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Originally Posted by photon
The science journals have tons of them. Most biology text books will have good examples, and there's tons of good books written to a general audience. If you really want to know then I would recommend Finding Darwin's God (written by Ken Miller who is a believer), or Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin (which is excellent for an introduction into the genetic evidences).
It would seem though that what you are expecting isn't what evolution actually is. You say an entirely new species, but any species that evolves from a bird or a fly or a shellfish is still going to be a bird or a fly or a shellfish; that's how evolution works.
If you're expecting a donkey to evolve from a human then you don't understand what evolution is in the first place. If a donkey evolved from a human then that would disprove evolution.
One good definition of species is if a population cannot breed with another population and produce viable offspring, then those two populations are different species (of course nature doesn't always fit within simple definitions). In that definition, it has been observed.
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Photon, I'm not close-minded. Although I believe in ID, it doesn't mean I don't continue to read and research new journals. I'll give those two books a read.
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It would seem though that what you are expecting isn't what evolution actually is. You say an entirely new species, but any species that evolves from a bird or a fly or a shellfish is still going to be a bird or a fly or a shellfish; that's how evolution works.
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For life to form from cosmic ejaculate billions of years ago, entirely new species would have to be created. What we have today is proof of evolution below a species level which, doesn't prove anything at all about the origin of life.
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EDIT: If you want evolution at a higher level, like dinosaurs to birds or amphibians to reptiles then you need a lot more time and you won't observe that in a lab in real time. But the other evidences all tell the same story of evolution and common descent.
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Ah, right. You need faith.