Variation within the created kind is confirmed in Darwin’s finches." Exposing
Evolution, Second Ed.
Reticulate evolution, Cumming.Reticulate evolution
[Reticulate evolution by Kenneth B. Cumming, Ph.D.] "The Grants began studying the finch population of the
Galapagos Islands in 1973. They monitored breeding, feeding, and physical data
in the birds. The finches’ beak shape and size are the main characteristics that
are used in classifying them. Even this is difficult with the variability seen
in the beaks. One of the biggest problems for the finch studies is the extensive
hybridization that occurs between the alleged species. The fact that these
hybrids also reproduced should suggest that the three interbreeding species are
actually one species. This conclusion was set aside to suggest that
hybridization is essential for and accelerates the rate of evolutionary change.
The standard species concept was rejected to promote evolution. The
hybridization demonstrates the common gene pool that these finches all share and
the high degree of variability that was present in the first birds on the
islands. The branches and stems in the finch tree of life seem to be more like a
thicket with interconnecting lines (termed reticulate evolution). The range of
explanations for the process of evolution—it is a “fact” that it has occurred—
now includes rapid or gradual, directed or undirected, tree or thicket. The
creationist model can still be said to accommodate the data in a much more
complete way.
Variation within the created kind is confirmed in Darwin’s finches." Exposing
Evolution, Second Ed.
Reticulate evolution, Cumming.
Response to comment [from a "Christian"]: "Pssst: scientific theories are never proven "right". They are considered valid or invalid based on their explanatory power, and in relation to competing theories. They are always subject to rejection based on new evidence. If you're asking does the study of finches support the ToE. It does."
"Even if all the data point to an intelligent designer,
such as hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic."
Dr. Scott Todd, Kansas State University, Nature 401 (6752):423, Sept. 30, 1999.
I wouldn't call you a cross-dresser.
"My sperm cells are mine (Gamera)."
Reticulate evolution