To: wideawake
If that's the case, we should just be able to demonstrate it in a controlled experiment, like we can with gravity. It's done all the time with fast reproducing critters. It's possible with larger creatures too, as long as you've got a few thousand years to wait.
Didn't you know that?
11 posted on
08/17/2005 7:53:12 AM PDT by
narby
(There are Bloggers, and then there are Freepers.)
To: narby
"It's done all the time with fast reproducing critters. It's possible with larger creatures too, as long as you've got a few thousand years to wait."
Name a single study that has moved beyond variations in size, coloration or the like. Yes, with selective breeding, you can "create" (through the application of an external intelligence) difference "styles" of dogs. However, they are still dogs. All studies using fruit flies and the like have been even less successful. Not a single study eschewing specific external manipulation has seen a single positive mutation that was genetically transferred. If you had any concept of the complexity of the software that is DNA you wouldn't have made the statement you did.
Random chance made good sense in 1890. At this point it time it is a joke.
30 posted on
08/17/2005 8:11:57 AM PDT by
bluetone006
(Peace - or I guess war if given no other option)
To: narby
It's done all the time with fast reproducing critters. Really?
Do you know of an example where some of the descendant critters produced offspring that could only breed with a subset of the descendant critter population?
ML/NJ
64 posted on
08/17/2005 8:52:31 AM PDT by
ml/nj
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