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An Insect on the Evolutionary Fast Track
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| 4/7/2011
| NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Posted on 04/09/2011 9:00:02 AM PDT by balls
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More proof of evolution,
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:00:03 AM PDT
by
balls
To: balls
So-o-o-o-o-....what is it evolving into?
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:01:49 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: balls
So-o-o-o-o-....what did the whitefly evolve from?
And why did it evolve into its present form?
And what will take its place to whatever job it evolved into to perfom once it has evolved into whatever it's goint to evolve into?
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:04:20 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: balls
Isn’t the correct term adaptation, not evolution?
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:04:50 AM PDT
by
lurk
To: lurk
Isnt the correct term adaptation, not evolution?What a buzzkill.
I'll bet you're the type of person who points out when people have a piece of chive sticking to their front teeth, aren't you? You seem like the type.
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:09:05 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: lurk; Red_Devil 232; Gabz; Diana in Wisconsin; JustaDumbBlonde
One thing whiteflies haven’t adapted to is wind. I put my decorative potato vines that had them on the windy deck and
they are gone.
Aphids, who can cling, are holding out OK until my next chemical temper tantrum.
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:09:08 AM PDT
by
txhurl
(Never let a potential gardening thread get away unscathed :))
To: balls
I wonder if anyone thought to do research on whether the whitefly becomes a reservoir host for the rikettsia bug since they can cause inconvenient little infections like tyhpus, Boutonneuse fever and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, all of which can be fatal.
To: lurk
Precisely.
To: Texas Eagle
The bacterium evolved. The article erroneously implies the whitefly evolved.
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:25:55 AM PDT
by
Rudder
(The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:30:58 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: lurk
“Isnt the correct term adaptation, not evolution?”
I don't know the scientific difference and think evolution is continual adaptation.
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:31:44 AM PDT
by
balls
(0 lies like a Muslim (Google "taqiyya"))
To: Texas Eagle
Isn’t all this talk about ‘whiteflies’ racist?
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:32:05 AM PDT
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: balls
The controversy over Evolution is centered around the idea that one species might evolve into a different species. Down that road, we would need to see a creature from one genus evolve into a different genus. One class evolve into a different class. These are monumental changes and nothing of the sort has ever been demonstrated.
When we see adaptation within a single species, we shrug and say, So What? This is not the same thing as saying everything started from a single-celled lifeform.
Adaptation is boring and proves nothing at all.
To: balls; lurk
Well, I always thought that one pretty good definition of evolution was change in gene frequency. Speciation occurs when populations or sub-populations are isolated (genetically) from their sisters and brothers over a long period of time.
Thanks for posting...interesting.
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:40:10 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
To: lurk
Uhmmm...hate to burst your bubble, but evolution is adaptation. Adaptation is what causes organisms to evolve.
I don’t understand the resistance some conservatives have toward evolution. After all, we humans evolved from primitive cave dewllers into the advanced civilization we have today. Human history is a story of evolution.
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:42:03 AM PDT
by
Wolfstar
("If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his friend." Abraham Lincoln)
To: PzLdr
Well, it’s at least fly-ist.
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:45:26 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: balls
So, now the whitefly is (drum roll) STILL a whitefly. Now if it had “evolved” into a new type of bird - that would truly be proof of real macro-evolution in the materialist sense.
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:45:27 AM PDT
by
Nevadan
To: Rudder
The bacterium evolved. Oh. Well, the same questions apply. What did it evolve from? Why did it evolve into its present form? What will take its place to the job it presently does when it evolves into whatever it evolves into? What will it evolve into?
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:47:41 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: neverdem
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:55:08 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Understanding the Koran: http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2009/05/terrifying-brilliance-of-islam.html)
To: Wolfstar
I hate to burst your bubble, but even the most die hard creationist does not deny evolution within a species - it is the supposed evolution between species (macro-evolution) that is the true controversy. The fact that there is variations within a species is no proof that it occurs between species.
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posted on
04/09/2011 9:56:04 AM PDT
by
Nevadan
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