RE: Why the religious will never admit you won the argument (and why they don't care)
June 22, 2016 at 5:05 pm
(June 22, 2016 at 4:21 pm)robvalue Wrote: Natural selection is not clearly understood? Decent with modification happens, and beneficial traits are given preference mainly by survival. That's the basics. If you're challenging that then...
And yes, the theory attempts to draw everything together, regarding ancestry. And no, it's not a weak leg at all. But until you go study it, you won't understand why.
As I am sure some of our more scientific-minded members can help with, Natural Selection alone is not enough to account for #2.
1. Evolution (defined as "decent with modification")
2. Evolution (defined as "the mechanism that accounts for evolutionary change")
3. Evolution (defined as "reconstructing evolutionary history")