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jgardner@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (John Gardner) writes:
> 
> 	No FACT of evolution where one species has led
> to another.  Change within species to an extremely limited
> degree yes, but nothing that would justify the _miraclulous_
> transformation of one species into another.

You're making a surprising strong claim here, which I don't think
you can back up, but I'd be very interested if you tried.

In order to claim that variation is possible, but that speciation is
not, you're essentially claiming that there is some ingrained limit
that prevents a large number of small changes from adding up into a
large change.

To support that, you need to either demonstrate that such a barrier
exists, or to explain some mechanism that has been demonstrated will
create the effect of limiting change.

Otherwise, you're in the situation of claiming without evidence that
you can't walk a mile if you take steps one inch long.

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