[Preechr]

"Whether the two closely related fruit fly populations the scientists studied - Drosophila mojavensis and Drosophila arizonae - represent one species or two is still debated by biologists."

Well, it's no flying monkey, but I suppose that's a start... Surely, though, there must be SOMETHING more compelling than two breeds of slightly different bugs. I'm no geneticist, so I'll assume the drama is eluding me on this one... but your story seems to be proving something more like the evolution of different dog breeds than something as groundbreaking as all species of flora and fauna evolving from single celled creatures.

Maybe I shouldn't toss such specific terminology as "species" around till I know what those words mean to scientists. Maybe I meant "genus?" I suppose what I wanted to ask for was proof that people evolved from monkeys or that birds evolved from reptiles... something like scientists digging up the remains of a wooly mammoth with thumbs. I guess it's a little layman of me to ask for something so obvious, right?

Maybe it's me, but it seems the idea of Darwinian evolution has about as much basis in fact as ID. That's probably just me being all churchy and whatnot, though...