Sex is a selective pressure, and it enables intervention. Thus, human beings selectively bred animals to elmininate unwanted traits and to maximize preferred traits. The examples are abundant.
Non-predictive. It still didn't answer my proposal in post 352.
Before you accuse me of being a closet Creationist, I would inform you that Creationism is bunk. It is definitely due to insecure people trying to justify a mindset.
I am interested in science. If you want to accuse me as an epistemologist ( as they would at talk.origins ) and leave it at that, fine. I've been partaking in beer this evening and am rather grumpy.
But, wouldn't science be better served at understanding the mechanism, than pursuing grants?