dmcg.- it was only the very last bit that I could not suss, but I got the example , I think, thanks. I do suspect a trap, I must admit, especially as you are not going to answer the question at present, but I accept that whatever your tactic, and whether it works or not, that you have no ill will toward me, so far as I can see.

You are right I have no ill will, and have no trap beyond asking you to be consistent. If we got to the end and you didn't agree that I had treated your agreements along the way fairly, I intended to ask you which of the various steps you want to change the answer to and we could explore that in more detail. However, my encroaching holiday makes that unlikely.

I fear, though, I will have to ask you to be explicit:

i) Do you agree that it is a factually undeniable that the evolutionary theory does predict separate species in some circumstances? Once again, whether the theory is or is not true is not the question, but whether it makes that prediction is the question.

ii) Do you also agree that characteristics tend to be preserved if there is no natural selection encouraging change? (the 'blue hair' in my example)