RE: My opinion - origin of the universe?
September 27, 2011 at 11:50 am
(This post was last modified: September 27, 2011 at 11:55 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You know it just dawned on me that you apparently don't realize that ID also depends on the demonstrable fact of evolution. The disagreement is over the mechanism. Evolution by Natural Selection is a theory in the same way as Evolution by Intelligent Design. The difference between the two is that Natural Selection is supported by mountains of evidence, ID is not.
To give a quick and dirty example of this; Extinction events largely affect animals of similar circumstance, be it size, diet, etc. When the environment changes the eventual winners are usually also very similar (though here and again things slip through the cracks, such as ourselves). This is the essence of natural selection. It is a non-random process. Parameters are set by environmental pressures, organisms compete or die.
To give a quick and dirty example of this; Extinction events largely affect animals of similar circumstance, be it size, diet, etc. When the environment changes the eventual winners are usually also very similar (though here and again things slip through the cracks, such as ourselves). This is the essence of natural selection. It is a non-random process. Parameters are set by environmental pressures, organisms compete or die.
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