If you don’t believe God could evolve dogs from amoebas, then you still don’t understand evolution, or even God. If God can make a human from dirt, he can Certainly make a dog from an amoeba.
What is the one thing that you think you can teach a Christian evolutionist? You don’t seem to grasp the fundamentals of evolution by any means.
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Do you understand that as long as the average member of any population is more or less reproductively compatible with the rest of that population, the population (virtually by definition) can never divide into two or more very different life forms). Following so far?
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It is only when geographical separation, cultural differentiation, or mutation divide one part of the population from another part, that you can see how the unique history experienced (from then on!) by the two different groups can eventually (if not virtually inevitably) lead to some whopping differences.
Your example of dogs is helpful in some ways, and distracting in others. Yes, dogs have tremendous diversity. But this is not accomplished by God or nature. It is accomplished by humans creating “artificial barriers” between normal mating patterns.
But Here is where it gets really interesting, @grog ! One of the reasons that all these weird shaped and sized dogs are still generally compatible with each other reproductively is because that’s the normal result of all this inter-breeding stoked by humans!
Humans intentionally bring one type of dog into contact with a very different type… hoping to promote a good trait while culling out an undesirable one. So… guess what happens if they see that one dog doesn’t seem to father any puppies… or give birth to any…?? Come on, @Grog, what does a dog breeder do?
He removes that dog from the entire process! He might give him away. He might euthanize him (he better not!). But for centuries, any dog that seemed like it was heading in its own direction (evolutionarily speaking), losing its ability to serve as a reproductively compatible Delivery Truck of genes … that dog was removed from the gene pool!
@grog, why is it, exactly, that you don’t think genetic changes can affect reproductive compatibility? It’s the key to the whole thing … And until you grasp that, you are about as helpful as a Jewish Pope.
George