| Just to bump this up because Merlin doesn't seem to be able to answer my questions. No wonder. There are no rational answers.
First there is the "frame work of a species" thing. He doesn't explain what it is and doesn't seem to be able to answer any questions about it. I have another question too. What about adaptive changes that cause speciation? You know, changes that aren't in the "frame work of the species."
Then there's the "phylum jumping" thing where he shows his ignorance by giving an incorrect definition of phylum. And it seems that Merlin is trying to build up a straw man in the first place - and then he stumbles so badly that he can't even knock down his own straw man. There is no such thing as phylum jumping in evolutionary biology. In fact, if an organism changed from one phylum to another, it would falsify most of evolutionary biology.
Finally, he makes some remarks about Darwin and the theory of natural selection. I hope you all noticed that I asked Merlin to tell us about natural selection, what is it, how does it work? He dosn't seem to be able to answer. Again, he seems to oppose something and he doesn't even know what it is. |