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To: Pharmboy
Begging the Captain's pardon, but I was taught that genetic change is evolution, while natural selection (including sexual selection) was the engine of that genetic shift and hence, evolution.

Yes (although of course there are additional complicating factors). Did it sound as if I was denying that in post #73? I wasn't. I was objecting to the claim that "Darwinism rejects" a "fit to a more graceful life". It doesn't.

288 posted on 11/20/2005 8:40:19 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon
This is what I was commenting on:

He said: Choosing a mate because she has a pretty face is natural SELECTION, NOT "evolution".

You said: ...and the difference would be...?

I was explaining the difference. Perhaps I hit reply to the wrong post, but it had nothing to do with the "graceful life" stuff.

309 posted on 11/21/2005 2:57:01 AM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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