"Macroevolution is properly defined as the emergence of new taxa at or above the species level. The only time creationists will use the proper definition is when they are as-yet unaware of the fact that speciation has already been directly-observed and documented dozens of times âboth in the lab and in naturally-controlled conditions in the field. In fact, weâve seen it so many times weâve had to categorize recurrent types of macroevolution weâve seen so often repeated. Once creationists find out about all this, their first reaction is to use the excuse that some newly evolved species of fruit fly or fish somehow still doesnât count because itâs âstillâ a fly or itâs âstillâ a fish. Well of course it is! Evolution couldnât permit them to be anything else. Creationists demand that the new species be so different from their parents that one canât even tell theyâre related. The irony there is that evolutionary theory never suggests that one âkindâ of thing ever turned into another, fundamentally-different âkindâ of anything, not unless you ignore all the intermediate stages âwhich of course creationists do."
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