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The NAS's Errors Regarding Speciation

Some 34,000 species of spider have been identified.

In order to understand the deception in evolutionary theory with
regard to speciation, "geographic isolation" first needs to be clarified.
In every living species there are differences stemming from genetic
variation. If a natural obstacle such as a mountain range, a river, or the
sea comes between two populations belonging to a given species, and
the populations thus become "isolated" from one another, then in all
probability different variants will begin to dominate the two separated
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groups. For instance, variant A, a dark-colored and long-haired varia-
tion, might come to dominate one group, while variant B, a shorter-

haired and lighter-colored variation, might become predominant in
the other. The more the two populations are separated from one an-
other, the more the two variants become distinct. Cases of variation
like these, with distinguishing morphological differences among sub-
groups of the same species, are known as "subspecies."
Here the speciation claim enters the picture. Sometimes it hap-
pens that when variants A and B, after having split away from each

other due to geographical isolation, are brought back together in some
way but are unable to reproduce with each other. Since they are unable
to reproduce, they cease being subspecies, according to the modern bi-
ological definition of "species," and become separate species. This is
known as "speciation."

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