tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26682722.post54785759762250194..comments2024-03-27T11:39:00.859-07:00Comments on Stones and Bones: Emergence of New SpeciesGary S. Hurdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296691454238708856noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26682722.post-59615818735838349082024-03-12T12:01:23.571-07:002024-03-12T12:01:23.571-07:00male liger,
The original post title is "Emer...male liger,<br /><br />The original post title is "Emergence of New Species."<br /><br />I think you answered your own question. <br />Gary S. Hurdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08296691454238708856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26682722.post-70471570707914862832024-03-12T01:35:31.718-07:002024-03-12T01:35:31.718-07:00Why didn't you mention the examples of Ligers ...Why didn't you mention the examples of Ligers or Tigons which most people have heard of? Is it because mega-fauna interspecies hybridization leads to infertile hybrids? male ligerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15149356841694843961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26682722.post-60236258333180688702022-12-21T16:08:54.351-08:002022-12-21T16:08:54.351-08:00I was just pointed to a Nature webpage, "Spec...I was just pointed to a Nature webpage, "Speciation: The Origin of New Species"<br />By: Rebecca J. Safran (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado, Boulder) & Patrik Nosil (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado, Boulder) © 2012 Nature Education <br />https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/speciation-the-origin-of-new-species-26230527/<br /><br />Gary S. Hurdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08296691454238708856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26682722.post-43582320984018329272021-02-05T16:51:05.736-08:002021-02-05T16:51:05.736-08:00Paul, your question about following new posts is n...Paul, your question about following new posts is not one I know how to answer. <br /><br />I seem to recall a book on "something rather than nothing." I actually skip over those "quantum woo" questions. <br />Gary S. Hurdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08296691454238708856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26682722.post-73795210435696209182021-02-05T16:14:52.910-08:002021-02-05T16:14:52.910-08:00That question is inherently unanswerable, because ...That question is inherently unanswerable, because the suggested explanation would have to be part of the "something". Similar problems with the First Cause argument. But what this has to do with the question of formation of new species is completely beyond mepsbratermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17874461150464012002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26682722.post-25190585457356641402021-02-05T16:12:23.074-08:002021-02-05T16:12:23.074-08:00Trivium: I want to follow this blog but the Follow...Trivium: I want to follow this blog but the Follow button will only send it to my Gmail address which I never use. Any way of getting notifications sent to psbratermanATyahooDOTcom?psbratermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17874461150464012002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26682722.post-33374854794768692362019-09-09T09:53:21.184-07:002019-09-09T09:53:21.184-07:00As the unresolved questions that abound regarding ...As the unresolved questions that abound regarding evolution continue in this and many other columns I can't help noting the really big question that no one has addressed so far still looms. That is,"Why is there something rather than nothing?"Ide Trotterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16589278061233503578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26682722.post-15532888614149543022017-09-08T17:23:51.933-07:002017-09-08T17:23:51.933-07:00Somebody just tried to post a long "cut and p...Somebody just tried to post a long "cut and paste" about a creationist distortion of some real science. <br /><br />I deleted it.Gary S. Hurdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08296691454238708856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26682722.post-36745082960614029162013-06-05T20:03:41.727-07:002013-06-05T20:03:41.727-07:00Well, it might help if you knew what a species was...Well, it might help if you knew what a species was. It would help more if you realized that Darwin was not the last authority on common descent.<br /><br />Your utterly failed attempt at describing complexity implies you don't even grasp the failure of Dembski's "specified complexity." If you observe (which you won't) the embryonic development of a bat, you would see that there is an initial development of digits, which in some cases are "erased" by later developments. This is clearly more "complex." Similar mutations exist in birds, and blindfish, where an additional activation of Homeobox genes add genetic complexity and minimize, or even eliminate nascent structures. Gary S. Hurdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08296691454238708856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26682722.post-84296347796513779122013-06-05T15:53:28.167-07:002013-06-05T15:53:28.167-07:00Charles Darwin main tenet of evolution was species...Charles Darwin main tenet of evolution was species evolved from simpler to more complex.<br />Not a single example you cite is an example of a species evolving from a simple to more complex.<br />Instead it just shows adaptation of an already existing species.<br />I can cite the bat as a more complex species of 55 million years ago with 5 digits to a bat of today with just 2 digits.<br />Thus the bat has de-evolved from<br />a more complex species with 5 digits to a simpler species of 2 digits.<br />Not that the modern bat with 2 digits is an entirely different species from the more COMPLEX ancient bat..just more adaptable.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26682722.post-37094717509282206662012-09-13T09:00:48.061-07:002012-09-13T09:00:48.061-07:00Fantastic! Thank you for this information. Every...Fantastic! Thank you for this information. Every time creationists pull out the "well we've never seen a new species arise so therefore evolution is a hoax" I have to explain that this can take thousands of years so it's unlikely we'll be able to observe it. I am so happy to have a link now to several examples of speication we've witnessed. joe mchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16557289572957900366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26682722.post-58607889846930891222009-03-14T19:23:00.000-07:002009-03-14T19:23:00.000-07:00R. pomonella is my favorite example to use here in...<I>R. pomonella</I> is my favorite example to use here in Ohio, since everyone here knows about John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), and so it's easy to make the point that this is a new host. I can say "It's happening in my back yard!" since I have both apples and haws.<BR/><BR/>BTW Gary, gimme a shout on the email addy associated with this comment, please. Thanks!RBHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13562135000111792590noreply@blogger.com