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To: BroJoeK; RoadGumby

No, FRiend, in an effort to sound absurd, you first claimed the reverse — that wolves could become fish or birds.
Nothing like that ever happened.
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Of course it didn’t happen, I’m pretty sure RoadGumby would agree with that.

I believe (RoadGumby can correct me if I’m wrong) he was exaggerating in order to illustrate of what he saw as an absurdity - that macroevolution is possible.

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The theory implies both possibilities and limitations on what evolution can & has done.
Turning wolves into birds or fish is not among those possibilities.
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What are the limitations on what evolution can do? Given deep time, can it not turn microorganisms into elephants and blue whales and humans?


89 posted on 04/17/2016 7:52:03 AM PDT by angryoldfatman
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To: angryoldfatman
angryoldfatman: "What are the limitations on what evolution can do?
Given deep time, can it not turn microorganisms into elephants and blue whales and humans?"

No, no microorganism has, or ever could, by evolution turn into an elephant, and no blue whale has or can ever become human, according to natural evolution theory.
What can happen, as you well know, are small incremental changes producing over time new slightly different species -- i.e., wolves & dogs.
Give more deep time, species might split into new genera, genera into families, families into orders, etc., etc.
But in each case they are accumulations of small changes, and no species ever suddenly became a member of some new order.

But you know that perfectly well, so why do you mock science by making absurd arguments against it?

94 posted on 04/17/2016 4:25:37 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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