Addendum;
Species which have arisen over the past 4000 years include the following:Domestic Fowl; (Gallus gallus) first anatomically modern form appears in the Indus Valley, Pakistan, dates to 2000 BC
Domestic Cat; (Felis domesticus) first anatomically modern form appears in the Nile Valley, Egypt, dates to 1600 BC
Domestic goose; (Anser, spp.) first anatomically modern form appears in Germany, roughly 1500 BC
Alpaca; first anatomically modern form appears in the Andean highlands, 1500 BC
Reindeer; first anatomically modern form appears in Pazyryk Valley, Siberia, 1100 BC
Potato; (just so it's clear that this applies to plants as well) first anatomically modern form appears in Chiripia, Bolivia, 400 BC
Maize de Ocho (8-row Zea)also appears to post-date 3000 BC, and fully modern forms date to the BC/AD transition.
This data is from Dr. R. J. Wenke's book Patterns in Prehistory, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505522-5 and I was able to find it in about 45 seconds. Robert's claims that there have been no recent examples of speciation are patently false and predicated on a willful and deliberate avoidance of readily available information.
Not that this is particularly surprising. Tragically, Robert is doing everything in his power to make religion look like ignorant zealotry. (Not that this bothers me all that much, but you'd think other religious folks would be jumping all over him!) ;-)
