re: #858 Salamantis

The burden of proof is on the person who insists something that is contrary to already-produced empirical evidence. And the already-produced empirical evidence is the major configurational difference of the presence vs. the absence of cecal valves. Which places the burden of proof squarely on you.

I’d like to see the experiment done; it would tell us precisely how far these populations have evolutionarily diverged. But the presence vs. the absence of cecal valves is no insignificant little difference to be cavalierly dismissed just because it inconveniences your dogmatic beliefs.

You’re dangerously close to being purposefully dishonest. There is no empirical evidence that you can find to state that these two lizards are in fact two species. The issue at hand was that the lziard example was of macroevolution, you and charles pointedly dared me to refute the claim, I did, and yo haven’t been able to provide anything that demonstrates anything other than microevolution which wasn’t the question anyway. But I will give you credit for at least desiring such test to be done…