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To: stands2reason
You fail to understand the definition of "evolve".

I understand it perfectly. I understand that it is used to mean whatever someone wants it to mean. When it is used about living things it means undesigned and rice was designed by human hands so it is a false use of the word.

33 posted on 10/21/2003 7:52:05 PM PDT by gore3000 ("To say dogs, mice, and humans are all products of slime plus time is a mystery religion.")
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To: gore3000
When it is used about living things it means undesigned and rice was designed by human hands so it is a false use of the word.

And now I ask for your source.

34 posted on 10/21/2003 7:55:05 PM PDT by stands2reason ("What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women." -- Chuck Palahniuk)
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To: gore3000
I understand it perfectly.

Not that I've noticed.

I understand that it is used to mean whatever someone wants it to mean.

Then you understand it incorrectly.

When it is used about living things it means undesigned

No, it does not.

and rice was designed by human hands so it is a false use of the word.

Until just the last few years when direct genetic engineering became possible, the refinement of rice was hardly "designed by human hands", it was instead improved by humans who first unwittingly drove the evolution of rice, then later purposely directed the evolution. But it was still done via the process of evolution (reproduction, variation, and selection).

It's not a "false use of the word" at all. Selective breeding (and/or cross-breeding) is still evolution, in every sense of the word.

45 posted on 10/23/2003 4:21:26 AM PDT by Ichneumon
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