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To: RoadGumby
There is NOT a wolf gene, try again. A wolf is an organism that is composed of cells within which are MILLIONS(?) of genes.

Now you're just being evasive. I was using an example along the lines of your #155. Let me expand it a little and see if you can follow it:

You posited a trait for long legs, X.

Let's let the word STEP represent the gene that controls that trait.

A small mutation in that gene turns it into a new word, STOP. Presto, new information. And maybe STOP turns out to control the trait for short legs.

You asked me where the information would come from. A process something like that is where the theory of evolution says it would come from. And mutations of that general sort have been observed many times.

Now, you insist that all the information necessary to make a chihuahua is already in the wolf. Where is it, if it's not in additional genes, and why does it never make a chihuahua-sized wolf?

160 posted on 11/19/2009 1:17:05 PM PST by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: Ha Ha Thats Very Logical

Ah, now we move into the world of adaptation. Shame on you for using the word evolution in this. The animal remains a dog, there is no form change from dog to frog.

The genes for all our domestic dogs were in fact bred for over time, we ADAPTED them to our wishes. We did not breed them from dogs into hogs. Neither did we start with weasels.

Just a ‘small mutation’ is posited, yet, it has been observed, ad nauseum, that mutations observed in wild or domestic animals are almost invariably detrimental in nature OR result in no changes at all. The information necessary to adapt to our wishes was and is there.


161 posted on 11/19/2009 1:34:02 PM PST by RoadGumby (Ask me about Ducky)
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