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To: GodGunsGuts

Ummm... Let’s see... a couple thousand years ago people were averaging about 5 to 8 inches shorter (adult height) than they are today. Isn’t that proof of an evolution that has occurred recently? Or will the bar be set ever-higher to ignore that living things do actually change and evolve? Natural selection is normal and will continue, even if there are examples that can be pointed to that might not follow the same pattern as other examples.

The ancestors of giraffes had shorter necks and legs, then they slowly evolved into the animals we have today.

If a woman is given the choice of breeding with a tall muscular healthy man or a shorter, weaker less-than-alpha man, who will she choose? Her offspring will take on some of the genetic traits of the father and the children will be different than if she had borne children with the other man. To deny that species will evolve is asinine and flies in the face of conclusive proof.


30 posted on 10/31/2009 5:43:45 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Hey 0bama, Kenya show us the long-form BC? ))))
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To: Two Kids' Dad
To deny that species will evolve is asinine and flies in the face of conclusive proof.

If you have conclusive proof, then lets see it.

The examples you gave are nothing more than examples of variation within species.

36 posted on 10/31/2009 6:00:22 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Two Kids' Dad
"If a woman is given the choice of breeding with a tall muscular healthy man or a shorter, weaker less-than-alpha man, who will she choose?"

Obviously a flawed hypothesis. If it were true GGG and E-S would still be virgins.

41 posted on 10/31/2009 6:45:20 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Two Kids' Dad
Ummm... Let’s see... a couple thousand years ago people were averaging about 5 to 8 inches shorter (adult height) than they are today. Isn’t that proof of an evolution that has occurred recently?

Not at all. It merely proves people live longer because they eat better, don't work as hard, grow stronger and taller and heavier, not to mention food is increasingly easy to obtain and is often laden with steroids, anti-biotics and other additives.

86 posted on 11/02/2009 8:45:28 AM PST by tpanther (Science was, is and will forever be a small subset of God's creation.)
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