To: SmartCitizen
"You can build and test prototypes - evolution can do nothing of the sort."
That is the defining characteristic of evolution. It vigorously tests the viability of any new arrangement of genes or any new allele (mutation). Those that pass, get to reproduce. Those that don't, don't pass on their genes.
168 posted on
10/02/2005 2:07:54 PM PDT by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
To: CarolinaGuitarman; anguish; SmartCitizen
"You can build and test prototypes - evolution can do nothing of the sort."That is the defining characteristic of evolution. It vigorously tests the viability of any new arrangement of genes or any new allele (mutation). Those that pass, get to reproduce. Those that don't, don't pass on their genes.
I cannot believe such a smart person would make such an obviously false assertion.
174 posted on
10/02/2005 3:12:28 PM PDT by
jennyp
(WHAT I'M READING NOW: my sterling prose)
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