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on. That merely enables the emergence of  cause there is no such process going on.
               different variants, stemming from a nar-
               rowing of the gene pool. At the basis of
               speciation, there is no genetic incompati-  What is happening consists of different
               bility stemming from division into two
               groups. These life forms will still belong
               to the same species, in terms of their ove-  combinations of genetic information that
               rall genetic information.
                  Therefore, there is nothing about the
               speciation that supports the theory of  already exists in that species’ gene pool
               evolution, which claims that all living
               species evolved from the simple to the
               complex in a random manner. This me-  being distribution in different populati-
               ans that if evolution is to be taken serio-
               usly, it must be able to point to mecha-
               nisms that increase genetic information.  ons of individuals.
               It must be able to explain how life forms
               originally lacking eyes, ears, a heart,
               lungs, wings, feet or other organs and  Evolutionists need to answer such
               systems managed to acquire them, and
               where the genetic information describing
               these organs and systems came from.  questions as, “How did the first species
                  No doubt that the division of an alre-
               ady existing species into two, suffering a
               loss of genetic diversity, has absolutely  come into existence?” and “How did the
               nothing to do with this.
                  The fact that subspecies are not evol-
               ving into new species is actually admit-  categories above species, the classes, or-
               ted even by evolutionists. For that rea-
               son, evolutionists describe examples of
               variations within a species and of speci-  ders, families etc. initially come into
               ation by division as micro-evolution.
               (See Micro-evolution.) Micro-evolution
               is used in the sense of variants emerging  existence?” that.
               within an already existing species. Ho-
               wever, the use of the term evolution here
               is deliberately intended to mislead, be-
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