re: #859 jimc

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…

The presence vs. the absence of cecal valves - a major configurational difference - IS the empirical evidence.

More empirical evidence could be provided by means of the interbreeding attempt I suggest, but SOME empirical evidence for the contention that major evolution has occured has ALREADY been provided - whether you fucking like it or not. Whether it is major enough yet to constitute macroevolution is not something that can be ascertained in the absence of an interbreeding trial, but if it’s not YET macroevolution, it’s well on its evolutionary way there.