Why the religious will never admit you won the argument (and why they don't care)

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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")

What do you mean the mechanism? Sure it's enough. Science guys are welcome to kick my ass if I'm wrong. I'm saying that just with variation and natural selection, you've got enough going for a species to evolve to better fit its surroundings. Just think about it. Play it out in your mind, and hopefully you'll see it's an unavoidable conclusion, even before you start collecting evidence.

If you're not seeing it, I can only say you're badly misunderstanding some aspect of this. I'll put my video up again just in case it helps.

The serious stuff starts at 0:40

https://youtu.be/qV3WPyp8WmU