Evolution hasn't been observed nowadays

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 References 6 External Links 7 Related claims 8 Acknowledgments

Claim

Living things on earth today are not seen to be evolving into something else.

Source

• Anon, 1985. Life--How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or By Creation? Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., p. 54

Responses

1. This claim could only be true given an unreasonable definition of evolution.
2. Microorganisms have been observed to evolve new functions.
3. There are numerous examples of observed speciation. An example of an observed speciation event is when the plant Oenothera lamarckiana gave rise to a new species of plant O. gigas in 1905 ce which could not successfully breed with its parents and also had a different chromosome number than its parents. (O. gigas had a chromosome number of 2N = 28 while its parent Oenothera lamarckiana had a chromosome number of 2N = 14.) ^{[1] [1]} alone.
4. The evidence for evolution does not exist in observation alone.
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Fallacies contained in this claim

• Suppressed Evidence (examples of observed evolution are withheld)
• Moving Goalpost Syndrome (cited examples of evolution are dismissed as adaptation)

References

Williams, Robert (March 30, 1999). Examples of Beneficial Mutations and Natural Selection. The Evolution Evidence Page. Retrieved on 2008-04-15.

External Links

• Mark Isaak's page on mutation producing novelty[1]
• Theobald, Douglas, 1999. 29+ Evidences for Macroevolution: The Scientific Case for the Theory of Common Descent with Gradual Modification.
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Related claims

• Macroevolution has never been observed
• Mutations don't produce new features
• No new species have been observed
• No new phyla, classes, or orders have appeared
• Microevolution selects only existing variation
• Evolution hasn't been proved
• Evolution should be treated as a matter of belief

Acknowledgments

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