From: Wesley R. Elsberry                               Posted:  2 Jul 94  08:46
To  : David Bushard
Subj: Adaption=Evolution?

In a msg on , David Bushard of 1:2245/101 writes:

 DB> 2.  "what we call today 'macro-evolution'" -- who is this "we"
 DB> you are talking about?  micro- and macro-evolution are terms used
 DB> by creationists to differentiate between things even they can see
 DB> in front of their eyes, and the other logical conclusions that
 DB> they wish to discredit.  these are terms found in literature from
 DB> the ICR (and unofficially on this echo), not in science.

Microevolution and macroevolution *are* biological terms.  The
SciCre-ists, of course, misrepresent how they are defined to
forward their agenda.  The earliest reference I've found to use
of the term "macroevolution" is some 1937 publication by Dobzhansky.
Both microevolution and macroevolution were put to regular use by
Dobzhansky, Goldschmidt, Simpson, and Mayr, among others.  For the
biological meanings, microevolution is subspecific evolution, which
may involve reversible processes.  Marcoevolution is evolution of
species or higher taxa, which involves irreversible processes (unless
someone has observed a reversion from a speciation event, which I
don't think has happened).  Speciation events establish macroevolution
as an observed phenomenon, contrary to SciCre claims of impossibility
for macroevolution.

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