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if there wasn't any Adam and eve bees,

what was a bee before it was a bee?

what was a man before he was a man?

what was a chicken before it was a chicken?

what was a flower before it was a flower?

The answer is the previous ancestor of the bee/man/chicken/flower.

What did that look like? A hell of a lot like a bee/man/chicken/flower.

Is it possible to pin point the exact generation when the species transitioned from the previous ancestor to the current species. No it isn’t. At no point did something give birth to something that it is not.

Think of a smooth transition from black to white, with many shades of grey in-between. As you move along the spectrum from black to white at no point does is it suddenly change in colour – the grey will be indistinguishable from the grey immediately adjacent to it. But the start colour is black and the end colour is while – two very different colours.

For simplicity you could classify the first half as black (previous ancestor) and the second half as (white) existing species – but that doesn’t infer that black created white.

Why did we name the first half black and the second half white? Because we could. We could have just as easily defined black as the first quarter and the remaining 3 quarter as white. It all comes down to the definition we have set.

If man has been around for 40,000 years that is because we have defined it that way. Whatever lived 40,001 years ago was the same as what lived 39,999 years ago. Just for simplicity we said man is 40,000 years old, previous ancestor is +40,000 year old.

What did the new species breed with? Others creatures of the same species. The thing to remember is that there wasn’t just one male and one female who were miraculously created at the same time. We are talking about an entire population evolving into a new species (but extremely similar to previous one). Chimpanzees and bonobos evolved into two different species because the entire population of their previous ancestors was dived by the Congo River when it was formed and there was no way for the two separate groups to breed with one and other. The genetic make-up of the two populations drifted apart until they could be classified as two different (but still very similar) species).

And just so there is no confusion I am NOT saying there was once a hybrid bee-man-chicken-flower creature!