is it ‘evolution’ when you breed a dog for centuries until it is a good hunter or tall or short or... something? what makes a new ‘breed’
It’s still a DOG- that is what made me think about the evolution argument.
I think Darwin’s claim that a giraffe’s neck grew so he could reach the trees to eat leaves ignores a whole slew of generations unable to reach the leaves (where are those bodies?)
The same can be said for the brain, the liver, kidneys, the heart, ears, nose, sinuses.
How is it the the ears, nose, throat and sinuses all work together?
How did eyes "evolve"? Especially considering if one "devolves" an eye, it quits working. So at what point does the body/dna decide to evolve an eye, and then goes about developing an eye that over millenia finally becomes a WORKING eye.
How does the body then know to develop neuro pathways that connect the eye to the brain. How does the brain know to develop an area that can receive information?
How did the body know to develop ribs to protect the vital organs?
I’m just a layman, but multicellularity has always seemed to be the big miracle to me, not so much life itself. I mean, afterall, life evolved very rapidly as soon as the planet cooled down, but it took another three to four billion years to get complex organisms.
Now, along comes this experiment.
Like your dog and giraffe comments.
Family Giraffidae ~ while there are only two extant members ~ giraffes and okapi, there have been others. The okapi has the form most nearly resembling that of the earlier geraffids. See Paleotragus