Species of Butterfly Set to Diverge Into Two

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Becky of DE 5:59PM March 28, 2012

Evolution in action. Great to see yet another example of the biologic predictions the theory of evolution makes. And that is the difference between evolution and the "theory" of intelligent design. A theory must be able to make prospective predictions like speciation; successfully done by the theory of evolution in this instance. Intelligent design can make no prospective predictions that can be verified.

Brian of MT 2:20PM December 15, 2010

I can very vividly remember in the early '70s when it was documented that there are three distinct phases of the snow goose. It was thought, up until then, that there were snows, blues and eagle head geese. No one had seen blues or eagle heads nesting with eggs. It turns out that the life cycle of the snow goose has a yearling goose that has bluish feathers, the following year it loses half or more of the blue feathers and is known as an eagle-head. A three year old is completely white and of breeding age. They all migrate south for the winter.
Canadians knew this and just shook their heads at the biologists from the U.S. There wasn't a good reason for the locals to straighten out the PHD's for all of those years. We just knew in the south that the blues had a lot of pin feathers and were harder to pluck.
I'm going to wait for the truth about the butterfly to emerge, with time.

Ted Allen of LA 7:31PM February 14, 2010

Seriously?? The problem with using "species" to describe a variation within the insect species of BUTTERFLY is that it makes it sound like all of a sudden this butterfly is going to morph into an entirely different creature. It is simply adapting to its breeding habitat...which is a forced and unnatural breeding scenario. It wouldn't breed with a frog, or with maybe even another butterfly that is not close to its size and color. WIKI the word species, and it explains more about that particular aspect.
This butterfly will produce another butterfly of a varying color. Doesn't seem like such a grand "evolutionary" morph. Thus, how could it possibly support macro-evolution??

clab2010 11:11AM January 16, 2010

Does speciation mean macro-evolution (a butterfly evolving into something other than a butterfly) is true? Or is it simply evidence to micro-evolution?

Patrick of KY 11:06AM November 28, 2009