Quote:Thank you for this information. I'll look into the Miller-Urey experiment and do some research. And yes, I did conflate the two, as most who believe in macroevolution seem to point to abiogenesis as their explanation for how life began, as Darwin himself did.


I should not have claimed that there is no evidence--rather, the arguments and evidence I have been exposed to previously leave me unconvinced.



What you speak of is not macroevolution. Macroevolution refers to one species group changing over time into another--i.e, dinosaurs into birds, apes into man, etc. You're talking about genetics--changes within a species group. The peas were still peas, and the dogs were still dogs.

I don't think you understand the concept of speciation. In the pea plant example enough changes can accumulate over time via artificial selection mechanisms that a new species of pea plant can arise from the wild type. Again, evolution is evolution. If you were to sequence the genome of the pea plants you could do something like SNP calls to look at polymorphisms which would inform you on the two plants genetic relatedness. Assuming enough time was given during the experiment you might expect enough changes to accumulate so that the new plant diverges from the original wild type. Genetics is all about evolution. Sorry on mobile...

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