Thursday, July 30, 2009

Another nail in the proverbial coffin.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090714104000.htm

For those of us who don't feel like reading the article, I will summarize. The Monarch Flycatcher bird on the Solomon Islands is undergoing a genetic split which is causing speciation. The bird is literally evolving into two distinct species right before the eyes of the scientific community. After a mutation caused the birds on the smaller islands to develop chestnut colored breast plumage, the all black Flycatchers have ceased to see males with chestnut feathers as a reproductive threat, and vice versa. If they are no longer reproducing between the populations, their genetics will continue to diverge, creating larger gaps than simple color. I'd like to take this time to remind everyone that the 'Theory of Evolution' is a fact, and that it is called a theory because it uses facts to create a broad explanation of how the world works. No matter what the origins of life were, evolution is not a deniable hypothesis. It has been observed working in viruses, bacteria, rats, birds, and other animals. It would take great faith to deny all of the evidence (I know I didn't present it all here, I have a life, you look it up), but should you manage to do that, congrats, I'm sure your ignorance truly is bliss.

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