciousjeni
Can anyone really dispute microevolution when the evidence is visible RIGHT NOW? No. But, we can dispute macroevolution - though, as you've said - that's not really an area where scientists waste much time.
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How can we dispute macroevolution? People can argue that it is because it is beyond the span of one life time it can't be effectively messured - but then thats the great thing about writing and the genetic record. Darwin based his arguements on macroevolution - botanical and biological... for example plants and/or animals that have been effectively changed into a new species through domestication. Darwin wrote about the origin of species through natural selection - not spontaneous appearance; but a gradual favouring of mutations/traits that eventually would lead to a great enough alteration of an organism that it must be classified as a seperate species.