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So you believe in evolution..
RE: So you believe in evolution..
"If evolution is true, how come nothing has evolved in so long?" is a manufactured issue. Remember, many of the people who ask this measure time as a scale between 0-6000/10,000 years. They have little to no knowledge of evolution itself (or any of the theories offered as explanations for evolution). When they ask you why "nothing has evolved" that's not what they're asking at all. Everything is evolving. What they're asking, in a nutshell, is why monsters don't spring forth from the earth on a daily basis. What they have in mind is not evolution, it is magic. No wonder they haven't seen any evidence.

If a frog layed a chicken egg, that would be falsification of evolution by natural selection. Not confirmation.

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RE: So you believe in evolution..
(December 26, 2011 at 12:23 am)Rhythm Wrote: If a frog layed a chicken egg, that would be falsification of evolution by natural selection. Not confirmation.

It would falsify the laws of physics, by allowing an egg made of incompressible substance to emerge from a a frog smaller than itself; and violate the known principles of genetics and biochemistry, by allowing a frog to manufacture chicken DNA and create calcified egg shell.

But it would not violate evolution by natural selection. Law of natural selection does not forbid the occurrence of truly freakish one-off events, as any chicken egg laid by frogs would be.


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