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To: muawiyah

What are YOU talking about? You have evolution when you have the frequency of alleles in a population’s gene pool changes with successive generations.

I don’t have the feeling that you and I are talking about the same evolutionary theory. The one I am talking about is the one you learn in college if you major in the life sciences.


116 posted on 12/02/2007 6:52:51 PM PST by freespirited (I'm voting for the GOP nominee.)
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To: freespirited
You are talking about the "evolutionary" revisionist theory that holds that a simple change in the count or positioning of alleles within a chromosome constitutes "evolution" EVEN IF THERE'S NO EFFECT to the function of the organism.

That is, you are equating evolution with change of any kind.

The definition didn't quite start out that way ~ and we've gone over this before, but our good buddy Darwin was concerned with the "Origin of Species", not "variations in DNA".

BTW, we already know that even massive changes in your DNA may not have an effect if the RNA "decides" there are other pathways for constructing the same old lebenteenzillion proteins and enzymes the critter needs to work.

I kind of like the old fashioned definition that looks at the macro-critter and its breeding habits. BTW, I also oppose the use of the word species to describe each little group of Pacific salmon who swim to a specific crick. Or, more recently, the little group of grizzly bears who scratch tree trunks on the sides of specific mountains.

127 posted on 12/03/2007 5:26:38 AM PST by muawiyah
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