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Originally Posted by The Mind Assassin
Adaptation vs evolution is easy.
Nothing changes its genetic code into the code of another entire animal.
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That is exactly why no one has ever seen that happen
No animal has ever become another entire animal
Evolution has never claimed that, and if that's what you believe is being said then you are overgeneralizing the theory
Fossil records, our understanding of genes, and experiments relating the two have shown that over the spans of many generations, life adapts to evolutionary pressures on a population sized scale through natural selection
This is evident within our own species as well.
Human beings as they are today could not exist 300 million years ago. Yet we have evidence of other creatures living on Earth 300 million years ago and evidence of the Earth's existence 4 billion years ago
Where did those creatures go? Why don't we have fossils of today's creatures from back then? How do you explain the anatomical progression of man in the past 10,000 years? Or 3,000 years? When did humans begin existing on this Earth?
Evolution answers each of these questions in a logical way using models, theories, and conventions that all adequately explain biological processes observed in the lab and in the field