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Originally Posted by coffeebean
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The article seems to support natural selection rather than evolution. It cites sub-species (or varieties) of foxes and giraffes, but gives no evidence how an entirely new species could evolve from any of the sub-species. You could just as easily claim that the article supports creationism in its definition of a species as a group of animals that can freely interbreed among themselves. (The Bible uses the word "kind", not "species".) Genetic mutations aren't proof of evolution on their own. A genetic mutation that produces an increase in the genome would go a long way in support of evolution, but so far we have only seen mutations that result in a decrease of genetic material.