Reply #257: Evolution is not genetics [View All]

and genetics is not "micro-evolution". Genetics is the study of how genes are passed from one (or more, such as sexual reproduction) organism to another. Eveolution is the study of how the distribution of genes changes in a population over time. They are related, but they aren't the same thing.

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.

Speciation is more than the simple piling up of differences. Even the web site you linked to says this.

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

If you like, I can do the same. Do you have a better source than E.O. Wilson?

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.

I do not dispute the age of the Earth or that speciation happens. I have also read a good deal of talkorigins content as well as a number of texts on the subject by scientists with impeccable credentials in the area of study.