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Review: There is current empirical evidence for evolution and speciation

I know this forum is supposed to be about the book, but I am so tired of people in the evolution vs. no-evolution debate claiming there is NO EVIDENCE (it's always in caps) for evolution. Can any of these people honestly claim they've done the research to support their claims? How many hours have they logged in research libraries? How many footnotes and bibliographies have they gone through and followed up on? I'm not saying there aren't issues with evolutionary theory and possible lines of argument. But the age-old "there isn't any direct evidence" simply is not true and it does a disservice to the debate to keep saying that. Here are just a FEW examples I've come across with minimal research:

First, the Grant's have done a 20 year, exhaustive, fasicinating study of the CURRENT evolution of the Galapogos finches. They have recorded measurable changes in morphology and behavior due to natural selection. It is not philosophy, it is not conjecture, it is in the data. Gigabytes of it.

Two, ACTUAL SPECIATION has been observed and studied in at least one species of fruit fly.

Microbiologists and pathologists (and anyone fighting disease today) can show you numerous example of evolution in action. MEASURABLE, QUANTIFIABLE evolution. Even if they didn't (and they did) does anyone out there think that antibiotics are becoming less effective because of intelligent design?

Several species of guppy's have been used to perform REPEATABLE, MEASURABLE expirements that demonstrate natural selection in action. This is a "real" experiment in a real lab, as if that's the only kind of science that means something; but still, if that's what people are complaining doesn't exist, they are wrong.

There is a journal devoted to covering evolution in action and the scientists that are observing it in nature and running experiments in the lab. You can read countless more stories (one of my favorite is the frog taking over Australia after 80 years of harmless-ness due to a favorable mutation).

The papers are all out there. The data is there. You just have to look (and be willing to look). And this is stuff I've come across as just a casual reader with an interest in evolution. I actually started out believing the DARWIN WAS IN CRISIS! Oh heavens! I read that there is was no evidence of evolution so maybe it evolution is just an unprovable theory (= philosophy). I actually believed that. But then I took the step that so many don't: I actually did some research - and it didn't take much. What a crazy idea.

So please, please stop saying there is no evidence until you have done the hard work of the research yourself and stop repeating cliche's from people with an agenda.

Review: Dawkins gets better with age.

Ricard Dawkins did a fine job with "The Blind Watchmaker", but "Climbing Mt. Improbable" is at least two notches better. With and additioal decade of scientific discovery since his earlier books, Dawkins has really put Intelligent Design in his cross hairs and laid out the facts. What one chooses to do with the new insights into evolution is a personal choice.

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