Bird Speciation BREAKS Evolution’s Timeline! Observed speciation fits thousands of years—not millions. Evolution claims birds have been diversifying for tens of millions of years. If that were true, we should see hundreds of thousands of bird species today. We don’t. Instead, we see around 12–18,000—and we’ve actually observed new species forming in real time. Those rates line up perfectly with a few thousand years since the Flood, not evolutionary deep time. Speciation is real. But it fits Bibl