[Stultis]

I don't know of any experiments off the top of my head, but my main point is that there is no reason to rule it out.

Oh, Good God. This has gotten too ludicrous. YES, THERE IS EVER REASON TO "RULE IT OUT" that you can change the coats of goats from spotted to stripped (or whatever it was) in a single generation by showing their parents a bunch of sticks. Are you crazy?

[js1138]

This thread needs to be preserved in the museum of Haute ignorance. I have seen equally stupid threads, but seldom such a concentration of misapprehensions.

[johnnyb_61820]

Again, why? We know the components for single-generation germ-line change in animals exist. We know that some changes can be influenced by the environment. Please give a reason, either theoretical or experimental, why these kinds of changes cannot happen in concert.

[grey_whiskers]

Are you crazy?

I don't think he's crazy, I think you are talking past each other.

The Genesis text about the breeding indicated that the peeled switches by the watering troughs got the animals horny, so they mated.

I never read the passage as indicating that the switches themselves affected the coloration of the offspring.

Try luck, divine providence, or paint.

Cheers!