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> DAVID’s comment: [i]Once again we are looking at adaptations, not species change. The fossil record suggests that it happens quickly since we don't find intermediate forms. Is speciation always by saltation? Is there more evolution to come or is the process at an end?[/i]
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> It’s not often that I agree with your comments, but we can shake hands on this one. Although we can’t always draw a clear line between adaptation and innovation (I’m thinking of the transition from water to land), it is misleading to say that these relatively minor adaptations prove how fast evolution can work when the mystery is innovation, which nobody has observed. My own hypothesis of (possibly God-given) inventive intelligence allows for saltation. Your final question of course refers to your theory that humans are the end point. My answer is that I do not for one second believe that the world will be the same in a million, let alone a billion years’ time, and if the end point (prior to the disappearance of Planet Earth) proves to be bacteria, that will also be part of the evolutionary process.