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To: Liberty1970

They proposed that organisms can learn how previous environments changed, and then use this information for their evolutionary advantage in the future. For example, if the available seeds tended to vary in size and hardness along history, then bird species might have learned to develop beaks with an easily tunable size and strength.


Gee. From this description - I assume from an evolutionist - you’d think that Somebody was designing and controlling this whole evolution thing according to a long-range strategy that remembers the past. Doesn’t sound very random to me.


7 posted on 11/10/2008 7:01:17 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Evolution is not random. If I interpret this correctly, organisms develop a genetic memory that allows them to adapt more efficiently to changing environmental conditions. Rather than relying solely on the genetic drift (as in an unchanging environment), these populations assemble a “toolbox” whereby they don't have to reinvent the wheel as conditions change. This, coupled with genetic drift and selection, drives the evolutionary machinery - no design or control needed.
8 posted on 11/10/2008 7:16:43 AM PST by stormer
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Seeds are amazing.

They each contain the respective design/blueprint to construct, replicate and multiply it’s own kind.

What if there was no “big bang” but rather just the germination of a “universe seed”


17 posted on 11/10/2008 2:26:47 PM PST by freedom9
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