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To: Centurion2000

Behold a Model A Ford pickup and a new Ford F150. The DESIGN has evolved but both had a DESIGNER! It would be foolish to assume that the pickup truck changed due to natural selection over 75 years.

19 posted on 05/05/2004 2:41:46 PM PDT by CobraJet

It would be foolish to assume that the pickup truck changed due to natural selection over 75 years.

Well of course it would. Trucks don't reproduce, you silly person! ;)

34 posted on 05/05/2004 2:56:28 PM PDT by Dementon (I hear the voices in my head, I swear to God it sounds like they're snoring...)

It would be foolish to assume that the pickup truck changed due to natural selection over 75 years.

Of course it would. Pickup trucks don't reproduce.

40 posted on 05/05/2004 6:45:04 PM PDT by Dimensio (Join the Monthly Internet Flash Mob: http://tinyurl.com/28yph)

Behold a Model A Ford pickup and a new Ford F150. The DESIGN has evolved but both had a DESIGNER! It would be foolish to assume that the pickup truck changed due to natural selection over 75 years.

Of course. Few people hold careers in vehicle husbandry. Yet there are selection processes at work. The most useful parts, the steering wheel comes to mind, are carried on into the next generation of vehicles. Unsafe construction and aesthetical abomination (the Gremlin notwithstanding) never makes it on the open market, or is quickly recalled. Some parts start out pretty well and then get improved--like drum to disk brakes.

It just so happens that in the case of automobiles, humans are substituting for the natural processes that 1) create variation and 2) select the features that survive.

One cannot conclude, however, that all processes creating change through successive generations is a product of directed intervention simply because you have identified one that is.

86 posted on 05/06/2004 2:12:48 PM PDT by Condorman (Changes aren't permanent, but change is.)

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