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To: billorites
"The multitudinous examples range from the small changes in DNA sequences observed as they occur in real time to finely graded sequences within larger evolutionary changes in the fossil record."

Such as..?

IF evolution is indeed a fact, how do I go about evolving eyes in the back of my head so no one can sneak up on me from behind?

I suppose evolution is possible, but then, so is producing a complete Encyclopedia Britanica by repeated explosions in a print shop.

24 posted on 11/05/2005 9:17:20 AM PST by nightdriver
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To: nightdriver
IF evolution is indeed a fact, how do I go about evolving eyes in the back of my head so no one can sneak up on me from behind?

Start early. (By early I mean a few hundred million years.)

25 posted on 11/05/2005 9:20:18 AM PST by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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To: nightdriver
"IF evolution is indeed a fact, how do I go about evolving eyes in the back of my head so no one can sneak up on me from behind?

The observation of the variation of allele frequencies in a population and differential reproduction are fact. Speciation has been observed in the lab and in nature.

Evolution is not a result of the desire of organisms, no does it have a goal or direction. As for your little bit of appeal to emotion and strawman, compare the position of eyes in predators and prey. Take a look at the Flounder fish (Paralichthys) in particular.

48 posted on 11/05/2005 11:10:55 AM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: nightdriver
IF evolution is indeed a fact, how do I go about evolving eyes in the back of my head so no one can sneak up on me from behind? I suppose evolution is possible, but then, so is producing a complete Encyclopedia Britanica by repeated explosions in a print shop.

You managed two absurd strawman arguments in two sentences.

Plenty of creatures do have a very wide field of vision. However a wide field of vision comes at a cost. Predator animals do much better with accurate binocular vision (for assessing distance through parallax) in a narrow forward-facing field of view. People are predators, not prey.

No biologist proposes that anything like "an explosion in a printshop" produced any living organism. You should perhaps learn something about the theory, or you just make yourself look militantly ignorant when you sound off about something with nonsensical analogies.

57 posted on 11/05/2005 11:47:13 AM PST by Thatcherite (Feminized androgenous automaton euro-weenie blackguard)
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