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Dumb Things Theists Say
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RE: Dumb Things Theists Say
(July 3, 2013 at 10:14 pm)Godschild Wrote: I just watched that tonight, they still call it a fox and say it's still of the specie Canine

*Puts on lab coat.* Canine is not a species. Canidae is a family classification, under which numerous individual species (fox, by the way, is a tribe of the canid group, listed under Vulpini) which itself needs to be classified further down through genus and then into species. That's why you have silver foxes, red foxes, etc.

Quote:what was done would have not occurred in nature,

And in what evolutionary text did you read that evolution must only occur in nature? Artificial selection is still selection.

It's strange, your contention here seems to be "oh sure, that definitively evolutionary process occurred, but it doesn't count because people did it!"

Quote:and it was accomplished by a higher brain.

Higher than yours, certainly.

Quote:The foxes that were breed to be more passive would not have survived in the wild

Thankfully, they didn't have to, thus allowing for the propagation of the evolutionary changes that occurred within them. Because evolution doesn't say they had to survive; just that the changes happened. And they did.

You idiot.

Quote:that's how selection for the fittest in an environment works

Natural selection is not survival of the fittest. The "fittest," whatever that means, are not necessarily the only ones to survive, nor are they even the most likely. Evolution selects against negative traits, not for positive ones. Even neutral traits can persist, depending on the selection pressures.

But then, I bet you don't understand a lot of those words, having never bothered to study this before you declared it all wrong.

Quote:not to change the species but to make it stronger so it can survive.

Not really. Like I said above, what matters is that the changes happen, not that they make sense to you. Evolution is changes within a species, and those have happened. You saw them. No matter your contentions, at root, you agree that evolution happened.

Everything else is just cognitive dissonance.
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Dumb Things Theists Say - by Atheistic_Dan - June 22, 2013 at 12:15 am
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Silver - June 22, 2013 at 12:54 am
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by NoraBrimstone - June 22, 2013 at 12:04 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Minimalist - June 22, 2013 at 12:08 pm
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RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Raven - June 25, 2013 at 1:26 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Brian37 - June 25, 2013 at 1:35 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Thor - June 30, 2013 at 3:10 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by LostLocke - July 1, 2013 at 9:48 am
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Thor - July 2, 2013 at 12:57 am
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Bad Writer - July 2, 2013 at 8:04 am
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Simon Moon - June 25, 2013 at 1:46 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Rahul - June 25, 2013 at 1:56 pm
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RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by DeistPaladin - July 1, 2013 at 9:34 am
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Tonus - June 25, 2013 at 1:53 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Raven - June 25, 2013 at 2:11 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Brian37 - June 25, 2013 at 2:49 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Raven - June 25, 2013 at 3:17 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Brian37 - June 25, 2013 at 5:34 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Silver - June 25, 2013 at 3:18 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Faith No More - June 30, 2013 at 10:02 am
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Atheistic_Dan - June 30, 2013 at 9:44 am
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Bad Writer - June 30, 2013 at 3:00 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Godschild - July 3, 2013 at 12:00 am
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RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Rahul - July 3, 2013 at 10:05 am
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RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Godschild - July 3, 2013 at 10:14 pm
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RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Esquilax - July 4, 2013 at 12:18 pm
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RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Faith No More - July 4, 2013 at 8:58 am
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by LostLocke - July 4, 2013 at 12:59 pm
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RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Bad Writer - July 4, 2013 at 9:02 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Silver - July 4, 2013 at 9:04 pm
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RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Faith No More - July 5, 2013 at 1:37 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Ryantology - July 5, 2013 at 4:10 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Godschild - July 5, 2013 at 6:29 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Ryantology - July 5, 2013 at 7:51 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Godschild - July 6, 2013 at 1:25 am
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RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Ryantology - July 7, 2013 at 6:59 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Rahul - July 5, 2013 at 6:33 pm
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RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by DeistPaladin - July 7, 2013 at 4:20 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Whateverist - July 7, 2013 at 4:28 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by viocjit - July 8, 2013 at 8:51 am
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by DeistPaladin - July 8, 2013 at 10:48 am
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Michael Schubert - July 7, 2013 at 6:48 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Bad Writer - July 8, 2013 at 9:28 am
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by viocjit - July 8, 2013 at 9:48 am
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Bad Writer - July 8, 2013 at 10:37 am
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RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Bad Writer - July 8, 2013 at 12:26 pm
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RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by DeistPaladin - July 8, 2013 at 12:18 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by DeistPaladin - July 8, 2013 at 10:46 am
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Bad Writer - July 8, 2013 at 10:57 am
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by viocjit - July 8, 2013 at 6:13 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Bad Writer - July 8, 2013 at 12:41 pm
RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Bad Writer - July 9, 2013 at 3:04 pm
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RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Rahul - July 10, 2013 at 6:22 pm
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RE: Dumb Things Theists Say - by Jackalope - July 13, 2013 at 2:57 pm
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