RE: Intelligent design type evolution vs naturalism type evolution.
April 6, 2013 at 3:28 pm
(This post was last modified: April 6, 2013 at 3:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's not that you don't need to factor in natural selection Mystic, it's that natural selection is not what you seem to think it is. Your language drips with references to things that display your notion that there is some sort of sentience and plan behind it (directions, selecting, etc). I don't think I could have come up with a better explanation for how genetic material can be passed on in the absence of any particular advantage than my cold-frame example. I suprised myself with that one......
I thought of another along those lines too.
There's an anthill with two genetically identical populations of ant's living in it, genetically identical save for one single mutation - which does not express itself as any adaptation or anatomical difference. Since they live and work together they all prosper equally. Population a lives on the right side of the hill, population b on the left side. One day I come along with a hose and drown the right side of the hill.
Natural selection at work.
I thought of another along those lines too.
There's an anthill with two genetically identical populations of ant's living in it, genetically identical save for one single mutation - which does not express itself as any adaptation or anatomical difference. Since they live and work together they all prosper equally. Population a lives on the right side of the hill, population b on the left side. One day I come along with a hose and drown the right side of the hill.
Natural selection at work.
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