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To: allmendream
Humans used selective pressure to make them into the kinds of dogs we needed, hundreds of different kinds for hundreds of different purposes; we already domesticated cats and cows.

Humans changing allele frequency in dogs by design? Pretty intelligent.

125 posted on 04/17/2008 7:11:58 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (El Nino is climate, La Nina is weather.)
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To: jwalsh07
Yes, but we didn't design the changes, we just selected the ones we wanted that arose through mutation.

The short legs of a dachshund were not designed by a human, the trait was selected, the ‘design’ was a mutation in a gene for bone length.

The design was God's and he was not the “Incompetent Designer” of Behe’s imagining that is a rank incompetent incapable of making a system that is necessary and sufficient to effect biological change or innovation.

129 posted on 04/17/2008 7:15:54 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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