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Is artificial selection considered "evolution"?
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RE: Is artificial selection considered "evolution"?
(March 12, 2012 at 4:32 pm)Rhythm Wrote: is not a product of consciousness or intelligence.

I am not sure exactly when the notional line in the sand was crossed and animals began to acquire rudimentary consciousness or intelligence, but I suspect it occurred substantially before the evolution of apes. So in this sense, intelligent design, albeit initially of very subdued order of efficacy, had been with us for a long time.

Also, sexual preferences by intelligent (nominally) mates have had a very strong influence on the evolution of humans. So I guess we are all to a very substantial degree intelligently designed.

I for one think the flesh, if not necessarily the brains, of the likes of Megan Fox is so intelligently designed that no god could have had a role in her creation, only successive generation of men.

Big Grin

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RE: Is artificial selection considered "evolution"? - by Anomalocaris - March 12, 2012 at 4:41 pm

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