Sounds magical.
And nonsensical.
The sum may be greater than its parts, but without its parts, in all of their characteristics, it doesn't exist.
And nonsensical.
The sum may be greater than its parts, but without its parts, in all of their characteristics, it doesn't exist.
Indeed. The notion that an entire species can arise from a single breeding pair *is* magical and nonsensical, and completely contrary to actual observations.
Why don't you go and read up on population drift and mechanisms of evolution and get back to me when you have a firm grasp of what is being discussed?
Populations evolve through the accumulation of favoured traits. What’s so nonsensical about that? Mutation increases the variety of traits and natural selection favours some of them (meaning more reproduction of the traits) and eliminates others (which may or may not reappear). What’s nonsensical about this? In comparison with Adam and Eve conversing with a snake, and the magical appearance of people not descended from Adam or Eve (and who aren’t supposed to exist, because if they did, they didn’t descend from Adam or Eve) whom Cain is afraid of, in his exile, as ExDemMom pointed out?