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Evolution Can Occur Much Faster Than Previously Thought (ox.ac.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: An Oxford study on chickens discovered that evolution can make significant changes to a genome in as little as 15 years. "For a long time scientists have believed that the rate of change in the mitochondrial genome was never faster than about 2% per million years. The identification of these mutations shows that the rate of evolution in this pedigree is in fact 15 times faster." Professor Greger Larson, senior author on the study, said, "Our observations reveal that evolution is always moving quickly but we tend not to see it because we typically measure it over longer time periods."
No brother, that's the difference between Charismatic and Southern Baptist, LOL... ;-) Think about it, "Thousands of Gods"? If we're but a resemblance of them, then what does a committee do? I was impressed that of all of the scientific disciplines, astronomers seemed to be most likely to be of the faith. Why? Because, IMHO, they work with the "big" picture. A committee didn't create what they see in the Hubble Deep Field... A lot of my thought of it comes out of physics and quantum mechanics. Non-locality, a photon doesn't experience time (do the math), etc. If one can wrap their mind around an ever present NOW encompassing past, present, and future, then one can start to perceive the operating sphere of God.
Name one of your dozen proofs of speciation, and one instance where modern medicine depends upon evolution being a fact. Evolution is a theory, and a poorly, supported theory with tons of failed predictions. It's not, in fact, empirical science. Evolution is a religion.