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To: bondserv

Is there something in particular you;d like to point me to? I read the first article on the second link and it was immediately apparent that it was teaching pseudo-science for people who are not even remotely educated in science. Nonsense like:

"In the present world, neither evolution nor creation is taking place, so far as can be observed (and science is supposed to be based on observation!). Cats beget cats and fruit-flies beget fruit-flies. "

Nonsense!

Offspring are not clones of their parents. We see genetic variability. Observe long enough, and you can even witness a novel genetic expression caused by a mutation. Most will be deleterious, but the process for additive mutation has been clearly shown.

At most, I would say that biologists have not shown how the process got started. But they have demonstrated that the process is continuing today, in front of our eyes.

Don't believe in evolution? Look at Fido. 100,000 years ago, all dogs were essentially the same. Today, selective breeding has created breeds as diverse as the greyhound, Lhasa Apsa and St. Bernard. Man did that. Man also used selective breeding to adapt a plant more like Queen Anne's lace into the modern carrot.

All evolution is is selective breeding*, except instead of being selected to suit man's tastes, the organism is selectively bred to adapt to a changing environment.

(*Ok, that's a little bit of an oversimplification. Macroevolution does require unique gene mutation; otherwise selective breeding is somewhat limited in what it can accomplish.)


56 posted on 01/17/2005 6:36:45 PM PST by dangus
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To: dangus
Please point me to one instance of Random Mutations Natural Selection leading to speciation, then I will continue our discussion. Otherwise we are whistling Dixie past each other.

Macro-evolution exists only in the minds of scientists who want to discredit God. And you have been thoroughly bamboozled.

Down like feathers don't enable you to fly; ask the Wright Brothers. I await the science.

59 posted on 01/17/2005 9:43:20 PM PST by bondserv (Sincerity with God is the most powerful instigator for change! † [Check out my profile page])
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