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(1) The process of evolution involves changes in the composition of hereditary traits, and changes to the frequency of their distributions within breeding populations from generation to generation, in response to ecological challenges and opportunities

The difference between keratin and collagen is chemical. Evolution does not need to change one into the other -- rather what evolution would do is change the production process so that collagen is produced where keratin had previously been produced. This just requires a simple change in the amino acid sequence during assembly, a rather common mutation process

One looks at the title and the opening post to determine what the topic is. If in doubt ask the author.

This is making an unevidenced, unsupported statement that purports to delineate a limitation to evolution.

Hi guysThanks for your patience in explaining so many things on here. I really learned a lot. It will take me quite a few weeks to digest all this new information (to me).Multiple allelles explained in a way that is easily understandable. So simple when you think about it. It all makes sense. What a wonderful world.However, I know it must be very frustrating to convey and try to explain something about our world to somebody with the mentality of a loaf of bread.Be assured that not all of us are like that and really appreciate all the knowledge passed on so freely here!

Opinion is not science, nor has it been shown to have any effect on reality in any way.

me writes:.. It is an example my mind came up with that seems logical in its presentation. ...

To you, however without any evidence to show that your premises are correct it is just your opinion again.

Logic based solely on opinion is not necessarily valid in any way, and is as likely to be wrong as not (if not more so - there are more ways to be wrong than right).

me writes:.. Does a thought experiment have to have evidence? ...

If it is a scientific thought experiment it would need to be based on evidence. Otherwise it is just fantasy, made up.

me writes:... As for support, if the conclusion is supported by the underlying reasoning, it has support. If you are going to claim it is unsupported, you are going to have to show how the reasoning is faulty.

If the premises are faulty or imaginary there is every reason to expect the conclusion would be faulty or imaginary. A house of cards only stands if each layer is supported by the one below and the bottom layer rests on a firm foundation - you can't build a house of cards in the air.

Sorry, but this is a completely mistaken view of logic.Logic is either valid or invalid. Logic is a set of "transformations" that input premises and output conclusions, with the proviso that each transformation is valid if it preserves the truth value of the input; that is, if you input true premises and use only valid transformations, then your conclusions will be similarly true.Logic is based on premises, but the truth or falsity of those premises cannot be proven, they can only be assumed. Statements in logic are therefore all tautologies; only true because their premises are assumed.It is for this reason that science is based on evidence, not logic. Propositions in science rest or fall on the basis of evidence. If you cannot marshal evidence in favor of your views, it's unreasonable to expect anyone to accept them. Many things we know to be false about the universe are completely logical; the "luminiferous ether" was assumed to exist based on the very simple logic that if light is a wave, it must be a wave of something. But the existence of the luminiferous ether was disproven by the Michaelson-Morley experiment in 1887.Evidence is not "malarkey", it is the basis of all scientific reasoning.

Evidence is that which lends support to a hypothesis.Reality can be discovered only by observation of it.

Reality is what we can observe and test.

You assume that I need to falsify any fantasy you construct. In effect you want me to do the work that YOU should do if you want me to consider your concept to be anything but fantasy.I don't need to falsify fantasy, I can simply ignore it.

Message 52: Changes in the composition of traits in breeding populations cannot create new structures where none existed before. ...This is a falsified assertion. See Message 61 for one example.