None of this has actually been proven. I don't dissagree in principle but there is no proof. All we have seen are changes within species, and most of those involve breeding for already existing recessive traits. I don't know of a single instnace where we have evidence of, for example, a fly growing a sting like a bee.
I also don't know of any studies that have demonstrated actual mutations in the wild, only the accumulation of existing traits through selective breeding.
My problem is not with evolution but with puritanical Darwinism, I think that the possibility that the genetic code might be altered by outside influences, e.g. a virus, are also things that need to be considered. What I'm talking about is the much decried Lamarkism.
Darwinism is rapidly turning into Dawkinism and it's becoming inflexable, just like a fundamentalist religion.
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