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The Errors of the American National Academy of Sciences

Despite a close watch, we have witnessed no new species emerge in
the wild in recorded history. Also, most remarkably, we have seen no
new animal species emerge in domestic breeding. That includes no
new species of fruitflies in hundreds of millions of generations in
fruitfly studies, where both soft and harsh pressures have been delib-
erately applied to the fly populations to induce speciation… In the
wild, in breeding, and in artificial life, we see the emergence of varia-
tion. But by the absence of greater change, we also clearly see that the
limits of variation appear to be narrowly bounded, and often
bounded within species. 9
In order to demonstrate speciation, fruit flies have been bred for
the last 70 years or so. These have constantly been exposed to muta-
tions, yet no evolutionary change has been experienced, and no form

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of speciation encountered. Fruit flies have remained fruit flies. In the
same way, experiments and studies on the bacterium Escherichia coli
down the years have revealed no new bacteria, much less multicellular
organisms. E. coli have remained E. coli. 11
However, the difficulties facing evolutionists are not restricted to
such observations and experiments: the
fossil record also definitively re-
jects the concept of speciation.
There is absolutely no sign

The approximately 300-million-
year old Paraisobuthus (scor-
pion) fossil is identical
to the present-day
scorpion.

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