@rosborne979,
Quote:Variation is Change.
Natural Selection is Selection.
Together they result in evolution, as we can clearly see from the evidence.
Get your facts straight.
Change in allele frequencies (variartion) causes MICRO-EVOLUTION, which nobody disputes. MUTATIONS which could plausibly lead towards new KINDS of animals are the thing which natural selection kills off and weeds out.
One of the best examples in real life of the problems inherent in MACRO-evolution is flying birds.
A flying bird needs a baker's dozen unique kinds of things which its presumed ancestors never had: wings, flight feathers which are totally unlike down feathers or anything else ever used for insulationn, the system for turning flight feathers (they open and close on up and down strokes), ultra-high efficiency hearts and lungs, light bone structures, and balance parameters meant for flight..... there are several other kinds of things as well.
Consider the ordinary chicken and ask yourself why it can't fly any better than a hundred feet here and there or flitter-flap up onto a low branch. The reason is simple enough: the chicken started out existence as a 1-lb jungle fowl of some sort and then got bred into a six or seven pound domestic bird, but it still has the 1-lb bird's wings. Billions of chickens have to have escaped and gone wild over the millenia and you'd think if there was anything to Darwinism at all, some small group of them would have evolved wings big enough for them to fly decently, but it can't happen.
It's like cutting hair, easier to cut it off than to put it back on. In real life, once you lose the tiniest bit of any sort of a complex capability like that, it's gone forever.
Consider then that NO other animal has ever had arms big enough in proportion to its body that, if those arms had ever evolved into wings with flight feathers and the system to turn them, would have been big enough to allow it to fly the way normal flying birds do.
Certainly no velociraptor ever came remotely close. That says that if evolutionites really want to talk about a bird ancestor which is plausible even in some sort of an atheistic wet dream, they should probably be talking about birds evolving from spider monkeys.