My point is that we view a large number of bad mutations which are unhealthy for the species, which simply makes the probability of the good greatly overriding the bad become unlikely.
Bad mutations are, I would imagine, just as common as good ones. However, the organisms with bad mutations generally die out as a result.

Hmm, so we don't follow those evolutionary rules...interesting.
How does "humanity is a really bad example" translate into "humanity doesn't follow evolutionary rules?" I'll let her explain for herself, but I believe she meant that homo sapiens are a difficult example of evolution to explain.

The concept is that we improved from lesser beings, therefore beneficial should be more common then detrimental mutations.
"Improved" is a subjective analysis insignificant to evolution. We grew and thrived - that's all that matters. "Lesser beings" is also subjective. And no, that doesn't mean beneficial mutations are more common - that's just one possibility. The only objective thing that can be said about humans "improving" so much is our unprecedented ability to adapt. It could've been as a result of ONE freak beneficial mutation after a hundred bad ones.

The problem is, that unless we can see this in the majority of species, you cannot assume that it would occur in all of them.
Each species has alleles in genes coding for traits. By basic Mendelian genetics, the allele frequencies change over time. Evolution. Yes, it does happen it all species.

There is no way to show common ancestory.
There's a lot of ways. The fossil record suggests very strong relationships within homologous organisms, and you can really see how a species changed over time.

Fine, but that is what we call micro-evolution, in this case a small change in habits.
But it's speciation. If you admit that speciation happens now, why wouldn't it have happened all along? You make very little sense.

Oh yes, there were mutations, but does that give the theory of evolution any evidence, no. It gives it a possible method of working, but no actual evidence.
You seem to require pictures of evolution happening a billion years ago to happen, which is naive and just downright silly.

I don't see why. In creation God would have created the atmosphere, then created those beings, it is irrelevant to the discussion.
Hardly. The planet remained inhabitied by simple prokaryotes until the atmosphere became oxygenated. Then suddenly eukaryotes appeared and began speciating like mad. Sounds like pretty good evidence of evolution to me.


You are blindly disregarding any evidence we give in the fact that there weren't pictures taken in the past to prove they actually happened. However, Elyse and I have both shown that evolution happens now, and by the basic principles of alleles, DNA, natural selection, mutations, etc, they have always happened. It's really common sense.