[Junior]

It's not necessarily intelligent design; more like artificial selection. The human breeders did not create the mutations, they simply bred for the most desireable that cropped up naturally.

BTW, I think dogs do realize we've influenced their evolution -- look at the chip on a Chihuahua's shoulder (he knows his ancestors were big, nasty brutes and he's pissed that he turned out the way he did).

Finally, I don't think dogs have the same concept of names that humans do. I think they mostly identify each other and us by our odor rather than some random combination of syllables.

[js1138]

It's not necessarily intelligent design; more like artificial selection. The human breeders did not create the mutations, they simply bred for the most desireable that cropped up naturally.

Artificial selection gave Darwin and Wallace the idea for natural selection. The only missing piece was the observation that apart from humans, far more creatures are born than live to reproduce. The resulting drift of allele frequency is inevitable. You can't NOT have evolution.