In a deposition submitted under oath, Andrew Cummins said:
 ac> How many speciation events does it take to produce something that
 ac> is not a fruit fly from a fruit fly population?
 FR> One, silly.  Don't your masters let you learn _anything_?
 AC> Okay, chimp, you have a fruit fly population in a cage. One day
 AC> you notice that some of the flies can't breed with each other --
 AC> a speciation event.
    Don't get caught in an argument of semantics.  Speciation events
 happen all the time, when people come up with a new breed of dog, for
 example.  By definition, a species can be equated with a breed, and
 different species can breed with each other if they can be classified
 under the same genus.
    You and I both know what you mean by the above; you mean a fruit fly
 evolving into some other type of insect.  But challenging any speciation
 event is too general for this argument.
 AC> How do you determine which are the fruit
 AC> flies and which are not.  And, if the 2nd group aren't fruit
 AC> flies, what are they?
    I'm looking forward to his answer to this myself.
... Balance the thoughts that release within you.
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