[Manzcar]

Since the talk has somewhat moved to evolutionary theory, I have never quite understood a few things.

First of all natural selection, which was the basis of how Darwin thought of evolution, is always explained as an animal adapting to it’s surroundings in order to survive.

For example, there are short neck giraffes and long neck giraffes. As food supply becomes less the long neck giraffes survive while the short neck giraffes die off. This leaves only long neck giraffes to have children producing long neck giraffes. This I completely understand and is logical, especially seeing the vast number of variables that DNA and RNA give to adapting to your surroundings.

What I don’t understand is the evolutionary leap that must be made to create a new species, and if we again take the above example.

There are short neck giraffes and long neck giraffes. As food supply becomes less the long neck giraffes survive while the short neck giraffes grow wings and become vultures. This leaves long neck giraffes to have children producing long neck giraffes. And short neck giraffes are now vultures and have vultures as children. This I completely don’t understand and is not logical.

But that is how evolution happens correct. One animal becomes a different animal leaving both the original and the new but nothing in between.


If this is going in a tangent that the OP does not want than just disregard my post.