NOTE: THAT is NOT my dog!!
Do you believe that dogs evolved from wolves? (I ask that because most creationists I have discussed this with accept that as an example of "micro-evolution" or "adaptation within a created kind"). If you do believe that dogs evolved from wolves, do you wonder why we still have wolves?
Suffice it to say that he looks like a large hamster.
"Love" is the...uh... monkey wrench (pardon the pub) in the evolutionary paradigm. If, anthropologically speaking, we find behaviour which tends to go against the "survival of the fittest," how does that fit in the paradigm? So, they just bracket that. Human behaviour at its deepest and most fundamental levels doesn't necessarily fit the ... Darwinoid --- mythology. And, of course, not all scientists fit the Ubermensch image of physical excellence of the myth. The mythology becomes caught up in the fantasy images and physique preferences of the Darwinoid.Shouldn't we all be perfect 7-ft Olympians by now, according to the myth? That's the weird part. It's just hard to figure why so much emotionalism accompanies the claims. Why get excited about it if the universe is a meaningless, clockwork machine without any purpose? What difference would it make one way or the other?
175 Posted on 08/13/2001 17:22:34 PDT by veritas_in_enigma
NOTE: THAT is NOT my dog!!
Actually I'm a bit curious about this. Are their wolves in Africa? There are plenty of wild dogs.
My daughter has an Ibizan hound that is obviously descended from an African dog. I've heard speculation that dogs may have been domesticated directly from wild African dogs rather than from wolves.