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The Error of the Evolution
of Species

Genetic investigation of the Galapagos finches has

shown that there is no genetic difference among them. 245 For
example, a joint study by researchers from the Max Planck
Institute and Princeton University in 1999 announced that
the traditional classification of Galapagos finches was not
apparent at the molecular level. 246 Hau and Wikelski express
the same: "There is no evidence for an absolute genetic bar-
rier between Darwin's finch species, thus many species can

potentially hybridize. 247
In conclusion, the Galapagos finches are all subspecies
of a single species. What Darwin saw on and imagined to
be evolution was actually variation. Finches with the differ-
ent appearances in question are in reality variations within
a single species. There is no question of any new species
emerging.
There is a good reason for evolutionists' insistence on
the finches; because finches are one of the groups exhibit-

ing the greatest variation among bird families. 248 As a result,
they have been widely used in attempts to employ variation
as evidence for evolution.
To see how the situation on the Galapagos Islands is a
typical case of variation, we can look at another example:
In 1967, 100 finches all belonging to the same species were
captured on the Island of Laysan in the Pacific Ocean and

transported to Southeast Island, some 500 kilometers dis-

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