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To: MrB
So... you can't or won't answer my questions. Expected.

What allows adaptation?

Imperfect DNA replication with each reproductive event, change in allele frequency over time, various selective pressures.

The organism was created with the information necessary to adapt WITHIN its kind, or species if you will.

"If I will" what? Organisms don't adapt when we're talking evolution. Populations of species adapt. This is another massive flaw of creationist thinking; they often seem to think that "adaptations," to use your word, happens at an individual level.

What stops adaptations?

Well, nothing "stops" them, but selective pressures may very well diminish to such a point as to not give any advantage to a species who has certain allele frequency changes through time.

The organism lacks the DNA information to adapt further.

This sentence has no merit. "The organism" is nothing in the vastness of evolution. Merely having DNA, as all species do, allows a species to "adapt."

You can see that within a species, even in humans. It’s not possible for humans lacking the information to produce dark skin to “evolve” to produce dark skinned offspring even with environmental pressures.

Hm. Again, you seem to think that these shifts happen at the individual level. They don't. But to be clear, am I understanding correctly that it is your belief that Homo sapiens was created with all the different races at the same time? Wow.

And if that's the case, how the heck did Noah do that?
82 posted on 02/09/2011 2:18:03 PM PST by whattajoke (Let's keep Conservatism real.)
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To: whattajoke

All I see is one big circular “begging the question”.
You’re assuming evolution, so all the evidence viewed through that lens, of course, supports your assumption.

Also, you’re misrepresenting my viewpoint on adaptation, perhaps a purposeful misreading in order to bat down the strawman? I have no belief that adaptation happens on an individual basis.

Of course, with your evolutionist assumptions, the ideas of the “races” from a creationist point of view is baffling, because the evolutionist assumption WRT “race” is upside down. The original humans (and Noah) had all the information necessary in their DNA to produce the variations you see in the “races” worldwide. When the people groups became isolated, the interbreeding eventually lost the ability to produce other traits seen in other people groups in other locations. Think of hybrid crosses where eventually all the recessive or all the dominant genes get weeded out.

You really didn’t seem to understand my answer, either, since I was quoting and addressing your questions, and you were answering your questions as well.


83 posted on 02/09/2011 2:31:56 PM PST by MrB (Tagline suspended for important announcement on my home page. Click my handle.)
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