A species is a group of individuals that can breed to create another individual like themselves. Your comparison of red & yellow is false. Horses and Donkeys make mules, like red and yellow make orange, but are different species. Because horse + donkey = NOT a horse OR donkey but instead mule, the way red + yellow = NOT red OR yellow but instead orange.Natapoc wrote:Yes but this does not demonstrate that point in a way that contradicts the actual argument being made by creationists. It also does not show anything about speciation.
In biology, All the colors above are still one species because a species is not defined by "looking different".
It's defined as being able to reproduce successfully. If this were an accurate analogy one would be unable to "breed(mix)" yellow with "red" to get orange.
Since all these colors can be mixed to produce another viable color (which can still reproduce), you can't call separate colors species.
The definition of species allows for animals that look "different" to an observer to still be the same species.
Again a species is defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. If we oversimply so much that we let red be a species and blue be a species then we must conclude that red and blue are the same species.