To: GourmetDan
The ability to adapt is inherent within any living system whose molecules of inheritance is subject to change and the population is influenced by natural selection. If the molecules of inheritance are malleable, and they most certainly are, then genetic variation arises. Genetic variation can be subject to selective pressure such that some alleles are favored and others are not.
733 posted on
08/19/2008 9:29:10 PM PDT by
allmendream
(If "the New Yorker" makes a joke, and liberals don't get it, is it still funny?)
To: allmendream
The ability to adapt is inherent within any living system whose molecules of inheritance is subject to change and the population is influenced by natural selection. If the molecules of inheritance are malleable, and they most certainly are, then since genetic variation arises exists. Genetic variation can be subject to selective pressure such that some alleles are favored and others are not. Changing ONE WORD (of consequence) in your post, and it's in the realm of the Creationist pre-supposition.
Dan's right that we admit to having pre-suppositions, but you are blind to yours.
Different conclusions based on the same observations are due to differing assumptions. You just won't admit your assumptions.
738 posted on
08/20/2008 5:29:17 AM PDT by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: allmendream
"The ability to adapt is inherent within any living system whose molecules of inheritance is subject to change and the population is influenced by natural selection. If the molecules of inheritance are malleable, and they most certainly are, then genetic variation arises. Genetic variation can be subject to selective pressure such that some alleles are favored and others are not." Clearly that is true.
The problem lies in where you assume this ability came from. Did it 'evolve' or was life created with this ability? You assume that it 'evolved' when it is just as likely that life was created with this ability that naturalists now distort into 'evolution'.
It is only the assumption of the philosophy of naturalism that supports the assumption that the ability to adapt 'evolved'. You now realize that was Darwin's huge assumption and blunder, don't you?
758 posted on
08/20/2008 11:27:00 AM PDT by
GourmetDan
(Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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