Reply #253: Try again [View All]

Your reasoning here is really... odd. Gene frequency can be measured in any number of ways. The easiest way is to look for expressed characters in a population, which most certainly can be observed (i.e. the "peppered moth" scenario). If your hangup is the whole "macro/microevolution" rubbish (which I gather from your separating out of evolution from genetics: which is rather the same thing), then we are at an impasse. Speciation is simply the piling up of differences in allele frequencies, and speciation, too, has been observed regardless of your concept of what constitutes a species.

As to dictionaries, I'm afraid I'll have to disagree. Would you like me to quote from my old textbooks or what?

There is ample evidence in the geologic column for both the age of the Earth and for speciation. Since you seem to like Talkorigins, I'll let you read their material before I comment further.