Evolution controversy erupts

Professor Baxter said:
You are a lying moron. I have not changed on anything and you cannot produce one shred of proof that I have. You are just very very very stupid and don't understand what you are disagreeing with, like when you claimed that no animals anywhere ever share genes.
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so you CAN give an example of another species which did not evolve in a divergent way?......
 
PostmodernProphet said:
and became "common" after being dispersed throughout the world in the bilges of ancient trading vessels......if I'm not mistaken another name for the "common" rat is the Norwegian rat......implying perhaps that its origin is not quite as "multi-regional" as one might hope in an example.....

certainly with all the species at your disposal you ought to be able to come up with one multi-regional species which isn't so easily explained away......
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The common rat. I have answered your question several times and hit your moving target. You have not explained away anything. If you want to restate your question do so.
 
Professor Baxter said:
The common rat.
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The Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus, Fig. 1) is a stocky burrowing rodent, unintentionally introduced into North America by settlers who arrived on ships from Europe. Also called the brown rat, house rat, barn rat, sewer rat, gray rat, or wharf rat, it is a slightly larger animal than the roof rat (Fig. 2). Adult Norway rats weigh an average of 1 pound (454 g). Their fur is coarse and usually brownish or reddish gray above and whitish gray on the belly. Blackish individuals occur in some locations.
Range

First introduced into the United States around 1775, the Norway rat has now spread throughout the contiguous 48 states. It is generally found at lower elevations but may occur wherever humans live.
Habitat
Norway rats live in close association with people. In urban or suburban areas they live in and around residences, in cellars, warehouses, stores, slaughterhouses, docks, and in sewers. On farms they may inhabit barns, granaries, livestock buildings, silos, and kennels.They may burrow to make nests under buildings and other structures, beneath concrete slabs, along stream banks, around ponds, in garbage dumps, and at other locations where suitable food, water, and shelter are present. Although they can climb, Norway rats tend to inhabit the lower floors of multistory buildings.
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PostmodernProphet said:
so....the Norway rat did not evolve in multiple regions simultaneously......which would mean its not an example of a species which evolved in multiple regions simultaneously......
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You are an idiot. Just because it is often called a norway rat does not mean it originated in Norway.

Really, this is getting to far afield and deeper into your stupidity. Animals can continue to evolve in multiple regions and do.

You continue to purposefully confuse the word. Evolve does not mean originate.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
not.....the......issue......
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Yes, it is. Your original question demanded an example of animals evolving across multiple regions and claimed it was not possible. You were proven wrong. You tried moving the goalpost but now you have abandoned your stupid argument and are trying to do so without acknowledging it.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
obviously not, since none has been provided yet....
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Several have been provided. That's why are you trying to completely change your question. Your point was stupid and still is. I have proven conclusively that it is a known fact that species can evolve or change across the entire population. Whether it is marked with a new species name isn't really relevant to me since that is fairly arbitrary anyway.
 
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