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And in the section on criticisms (again, subject to reworking, citation, details, etc.):
 
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{{cquote|With the exception of controversial [[fruit fly experiments]] where the speciation criteria was based on an inability or unwillingness of females from one population to mate with males of another population, the evolution of new species has not been reproduced in the lab.{{fact}} Biologists are unable to predict either precisely or statistically the number of generations N it would take a species X to evolve into a species Y in an environment E.  Consequently, the theory of evoluiton fails Popper's falsifiability criteria for scientific theories, and is not a scientific theory.  Staunch evolutionists counter that other scientific theories, such as M-theory, the Big Bang Theory, or theories of geophysics, also fail the Popper falsifiability test.}}
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{{cquote|With the exception of controversial [[fruit fly experiments]] where the speciation criteria was based on an inability or unwillingness of females from one population to mate with males of another population, the evolution of new species has not been reproduced in the lab.  Biologists are unable to predict either precisely or statistically the number of generations N it would take a species X to evolve into a species Y in an environment E.  Consequently, the theory of evoluiton fails Popper's falsifiability criteria for scientific theories, and is not a scientific theory.  Staunch evolutionists counter that other scientific theories, such as M-theory, the Big Bang Theory, or theories of geophysics, also fail the Popper falsifiability test.}}
    
I take offense at the challanging my good faith.  I stated that this would not be liked by evolutionists.  I submitted it for others to review, and I did not ask that it be taken without modification.  It was written largely from my memory, and offered to solve a problem.  Now I do stand corrected, as the same user was polite in pointing out that one (what I consider to be ridiculous) definition of speciation has included an unwillingness and/or inability to mate.  Without a source backing this controversial observation (that the definition is ridiculous), I would not insist that it be added to the article.  I'll add a nice graphic illustrating this absurd speciation experiment.  [[User:HeartOfGold|HeartOfGold]] 00:55, 12 May 2007 (EDT)
 
I take offense at the challanging my good faith.  I stated that this would not be liked by evolutionists.  I submitted it for others to review, and I did not ask that it be taken without modification.  It was written largely from my memory, and offered to solve a problem.  Now I do stand corrected, as the same user was polite in pointing out that one (what I consider to be ridiculous) definition of speciation has included an unwillingness and/or inability to mate.  Without a source backing this controversial observation (that the definition is ridiculous), I would not insist that it be added to the article.  I'll add a nice graphic illustrating this absurd speciation experiment.  [[User:HeartOfGold|HeartOfGold]] 00:55, 12 May 2007 (EDT)
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